Matthew 27:46, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My
God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”
Mark 15:34, “And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice,
saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my
God, why hast thou forsaken me?”
The fourth saying
of Jesus when He was being crucified was, “My God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken me?” Jesus understood while He
was dying on that cruel cross on Golgotha’s hill that God the Father could not
look upon as though it did not matter. Egkataleipo (1459) which was used by
both St. Matthew and St. Mark and it means “to leave behind or to desert”. Adam Clarke sheds light on the meaning of
this statement in His Commentary on Matthew. “Some suppose "that the
divinity had now departed from Christ, and that his human nature was left
unsupported to bear the punishment due to men for their sins. But this is by no
means to be admitted, as it would deprive his sacrifice of its infinite merit,
and consequently leave the sin of the world without an atonement. Take deity away from any redeeming act of
Christ, and redemption is ruined.”
Some writers
consider that God abandoned Christ in the midst of His sacrifice for the sins
of the whole world. We know, at least,
that God the Father required Jesus to pay the awful penalty for sin which was
necessary in order for mankind to receive pardon. Hebrews 9:22 explains, “And almost all things
are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no
remission.” Remission is translated from
aphesis (859) which means freedom or
deliverance from sin. Praise God! Jesus paid the penalty for the sins of the
Whole world. St. John (1:29) understood
what Christ would later do on the cross when he stated, “… Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away
the sin of the world.”
Song for the Day “Jesus
Paid It All” by Elvina M. Hall
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