8 Statements that Changed the World: "My God, My God. Why Have You Forsaken Me?"

8 Statements that Changed the World
“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Matthew 27:45-46, Psalm 22

“From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land. About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?”—which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
Matthew 27:45-56(NIV)

“God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”
2 Corinthians 5:21(NIV)

1. The execution of God’s Son was the execution of God’s plan.

“But it was the Lord’s good plan to crush him and cause him grief.”
Isaiah 53:10

“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, and am not silent. Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One; you are the praise of Israel. In you our fathers put their trust; they trusted and you delivered them. They cried to you and were saved; in you they trusted and were not disappointed. But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people. All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads: “He trusts in the Lord; let the Lord rescue him. Let him deliver him, since he delights in him.”
Psalm 22:1-8(NIV)

- It’s okay to cry out to God.

“The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles.”
Psalm 34:17(NIV)

“Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me trust in you even at my mother’s breast. From birth I was cast upon you; from my mother’s womb you have been my God. Do not be far from me, for trouble is near and there is no-one to help. Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me. Roaring lions tearing their prey open their mouths wide against me.”
Psalm 22:9-13(NIV)

“I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax; it has melted away within me. My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death. Dogs have surrounded me; a band of evil men has encircled me, they have pierced my hands and my feet. I can count all my bones; people stare and gloat over me. They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.”
Psalm 22:14-18

2. Jesus didn’t just die for us; he died instead of us.

“For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God.”
1 Peter 3:18(NIV)

“To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.”
1 Peter 2:21(NIV)

“He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.”
1 Peter 2:24(NIV)

“But you, O Lord, be not far off; O my Strength, come quickly to help me. Deliver my life from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dogs. Rescue me from the mouth of the lions; save me from the horns of the wild oxen.”
Psalm 22:19-21(NIV)

- Don’t confuse silence with absence.

“O Lord, how long will you forget me? Forever? How long will you look the other way?”
Psalm 13:1

“I will declare your name to my brothers; in the congregation I will praise you.”
Psalm 22:22(NIV)

“All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations will bow down before him, for dominion belongs to the Lord and he rules over the nations.”
Psalm 22:27-28(NIV)

“That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
Philippians 2:10(NIV)

“All the rich of the earth will feast and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before him—those who cannot keep themselves alive.”
Psalm 22:29

3. He was forsaken so you could be forgiven.

- Jesus understands our pain.

“This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for he faced all of the same testings we do, yet he did not sin.”
Hebrews 4:15

“Posterity will serve him; future generations will be told about the Lord. They will proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn—“.
Psalm 22:30-31(NIV)

“They will proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn—for he has done it.”
Psalm 22:31