No Good Friday service goes without mention of the "Last Seven words of Jesus"
1) Father, forgive them; they do not know what they are doing (Luke 23:34)
2) I tell you this; today you shall be with me in Paradise (Luke 23:43) - Jesus said this to one of the criminals crucified with him
3) Mother, there is your son. Son, there is your mother (John 19:26)
4) My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? (Mark 15:34)
5) I thirst (John 19:28)
6) It is finished (John 19:30)
7) Father, into your hands I commit my spirit (Luke 23:46)
Though I have listened,pondered and read about these seven last words...never in my life did I question about any of those words....being a strong believer of Christ and His words..I just believe wot the Bible says....
Today after reading the last seven words accidentally in the BBC Good Friday special..I begin to think and research on the fourth word Jesus said "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? (Mark 15:34)".Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? ....
This one word is a pivot point for any atheist,non-christian to question Jesus and God as contradictory....most atheist claim and question the whole situation as it seems like Jesus has depended wholly on God to save him and is really being let down.Many athiest believe Jesus fell for the temptation of the devil...and questioned GOD of his plans to sacrifice him for the sins of mankind.
There are lot of conventional interpretation to Jesus words but there is only one truth and answer to all this....I started researching the scriptures and various interpretations of people on this word...
The Psalm Angle:
He was fulfilling a prophecy in Psalm 22
Psalm 22
Why Have You Forsaken Me?
1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?
2 my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer,
and by night, but I find no rest.
Ps 22:15-19
Like water my life drains away; all my bones grow soft.
My heart has become like wax, it melts away within me.
As dry as a potsherd is my throat; my tongue sticks to my palate; you lay me in the dust of death.
Many dogs surround me; a pack of evildoers closes in on me.
So wasted are my hands and feet that I can count all my bones.
They stare at me and gloat; they divide my garments among them; for my clothing they cast lots.
This is also the prophesy foretold hundreds of years before Jesus was crucified on the cross.This prophesied Jesus being crucified and even explained what the Roman Sanitarians did with the garments.
Psalm 22 was written about 600 years before Christ was born. At that time, crucifixion had not yet been invented. Actually, the Phoenicians developed it and Rome borrowed the agonizing means of execution from them. So, when Rome ruled over Israel, it became the Roman means of capital punishment imposed upon the Jews whose biblical means of execution was stoning. Nevertheless, Jesus is pointing to the scriptures to substantiate His messianic mission.
The Burden of sin
This was the most comprehensive answer to the question....
There is no doubt that God approved Jesus work. It is certain that He was innocent. He had done nothing to forfeit the favor of God. As His own Son - holy, harmless, undefiled, and obedient - God still loved Him. In none of these senses could God have forsaken Him
Isaiah Isaiah 53:4-5 says
He bore our griefs and carried our sorrows; that he was wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities; that the chastisement of our peace was laid upon him; that by his stripes we are healed”
He was made a sin-offering, and He died in our place, on our account, that He might bring us near to God. It was this, doubtless, which caused His intense sufferings. It was the manifestation of God’s hatred of sin, in some way which He has not explained, that Jesus experienced in that terrible hour. It was suffering endured by Him that was due to us, and suffering by which, and by which alone, we can be saved from eternal death.
In those awful moments, Jesus was expressing His feelings of abandonment as God placed the sins of the world on Him – and because of that had to “turn away” from Jesus. As Jesus was feeling that weight of sin, He was experiencing separation from God for the only time in all of eternity.God the Father, who had been comforting and supporting Jesus through the trials of Gethsemane and Herod's and Pilate's court and the crucifixion, withdrew His spirit and support, so the atonement would be completely, totally that of Jesus Christ.
Jesus suffered the lost of his fathers power and our sins was the cause of it ! Jesus shows his love for the father by being obedient and die for our sins becoming that eternal sacrifice,and the father show his love by sending his son! and the son by giving us his spirit!and what did you and me do ????
Jesus became sin for us, so He felt the loneliness and abandonment that sin always produces, except that in His case, it was not His sin – it was ours.
