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Ed Young - Forsaken

May 12, 2026 | 27:29

Ed Young - Forsaken
The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young is the international on-air and online teaching ministry of Dr. Ed Young. The Winning Walk proclaims the proven truth of God’s Word to give men and women the world over a winning way to live life.
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Forsaken | May 12, 2026
  • My god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me?
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  • Is the greatest mystery of all.
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  • But in the process of jesus being forsaken
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  • Is the fact that you and i will never be forsaken.
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  • That's the power.
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  • If i be lifted up, i'll draw all men to myself.
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  • That is a drawing power of jesus on that cross.
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  • There is nothing pleasant
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  • About an execution
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  • Down through history.
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  • For those who commit capital crimes.
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  • The punishment has been death.
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  • Many means have been used
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  • To carry out the punishment.
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  • Electric chair.
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  • Firing squads.
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  • Hangman's noose.
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  • Beheading.
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  • Lethal injection.
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  • A lot of ways to do it.
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  • Crucifixion is a methodology that most of us
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  • Are not familiar with.
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  • We know that jesus was crucified.
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  • We don't understand this very clearly.
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  • Crucifixion came from the phoenicians.
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  • The romans picked it up and practiced it because they
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  • Wanted to use crucifixion as a slow way of dying
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  • With tremendous suffering.
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  • As an example, for those of us who would
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  • Perhaps want to commit a crime, but we see the punishment
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  • For the crime, and the crime that the person had committed
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  • Would be on a placard around their neck.
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  • And so the slow process of crucifixion,
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  • They would put it in prominent places in crossroads.
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  • It would be a higher cross, the roman cross,
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  • Because the lower cross, the dogs would come and and
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  • Participate in the crucifixion of dying.
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  • So they lifted it up so everybody could see
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  • The roman cross,
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  • Crucifixion,
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  • Crucifixion
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  • Become the death of jesus.
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  • And we see that this is how he died
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  • And we back up.
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  • We wonder where in the world was god?
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  • Where was god?
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  • How did he let his son die like this?
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  • Pilate judge and jury
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  • Examine jesus and he came back and said it clearly.
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  • I find no fault in this man.
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  • And he turned right around and had him crucified.
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  • How could god just sit back
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  • And allow this injustice
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  • To take place?
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  • How in the world?
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  • You see, we know that jesus
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  • Was on a mission,
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  • A life purpose, a calling.
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  • I thought this week about nine over 11.
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  • Those pictures that you and i will never forget as
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  • The hundreds are fleeing those towering inferno,
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  • Collapsing fire smoke
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  • As hundreds are running away at the same time.
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  • You remember those first responders,
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  • The the policemen, the firemen, the medical people running
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  • Toward the infernos,
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  • Hundreds running away,
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  • Dozens and dozens running toward what was in
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  • The mind of those who were charging those towers.
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  • One word
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  • Rescue.
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  • Rescue.
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  • They were going to rescue those who were harmed,
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  • Injured, trapped.
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  • They were in the rescuing business.
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  • That's the mission of jesus, isn't it?
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  • We look at the word salvation and we said it means to rescue.
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  • It means to heal.
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  • That was his mission.
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  • That is what he was about.
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  • We look at the garden of gethsemane.
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  • We walked very carefully at jesus, looked into that cup.
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  • He said, let this cup pass from me.
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  • And he looked in that cup.
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  • He saw hell.
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  • He saw hell in
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  • That cup, and he saw that he would have to drink hell.
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  • That was the cross.
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  • And he said, lord, not my will.
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  • What i desire, but what you desire.
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  • Thy will be done.
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  • And he saw that that was the mission of god
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  • Displayed through jesus christ in his life on this earth.
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  • That was his mission.
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  • Salvation
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  • In the rescuing business.
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  • God was in christ reconciling,
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  • Rescuing the world to get right with god.
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  • The first thing jesus said
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  • Was, father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.
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  • Does jesus pronouncing forgiveness?
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  • Does that surprise anybody? no.
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  • That was his life's calling.
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  • That was what he was about.
