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we open the word of God to the gospel of Matthew
Matthew
chapter 27
reading verses 45
now from the sixth hour there was
Darkness over all the land until the
ninth hour
and about the ninth hour Jesus cried
with a loud voice saying Eli Eli
Lama say back then I
that is to say my God my God why hast
Thou forsaken me
some of them that stood there when they
heard that said this man calleth for Elijah
Elijah
and straightway one of them ran and took
a sponge and filled it with vinegar and
put it on a reed and gave him to drink
the rest said let be let us see whether
Elijah will come to save him
Jesus when he had cried again with a
loud voice
forsaken of God
that we might never be forsaken
our Lord's first three statements from
the cross
his first statement he prayed for his
enemies father forgive them for they
know not what they do
you expect him to say that
it was Jesus who said that we should
love our enemies and pray for those that
despitefully use us and he practiced
what he preached
and you would expect the Lord to turn to
that repentant thief and say today
you'll be with me in Paradise
because he came to give everlasting life
the son of man did not come to destroy
men's lives he came to save them
and so we expect him to say that
and then when he lovingly looked at Mary
and looked at John [Music]
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and he said woman Behold thy son son
Behold thy mother we expect that
our lord Jesus fulfilled the law perfectly
perfectly
and the law says honor thy father and
thy mother
but this fourth statement from the cross
Catches Us by surprise
the word of forgiveness the word of
Salvation the word of affection
these we find it easy to listen to and
to accept
but this word of rejection this word of loneliness
loneliness
out of the darkness The Voice crying my
God my God why hast Thou forsaken me
this comes to us as somewhat of a surprise
someday I would like to preach a sermon
on the paradoxes in the life of Jesus
a paradox is a statement that seems to
contradict itself when Jesus said he
that saveth his life shall lose it
when he said except a grain of wheat die
our lord Jesus
was the light of the world
and yet he dies in darkness
our lord Jesus came to reveal the love
of the father and yet at a crucial hour
the Lord Jesus Christ from the darkness
of calvary
cried out those words my God my God why
hast Thou forsaken me
and I see in these words three wonders
a great Wonder
the darkness of the cross
a greater Wonder
and the greatest Wonder of them all
the blindness
there's a great Wonder here the darkness
of the Cross now this was a supernatural Darkness
Darkness
those who go through the Bible and do
their best to get rid of the Miracles
say Well it possibly was a sandstorm it
was not a sandstorm
it may have been an eclipse at Passover
a cloud passed over the sun it doesn't
say that it says a Darkness was over all
the land for three hours
it was a supernatural Darkness it was a
Darkness caused by almighty God
and in this very Darkness we see a great Wonder
we see The Wonder of the sympathy
of all of nature
so often in our Approach To the Cross we
think only of the individual sinner
Christ died for me and he did
Christ died for the church and he did
Christ died for the sins of the whole
world and he did but we must remember
that Jesus Christ in his dying on the
cross reached out and embraced all of creation
we are living in a creation that is
groaning and travailing in pain
and you and I as a part of this creation
are groaning and travailing as
Christians longing to have
that glorified body that we shall one
day receive from Jesus Christ
in Genesis chapter 3 when the first Adam sinned
sinned
God said to him all right you're going
to die
the wages of sin begin to pay in his
life and more than that I'm going to
have to curse this ground you came out
of the ground
and I'm going to have to curse this
ground and up till now you've been
working and your work has been a delight
but from now on your work is going to be
a toy of a burden by the sweat of your
brow you're going to labor and get your
bread and this ground is going to
produce thorns and thistles and all
kinds of noxious weeds and by toil
you're going to feed yourself
the sweat of his brow
drops of blood
he was in a garden
and in that Garden he wrestled in prayer
and sweat as it were great drops of
blood he knew thorns
and the soldiers went and gathered some
thorns and wove them together and put a
crown of thorns on the brow of the last atom
atom
the first Adam by his Disobedience
plunged our universe into the bondage
and the burden and the bitterness of sin
and the last Adam by his obedience
reached out and made possibly
deliverance from the burden
and the bondage and the bitterness of
sin in one of these days all of creation
is going to enter into the Glorious
Liberty of the children of God
and there will be no more thorns and
thistles and noxious weeds and there
will be no more bondage to sin and death
and the lion shall lie down with the
lamb and a child shall even play at the
adder's hole and there will be peace
like a river yea there shall be peace
like the waves of the sea that calm down
it's as though all of nature sympathized
with the Lord of creation as he dies the
darkness of sympathy
well might the sun in darkness hide
