193: Ashraf Ali – Exhortation: “My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?”

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This we stalk is an excitation
titled, my God, my God, why hast

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Thou forsaken me?
Bye brother.

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Ashraf.
Ali from Guyana.

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It was an exhortation given on
Zoom.

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At the end of a study weekend
hosted by the occlusion in

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Guyana and this was suggested by
a brother from the Jamaica.

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Queens.
Ecclesia in New York.

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Thank you for that suggestion.
It was a really fun talk to

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listen to very encouraging
Brother Ali had a lot of very

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encouraging thoughts and some
lines that I’m going to remember

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for a long time.
He makes the point that this is

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Is in a way.
This Psalm is the word becoming

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flesh because the Lord Jesus
experienced this Psalm so fully

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he kind of expends a lot.
The whole education really

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exploring.
Why this why he chooses to quote

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this somehow.
That’s the first half of the

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talk is him kind of expect
discovering.

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Why is it that he quotes this
song specifically?

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And why would he say that God
has forsaken him?

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So really, The sock.
Thanks again to the suggestion.

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Obviously, I think, brother
Ashraf has a really wonderful

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accent as well.
That’s very fun to listen to.

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So I’m excited to share this
talk.

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Here is Brother Ali, my God, my
God, why hast Thou forsaken, me?

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My beloved Brethren and sisters.
It is indeed a wonderful

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privilege to bring the
exhortation to us today.

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We all like to share the gospel
message.

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My brother in Canada, his
interests in the Bible has been

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revived.
And I am sharing the gospel

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message with him when we were
growing up.

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We went to the same high school
and at that time subject called

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really just knowledge was
compulsory.

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We used to call it scripture.
And it was easier subject to

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pass.
We had to study one of the

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gospels and the Acts of the
Apostles.

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He did Matthew during his time.
And I did look when we were

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growing up.
He used to ask me questions

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about the Bible.
I’m a few years older.

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And from a teenager, I used to.
Attend christadelphians

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meetings.
But at that time, I used to

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dismiss him cursorily knowledge
to really explain certain things

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to him and just had the time to
sit down and talk to him.

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What about his scripture?
I regretted that but life has

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turned his full circle and you
know, his interest is revived.

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He lives in Canada.
He has been asking me questions

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and I have been asking him
questions.

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I asked him questions, such as
Did Jeff of sacrifice his

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daughter?
Or during the Wilderness

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Journey.
Why were they oxygen?

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And they occur and the cards
distributed on evenly?

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Or.
Did Moses speak to the people

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with his will on or off?
Well?

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Yeah.
Answered.

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All those questions is the
questions.

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He got is.
He’s a mechanical engineer.

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He’s a mathematician of the
family.

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And so he has a sharp mind.
I decided to ask him a difficult

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question because six, you know,
he was on the new windows.

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So I asked him this difficult
question.

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What did Jesus mean by?
My God, my God, why hast Thou

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forsaken me?
I would like to read the answer,

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the answer to give.
Or response that you need.

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This is what he said.
Quote.

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What did Jesus mean by?
My God, my God, why hast Thou

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forsaken me?
This question is a very

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difficult one.
Over the last two millennia.

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Thousands of brilliant, Bible,
scholars have thought of and

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researched into this question
and have not come up with a

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positive answer supported by the
Bible.

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The various answers we have come
up with are merely opinions,

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speculations and theories.
I do not believe that there is a

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positive answer to this
question.

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That is clearly supported by
scriptural references.

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Taken directly from the Bible.
I never found a good answer.

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Then when I read the Bible again
a year ago.

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You asked this question.
I understand that Martin Luther.

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Went into seclusion for a long
time, trying to understand the

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reason why Jesus, uttered these
words.

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And key movie as confused as
when he began.

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If he could not find the answer.
Who am I to find the answer?

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Nevertheless?
I have searched intensively.

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And extensively over the last
few weeks for a positive and a

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logical answer.
I have checked the Bible and I

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have searched the four corners
of the Earth.

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And I came out convinced that
the answer is not in the Bible

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end of quote.
This is a guy.

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Who said that last year?
He read the entire Bible in four

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months.
More than and eat hours a day.

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He spent reading the Bible and
this year is using the Bible

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companion and he is now
attending our Bible class.

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My exhortation Brethren and
sisters today.