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  • No surprise there.
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  • He was on the cross
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  • Providing forgiveness for those who were there,
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  • And for those of us who were not there yet, we were there.
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  • Were you there when they crucified our lord?
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  • No, not literally. yet we were there.
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  • Our sin was there.
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  • So the first words not surprising.
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  • Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.
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  • The second word is not really surprising
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  • When he looked at here's the thief bible on the cross.
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  • He sees king, king of the jews.
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  • He said, remember me when you come into your kingdom.
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  • It's not surprising.
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  • Jesus said, today you'll be with me.
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  • In my kingdom.
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  • You'll be with me in paradise.
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  • Jesus offering a word of salvation.
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  • Forgiveness to the thief.
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  • Anybody surprised by jesus doing that?
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  • Now i'm not.
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  • And then there was mary and john by the cross.
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  • Jesus kept the fifth commandment.
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  • What is it? honor your father and your mother.
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  • And so he saw his mom there.
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  • He said, mary, hey, this is your son john.
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  • And john, this is your mother, mary.
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  • And there was a jewish adoption that took place.
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  • Jesus keeping
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  • The fifth commandment does not surprise anybody.
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  • No. no surprises there.
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  • And so we
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  • Come to this fourth word,
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  • And we have three great mysteries here
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  • In just two verses.
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  • You know what a mystery is?
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  • A mystery is something that we don't quite get.
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  • We don't quite understand.
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  • It's an enigma.
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  • It's something that seems to be impossible
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  • Or improbable, or we have clues that maybe, perhaps.
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  • And it's just shrouded.
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  • It's covered. it's veiled.
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  • We don't quite get it.
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  • It is a mystery.
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  • And we look at three
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  • Great mysteries in just two verses.
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  • Open your bibles, if you would.
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  • Matthew chapter number 27.
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  • By the way,
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  • If we looked
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  • At these seven words, they're found in four of the gospels.
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  • Matthew and mark only record this fourth word
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  • When looking at this fourth phrase jesus uttered,
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  • And the other two gospels record the other six words.
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  • So let's look
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  • At a couple of verses and we'll see these mysteries.
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  • Verse 45, matthew 27.
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  • Now about the sixth hour, darkness
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  • Fell upon all the land until the ninth hour.
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  • And about the ninth hour jesus cried out with a loud voice.
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  • Eli, eli, lama sebastiani,
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  • That is my god, my god,
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  • Why have you forsaken me?
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  • The first mystery
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  • Is the darkness.
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  • Darkness is overwhelming.
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  • Let's just practice a little darkness.
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  • Could we do that?
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  • Let's practice darkness.
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  • As things get dark all around us.
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  • It said in our scripture
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  • That from the six hour,
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  • That'd be 12 noon to the ninth hour.
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  • That would be 3:00 in the afternoon.
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  • For three hours.
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  • Jesus on the cross.
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  • Suddenly there was the mystery of darkness.
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  • It was not just clouds.
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  • It was not just a sandstorm.
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  • It was at midday.
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  • Midnight, with no light at all.
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  • Darkness.
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  • In the bible we see in the first chapter of
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  • Genesis the story of creation, that the earth was void
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  • Without form.
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  • And god said, let there be light,
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  • And light
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  • Came and cried it out, drove out the darkness.
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  • And god said, the light, it is good.
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  • In the bible, darkness is always a picture of hell.
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  • It's always a picture of sin.
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  • It's always a picture of loneliness, of desperation.
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  • And then after three hours of darkness,
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  • The bible says there was a shout, a loud shout,
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  • And jesus from the cross says, eloi, eloi, lama sabbath.
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  • And i, my god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me?
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  • Great mystery,
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  • The darkness.
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  • A greater mystery
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  • Is the next part of our verse,
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  • Which is a prayer to god, which is a question,
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  • My god, why?
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  • It's a prayer.
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  • It's the only place in the bible where jesus asked god
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  • The father a question.
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  • He says, my god, why?
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  • Interesting isn't it?
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  • Listen, you cannot question
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  • The god of creation.
