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Book of Romans, please, chapter 9.

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Read with me verse number 20.

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Romans chapter 9, verse 20, Nay, but, O

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man, who art thou that replyest against God?

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Shall the thing formed say to him that

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formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

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I'd like to look at this verse and

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why have you made me?

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Why did you make me?

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Come to Matthew, please, chapter 27.

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Matthew 27, we'll break in at verse number

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45.

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Now from the sixth hour there was darkness

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over all the land until the ninth hour,

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and about the ninth hour Jesus cried with

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a loud voice saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?

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That is to say, My God, my God,

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why hast thou forsaken me?

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And one more in the book of Galatians,

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please.

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Galatians chapter 2, verse 20.

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I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live,

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yet not I, but Christ liveth in me,

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and the life which I now live in

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the flesh I live by the faith of

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the Son of God, who loved me and

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gave himself for me.

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I do not frustrate the grace of God,

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for if righteousness come by the law, then

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Christ is dead in vain.

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Lord, bless to us the reading of his

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word.

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Very simply at the end of this day

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I'd like to consider why have you made

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me?

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Why did you make me?

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Shall the thing formed say to that which

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formed it, Why did you make me thus?

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Why did you make me?

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Matthew chapter 27, we've got the cry from

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the cross of our Lord Jesus.

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Very holy ground, why has thou forsaken me?

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And then we've got the Apostle Paul in

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Galatians 2, verse 20, and he's pondering and

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he's wondering about the Son of God who

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loved him and gave himself for him, and

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I would like to just put the rhyme

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on that as why did you undertake for

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me?

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Why did you make me?

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Why did you forsake me?

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And the Son of God who loved me

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and gave himself for me.

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Maybe you've wondered, as many have wondered as

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you've considered your life, why am I here?

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Why is it that God made me?

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Why did he make me with five fingers

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and five toes?

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Why did he make me with a soul?

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Why did he make me and put me

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on this planet?

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If all there is to life is to

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live life and to grow old and to

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die and to waste away, why is it

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that God created man?

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My brother has already told us that God

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has created man that he might have relationship

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with us.

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God created no one to be separated from

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him for all eternity.

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God's will and God's desire is that all

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men would be saved and to come to

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the knowledge of the truth and God would

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have all men to be in his presence

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to experience his glory, but few will there

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be who that will find it.

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So the clay would say to the potter,

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why hast thou made me?

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Have you ever wondered that?

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You know there are cases in the Bible

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that we read that those that have rejected

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the Lord Jesus Christ that it would be

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good for them if they were never born.

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Good for that man or good for that

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woman if they would never have been born

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because it would be far greater never to

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experience life at all than to experience life

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and all the pleasures of sin and all

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the pleasures of the world and to reject

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the great invitation to come and to lose

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one's soul and to end in a place

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of judgment and torment for all the endless

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ages of eternity and yet even those souls

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will not even be able to raise the

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finger against God in any righteous way whatsoever.

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There'll not be one little bony finger from

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the flames of hell that ever will ever

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ask the creator, why did you make me?

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Because it is God's desire that every single

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human being would be in complete communion and

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complete relationship and there have their eternity with

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him, unbroken delight and unbroken joy, but they'll

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never be able anyone able to be able

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to say why did you make me with

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any righteous basis.

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God created man in the image in his

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image in his likeness.

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God created man to bring him glory.

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God created you to bring him glory.

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Why did you make me?

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Matthew 27.

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Why hast thou forsaken me?

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Lord Jesus or rather when you think of

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any prayer that the Lord Jesus makes out

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loud, we have to take special attention, we

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have to make special note of those prayers

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because the Savior didn't need to pray out

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loud to pray to God and neither do

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you or I for that matter, but when

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prayers are recorded for us to learn from

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those that are recorded in the eternal word,

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it's a very important for us to think

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about them.

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You'll get that in John chapter 11 when

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the Lord Jesus is there at the grave

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of Lazarus and he says, Father, I thank

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thee that thou hearest me, but I know

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that thou hearest me always, but for the

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sake of those that stand by, I said

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it.

