Why have you not forsaken me
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· 11 viewsThe Father turns his face from the Son, and the Son cries out why have you forsaken me! On the cross Jesus took on sin, took on a nature contrary to his own. The cost of the transaction was Son cut off from the Father. Relationship that had exsisted forever was broken. If you ever cry out father do not forsake me, it will be because he forsook him.
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Why Have You not Forsaken me
Why Have You not Forsaken me
I was on Facebook this week and I saw a lot of conversations about how hating can be so much work. How a peaceful life consists of loving people. I could not help but join those conversations and point out that a person cannot say they love something without hating the opposite of it. If you love good you have to hate evil. If you love justice you have to hate injustice. If you love a person, you have to hate the things that will harm that person. God says in
There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.
This should be easy for us to understand. God loves righteousness, so he must hate evil. God loves justice, so he must despise injustice. God loves, so that he must hate anything that destroys what he loves. We would expect nothing less of ourselves. I have been told, Aaron, that word hate is a little much. We cannot use that word or people might get the wrong impression. I have been told, well God is totally Holy so it is okay for him to hate things but we cannot do that. I do not think either of those statements are true. But as we go through this tonight you be the judge.
Jesus said
Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”
We must hate what God hates if we say we love what God loves. We must act on that hatred the same way he did.
Turn in the Bible with me to . We are going to be looking at verses 22 through 27.
22 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
22 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
23 “Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, Thus you shall bless the people of Israel: you shall say to them,
24 The LORD bless you and keep you;
22 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 23 “Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, Thus you shall bless the people of Israel: you shall say to them,
24 The LORD bless you and keep you;
24 The LORD bless you and keep you;
25 the LORD make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;
26 the LORD lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
27 “So shall they put my name upon the people of Israel, and I will bless them.” ()
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, Thus you shall bless the people of Israel: you shall say to them, The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. “So shall they put my name upon the people of Israel, and I will bless them.”
27 “So shall they put my name upon the people of Israel, and I will bless them.” ()
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, Thus you shall bless the people of Israel: you shall say to them, The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. “So shall they put my name upon the people of Israel, and I will bless them.”
In this verse we have a set of Blessings. God instructs the priests to bless Israel as the people of God with his words.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), .
Each day as the priest would conclude the daily sacrifices they would pronounce this blessing over the congregation. Each year the high priest would perform a yearly atonement, what you might know as Yom Kippur. The instructions for this day of atonement are spelled out in . On this day the High priest would have to dress in the ceremonial robes after bathing and offer “a bull as a sin offering for himself”. Then the high priest would have to take two goats and kill one for the people and set the other one free in the wilderness. Only after that was done could the high priest enter the Holy of Holies to sprinkle the blood of the goat on the mercy seat. After doing all that, the High priest would exit the Holy place and, standing before the congregation, he would raise his hands over the people and pronounce the blessing. “The LORD bless you and keep you; the LORD make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the LORD lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.”
24 The LORD bless you and keep you;
24 The LORD bless you and keep you;
24 The LORD bless you and keep you;
25 the LORD make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;
26 the LORD lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
Looking at the key parts of this blessing we see the key concepts of blessing.
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Keep: the Hebrew word šā·mǎr means to guard, implying protection to or from the object being guarded (1)
Face to Shine Upon: gives this understanding of personal relationship and closeness. It requires physical proximity to see a persons face.
Gracious to You: The word there “ḥā·nǎn” means to show kindness, compassion, or benefice (1)
Give you Peace: “šā·lôm” health, safeness, favorable circumstance
The opposite of Blessing are curses.
reads “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—”
When we read a text like this we have to ask ourselves. What does it mean that he became a curse?
English Standard Version Chapter 27
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
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English Standard Version Chapter 27
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
What then do we know about what Curse Jesus is receiving?
What Curse were we under?
The opposite of Keep: would be to leave bare and exposed, think about Jesus on that tree as the guards play dice for his clothes. Bare, exposed, unprotected.
The opposite of Face to Shine Upon: is to be alone without the Presence. Nothing personal. Nothing warm. The crucifixion was a death designed by the Romans to dehumanize.
The opposite of Gracious: is meanness: no kindness, no compassion, when he was thirsty they gave him sour wine to drink. Sour wine would only make the drinker more thirsty. The one who said, "And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.” () was not given one himself.
The opposite of Peace: is war. In war one seeks to take away the benefits of peace. Where health is, war seeks to take it away. Where safeness is, war seeks to destroy it. Favorable circumstance does not go to the loser in war.
After seeing him take that. After realizing the cost, the grace, how can anyone help but hate those things that put him there on that cross. The sin that you and I indulge in on a daily basis.
In a hotel room this week 3000 miles from here I sat at a desk and looked at my life. As I looked at all the times I have lived for myself, all the time I have loved what he despised and and despised what he loved, I could only hang my head and ask the Father why has he not forsaken me? Into my heart rang the truth of scripture, down through time the plan of God unfolded and the Holy Spirit grabbed my heart and spoke the timeless truth to me as clearly as I am speaking to you now. He said, “I have not forsaken you because I forsook him. You are kept and guarded because he was laid bare. My face shines on you because it was taken away from him. You have peace because I made war on him.”
Conclusion:
Yes, there are things that I hate.
I hate it when my eyes go where they should not go.
I hate it when my tongue is untruthful, it is untruthful every time it fails to give him the praise he deserves.
I hate it when my hands shed innocent blood. the Word of God tells me that every time I hate my brother I am a murder. ()
I hate it when my heart devises wicked plans
We can talk all day about the things that the world is doing. The desertion of marriage, the murder of the unborn, injustice here, corruption there, but Christian let us start by making war on the sin that held our Lord to that tree. The sin within each and every one of us tonight. He only keeps us, makes his Face to Shine Upon us, is Gracious to us and give us peace because he took those things away from Jesus. If that does not make you hate the sin that you do then you do not love him. If you love him you cannot help but to hate the sin that cost him so much. We must act on that hatred by cursing our sin the way the Father cursed Christ. We must leave our sin bare, turn our face from it, showing it no kindness, making war against it until it is destroyed.
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—
Let us pray.
(1) James Swanson, Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains : Hebrew (Old Testament) (Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1997).
(1) James Swanson, Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains : Hebrew (Old Testament) (Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1997).
“His blood poured out for us
One final breath He gave
As Heaven looked away”
The weight of every curse upon him
The weight of every curse upon him
One final breath He gave
As Heaven looked away”
(1) James Swanson, Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains : Hebrew (Old Testament) (Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1997).