Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
Part 1 - (Not So) Last Words
2024 Easter Series
Explore " christ on the cross" with insightful episodes like "Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?", "Day 200: Egypt, Assyria, and Israel (2023)", "Christ Lifted Up - David hierlihy", "Day 200: Egypt, Assyria, and Israel (2022)" and "God Stooped Low To Raise Us Up" from podcasts like ""Renew", "The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)", "Anchorpoint Radio", "The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)" and "Saint Athanasius Podcast"" and more!
Part 1 - (Not So) Last Words
2024 Easter Series
Not long after the Israelites had been rescued from slavery under Pharaoh, King of Egypt, they started complaining and rebelling against God, bringing upon themselves judgment in the form of venomous snakes that bit the people. But God in His mercy provided a remedy. Moses hung a brass snake upon a pole - and all who looked upon it lived. The application is simple. Sin causes suffering, sadness, and death. The remedy? Christ himself, just like that brass snake, would be lifted up on a cross and guilty sinners who look to Him will be saved. Have YOU ever looked to Christ to have your sins forgiven?
This message will be looking at a beautiful verse in 1 Peter 3:18 which says this: "For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit." Here is the entire gospel message in one verse! And what a wonderful source of hope it is to an individual, maybe somebody like you, who is longing to have forgiveness of sins and peace with God.
Apart from the cross itself, there can be no more poignant a symbol of the horrendous sufferings of Christ than the awful crown of thorns that He wore. The hymn writer wrote, "See from His head, His hands, His feet; sorrow and love flow mingled down; Did e'er such love and sorrow meet; Or thorns compose so rich a crown?" It was an instrument of pain, mockery and reproach that came from the hearts of wicked men. But it was also an emblem of Christ's ultimate purpose to put away the curse once and for all.
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