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  • You can't say god, you know, why did you do this?
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  • Why did you put in the first
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  • And second law of thermodynamics?
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  • God, i don't know the meaning of gravity.
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  • You can't question the god of creation,
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  • You and i.
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  • We can't question the god of the universe.
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  • What about that black hole?
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  • What about him who just flashes the sky
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  • With stars and with a touch of infinity?
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  • God, what are you.
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  • We can't question that. god.
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  • You can't.
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  • The question. the epicurean god.
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  • You can't question the any of the other gods.
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  • We have no grounds to ask questions of god or goddesses.
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  • Oh, the. we can't say god.
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  • But let me tell you who we can question.
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  • We can question my god,
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  • My god.
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  • When i was a boy, there was a popular
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  • Little song called mother.
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  • Derived from the acrostic motif.
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  • Though the lyrics are not christian.
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  • They are certainly universal in their application
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  • Of mothers everywhere as a child.
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  • I had to
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  • Sing this over a radio station in laurel, mississippi.
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  • Would you believe that?
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  • And so, as a heartfelt tribute to mothers and mother figures
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  • Everywhere, i decided to have some fun
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  • With this little acrostic for mother's day.
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  • For mother's day only.
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  • So i've created a one week devotional for moms.
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  • Through these pages, i hope to honor our mothers,
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  • Glorify god, and inspire both mothers and children
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  • To pray for those whom god has carefully designed
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  • To nurture and guide each and every new generation.
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  • To get you a copy.
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  • Call the number on the screen or visit the website below
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  • And give someone who has been a mother figure to you,
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  • Or give one to your mother.
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  • And by the way, keep one for yourself.
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  • Maybe the most important
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  • Word in all of this is my.
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  • He walks with me, he talks with
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  • Me, tells me i'm his own.
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  • The voice i hear as he drove me tells me,
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  • Oh, we can question my god and hear jesus
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  • Questions.
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  • He said, my god, why?
  • 00:13:33.168 --> 00:13:37.606
  • By the way, in jesus ministry,
  • 00:13:38.207 --> 00:13:40.676
  • His methodology of teaching was asking questions.
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  • Have you noticed
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  • That in the bible you rarely, if ever, see an example
  • 00:13:44.747 --> 00:13:48.317
  • In which jesus was asked a question.
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  • He simply answered the question.
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  • Check me out.
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  • Sometimes there's a couple of little possible illustration.
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  • Usually jesus would, when he was ask a question,
  • 00:13:57.426 --> 00:14:00.329
  • He would answer the question, and he would give a parable
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  • Or a story.
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  • Or the person who asked
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  • A question usually backed up and said, oh, oh.
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  • We've looked at that.
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  • Oh, oh, man, i wish i hadn't asked that.
  • 00:14:12.741 --> 00:14:17.546
  • You know, jesus responded with questions,
  • 00:14:17.546 --> 00:14:21.517
  • But here we see the one time and all the scripture,
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  • And it is a prayer questioning god
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  • My god.
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  • Why, that is a greater mystery
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  • Than the great mystery of the darkness.
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  • But there is a greater mystery. yet
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  • That's the rest of our verse.
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  • My god,
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  • Why have you forsaken
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  • Me now?
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  • You want deep theology?
  • 00:14:53.916 --> 00:14:55.484
  • Somebody says, i don't want.
  • 00:14:55.484 --> 00:14:56.885
  • To go where they really study the bible in depth.
  • 00:14:56.885 --> 00:15:00.656
  • You can't get deeper than this. god
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  • Forsaking god.
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  • Try that one on for size.
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  • My god. why?
  • 00:15:16.972 --> 00:15:18.974
  • By the way, why is the toughest question to ask?
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  • What?
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  • You know, how, when, where?
  • 00:15:22.678 --> 00:15:25.814
  • But why gets the motivation?
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  • Why do you do that?
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  • Why do you think that?
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  • Why do you go?
  • 00:15:32.087 --> 00:15:32.821
  • It's our motivation.