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Is a feeble.
Answer to that question.

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Why did Jesus cried out?
My God.

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My God, why hast Thou forsaken
me?

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The answer doesn’t me doves.
Make A very powerful

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exhortation.
In the principles, it brings

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out.
If we are feeling a little

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depressed.
Especially because of the covid.

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Pandemic that is Raging out
there.

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I hope that this exhortation.
Can I bring a bone store steps

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to go back?
Revived to life?

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And its responsibilities.
If a dozen people are in a room

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and we asked each one to explain
why Jesus cried out.

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

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We will get 12 different
interpretations.

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In our exhortation.
We do not intend to give an

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interpretation of my God.
My God, why hast Thou forsaken

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me?
But we would like to use it to

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bring out lessons that will help
us as we struggle with our own

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mortality sometimes. in very,
Difficult environments.

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Hebrews chapter 2.
Verse 14, reads.

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For, as much of the energy.
As the children are partakers of

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Flesh and Blood.
He also himself likewise took

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part of the same that through
death.

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He might destroy him.
That had the power of death.

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That is the devil.
In 4:15.

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We read for, we have not a high
priest which cannot be touched

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with the feeling of our
infirmities, but was in all

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points tempted like, like, as we
are yet without sin.

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Therefore, Brethren and sisters
in certain respects, the

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sufferings of Jesus should
mirror our own.

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And his sufferings that we
experience.

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You should mirror that of our
Lord Jesus.

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To put this another way.
There are many similarities

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between our sufferings and that
of Jesus.

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Before we plunge into Psalm 22.
where, My God.

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My God, why hast Thou forsaken
me has taken from we would like

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to describe two experiences that
we share with Jesus, but with a

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much lesser intensity.
We will then apply these

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experiences to Psalm 22.
Bear with me.

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The Preamble is long, but it is
directly related to Psalm 22.

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We are all familiar with the
saying.

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The spirit is willing.
But the flesh is weak.

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I will use myself as an example
to explain this principle.

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I suffer from time to time with
a stomach problem.

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Not a hard problem.
Thank God, it is seasonal and

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most times.
It depends on the kind of food

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that I eat.
It can last for a couple of days

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during which time it is
difficult for me to get out of

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bed because of the acute pain.
All of us.

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As I do love life, rather than
death, no matter to what extent

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we suffer, hardship and pain.
There are very elderly, people

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who cry out for death.
But this is not a subject you

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want to go into at this time?
Before we continue.

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A little explanation is needed
about the flesh.

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The Flash represents the whole
person.

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A figure of speech called.
Synecdoche the whole person has

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two ways of thinking.
Our own natural rebellious way

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against the laws of God or God’s
way of life for us.

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These two contradictory ways of
thinking.

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Are referred to as the Flesh and
the spirit.

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Not that there are two separate
bodies, the spirit body and the

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natural body.
The two are one.

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There is no separation of any
entity at death.

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The flesh is a metaphor for the
mind.

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So as I was saying, I love life,
despite its setbacks.

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As.
Max Orman says in his

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desiderata.
Therefore be at peace with God,

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whatever you conceive him to be.
And whatever your labors and

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aspirations.
In the noisy, confusion of life.

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Keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham drudgery and

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Broken Dreams.
It is a beautiful world.

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Be cheerful strive to be happy.
Brother and sisters.

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If thought never came to me in
my wildest dreams that I would

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cry out for death during the
Autumn of my days.

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I’m 75 years old going on.
December 26.

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So I never expected to have the
experience that I am describing.

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Now.
There was this absolutely

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terrible pain that I had it came
in waves.

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As I mentioned before, it was
not the first time I had had

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this kind of pain but this time
it was brutally intense.

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I cried aloud for God to help
me.

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If someone had heard me there,
they would have called 911

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without consulting me.
I was alone in my room.

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My brother-in-law.
The only person at home was four

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floors below.
When the Pian reached?

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The peanut butter.
Of its highest intensity.

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I cried out.
God, let me die.

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I felt that God had forsaken me.
It was not me screaming.

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Those words.
I loved life too much.

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It was the flesh.
When I could no longer bear, the

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pain, the flesh, cried out for
death.

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Never in my wildest imagination.
Did I ever believe words like

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those would come from me?
I always wanted to leave so

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much.
The spirit is willing.

