Death of the King: Forsaken, Finished, and Redeemed

Friends, know it. Believe it. This is the crux of history. He wants everyone to know that truly Jesus is the son of God. Just as the centurion proclaimed, no one else in history was like him. No one else has ever been the eternal son of God who became a man. And no one else fulfilled all the prophecies concerning his coming, his birth, his life, all the miracles he did, all the details surrounding his death. [01:05:44] (30 seconds)  #JesusIsSonOfGod

Jesus was forsaken on the cross, and he died so that we don't have to be forsaken and die eternally. Right? He said, my god, my god, why have you forsaken me? That wasn't so much for him. That was for us. He knew why. He wants the world to know why. Jesus was forsaken on the cross to save those who would believe in him from being forsaken forever. [01:06:48] (28 seconds)  #ForsakenForUs

Jesus had to die to satisfy God's wrath, his just wrath against sin fully. That's what propitiation is. He did it. It is finished. And the reality of this is demonstrated in the miraculous tearing of the curtain in the temple and, of course, his resurrection from the dead. Those were God the father's amen to Jesus' declaration, it is finished. Absolutely, it's finished. Barrier removed. Rose from the dead. [01:09:36] (34 seconds)  #ItIsFinished

God was saying, in effect, in the death of my son, Jesus Christ, there's total access to my holy presence. He has paid the full price for everyone who trusts in him, and now I throw open my holy presence to all who will come in his name. Praise be to God. Amen? And this took place, again, right when many of the priests were there at the temple complex. [00:57:48] (27 seconds)  #AccessToGodsPresence

More notably, it was, the first and only time, think about it, recorded in the gospels or anywhere where Jesus referred to his father with the less personal title, god. Why have you forsaken me? These words are haunting. For the first time in all eternity, the eternal son was cut off from fellowship with his father as Jesus was bearing the wrath of God against sin. His father turned his back on his son during that time. That is what he was experiencing. [00:45:51] (45 seconds)  #MyGodWhy

What happened with the darkness here falling over the land when Jesus died was supernatural, And we know that for at least a couple of reasons. One, Passover occurred during a full moon, and a solar eclipse can only happen during during a new moon. What's more, this darkness lasted about three hours at least. So natural total solar eclipses can only last about seven and a half minutes. So what happened during those second three hours from about noon to about three as Jesus hung on that cross was a supernatural darkness brought about by God as Jesus was taking upon himself the judgment of the sins of the world. [00:40:24] (43 seconds)  #SupernaturalDarkness

What was that? That was the Passover, and that was the day when the Jews in Judea, right, in Jerusalem there, sacrificed their Passover lambs. And so Jesus, the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, died at precisely the same time as in hundreds of other sacrificial lambs died commemorating the Passover. What a coincidence. And if you think that's just a coincidence, I've got some real estate I'd like to sell you. [00:52:53] (39 seconds)  #LambAtPassover

And so this arrangement was to help the people realize how holy god is and how he is separated from unholy man, even his people due to their unholiness. And that's why they also were always offering sacrifices to atone for their sins. But the fact that the curtain was torn in two from top, think about that, from the top to the bottom at Jesus' death was meant to show in yet another miraculous way that Jesus' atoning death was the means to remove the separation between a holy god and unholy people. [00:55:19] (41 seconds)  #CurtainTornAccess