  • 00:15:32.821 --> 00:15:34.056
  • And by the way, most of us get real shabby
  • 00:15:34.056 --> 00:15:37.659
  • In our motivational area.
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  • You know what?
  • 00:15:40.863 --> 00:15:41.397
  • Think about it. why?
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  • How many things if you and i ever done
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  • With no thought of any credit in return?
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  • When you start naming those, somebody said, well,
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  • I love my mother. no, wait, that was without.
  • 00:15:53.208 --> 00:15:55.878
  • That was pure motivation.
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  • I had to read.
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  • Why,
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  • My god, why hast thou forsaken me?
  • 00:16:01.884 --> 00:16:07.456
  • How can this be?
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  • How can it happen?
  • 00:16:08.724 --> 00:16:11.126
  • And here is jesus,
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  • Who had had that intimate personal relationship.
  • 00:16:13.562 --> 00:16:16.832
  • He said, i and my father are one.
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  • He said in john 16, all of you are going to forsake me.
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  • Run away from me, scatter, and move away.
  • 00:16:23.439 --> 00:16:26.508
  • But he said, my father will be there.
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  • David said,
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  • The lord god will never forsake you.
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  • Whoa!
  • 00:16:36.985 --> 00:16:38.153
  • But here we have
  • 00:16:38.153 --> 00:16:40.322
  • Jesus being forsaken by abba.
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  • Abba.
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  • He had walked in the light of the kind of glory,
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  • The presence of his father his entire life.
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  • And now, suddenly, in his moment of great need,
  • 00:16:51.300 --> 00:16:55.170
  • He is forsaken.
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  • What in the world is going on here?
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  • God, forsaking god
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  • The father, forsaking his son.
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  • What's happening?
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  • What's happening here?
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  • Something
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  • That is surrounded by the greatest mystery
  • 00:17:17.126 --> 00:17:20.596
  • You can imagine.
  • 00:17:20.596 --> 00:17:22.498
  • The greatest mystery ever is this moment
  • 00:17:22.498 --> 00:17:26.301
  • In biblical history.
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  • What is going on?
  • 00:17:28.604 --> 00:17:31.507
  • I'll tell you what's going on.
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  • God is forsaking his son.
  • 00:17:35.244 --> 00:17:39.314
  • So you and i will never be forsaken.
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  • Watch how this works.
  • 00:17:45.120 --> 00:17:47.256
  • It's a powerful thing
  • 00:17:47.256 --> 00:17:50.058
  • In the sin transfer.
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  • Jesus became the sin barrel.
  • 00:17:52.427 --> 00:17:54.963
  • And because we have a holy god,
  • 00:17:54.963 --> 00:17:58.233
  • A holy god can never look on sin,
  • 00:17:58.233 --> 00:18:01.870
  • Can never allow sin, can never tolerate.
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  • Sin, can never pass over sin
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  • Because not a stench of sin
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  • Can ever reach the nostrils of the almighty in heaven.
  • 00:18:11.146 --> 00:18:15.584
  • Therefore it is god in jesus
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  • Christ is reconciling the world to himself.
  • 00:18:19.154 --> 00:18:22.958
  • And to do that,
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  • He had to take on all of this sin and be our sin bearer.
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  • And he had to experience death. dea.
  • 00:18:29.831 --> 00:18:35.871
  • Now there's two kinds of death.
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  • When the prodigal son came back to the far country.
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  • Remember the father said this.
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  • My son who was dead, is alive again.
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  • Does that mean the prodigal died in the far country?
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  • And he came back to life when he.
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  • No, no no, no.
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  • That was a spiritual death.
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  • You see,
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  • There is physical death and there is spiritual death.
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  • All of us consist of body,
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  • Soma, spirit, suitcase, suitcase.
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  • Our spirit and our our souls.
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  • Who gave our soul and pneuma.
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  • Our spirit body. soma.
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  • Suitcase. spirit.
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  • Umar. umar. spirit. suitcase.
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  • Soul. body.
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  • Soul. his spirit. we all have all of this in us.