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And so the Lord Jesus is conveying truth

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to us that we need to understand when

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he prays out loud and you'll note as

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you read through the gospels, it'll be the

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case in every single prayer that is recorded

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for us.

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Those times when he went up to the

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mountain to pray or he went out into

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the ship or wherever he went to be

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alone, we don't know what he asked for,

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we don't know his heart's cry to God

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and we don't need to know, but when

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the effort is made that we do know,

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we need to take heed and learn something

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very important.

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My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken

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me?

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The fact was that God forsook him because

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of sin.

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He was forsaken there as he was made

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sin for us who knew no sin, that

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we might be made the righteousness of God

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in him.

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this prayer is that God forsakes because of

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sin.

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You see, sin and God can never mix.

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There can never be sin in God's heaven.

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God's heaven is a holy place.

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God is a holy God.

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He is the living and the true God

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and there will not be one sin in

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God's heaven.

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And in order for you and I ever

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to have an opportunity, understand that, just an

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opportunity to be saved, Christ must be forsaken.

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He must be made sin for us who

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knew no sin.

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He must satisfy the throne of God as

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far as the righteous holy claims that sin

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deserves, that all the justice and judgment that

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sin deserved must be paid for.

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God's throne must be satisfied in order for

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us to have an opportunity to be saved.

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And Christ was forsaken.

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He was forsaken.

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You see, it is a warning of the

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solemnity of the wrath of God.

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To be forsaken by God, who can comprehend?

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To be forsaken, to be consigned to the

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caverns of the damned, to be consigned to

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the lake of fire, to be consigned to

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the weeping and the wailing of gnashing and

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teeth, for all the endless ages of eternity,

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to be forsaken by God, to never experience

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the presence of God, nor ever delve into

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the love of God, but to be absolutely

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and utterly forsaken in a place called hell

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because of our sins.

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We learn this in this cry, my God,

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my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

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Why?

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It is a solemn warning of the reality

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of the judgment of God against sin, something

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for you and I to consider.

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You see, as he prayed unto God, God

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knew why he was forsaken.

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God knew why he must forsake the sin

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-bearer there at Calvary.

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It was God's plan.

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It was God's design that sin would be

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dealt with there, that the just would die

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for the unjust, that he might bring us

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to God.

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And so God absolutely knew why the sin

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-bearer must be forsaken.

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The Lord Jesus Christ knew why.

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You remember in the garden of Gethsemane, and

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there he was, and he went about a

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stone's cast away, and he was praying there.

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And it says he began to be sore

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amazed as he was contemplating the cup of

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the wrath of God that he must drink.

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He prays out loud in the garden there.

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Wonderful study to consider why he prayed out

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loud in the garden.

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But there he was in anticipation of the

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judgment of God, and as sweat as it

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were, great drops of blood falling to the

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ground.

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He was anticipating the moments preceding this time

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with that he cried this, why hast thou

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forsaken me?

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God knew.

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The Lord Jesus could answer that question.

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And so it is indeed a prayer for

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us to ponder, and it warns us of

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the solemnity of the wrath of God.

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The second thing I want you to consider

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is this, that it causes us to wonder

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at the sinlessness of Christ.

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It's a proclamation of innocence.

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My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken

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me?

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You see, in the person of our Lord

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Jesus Christ, there was never any sin that

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could be found.

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He knew no sin.

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He did not sin.

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In him is no sin.

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And what we find there is God dealing

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with sin on Calvary.

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And if in the Lord Jesus Christ there

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was no sin, then this cry must be

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a cry of a proclamation of innocence.

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It must cause us to wonder at the

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sinlessness of Christ.

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Can I draw your attention to the lovely

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man of Calvary for a moment?

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This is the one that came from the

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heights of glory.

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God manifests in the flesh, and he came

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to this world, and he walked among men,

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and he dwelt among men, and he rubbed

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shoulders with sinful men.

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But yet in him was no sin, and

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he did no sin, and there was no

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guile found in his mouth.

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And there as he walked the sands of

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time, the incarnate eternal one, he walked the

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sands of time apart from sin.

