My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

Matthew 27:46, ?Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? That is to say, My God, my God
why hast thou forsaken me??

This scripture really made me think. It made me think because of the

statement mentioned by Christ Himself about the Father. And it is an
interesting statement because if you think about Jesus says to the Father
why have thou forsaken me.

That?s strange to me because wasn?t it God that said He would never leave
us nor forsake us? If God said that He would never leave us nor forsake us
would it be different for Jesus? Or maybe just maybe we as a people have
yet to truly understand the significance behind Christ crying out to the Father
My God my God why hast thou forsaken me. I have a few questions that I
would like to ask:

What is Gods response to sin?

What is mans reaction to sin?
And I believe when we understand and respond to those two questions then
we will see that Christ rescued us from sin.

Gods response to sin. God hates sin to the very fullest extent. The Bible tells
us that God is so Holy that He can not even look upon sin and because He is
so holy, God must show people that He is unpleased with it. I want to take a
walk through certain parts of the Bible and sight for you where God has dealt
with sin, past tense, and how He will deal with sin, future tense.

And we can take a look from the very beginning of time, the Garden of Eden.
In the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3), Adam and Eve sinned, Genesis 3:23 God
banished both of them from the Garden. God dealt with the sin.

Genesis 6:5 tells us that mans wickedness was so horrible that He had to
flood the Earth wiping everything away except eight people, seven pair of
clean animals, two pair of unclean animals, and seven pair of every kind of
bird. God dealt with sin.

Or how about the well known cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. Sodom, a place
that was so evil God told Abraham that if he could find just ten righteous He
would spare the whole city. Genesis 19:24 reveals to us that the Lord rained
down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah. And what you have to realize
is the fact that God wiped out everything, not just a couple of buildings or a
house or two, but instead He wiped out everything. Every person every
animal every building, plant, and tree. God dealt with sin.

When the Bible gives an account as to what Abraham saw, it says that he
saw dense smoke rising from the land. Or how about Gods response to sin in
the future of all mankind.

When, in the book of Revelation where God opens the Lambs book of Life. If
your name is not found you will be cast into the lake of fire, and this is
known as the second death. These are just a few examples of how God did
deal with sin and how He will deal with sin. God will and has judged, forsaken,
and punished in response to mans sin. But we know through the Bible that
Gods response to sin has led to mans reaction to sin.

Man does indeed understand sin. Man is not ignorant when it comes to
understanding sin. Maybe most people do not know the Bible scripture about
sin. But if they do not know the stand point from the Bible then they at least
know what the law is and if not the law and all else fails then they at least
have their conscience.

One out of those three areas man understands when they have done wrong.
So an excuse, ?I did not know that the Bible says do not steal or should I
say, ?borrow? pens, paper, and rubberbands from the work place for my
house?, does not cut it.

Because think about it, you know its wrong because you hid it. If you did not
truly know that it was wrong you would have done it in the open rather than
wait until no one was looking.

Why do kids hide when they are doing something wrong?

Let me give you an example. My son Luke is a year old and one day when
my wife and I were in the living room, Luke found himself into the kitchen
trash. He quietly exited the kitchen and came into the living room, behind a
couch where he could not be seen, to cosume his found treasure of moldy
bread. Why did he hide? Because he knew what he did was wrong, no one
had to remind him of that.

Lets go back to Genesis for a moment. When Adam and Eve ate of the fruit
and sinned what was there first response? They recognized that they were
naked and they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for
themselves. Why? Because they knew they were wrong. Who told them that
they were naked? No one but themselves.

David recognized that he had messed up. How do we know, because when
Bathsheba told David that she was pregnant what did David do? He tried to
cover it up.

The psalmist new about sin, as matter of fact he did not even try to act
ignorant about sin rather his reaction to sin was hiding Gods word in his
heart so that he would not sin against God.

Or how about another person that would indicate the fact that man is not
ignorant to sin. A man by the name of Paul tells us that the wages of sin is
death. Mans reaction to sin is the fact that you either try to hide it or you
prepare yourself to overcome it. You either understand it or try to act
ignorant, but no matter the way you slice the pie Gods response is still the
same, He will forsake judge or punish, and possibly all three.

But ultimately you will be separated from God. Now that we know how God
responds to sin, and mans reaction to sin, now I believe that we will better
understand how Christ rescued us from our sin.

Why does Jesus, the one that told us that he would be with us even to the
end of the world, cry out, ?My God, my God why hast thou forsaken me?
Was it because His hometown did not accept him? Or maybe because His
family rejected him. Or how about the fact that His disciples went there own
way when Christ was taken captive. The answers to these questions are no!

Christ was crying out to the Father! But why? Why would God the Father, the
one that had sweet union with Christ now abandon Him? I mean this is the
Christ that was loved by the Father before the creation of the world, the
Christ that was glorified before the creation of the world. And not only was
this the Christ glorified, honored, and loved all before the creation of the
world but this is also the Christ that walked the Earth and while He was here
God said twice, once when Christ was baptized and the other on the Mount of
Transfiguration, ?this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.?

As a matter of fact Christ even fulfilled the scripture from Isaiah which
says, ?Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my
soul is well pleased?(Matthew 12:18). Why was there this separation
between the Father and the Beloved Son?

Because of the sin! Because of the sin that we talked about in the first point.
And because God is unable to even look upon sin God had to turn His back to
His son. You see this is where we are rescued this is the part of history that
we should be shouting about because we need to remember that without the
shedding of blood there can be no remission of sin.

So you see Christ crying out to the Father, ?Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? That
is to say My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken?? was because the sins of
the entire world had just been placed on the cross with our Savior. These
were the sins of the world, past, present, and future.

Every lie ever told, every murder, every adulterer, every adulteress, every
bit of unbelief, every bit of envy, pride, and hatred was laid upon the Savior
of the world. The separation that would have endured for an eternity for us
was replaced with the separation between the Father and the Beloved Son
for but a moment in time, all for us. We were separated by sin but rescued
by Christ.

His cry my liberation.

His cry my sanctification.
His cry my consecration.
His cry my adoration.
His cry my restoration.
His cry my salvation.

Christ cried out to the Father why hast thou forsaken me so that we would
not have to cry for an eternity. Christ took the weight of sin all upon Himself
to pay the debt off for you and I. And because He was willing to do this you
and I can have a chance to enter into Heaven to live with the one that was
willing to trade places with you.