The Future of Asking Why | Alive Ministries

"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

Have you ever faced disappointment, grief or rejection so powerful that you felt so alone even God seemed to have walked out. Have you ever felt forsaken? Forsaken means to be "complete deserted or helpless, abandoned." I think if you're honest with yourself, you've been there once or twice before. Looking back at those times, would you say you've grown through those experiences or merely survived? Life is filled with hardships we must overcome, obstacles we must face and conquer and doubts we must wrestle with and defeat if we're going to grow in wisdom and maturity. Those who give in eventually give up. Many people become emotionally crippled and unable to function socially because of an inability to process pain in their lives at some level. Even in the Bible, Jesus painfully asks God why this pain is coming and why he feels so alone. Are you ready for God's answers? In Matthew's Gospel Jesus speaks from the cross words that reflect our very human feeling of abandonment and cries out "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" (from Psalm 22) But few people understood what he was saying until later, at the time they thought he was praying for Elijah to come and rescue him. But I think Jesus was asking God to reveal why this suffering would transform the world and open the way for a new life through His sacrifice. The Hebrew word "lema" which we translate as "why" is not asking "why did it come to this" (looking to the past) but "why is this necessary for what will be." (looking to the future, think of child birth) In this week's lesson we take on this beautiful passage from Matthew 27:45-54 and see how Matthew describes a world filled with darkness and God's revelation of the new world in Christ.

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Sermon Audio: Forsaken 4.14.13E Forsaken 4.14.13L Sermon Notes: Sermon Notes 04.14.13 forsaken

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