and shut his glories in
when Christ The Mighty maker died for
man the creature's sin the darkness of
three solemn hours of Darkness
and those of you who know your Bibles
immediately your spiritual computer goes
to work and says to you aha
do you remember back in the days when
Israel was in Egypt and God was bringing
judgment down upon Egypt
three days of darkness
a Darkness so thick you could feel it
a darkness that was not merely the
turning off of the lights a darkness
that was the moving in of a heavy
atmosphere of judgment and the very next
you see the Lamb of God was about to die
in Egypt God's next to the last judgment
was a thick stifling
stifling
smothering Darkness
and then the Lambs were slain and then
the firstborn were slain by God it's as
though God is saying to a world three
hours of Darkness stand amazed o world
I ought to go from house to house in
Jerusalem and slay people yea even the
firstborn but instead I will come to
behold all of you who are about to take
your Lambs down to the temple and slay
them for the Passover Behold the Lamb of
God who taketh away the sin of the world
but I think it was something else it was
also the darkness
of secrecy
it's as though God the Father
have you ever been in a hospital where
somebody's dying
and there you are standing with the
loved ones by the bed
there is that body
just barely breathing
and then a nurse comes along or a doctor
comes along
and he begins to draw the curtains
around that bed
the room is busy
the ward is busy the hospital is busy
people don't stop everything because
someone is dying
but there's some privacy some secrecy
involved and they draw those curtains
and many a time I've stood within those
curtains just waiting while someone dies
here was a mob of people jeering at him
and then the darkness fell
here Were Soldiers gambling for his few
remaining possessions and then the
here were religious leaders scoffing and
mocking and shooting out the lip and
saying he saved others himself he cannot save
save
do you remember when the in the Old
Testament they had the day of atonement
once a year all of Israel stopped work
it was a day of fasting and a day of no work
work
and once a year the high priest would
come and lay aside his gorgeous garments
they would put before him two goats
on one of those goats he would place his
hands and he would confess the sins of
the people of Israel and that goat would
be taken out and turned loose in the
wilderness never to be seen again
a picture of our forgiveness as far as
the East is from the West so far has he
removed our transgressions from us and
then the priest would take the other
goat an innocent animal and he would cut
its throat
and it would take its blood he would
offer the goat as a sacrifice to God he
would turn and go into the holy of
no man was found in the Tabernacle when
the high priest was offering the blood
of the sacrifice to cover the sins of
the darkness of secrecy
God the Father looked down and saw that
our great priest was about to make the
sacrifice what a great high priest he is
not only is he the priest he's the
sacrifice nowhere in the Old Testament
does the priest lay himself on the altar
to be the sacrifice but he does
and God says to his son you must do this alone
alone
Mary wasn't there John had taken Mary home
home
I fear if Mary had been standing there
someone would have said she is assisting him
him
in the work of redemption she was gone
Peter wasn't there
the veil came down
and a transaction was carried on between
God the father and God the son
that human eyes could not penetrate and
had they penetrated could not understand
and had they understood could not believe
the darkness of secrecy when he finished
the work
of redemption for shortly after that he said
it is finished
into thy hands I commend my spirit and
he gave up the gold a great Wonder
the darkness of the cross
but move with me to a greater Wonder
the loneliness of the Christ
have you ever traced as you've read the
he begins his ministry great crowds
follow him and then at one point he
looks at that crowd and says except you
eat my flesh and drink my blood you have
no life in you and they said we are Jews
we aren't supposed to eat human flesh we
aren't supposed to drink human blood
it's not right
he says I'm not talking about literal
flesh and blood and he surely was not
talking about the Lord's Supper that had
not even been instituted yet he said I'm
talking in spiritual language the words
that I speak unto you they are spirit
and they are life just as you must
receive food into your inner man to have
physical life so you must receive me
into your inner man to have spiritual life
life
and how do you do that you do that by faith
faith
and the crowd said we can't take this
and they left him
they left him
and Jesus turned to his disciples and
said will you also go away
Peter answered and said to whom shall we
go thou Hast the words of eternal life
Peter got the message our Lord wasn't
talking about literal Flesh and Blood he
was talking about receiving Christ
through the word
thou Hast the words of eternal life and
we believe in our sure that thou art
that Christ the son of the Living God he
had 12 who stood with him and then one
departed to be a traitor
in the upper room Jesus looked at him
and said what thou doest too quickly and
Judas left and Jesus had 11.