  • 00:19:21.183 --> 00:19:23.185
  • Now the body dies.
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  • So my dies.
  • 00:19:24.953 --> 00:19:27.422
  • What about the soul, the suitcase
  • 00:19:27.422 --> 00:19:30.158
  • And umar, the spirit and the soul?
  • 00:19:30.158 --> 00:19:32.894
  • What about. what about those two?
  • 00:19:32.894 --> 00:19:34.796
  • They die.
  • 00:19:34.796 --> 00:19:35.631
  • But that is a spiritual death.
  • 00:19:35.631 --> 00:19:38.567
  • You see what happened? the prodigal.
  • 00:19:38.567 --> 00:19:40.002
  • He was experiencing spiritual death.
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  • Jesus not only had to die on the cross,
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  • Ladies and gentlemen,
  • 00:19:45.140 --> 00:19:46.275
  • A physical death, but also he died a spiritual death.
  • 00:19:46.275 --> 00:19:49.845
  • In that his soul and his spirit died.
  • 00:19:49.845 --> 00:19:53.515
  • And what does it mean for the soul? his spirit died.
  • 00:19:53.515 --> 00:19:55.817
  • It means a solid spirit to be separated from god
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  • Throughout eternity.
  • 00:19:59.354 --> 00:20:01.323
  • That's the total death,
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  • Physical death, spiritual death,
  • 00:20:03.458 --> 00:20:06.561
  • Body, death, soul and spirit, death, soul
  • 00:20:06.561 --> 00:20:09.698
  • And spirit separated from god for eternity.
  • 00:20:09.698 --> 00:20:12.434
  • That's what jesus experienced.
  • 00:20:12.434 --> 00:20:15.103
  • As the bible says,
  • 00:20:15.103 --> 00:20:16.405
  • He went to hell on your behalf and on my behalf.
  • 00:20:16.405 --> 00:20:20.976
  • And that's what was that in that cup that he was drinking
  • 00:20:20.976 --> 00:20:25.881
  • In that something.
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  • This is what's happening.
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  • He had to be forsaken.
  • 00:20:31.119 --> 00:20:33.355
  • What does it mean to be forsaken?
  • 00:20:33.355 --> 00:20:34.990
  • A ship is a derelict.
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  • A ship that's a derelict has no captain,
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  • No crew,
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  • No cargo,
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  • No port of destination, no compass,
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  • No power sails, motor.
  • 00:20:49.471 --> 00:20:52.341
  • A derelict ship just exists
  • 00:20:52.341 --> 00:20:55.777
  • In nothingness for no purpose.
  • 00:20:55.777 --> 00:20:59.314
  • That's what jesus felt.
  • 00:20:59.815 --> 00:21:03.285
  • The cry of dereliction.
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  • Deserted.
  • 00:21:06.054 --> 00:21:08.824
  • My god, my god, why have you abandoned me?
  • 00:21:07.889 --> 00:21:11.860
  • Why have you left me by myself?
  • 00:21:11.860 --> 00:21:14.396
  • Why have you deserted me?
  • 00:21:14.396 --> 00:21:17.265
  • By the
  • 00:21:17.466 --> 00:21:18.367
  • Way, this is the human jesus speaking.
  • 00:21:18.367 --> 00:21:21.803
  • Somebody has a famous sermon, great homiletic.
  • 00:21:21.803 --> 00:21:25.307
  • He compares the death of socrates
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  • With the death of jesus.
  • 00:21:28.076 --> 00:21:29.578
  • And he says, the death of socrates
  • 00:21:29.578 --> 00:21:32.514
  • Shows us how a philosopher dies.
  • 00:21:32.514 --> 00:21:35.150
  • And the death of jesus shows us how god dies.
  • 00:21:35.150 --> 00:21:38.920
  • That is absolutely theologically wrong.
  • 00:21:38.920 --> 00:21:42.457
  • It is biblically wrong.
  • 00:21:42.457 --> 00:21:44.192
  • Here we see how a human being dies, not god on that cross.
  • 00:21:44.192 --> 00:21:50.599
  • The humanist of jesus.
