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The Cry of Forsakenness: Unpacking 'Sabachthani' 0:00 I want you to take your bibles this morning and turn to the book of Matthew chapter number 27. The 20 seventh the 20 seventh chapter of the book of Matthew. I want you to read 10:11 verse in verse number 46. The 20 seventh chapter, the gospel of Matthew, verse number0:23 46 this morning. We make our way to the fourth cry from the lips of Jesus0:36 who's been impaled now for roughly 6 hours to a Roman cross. Verse number 46, the Bible says this, and about0:48 the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice saying, Eli, Eli, lama1:00 sabachthani? That is to say, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? We have1:12 been in darkness now on Golgotha's hill for 3 hours. For 3 hours, the sun has gone completely black. A blackness that has1:24 encompassed the entire countryside city of Jerusalem. A blackness that has not been felt ever since the days of Egypt's bondage.1:35 It's blackness, this darkness is so thick that back in the book of Exodus, it said that man and woman would not even walk out of their house because the darkness was so caking thick1:48 that you could physically feel it. Your sense is not just able to feel it with the eyes, but a a silence so dark and black that you could hear it with the2:00 ears, that you could touch it with the hands. In the darkness, the fourth saying of Jesus from the cross, he has already cried out, father, forgive them for they know not what they do. He's2:12 already cried out, mother, behold thy son, son, behold thy mother. He comes to the fourth saying from the cross of Calvary and he says in the Aramaic,2:26 that is to say by interpretation, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? I want you to circle that word there in2:38 verse number 26 because it's got an interesting an interesting and I don't like using these big words because nobody really knows what they mean, but it's got a it's got a really deep what they call2:50 etymology. What that means in theory, it's got layers to the word. And that layering gives to us an interesting thought on why Jesus uses the word,3:01 sabachthani. There are different words in the Hebrew and in the Aramaic. He could have used all types of of words. Unfortunately, our English word, why hast thou3:13 forsaken me? It has the idea of God in anger and God hating his son, turning his back on his own son. But remember this, God doesn't do anything on3:25 purpose or for no reason does everything on purpose. God doesn't just do something, so therefore, he did not just turn his back on his son and forsake the son just because he was mad at his son or just3:37 because that there has to be a reason. That word, suboxone, number 1, that word, it doesn't just mean to let go of. Whenever you get the idea of3:49 forsaking, you and I get the idea of just letting somebody go over the side of the rail. Just turning somebody loose, letting them go, not coming near them ever again. But that word, Sabathinae, in4:01 the Aramaic, it doesn't just mean to let go for no reason. It means to let go for a purpose. It has the idea of 1 of the birds that would be used in Roman military4:12 service. What they would do is they would put a message around the the foot of that little bird and what they would do is they would let that bird go, not so that bird would simply fly into the4:24 heavens and never come back again. They let that bird go with a message. It had orders. It had a reason it was let go. And when Jesus declared, why have you4:36 forsaken me? Why have you turned me aside? Why have you let me go? The people knew right then that God did not just turn his back on his son for no reason, there had to be a4:48 reason. What was the reason? It began with the first phrase on the cross, why hast thou, or father forgive them for they know not what they do. It ends with the seventh saying from the cross4:59 where he says, it is finished. It is done, settled through. I have finally done, God. Accomplished the mission whereby you have set me free and released me, God.5:11 You didn't turn your back on me just to let me go. You'd let your back be turned on me because I had a purpose. What was that purpose? It was to bear the sin of the whole world on his cross.5:23 Number 2, that word it has a another layer and and I didn't like the first 2. These first 2 are just there because I had to study them, but this third 1 got juicy. Let me give you number 2. Number 2, that word5:35 that word, suboxone, it has a root word and I'm not gonna give you the root word because I don't really understand how to say it, but it literally means not just to release, but it's got a5:47 root meaning of to release from a debt. To pay a price. Whenever Jesus declares,6:00 those people immediately heard Jesus say, the debt is paid. The price is finished. And those people probably looked around and6:12 they didn't fathom what he was saying. What do you mean the the debts paid? You're paying your debt by dying. You have offended the Caesar. You have offended him, and now the debt that you6:24 owe is your life. But what they did not realize is the debt that