Title: The Cry of Loneliness
Author: Samuel Burgess
Text: Matthew 27:45-47
Introduction >
[ILLUSTRATION]> Years ago, one great preacher was in his office for hours
meditating on this statement "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me".
People who waited for him came into his office, but he never took his eyes off this cry
from the cross. Some saw him and thought he was a corpse.
It is said that he moved neither hand nor foot, he didn't eat or drink. He just sat still
with his eyes wide open, like a man in a trance, thinking over these wondrous words;
"My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?"
And when, after many long hours, in which he seemed to be utterly lost to everything
that went on around him, he rose from his chair, someone heard him say; "God
forsaking God! No man can understand that." And he went his way.
These words "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me" had to be
tough words for Jesus to say. His mind had been assaulted by the taunts of a merciless
crowd. The great crowd around the Cross that hated the Lord Jesus outnumbered by
far the few that were near the Cross that loved Him.
The Divine Son of God had almost reached the point of exhaustion because of
the emotional, verbal and physical abuse that He had taken. The sun was at its peek,
beating down on His body. Now His Father is about to turn away from Him.
Jesus, the Son of God, the One who came to seek and to save that which was
lost...Jesus, the One who always followed and obeyed His Father's Will...Jesus, the
One who came and helped the helpless; brought happiness to the hopeless; who gave
healing to those who were sick; who brought life where there was death; He never
turned anyone away is now going to be forsaken by the Heavenly Father.
Jesus had cried out to His Father, asking Him to forgive those who were
responsible for His death. Jesus had responded to the request of one of the thieves on
the cross. One thief asked Jesus to remember him w ...
Author: Samuel Burgess
Text: Matthew 27:45-47
Introduction >
[ILLUSTRATION]> Years ago, one great preacher was in his office for hours
meditating on this statement "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me".
People who waited for him came into his office, but he never took his eyes off this cry
from the cross. Some saw him and thought he was a corpse.
It is said that he moved neither hand nor foot, he didn't eat or drink. He just sat still
with his eyes wide open, like a man in a trance, thinking over these wondrous words;
"My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?"
And when, after many long hours, in which he seemed to be utterly lost to everything
that went on around him, he rose from his chair, someone heard him say; "God
forsaking God! No man can understand that." And he went his way.
These words "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me" had to be
tough words for Jesus to say. His mind had been assaulted by the taunts of a merciless
crowd. The great crowd around the Cross that hated the Lord Jesus outnumbered by
far the few that were near the Cross that loved Him.
The Divine Son of God had almost reached the point of exhaustion because of
the emotional, verbal and physical abuse that He had taken. The sun was at its peek,
beating down on His body. Now His Father is about to turn away from Him.
Jesus, the Son of God, the One who came to seek and to save that which was
lost...Jesus, the One who always followed and obeyed His Father's Will...Jesus, the
One who came and helped the helpless; brought happiness to the hopeless; who gave
healing to those who were sick; who brought life where there was death; He never
turned anyone away is now going to be forsaken by the Heavenly Father.
Jesus had cried out to His Father, asking Him to forgive those who were
responsible for His death. Jesus had responded to the request of one of the thieves on
the cross. One thief asked Jesus to remember him w ...
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