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But the flesh is weak.
Maybe some of you listening.

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I’ve had this experience already
and we are on the same page or

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maybe not.
But those of you who never had

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this kind of experience, I pray
that you would be spared.

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Since then.
I have not had a repeat of this

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excruciating Lee painful
experience.

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I tried changing my diet.
I’d like to call milk.

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But since I stopped using whole
milk, the attacks have been

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mild.
This reminds me of brother Alan

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Fowler famous Medical Doctor Who
decades ago at a Bible School.

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In Guyana said, we should avoid
salt and cold milk because call

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milk.
Is for Cocoa Puffs?

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Not people.
However, if I’m invited to your

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house and you give me coffee.
I will ask for call milk and

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sugar.
I am not a teetotaler

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teetotaler.
For milk salt and sugar.

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Paul said, let your moderation
be known to all.

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Incidentally, brothers and
sisters, scripture says that God

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will not allow us to experience
more Temptations than we can be

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here.
He did not say that he will not

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allow us to have more pain than
we can bear.

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Paul talks about experiences in
his life.

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And the life of his Brethren
when they had more pain that he

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can be there, for example.
Ian 2nd Corinthians chapter 1

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verse 8, we read for a, we would
not Brethren have you.

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Ignorant of our trouble, which
came to us in Asia, that we were

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pressed out of measure above
strength?

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In so much that we despaired
even of life.

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So it was temptations that God
will not give us more than we

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can, they’re not pain.
Ida second principle that we

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would like to refer to briefly,
is that God promised over and

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over in the Bible that he will
not forsake his obedient

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servants.
It would go against this

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promise.
If we say that, he forsook the

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greatest of his servants, the
Lord Jesus Christ, his son.

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In the time of his greatest
need, incidentally.

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The resurrected Christ said that
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his friends, but will be with
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So, let us keep these two
principles or experiences in the

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back of our mind, as we explore
some 22, they are the spirit is

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willing, but the flesh is weak
and both God.

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And Jesus said, they would never
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If you are faithful, of course.
Now for some 22.

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We will do our best.
And not to give an

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interpretation of Psalm 22.
From now on, we will refer to

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some 22 and the gospels where
the sum is quoted and no, and no

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other Bible passage.
If we bring another Bible

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passages, we will be getting
into an interpretation which we

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want to avoid. so, Psalm 22
every time Jesus saw cross.

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Psalm 22 must have come into his
mind without he willing that it

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should be.
So he must have recited that

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some hundreds of times.
The some describes of a man who

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can be you or me when we feel
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And when we cry out for help.
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Look at some 22.
We have read.

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Versed 100 times.
But perhaps the meaning has

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eluded or escaped us.
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My God.
My God, why hast Thou forsaken

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me?
Why are those so far from

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helping me?
And the words of my roaring

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verse 2, O, my God, I cry in the
daytime, but thou here is not

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and in the night season, and I’m
not silent.

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So the words, my God.
My God, why hast Thou forsaken

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me?
was not a one-time occasion, but

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Jesus said that throughout His
probation.

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Oh my God.
My God.

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When?
There was this battle between

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the spirit and the flesh.
It was a refrain in his life as

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even as he went through.
That gargantuan struggle.

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Brothers and sisters.
When Jesus was impaled on the

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cross, he experienced the most
intense fulfillment of Psalm 22.

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This son of the passages of
scripture came to his mind from

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time to time because he had
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At first.
They were only an intellectual

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understanding of scripture.
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became part of his experience.
As he struggled in the fiercest

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of all battles.
Flesh against Spirit, the words

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of some of the some were
secondary the feelings that the

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sun evoked, what the substance,
the words were being made,

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flesh, a process that started at
his conception and ended at his

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death.
When the Romans drove Nails into

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his flesh.
And his cross was raised up,

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right?
Every labored breath, he took.

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Was.
Intensely brutal brutally.

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Agonizingly.
And excruciating Lee painful the

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time came.
Venice flesh.

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Could no longer take it.
God never ever turned his back

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on his son.
Psalm 22.

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We not out of Psalm 22, Psalm 22
verse 24.

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For he has not despised nor of
heard the Affliction of The

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Afflicted, neither hath.
He hid his face from him.

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But when he Cried unto him, he
heard.