was being paid was not 1 being settled here on the earth. It was 1 that was being settled in another world6:36 where God was finally looking out over the chasm of mankind saying, somebody has stood in the gap between man and God, released for a purpose, paid a debt. Number6:48 3, it's a word picture. And I got just plum happy a while ago. I've been struggling a little bit, but I got plum happy. It's a it's got a word picture. Here's what the word picture is,7:00 a stump. You know what a stump is? It's a stump. What's that word? A stump.7:13 Do you know what a stump is? You ready? No. It ain't no tree. It's what's left over when a tree7:25 has been cut down. What you see is gone, but there's more to that tree beneath7:37 the surf. It's a picture of the humanity and the divinity of Jesus Christ. On the cross, his humanity was cut off,7:49 laid beneath the surface, but there was something more that was beneath the surface. The lifeblood was still beneath the surface. The very life of him was not found8:00 simply in his humanity, but the fact that down beneath what we could not see and what we did not sense was God in human flesh. Man cut off the life8:12 of Jesus, but you cannot cut off God. You can't kill omnipotence. You can't destroy what cannot be destroyed. You can't kill what is ever living life. And on that day, when he8:24 said, they said, oh yeah, you're a stump, you're a tree, you've been cut down. What they did not realize is he was about to be laid beneath the surface. He was about to be laid8:36 beneath the ground. And when you looked at the surface, it looked dead. It looked done. But beneath the dirt, beneath the soil, there was life still flowing in those veins. There was8:48 life still flowing in those sapling. There was life still flowing in those roots. And finally, when those roots got just enough juice left in them, they would begin to shoot9:00 forth a sprout and to shoot forth a branch. And on that third glorious morning, 7 days from this moment right now, what they did not realize, they thought that they had killed and done away with9:12 and Satan had a party. But beneath the surface, God was still alive. God was still moving. And that stump brought forth life. That's why he cried,9:24 Why have you forsaken me? Oh, God. Now brothers and sisters, I wanna give you 4 reasons this morning. I'll put them up on the screen for you. OnReason 1: The Wrath of God 9:36 this day of triumph, in just about 3 and a half or 4 days, depending on the dating when you think that he was crucified. Now you can think he was9:48 crucified on Wednesday as some people do. You can think he was crucified on Thursday like some people do. You can think he was crucified on Friday like some10:00 people do. Brothers and sisters, you're fighting over something that doesn't matter. He was crucified. He was buried and he rose again from the third10:11 day. I'm not worried on what day he died because I'm so certain that he didn't stay in there long and he came forth from the grave on that third and glorious morning. Brothers and10:23 sisters, I'll give you 4 reasons though, why on the cross impaled in 3 points to a Roman pole in the right wrist, in the left wrist, and there together at the crossing10:35 of the ankle bone there. Every time the lamb of God would take his weight and would bear down on his arms, his lungs would collapse unable to breathe and the only way that he could exhale10:47 breath was to push up. And as he pushed up on his ankle bones, they say that roughly about 35000 jolts of electrical feeling would go through the veins that the Romans had pierced10:59 the median nerve in the wrist and the nerve in the ankle, and every time that he would push up to exhale a breath, it would be pain like you and I can't even fathom. And on the fourth time that he11:11 pushes up, he cries, why hast thou forsaken me? There's 4 reasons. Write them down. Why did Jesus utter that phrase,11:23 which being interpreted as my God, my God, why has thou forsaken me? Number 1, the first reason was this. There was the reason of wrath.11:36 The reason of wrath. You see, on the cross of Calvary, Jesus was not there just having a birthday party. There on the cross of Calvary,11:48 Jesus was not there because he wanted to be there. In fact, just a few hours before, he looks up to his father and he says, father, if there's any way at all possible, if you or if11:59 there's a way that that I'm missing or you're if there's any way, let this cup, this thing, this feeling, whatever I've gotta do, let it pass from me. But he said, father, evidently there's12:11 not because this is the path you have chosen for me. So therefore, not as I will, but as thou wilt, oh lord. And there on the cross at Calvary, what Jesus was doing is he was paying for the12:24 sin of humanity. Brothers and sisters, when Jesus is dying on the cross, here is what second Corinthians chapter 5 declares to us. He hath made him to be sin for us, who12:35 knew no sin that we might be called and made into the righteousness of Jesus Christ. There on the cross of Calvary, do you know what God had done? He had taken12:47 every sin from Adam. Every sin that Noah. Every sin that