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And he had to.

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He had to in the virtue of who

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he was, and he had to the virtue

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of the work that he was going to

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accomplish at Calvary.

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He must go to that place to be

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the spotless, sinless sacrifice.

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Have you ever wondered of a man that

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lived that could not sin?

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Oh, I'll tell you, it's a marvelous thing

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to consider.

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It is a tremendous thing to ponder that

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this man, absolutely sinless, would find himself, not

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by coincidence, under the wrath and the judgment

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of Almighty God for sin.

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Does that mean anything to you tonight?

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Does it carry any special weight?

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Does it carry any special meaning as you

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sit there in the audience and you consider

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one that was absolutely perfect?

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As the spotless lamb in the days of

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old in the book of Exodus, one in

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whom there was no blemish.

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And you see, as they would appreciate that

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lamb for those days, and they would kill

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that lamb, and in fact any sacrifice that

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was ever offered, that sacrifice had to be

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without blemish.

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And they would take that sacrifice, and they

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would kill that sacrifice, and they would understand

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this, that this animal must die for my

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sin.

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And this animal did no wrong.

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That sacrifice sinned not against God.

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There was no condemning sin in that animal.

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But yet that animal must die to take

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the place of the offerer, to take the

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place of the one that brought the sacrifice

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to the priest and to the altar to

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be slain.

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And that's what we have here at Calvary.

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We've got the sinless Son of God, the

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sacrifice for sin, the innocent one.

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You see, it was not the life of

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the sacrifice that satisfied God.

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It wasn't the fact that that animal had

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no blemish that satisfied God.

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Those things are necessary, but that did not

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make atonement for the soul.

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That never covered sin.

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That was never the satisfying thing for God's

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holy throne.

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It wasn't the life of the sacrifice, it

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wasn't the labor of the sacrifice, and it

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wasn't the life and the labor of the

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Lord Jesus Christ that satisfied God.

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There must needs be the giving of the

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life.

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There must be bloodshed.

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There must be blood that was shed to

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satisfy God's throne.

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Why?

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Because God had declared that the wages of

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sin is death.

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God had declared that there must be blood,

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and it was not the blood of bulls

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or goats that could take away sin, but

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it was the blood of our Lord Jesus

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Christ.

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And so consider with me this cry.

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It is a wonder at the sinlessness, the

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perfection of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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My God, my God, why?

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Not why have you made me.

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He always was.

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But why did you forsake me?

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Why?

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I wondered what those on that good Friday

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afternoon would have thought.

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This is Easter weekend, you know.

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And I've often wondered what it must have

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been like to be there.

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And the darkness came.

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The supernatural darkness as the darkness would cover

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cover the land where no one could see,

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and the darkness that could be felt.

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And there it says about the ninth hour.

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It doesn't say whether it was dark there

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or not.

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It was about the ninth hour.

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My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken

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me?

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To me, when I imagine that out of

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the darkness, the magnitude of that cry.

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Out of the blackness of the darkness there

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in the middle of the day, as they

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sat down and they watched him there and

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they couldn't see what was taking place.

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And then this cry comes, my God, my

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God, why has thou forsaken me?

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Would it not send the chills right down

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your spine to think of one there, one

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that performed the miracles, one that was the

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voice from heaven came.

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This is my beloved son in whom I

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am well pleased.

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And now this one, this perfect one, this

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holy one, this spotless one is forsaken by

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God.

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Could I ask the question to you, my

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friend, tonight?

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How is God going to deal with you?

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Oh, dear man, so full of sin.

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Dear young woman, so contaminated by sin.

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Dear Christ rejecter, trampling on the blood of

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Christ, have you ever marveled to consider if

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you die in your sin, you'll be forsaken

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by God, forsaken.

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Why hast thou forsaken me?

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It also was a proof of his suffering.

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There were many people that were crucified in

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those days upon crosses.

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And what they experienced there as they were

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crucified was really the wrath and the justice

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of men toward their sin.

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You remember the malefactor there, he said, we

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receive the due reward of our deeds.