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On that cross.
The heart of God and the Heart

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of his son.
Jesus would beating as one

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heart.
Not hiding his face from Jesus

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and being there for Jesus remind
us of the poem by Mary

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Stevenson.
It goes like this.

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It’s entitled Footprints in the
Sand.

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One night.
I had a dream I dreamed.

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I was walking along the beach
with the Lord.

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Across the sky flashed scenes
from my life.

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For each scene.
I noticed two sets of footprints

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in the sand.
One belonging to me and the

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other to the Lord.
When the last scene of my life

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flashed before me, I look back
at the footprints in the Sun and

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I noticed that many times along
the path of my life.

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There was only one set of
footprints.

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I also noticed that it happened
at the very lowest and saddest

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times in my life.
This really bothered me and I

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questioned the Lord about it.
Lord.

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You said that once I decided to
follow you, you’d walk with me

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all the way but I have noticed
that during the most Troublesome

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times in my life.
There is only one set of

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footprints.
I don’t understand.

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Why when I need you most, you
would leave me.

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The Lord replied my precious
child.

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I love you and would never leave
you during your times of trial.

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And suffering, when you see only
one set of footprints.

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It was then that I carried you.
Yes, red and sisters.

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The father was there.
But his hands were tied.

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Because if Jesus had refused to
complete obediently, the

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sentiments of the whole of Psalm
22 Redemption for faithful

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humans of all time would have
been lost.

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Jesus was in the process of
completing the most Herculean

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and difficult task that has ever
been frost on a mortal.

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Yeah, we had to wait for his son
to learn that he could not rely

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on his flesh to carry him
through this ordeal.

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There is no evidence in Psalm
22.

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And in the gospel.
That the Holy Spirit left,

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Jesus.
The father was looking on and

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waiting for the right time to
intervene in the suffering of

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his son.
The feeling of Jesus was yes, my

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father.
I know you promised not to

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forsake me, but I cannot bear
this ordeal anymore.

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Where is the help that I need?
Spirit is willing but the flesh

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is weak.
The flesh.

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Cried out, my God, my God, why
hast Thou forsaken?

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Me?
These.

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Well, not the words of Jesus.
The flesh was crying out, human

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endurance that come to an end.
Jesus felt that God had forsaken

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him.
But there is no evidence in

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Psalm 22 that God had forsaken
his son as evidenced above.

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And Brethren and sisters.
When the flesh gave up.

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That was when God stepped in to
give the right medication at the

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right time using the kind of
language that we are familiar

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with.
The prepping was complete.

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The greatest physician of all
time.

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Father.
God was about to take over.

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God was waiting for the Cry of
the flesh to express.

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It’s in adequacy for the work of
redemption.

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Let me say that again.
God was waiting for the Cry of

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the flesh to express.
Its in adequacy for the work of

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redemption.
Jesus alone could not buy

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himself, brought Redemption to
faithful humans.

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God’s?
Right arm brought salvation.

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VI the ego.
In human flesh.

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Even in Jesus.
Had to be humbled.

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How did God help Jesus to show
that he had not forsaken him?

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We usually think that Jesus
recited the part of Psalm 22.

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It says, my God, my God, why
hast Thou forsaken?

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Me and immediately after this
anguished Outburst.

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He said it is finished.
And then he died.

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That is so far from the truth.
Jesus was not really reciting,

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the Sun for people to hear.
Jesus was living this.

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Some as no one had ever lived it
before.

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The sun was becoming flesh.
Look at this song.

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In its entirety, it consists of
31 verses.

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We suggested that Jesus must
have recited this some countless

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times in his life.
David who wrote the sun did

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experience, the ramifications of
this sum to a certain measure.

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Saying that it is also inspired
meant that God had an input and

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did put in place experiences
that had their culminating

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fulfillment with his son on the
cross.

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Need the following reasoning is
correct.

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Then what we will discover now
we’ll blow our mind.

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To reinforce what we said, the
sum was going through the mind

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of Jesus.
He was living it.

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The word was in the process of
becoming flesh.

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A process that started at
conception.

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The gospels give us snapshots of
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Reading the crucifixion of Jesus
in the gospels gives us the

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feeling.
That as soon as Jesus said, my

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God, my God, why hast Thou
forsaken, me?