Cain. Every sin that Abel. Every sin of Moses and the people of God. Every sin12:59 of Elijah and David and all the kings and all the people that had backslid and all the people that have ever lived from Adam to right this second, and that will ever live until the13:11 coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. And he calls us all whole and closes it all down. Every sin was heaped on the person of Jesus Christ in that moment.13:25 Jesus did not become your sin and my sin. He became all our sins. I want you to imagine how guilty13:36 you feel when you sin, you alone when you sin. Imagine the weight he felt bearing all sins. Do you know why God turned13:48 his back and let him go? He said, son, somebody's gotta bear the weight. Somebody's gotta pay the price. Somebody has gotta hold all these sins because if he doesn't hold14:00 all these sins, the people that committed these sins will have to hold these sins forever and forever because the wages of sin is death. The price for sin14:12 is death. Somebody has to die in order for our sin to be atoned. The thoughts of your thought of your mind and the actions of your life had to be paid for. And if Jesus14:24 didn't pay for them, then you had to pay for them. Brothers and sisters, there in that moment, on the life of Jesus Christ, It wasn't on the shoulders of Jesus Christ. People have said, he bore our14:36 sin on his shoulders. No. No. No. What God literally did in that moment is he took his entire person and he wiped away all the righteousness he ever had and slapped our14:48 sin on him in that moment. And God said, because of that, I can't look at you. And for the first15:00 time in eternity, Jesus and the father had a breakup. Explain it, I can't. But in that moment,15:12 he bore every sin that you and I would ever have. That's not an encouraging thought on a Palm Sunday. Well, that's only half the story, baby love, because here is what happened. You see,15:24 in that moment when Jesus had his entire person wiped away and the sin of humanity laid on him, there's a second part to that verse. For he hath made15:35 him to be sin for us who knew no sin. And on the other side of that equation, it says that we might be called and made into the righteousness of Jesus15:47 Christ. What happened on the other side of bloody Calvary? He took an old wretched, rotten, vile, good for nothing, hell bound sinner like me and like you. And he took my15:59 life on the day that I gave myself to Jesus Christ. He said, you Tyler are full of sin. But the only way I don't forsake you, the only way I don't turn my back16:11 on you is if I wipe away everything that was placed on him in your life. And everything I took off of him, I put it on you. All the righteousness he had, all the16:23 fellowship he had, all the togetherness he had, all the wholeness he had, all the healing he had, everything is put on you. Ladies and gentlemen, the day I got blood bought and blood washed,16:35 Jesus Christ took everything that was on me and put it on Jesus Christ at Calvary. And he took everything that was on Jesus Christ and placed it on him. That's why the Bible says, by16:47 his stripes, we are healed. It's our person. He looked at God and said, God, where'd you go? He said, I16:59 know where you went. You can't look at me so that you can look at them. You can't behold their sin on my life17:11 so that you can behold my righteousness on their person. It's the power of the wrath of God turns from his own son. Number 2,Reason 2: Fulfilling Prophecy 17:23 the second reason. I'm looking for a juicy spot. Number 2, the second reason that Jesus Christ,17:36 I call it the reason of fulfillment. The reason of fulfillment. There's a scripture that I want you to write17:48 down. It's in the book of Psalm chapter 22 in verse number 1. It's called a messianic Psalm. King David17:59 makes this statement in Psalm chapter 22 verse 1. He says, my God, my God, why hast18:12 thou forsaken me? Psalm 22 verse 1. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken? Why are you so far from helping18:24 me? And when Jesus is on the cross at Calvary and he makes the statement translated into the English from the Aramaic, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? All18:36 the Jews that were gathered around that cross that day, they knew Psalm 22 was a messianic Psalm. They knew Psalm 22 was a Psalm that Messiah was gonna utter 118:47 day. They knew that, they had been taught that, and there as Jesus is on the cross of Calvary, he utters the phrase from Psalm 22 verse number 1. He says, my God, my God,18:59 why have you forsaken me? My God, my God, why have you? They looked and said, wait a second, you're not supposed to utter that. Messiah is supposed to utter that. You're19:11 not the 1 that's supposed to be declaring that. Messiah is the 1 that's supposed to be declaring that. And in that moment, he was saying in the undercurrent, I'm trying to tell you everything you thought19:22 Messiah would be, it's me. When you look back at Adam and you saw Adam wrapped in the coat of skins, I'm trying to tell you it was me. When you saw Noah floating in the ark of safety, I'm trying19:34 to tell you that was