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So he understood that he was getting what

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he deserved.

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And he understood what he was facing there

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was the consequence of his own sin.

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But when we hear the cry of the

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Lord Jesus, the sinless one, proof that he

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suffered at the hands of God, all we

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find the wrath of man at Calvary, all

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the hatred of man, all the animosity of

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man toward the Son of God.

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They finally had their chance.

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They finally had their way.

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Christ had done them no ill.

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He had done them no wrong.

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And then there the cry comes from Calvary

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that he was forsaken by God.

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My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken

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me?

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It's proof to me that he suffered the

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wrath of God.

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It's proof to me that he drained that

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cup, coupled that with the resurrection.

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And there's no doubt in anyone's mind that

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what took place at Calvary has satisfied God.

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God is 100% satisfied with the death

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of his Son.

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So God can answer this question.

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The Lord Jesus can answer this question.

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Israel has come to know in a sense,

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and they'll come to know even more, according

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to Isaiah 53, what this was all about.

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He was wounded for our transgressions.

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He was bruised for our iniquities.

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The chastisement of our peace was upon him,

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and with his stripes we are healed.

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They're going to be able to answer the

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question why he was forsaken.

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The Lord Jesus esteemed him stricken, smitten of

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God, and afflicted.

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But they'll understand it was for them.

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The saved in the audience tonight can understand

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and enter into the value of why he

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was forsaken.

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No question in our mind that he was

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forsaken by God and that he was forsaken

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just for me.

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I often say that if I was the

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only one ever to be saved, Christ would

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have had to die the same death.

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He would have to suffer the same at

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the hands of God, because his death was

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all for my sin.

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All for me.

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Dear sinner friend, do you know why he

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was forsaken?

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Do you know why?

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My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken

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me?

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And then Paul says, the Son of God

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who loved me and gave himself for me.

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Did you ever wonder why God loved you?

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Maybe you don't know tonight that God loves

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you.

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I hope you know on the facts of

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our first message that we heard tonight, the

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reality of the love of God to invite

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those that are unworthy to a great supper.

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Invite those that are unworthy to a wedding

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feast.

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We need to remind you tonight that God

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loves you, and he loves you with an

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everlasting love, and this cry from the cross

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is proof that God loves you.

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It's proof.

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Paul says, the Son of God who loved

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me and gave himself for me.

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Why did he ever undertake for me?

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Why did he ever suffer that judgment for

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me?

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Why did he give himself for me?

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I want you to consider that question tonight,

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my friend.

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He loved you when you were at enmity

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with him.

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He loves you without condition and without cause.

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God himself is love.

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Listen to the words of John 3, For

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God so loved the world that he gave

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his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in

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him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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For God commended his love toward us, and

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that while we were yet sinners, Christ died

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for us.

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It would be a marvelous thing tonight to

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end this day that you might come to

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know why Christ died, and not just why

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he died, but that who he died for.

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Oh, some would say that he died for

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the world.

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I'm not so much interested tonight that he

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died for the world.

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I'm thankful that he did, but I'm interested

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tonight in the fact that he died just

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for me, that he bore my sin in

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his own body on the tree, and there

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he satisfied God for my sin, and my

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sin has been dealt with, and it is

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gone.

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And it's God's desire that you would know

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the same for yourself.

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And we do not frustrate the grace of

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God, for if righteousness come by the law,

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then Christ is dead in vain.

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Consider these questions, my friend, tonight.

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Why are you made?

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Why did he make you?

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He made you to be with you.

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He made you that you might glorify him.

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He made you that you might be in

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his presence forever.

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My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken

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me?

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He was forsaken so that you might never

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be forsaken.

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And why did God love me?

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That's something that causes worship, and will cause

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worship for all the endless ages of eternity.

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How is it that a holy God, why

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is it that a righteous God would love

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a guilty sinner, and make complete payment for

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them through the giving of his son?

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My dear friend, God loves you, and is

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longing for your salvation, even tonight.

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Trust him.

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Come to know the reality of the one

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who was forsaken for the sinner at Calvary.

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Shall we pray?