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As the Son He can state how He feels, (not the Father), at any given moment.My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?
The way I have understood it is that Jesus was the perfect sacrificial Lamb of God (ref. John 1:29 and again John 1:36). In Exodus, chapter 12, we read of the Passover when the Hebrews sacrificed unblemished male lambs and spread the blood around the doorposts of their homes. When the Lord executed judgement in Egypt destroying the first born and encountered the blood He passed over that home. Jesus' blood covers believers in the same way and that is how we can be saved through belief and trust in Jesus. Being the sacrificial Lamb, God made Him to be sin for the sake of all who believe (2 Corinthians 5:21) and for that moment Jesus felt the sting of our sin upon Himself as God turned away from Him.My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?
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Jesus was well aware that he would have to “go to Jerusalem and suffer many things …, and be killed, and on the third day be raised up.” (Matthew 16:21) In heaven, he had observed imperfect humans experience torturous deaths while maintaining their integrity. (Hebrews 11:36-38) So there just is no reason to believe that Jesus-a perfect human-would be seized with fear over what he faced; nor would death on a stake suggest to him that his Father had rejected him. Jesus knew in advance “what sort of death he was about to die.”-John 12:32, 33.God never forsook His Son. Evil religious leaders wrongly thought He did,
the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God. Mt.27:41,43
He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. Psa.22:8 KJV
So the point is that God
hath not despised nor abhorred the afflictionof the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard. Psa.22:24 KJV
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. Psa.37:25
I will never agree that God ever took His Spirit or love from Jesus. I would state God was with/in Him on that cross. They are one. God reconciled us through Jesus's blood shed on the cross. Jesus informed John and James they would indeed drink from the cup He drank. Do you think He took His love from them? So I surmise John didn't die from old age. Going to the cross was the Fathers will and Jesus always does what pleases the Father and remains in His love.Jesus was well aware that he would have to “go to Jerusalem and suffer many things …, and be killed, and on the third day be raised up.” (Matthew 16:21) In heaven, he had observed imperfect humans experience torturous deaths while maintaining their integrity. (Hebrews 11:36-38) So there just is no reason to believe that Jesus-a perfect human-would be seized with fear over what he faced; nor would death on a stake suggest to him that his Father had rejected him. Jesus knew in advance “what sort of death he was about to die.”-John 12:32, 33.
Therefore, Jesus certainly realized that his Father had taken away His Holy Spirit in order that he would be tested to the limit. This did not mean that God totally abandoned Jesus to Satan. Jehovah continued to show affection for Jesus, as proven on the third day when He raised him from the grave.-Acts 2:31-36; 10:40; 17:31.
Yes. He came to His own and many didn't welcome Him. He was betrayed.Jesus was well aware that he would have to “go to Jerusalem and suffer many things …, and be killed, and on the third day be raised up.”
Yes, but we as mere men cannot fathom what God felt like as a man. I don't mean the physical pain. Anyone bearen and crucified would know the same pain.(Matthew 16:21) In heaven, he had observed imperfect humans experience torturous deaths while maintaining their integrity. (Hebrews 11:36-38) So there just is no reason to believe that Jesus-a perfect human-would be seized with fear over what he faced; nor would death on a stake suggest to him that his Father had rejected him. Jesus knew in advance “what sort of death he was about to die.”-John 12:32, 33.
No. The Son is of His own nature, innately equal to the Holy Spirit in every way except that He was covered in flesh, which is described as the veil separating God from view,Therefore, Jesus certainly realized that his Father had taken away His Holy Spirit in order that he would be tested to the limit.
I think any human king would be appalled if he knew there was a plot to kill him. I think any human king who knew of a conspiracy and had the power to kill his enemies would do so, but our Savior didn't do that. Instead Jesus showed mercy to people who inflicted great pain on Him.This did not mean that God totally abandoned Jesus to Satan. Jehovah continued to show affection for Jesus, as proven on the third day when He raised him from the grave.-Acts 2:31-36; 10:40; 17:31.
Amen, amen and again I say amen! God wasn't grieved beyond what He had known from the beginning would be the ultimate price to be paid to attain His goal. Jesus knew he would be alive in three days and would ascend back to the Father from whence he had come. God didn't forsake Jesus. Jesus was using his last breaths to teach God's people that what they were witnessing before their very eyes was exactly what David had written about this moment 1,000 years before.Both these verses above shows that God did not forsake Christ while He hung on the cross, but that it grieved him at His heart that the world became so sinful that He had to give His only begotten Son to be the final blood sacrifice that through Him and those who come to Him can have eternal life with the Father, John 3:16. This was God's divine plan in the beginning, even before the foundation of the world.
Because at that moment God the Father had forsaken Jesus because he had become sin, he was bearing All the sin of the world.My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?
God did not forsake Jesus, His death in the cross was planned before the world was created. He was glorified. He willingly went to the cross He was the obedient servant.My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?