me. When you saw the rod in the hand of brother Moses thrown down, eating up the serpent of pharaoh, I'm trying to tell you that was me. When you saw19:46 Moses split the Red Sea and go over the waters of deliverance, I'm trying to tell you that it was me. Whenever Joshua stood up beside the captain of the Lord's host and he took them safely, I'm trying to tell19:58 you children that was me. Whenever they went over and they they had victory, God, we're trying to tell you that was me. Whenever brother David picked up a stone and knocked down the giant, I'm trying to20:10 tell you that stone was about me. When fire came out of heaven for Elijah, I'm trying to tell you that fire was about me. And when brother Malachi ends the Old Testament and said the20:22 sun of righteousness is gonna arise with healing in his wing, he said, I've been trying to tell you, children, that was all about me. And as the cross of Calvary is about to finish, he looks up and he says, my God,20:34 let me just utter a word so maybe they'll get it. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? And in that moment, Jews that knew the Bible missed it.20:46 But a gentile soldier said, truly, this was Yeah. The son of God. You hear me20:57 now? Religion will cause you to miss heaven, and it'll stick you in hell. But when your eyes open up and you realize it's all about Jesus, it's always been about Jesus, it's21:09 always been about the son of God, It's always been about pointing you to that. Everything you've been through, every sorrow, every pain, it's been trying to point you to Jesus Christ. What you realize in that moment,Reason 3: Divine Connection and Empathy 21:20 it's all about Jesus, every thoughts about Jesus, every words about Jesus, every idea. It's all about Jesus Christ. And Jesus says, this is the reason the father turned his back so that you could see21:33 it's me. It's me. Number 3. Write this down. There's the reason of, number 3, connection. Why?21:45 Why did Jesus utter, my God, my God, why has thou forsaken me? Well, you have to back up to the book of21:57 Genesis chapter number 3. The scripture declares in the cool of the day, God came walking, and he cried,22:09 Adam, where art thou? Where'd you go, Adam? That was not a question where God was hunting information. He was trying to show Adam,22:21 I know the problem. We're not together anymore. And from that minute until Jesus made the declaration on the cross of Calvary, every man has been separated from22:33 God. Our sin has separated us from God. Our ideas have separated us from God. Our pain has separated us from God. And what happens in the midnight of our despair, in the22:45 hopelessness of our situation, in the brokenness of our things? What happens? We look and we say, God, where'd you go? God, I've been praying,22:57 and you ain't answered. Where'd you go? Lord, me and my spouse, we're really struggling. God, where'd you go? Lord, my kids want nothing to do with you. God, where'd you23:09 go? God, me and my family, we're barely making it. God, where did you go? We look at a nation going headlong to hell right now. We stand up and23:21 say, God, where did you where'd you go? We wake up in the midnight hour, and we're praying and we're begging God. God, have mercy on us, and we can't find him. God, where'd you go?23:34 And when Jesus made the declaration, God, where'd you go? You know what he was saying to you and I?23:45 I know how you feel.23:48 I know how you feel when you feel God's nowhere to be found. I know how you feel when it feels like your tears are met with nothing. I know how you feel when you feel like God24:00 doesn't care. I know what you feel like when it feels like the whole world's walked away. I know how you feel when your friends have walked away in your hour of most need.24:12 I know what it feels like when all you've got are just a few people gather around, but they can't help you. And you look up to God, God, where did you go? He said, I want you to know.24:22 I know how you feel.24:26 This past week, people in our church, terrible diagnosis, sickness, disease. God, where'd you go?24:38 Jesus said, I know how you feel.24:42 People in this church right now going through divorce and pain and brokenness, God, where'd you go?24:49 He says, I know how you feel.24:53 You know, there ain't nothing worse, Troy, than when you are walking through the hardest point of your life. And somebody comes up to you and says, I know how you feel. And I'm25:05 like, Heifer, you don't know how I feel at all. Look at me and tell me I you know how I feel. Ain't nothing worse. Am I right,25:16 children? Don't don't look at me like I just offend. You know I'm telling it right. Nothing will make you more upset than when somebody looks at you and says, I've been where you've been. You ain't been25:28 where I've been. I don't care if you're dealing with the same set of circumstances you ain't never been where somebody else has been. It don't happen like that. But Jesus,25:41 because he took everything bad about you and me, he can look at you and I and say, I've been where you've been.25:54 Your wife dies. Your husband passes away. Your child dies. And somebody