  • 00:21:50.599 --> 00:21:52.100
  • Now we have a great mystery here.
  • 00:21:52.100 --> 00:21:55.203
  • We know jesus was totally god.
  • 00:21:55.203 --> 00:21:57.606
  • Jesus was totally man in his life.
  • 00:21:57.606 --> 00:22:00.275
  • When was he exercising his divinity?
  • 00:22:00.275 --> 00:22:03.345
  • When was he hanging up his divinity
  • 00:22:03.345 --> 00:22:05.480
  • And living on the basis of humanity, of his humanity?
  • 00:22:05.480 --> 00:22:09.384
  • We don't know.
  • 00:22:09.384 --> 00:22:11.286
  • That's that's the mystery of the incarnation.
  • 00:22:11.286 --> 00:22:14.122
  • The mystery of
  • 00:22:14.122 --> 00:22:15.624
  • Totally god, totally man we find in jesus christ.
  • 00:22:15.624 --> 00:22:18.960
  • But i believe here
  • 00:22:18.960 --> 00:22:20.095
  • We see the humanity of him and as a human being.
  • 00:22:20.095 --> 00:22:23.765
  • Jesus, though perfect man, felt like
  • 00:22:23.765 --> 00:22:26.501
  • He was totally deserted by almighty god
  • 00:22:26.501 --> 00:22:29.538
  • Because it had to take place for god
  • 00:22:29.538 --> 00:22:33.442
  • To reconcile humanity with himself.
  • 00:22:33.442 --> 00:22:38.246
  • Deep water.
  • 00:22:38.580 --> 00:22:40.482
  • Ladies and gentlemen.
  • 00:22:40.482 --> 00:22:43.819
  • But that's the cross of our lord.
  • 00:22:43.819 --> 00:22:48.156
  • All of this took place.
  • 00:22:48.657 --> 00:22:52.260
  • My god, my god, why has the alpha seikan me?
  • 00:22:52.260 --> 00:22:55.664
  • So you and i in christ can be confident of one thing.
  • 00:22:55.664 --> 00:23:00.502
  • You and i will never be forsaken.
  • 00:23:00.502 --> 00:23:05.507
  • That's right.
  • 00:23:05.874 --> 00:23:08.543
  • Will never have to
  • 00:23:08.543 --> 00:23:10.545
  • Walk in the darkness.
  • 00:23:10.545 --> 00:23:13.548
  • Will never have to pay for the sin
  • 00:23:13.548 --> 00:23:16.551
  • That we have committed in eternity.
  • 00:23:16.551 --> 00:23:18.820
  • Consequences now, of course, but not in eternity.
  • 00:23:18.820 --> 00:23:22.023
  • And we will be sons and daughters of god forever.
  • 00:23:22.023 --> 00:23:25.627
  • Because
  • 00:23:25.627 --> 00:23:27.629
  • He is our substitute.
  • 00:23:27.629 --> 00:23:29.264
  • He is our propitiation.
  • 00:23:29.264 --> 00:23:31.266
  • That's god acting through his shed blood.
  • 00:23:31.266 --> 00:23:34.369
  • My god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me?
  • 00:23:35.237 --> 00:23:38.473
  • Is the greatest mystery of all.
  • 00:23:38.473 --> 00:23:41.576
  • But in the process of jesus being forsaken
  • 00:23:41.576 --> 00:23:46.515
  • Is the fact that you and i will never be forsaken.
  • 00:23:46.515 --> 00:23:51.553
  • That's the power.
  • 00:23:51.987 --> 00:23:53.421
  • If i be lifted up, i'll draw all men to myself.
  • 00:23:53.421 --> 00:23:56.391
  • That is a drawing power of jesus
  • 00:23:56.391 --> 00:24:00.028
  • On that cross.
  • 00:24:00.028 --> 00:24:03.198
  • Anybody?
  • 00:24:03.465 --> 00:24:04.032
  • Failed?
  • 00:24:04.032 --> 00:24:05.233
  • Deserted.