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He said it is finished and died.
Jesus is mind when through the

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entire Sam. and when he came to
verse 31, He changed the words.

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And this happens when a verse or
a passage is taken out of the

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Old Testament into the Old
Testament, not as a mere

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quotation. but, It adds another
dimension.

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To divorce is a different
application from the Old

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Testament. so, The words were
changed.

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The KJV says he has done this.
That is verse 31 of Psalm 22.

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He has done this referring to
the father.

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Another translation says he has
performed it in Hebrew.

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The word used is Asar, which
means accomplished.

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A related word is Hosea, which
means yeah saves.

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Why am I laboring on this
Brethren and sisters?

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Is because he has done.
This is changed to.

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It is finished.
Psalm 22.

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Says.
He has done it, the father.

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Jesus said, It is finished.
Jesus, did not say.

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I have completed what you
required of me, or I did it.

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He said it is finished that fizz
of the work in.

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Some 22 was finished.
It is finished.

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The father.
With the help of his son.

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Had done it.
With his last breath.

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Jesus was giving all credit to
God for accomplishing, his will

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in the life of his son.
With his last breath.

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Jesus was giving his father
credit for the work of

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atonement.
The he in he has done it refers

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to the father.
As we said, Jesus did not see.

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I have done it.
In other words, Jesus was saying

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the word that you gave me to do
has been accomplished.

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Because you have done it through
me.

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And then God answered his
prayer.

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By relieving his suffering in
death.

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Mercifully.
Jesus bowed his head and gave

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credit to his father.
It is done.

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And death came.
The Titanic struggle that Jesus

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and Jordan, his life and
culminated on the cross was more

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brutally intense than any
soldier who has ever died in

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battle.
Let us never underestimate The

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Gargantuans trouble that our
Master enjoyed so that we can be

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reconciled to his father.
What we go through in our

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experiences.
Pales into insignificance as

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contrasted to what he went
through.

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In a few minutes.
We will be breaking.

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Bread.
Really partaking in the breaking

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of bread.
Which will remind us of Jesus.

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Our lord and representative.
Who imputes his righteousness to

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us.
So that we who are sinners?

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Can be redeemed.
Brother and sisters.

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Not a bone.
Of his body was broken.

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What was broken was the power of
sin in his flesh?

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In a few minutes.
As we break the bread, this act

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will remind us of the breaking
of the power of sin in his body.

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Our all natural way of life to
was, put to death at baptism and

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Christ became our Master, not
sin.

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And yes, promised us.
That he will never leave us or

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forsake us.
Two, final considerations.

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Those crucified were left on the
cross for days.

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But Jesus died after 6 hours.
Jesus used to be in the peak of

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Health.
Was it the scourging together

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with the physical emotional and
psychological suffering that

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killed him?
Or was it the Spear of the

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century and that killed him an
unheard-of act by a centurion in

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the honors?
Of crucifixion in all the Anna’s

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of crucifixion was did God.
Orchestrate that.

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We will not go into that area
because we do not want to go out

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of Psalm 22 and secondly.
Half of Psalm 22 has to do.

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With his suffering and the other
half has to do with his

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resurrection and
immortalization.

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Psalm 22 is a work in progress.
So this is a sum that is more

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Sublime than it appears.
The profundity of this sum is

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ultra incredibly breathtaking.
The entire sun will have its

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complete fulfillment when Jesus
returns.

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And he celebrates his victory
over death.

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Because of the ineffable
handiwork of his father.

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Jesus said during his last meal
with his disciples that he will

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not drink of a particular cop
until he returns.

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The cop that we his friends
partake of regularly.

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Reminds us of the cop that he
would like to share with the

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faithful when he returns.
He could not share this

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celebratory or celebrity cop
with them because after the

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meal, he must head to the Garden
of Gethsemane.

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And then to the cross.
Did the ultimate sacrifice by

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the greatest man who ever lived?
Let us this day.

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Rededicate Our Lives to the
service of all of our father who

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can accomplish in our lives
victory over death.

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As he did in the life of his
son, our Lord Jesus Christ, so

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that we too are the coming of
Christ can see.

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He the father has done it.
Not we ourselves.

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And when the hour was come,
Jesus sat down and the apostles

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with him, and he took bread.
We now hand over the meeting to

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our but brother president.
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