comes through the line and they're trying to comfort you. They're trying to be a blessing. Honey, I know how you feel. You don't have any26:06 idea. And in the midnight hour, you look up. You say, God, where'd you go? And Jesus comes by and says, I want you26:18 to know, I know how you feel because I've already felt exactly how you feel right26:30 now. On the cross of Christ, Jesus declared, we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities. In that very26:42 moment, he took everything we dealt with and held it on him. And he looks at you and your sorrow and he says, I know how you feel.Reason 4: Breaking Bondage's Chains 26:54 But number 4, The fourth reason that Jesus cried, why have you forsaken me? The fourth27:06 reason I write down is this. I call it the reason of forgiveness. The reason of forgiveness. Now will you stay with me for27:17 35 seconds? I want you to notice what verse number 46 says. About the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud27:29 voice saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani. Watch this. That is to say, my God, my God, why27:41 hast thou forsaken me? Now wait a second. On the cross, Jesus simply said, my he simply said, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani. He never27:53 said in the words, my God, my God. He said in that phrase, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani. Write down beside it in your Bible. That's not Hebrew. That's Aramaic.28:06 There's 3 language your Bible is written in. The Old Testament, Hebrew. The book of Daniel, Aramaic. The New Testament, Greek.28:18 Now stay with me for 15 seconds. The Jews in the Old Testament spoke Hebrew. Whenever they are28:30 carried away to Babylon, there is a hybrid language that develops. It's a mixture between Hebrew and28:42 Chaldean or Babylonian. It's a hybrid language. It's called Aramaic. The Jews in captivity28:54 spoke Aramaic, the language of bondage, the language of the chain.29:06 And from the moment they got back from Babylon, they never figured out again how to speak Hebrew. In Jesus's day, the only people that could speak Hebrew are the high upper echelon29:18 Jews and Pharisees. Do you know who spoke Aramaic? The everyday man. Remember, what I said in Aramaic was, it's the language29:31 of bondage. Every single day when a Jewish man spoke Aramaic, it was a reminder that they29:43 were in bondage. What language did Jesus cry on the cross? He cried in the language of bondage.29:56 Why would he do that? Do you know why? Because Jesus was making a theological declaration. This is what he was saying. He was saying, children, you are no longer in bondage by yourself. I'm a30:08 coming down to where you are, and when I get down there, you're not gonna stay in bondage because when I get down there, I'm gonna break the chains of bondage. I'm gonna loose the keys. I'm gonna let go everything. And30:19 whenever you get in Christ, I'm gonna pull you out. That's right. That's why in Revelation 1 verse number 18, Jesus is being looked at by John the beloved. He's in30:31 his glorified resurrected body, and this is what John the beloved said. He said, I looked at him and he had hair just as white as wool. His eyes were shining like fire. He had a white garment on,30:43 and he was girded about the paths with a golden girdle of omnipotence, and he said he reached back his sash, and on his girdle, and on his belt, he had keys written on them. They were the keys of death,30:55 hell, and the grave. And in that moment when Jesus stepped down into our bondage, he looks at us and says, you don't have to stay here. There's freedom to come out of this31:06 stuff. The cross of Calvary is not about a suffering servant. It's about a redeeming savior,31:18 and it's about looking at me and you offering 1 hope. You don't have to stay in your sin. There's hope and freedom in31:30 Jesus Christ. You don't have to stay where you are. Jesus will redeem you, and this is what he does.31:42 He's gonna utter some more phrases, and every single 1 of them, they show I feel what you feel. You know the next statement he's gonna make? After he says, why has thou forsaken me?31:54 He's gonna say, I thirst. I thirst.32:00 I feel what you feel. I'm touched with what you're touched with.32:08 And I wrap all that up, and I come to this 15 second point. I'm pretty sure I shouldn't give time stamps on my sermons, but, anyways, I got a 15 second point here.32:20 You walked into this room feeling so far away from hope and joy and life.32:31 Jesus has already felt everything you don't have to feel anymore through Jesus Christ. You don't have to feel rejected. He was32:43 already rejected. You don't have to feel destroyed. He was already destroyed. You don't have to feel hopeless. He was already hopeless. He's already felt everything, and that's why he said, father,32:55 why hast thou forsaken me? Let's bow our heads for just a second.In this video 0:00 The Cry of Forsakenness: Unpacking 'Sabachthani'9:29 Reason 1: The Wrath of God17:23 Reason 2: Fulfilling Prophecy21:14 Reason 3: Divine Connection and Empathy26:54 Reason 4: Breaking Bondage's Chains
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