  • 00:24:05.233 --> 00:24:08.270
  • Anybody feel lonely?
  • 00:24:08.270 --> 00:24:11.740
  • Maybe in the middle of a crowd.
  • 00:24:11.740 --> 00:24:15.277
  • Anybody addicted to something that's controlling your life?
  • 00:24:16.478 --> 00:24:19.814
  • And anybody here in pain?
  • 00:24:19.814 --> 00:24:24.519
  • Whatever it is, whatever the problem.
  • 00:24:24.519 --> 00:24:27.722
  • Jesus from the cross.
  • 00:24:27.722 --> 00:24:29.524
  • He looks at you.
  • 00:24:29.524 --> 00:24:30.592
  • He says you are my mission.
  • 00:24:30.592 --> 00:24:34.996
  • I'll never leave you.
  • 00:24:35.497 --> 00:24:37.465
  • I'll never forsake you.
  • 00:24:37.465 --> 00:24:39.501
  • I'm with you now until the end of time.
  • 00:24:39.501 --> 00:24:43.238
  • Because all of your garbage
  • 00:24:43.238 --> 00:24:46.308
  • Has been covered by the blood of christ.
  • 00:24:46.308 --> 00:24:49.077
  • And i will be
  • 00:24:49.077 --> 00:24:51.846
  • With you forever and forever.
  • 00:24:51.846 --> 00:24:55.383
  • You are my mission, says jesus,
  • 00:24:55.383 --> 00:25:02.190
  • As he is crucified on that cross.
  • 00:25:02.190 --> 00:25:07.462
  • When i was a boy,
  • 00:25:07.896 --> 00:25:09.164
  • There was a popular little song called mother.
  • 00:25:09.164 --> 00:25:12.934
  • Derived from the acrostic motif.
  • 00:25:12.934 --> 00:25:17.238
  • Though the lyrics are not christian.
  • 00:25:18.006 --> 00:25:20.141
  • They are certainly universal in their application
  • 00:25:20.141 --> 00:25:23.445
  • Of mothers everywhere as a child.
  • 00:25:23.445 --> 00:25:26.781
  • I had to
  • 00:25:26.781 --> 00:25:27.882
  • Sing this over a radio station in laurel, mississippi.
  • 00:25:27.882 --> 00:25:31.219
  • Would you believe that?
  • 00:25:31.219 --> 00:25:32.487
  • And so, as a heartfelt tribute to mothers and mother figures
  • 00:25:32.487 --> 00:25:37.158
  • Everywhere, i decided to have some fun
  • 00:25:37.158 --> 00:25:39.661
  • With this little acrostic for mother's day.
  • 00:25:39.661 --> 00:25:43.064
  • For mother's day only.
  • 00:25:43.064 --> 00:25:45.200
  • So i've created a one week devotional for moms.
  • 00:25:45.200 --> 00:25:49.104
  • Through these pages, i hope to honor our mothers,
  • 00:25:49.104 --> 00:25:52.641
  • Glorify god, and inspire both mothers and children
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  • To pray for those whom god has carefully designed
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  • To nurture and guide each and every new generation.
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  • To get you a copy.
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  • Call the number on the screen or visit the website below
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  • And give someone who has been a mother figure to you,
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  • Or give one to your mother.
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  • And by the way, keep one for yourself.
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  • Whatever season you're in right now, no.
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  • One thing. no.
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  • This god is present.
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  • He is near to the brokenhearted.
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  • He has strength for the weary.
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  • He has wisdom for the uncertain.
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  • He brings happiness in every situation.
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  • And meaning and significance.
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  • Well mount ups as well as in valleys.
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  • You don't have to face tomorrow alone.
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  • Choose faith over fear.
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  • Choose trust over doubt and rest in the peace
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  • That only christ can give.
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  • May his presence guide you and his word.
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  • Sustain you and his spirit empower
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  • You in the days ahead.
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  • Thrilling days
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  • As we walk with him.
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  • And may the good lord bless you
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  • And i'll see you next time
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  • On a winning walk
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  • With jesus christ.
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