with those 11 he went down to the garden
and took three of them in to pray with
and he came and said couldn't you watch
with me even one hour
the mob came and arrested Jesus and
the disciples forsook him and fled and
then two were the disciples followed
John and Peter
and then they deserted him Peter went
out and went bitterly
but our lord Jesus had said
all of you are going to Desert me but my father
father
will not desert me
my father is ever with me
I do always those things that please him
and the father is always with me now the
father as it were deserts him
from 12 to 11 to 3 to 2 to the father
and then at an awesome
moment in human history God the Father
did something he had never done to any
other person
something he has never done to anyone
since he forsook him
I've had people say to me I think God
has forsaken me and I say to them no. if
God forsook you you'd stop breathing for
in him we live and move and have our
being if God forsook you the blood in
your veins would dry up if God forsook
you you'd become just a pile of clay God
here's a strange thing we deserve to be forsaken
the sins that we've committed
what we think and what we feel and what
we've done and what we are and what we
do with what God has given to us we
deserve to be forsaken
if almighty God looked at us today and
said I'm forsaking you
we'd have no argument except for one thing
thing
we belong to Jesus Christ and he said I
will never leave you nor forsake you
he was forsaken that we might never be
forsaken he went through darkness that
we might have light he faced and felt
the awesome guilt of sin that we might
one day hear God say there is therefore
now no condemnation
a greater wonder the loneliness of the Christ
to some of you who are a bit flippant
do you hear this word from Jesus and do
when God took all of the sin of all
mankind and by some strange chemistry
placed it on the body of Jesus by some
strange mathematics accounted him to be guilty
guilty
when God did this he forsook his son
for God is of pure eyes than to behold
iniquity now this is what Sin is Sin is loneliness
that's what sin does to people first sin
separates men from God
that awful loneliness of sin and then
sin separates men from Men
as Sin continues to work in our lives it
separates husband from wife and parent
from child and friend from friend
and do you know what
sin not only separates men from God and
men from men and women from women sin
separates a man from himself
and there are people walking the streets
of Chicago today who have divided selves
conflicting selves because sin
has divided them
sometimes when I am preaching in rescue
missions or when you're ministering to
people who are just a little bit
under the influence you'll hear them say
and you trust they don't mean it well preacher
preacher
I don't care if I go to hell I'll have
lots of company there
and your heart stops beating and your
blood turns cold because there is no
company in hell
hell is a place of darkness and
loneliness where men cry out
eternally why hast Thou forsaken me and
because they forsook the only way of salvation
salvation
Jesus Christ
hell is eternal separation
hell is eternal loneliness
a greater Wonder
the loneliness of the Christ
he suffered my hell for me that I might
one day enjoy his heaven with him
hallelujah what a savior
which leads us to a third wonder
the greatest Wonder of all
a great wonder the darkness of the Cross
a greater wonder the loneliness of the
Christ but sin is loneliness
the greatest Wonder of all the blindness
of the crowd this man's calling for
Elijah well let's wait and see if Elijah
comes and takes him down the Jews were
looking for Elijah they're still looking
for him
the prophet said behold I send you
Elijah the prophet before that great and
terrible day of the lord they're waiting
he had been in their midst and they had
killed him
John the Baptist now there will be perhaps
perhaps
people who will say well that's in a
spiritual sense and to some degree
that's true but Jesus said it the
disciples said to him one day
why do the scribes say that Elijah has
to come first they just seen his glory
in his kingdom on the Mount of
transfiguration he said Elijah does come
first the prophecy will be fulfilled but
Elijah has already come
John the Baptist he came in the spirit
and the flower of Elijah and he pointed
to the Lamb of God
and the Jewish people said we won't follow
follow
and they allowed John to be killed
this man's calling for Elijah let's see
if Elijah comes and takes him down from
the cross you see these men were blind
that to me is the greatest Wonder of all
the darkness of the Cross three hours
the loneliness of the Christ that brief
moment when forsaken by God he was made
sin the blindness of people it's been
going on for years and for centuries
blind even though the holy spirit is
here to Open men's eyes blind even
though we have a Bible that shines its
light blind even though we have two
thousand years of church history
pointing the way the blindness of the
they were blind to the scriptures
he had just cried out my God my God why
is Thou forsaken me and someone should
have turned and said that sounds familiar
familiar
that sounds like Psalm 22 yes he's
quoting from Psalm 22 verse 1 and you
read the first 21 verses of Psalm 22 and
you have the most graphic picture of
crucifixion in any literature anywhere
you say What's So remarkable about that
the Jews didn't crucify people
they stoned them to death
crucifixion is not a Jewish form of death
death
and yet in Psalm 22 David who never
crucified anybody gives to us a perfect picture
picture
of our Lord's death
in verse 1 my God my God why hast Thou
forsaken me in verse 2 you have the
light and the Darkness oh my God I cry
in the daytime thou hearest not in the
ninth season
I'm not silent
verse 6 the treating of the people a
reproach of man despised by all the
people all they who see me laugh me to
score and they shoot out the lip they
shake their head saying he trusted on
the Lord that he would deliver him let
him deliver him sing he delighteth in him
him Calvary
Calvary
look at verse 13 they gaped upon me with
their mouths look at verse 14 I'm poured
out like water all my bones are out of
joint my heart is like waxed it's melted
within me you've got the the picture
here of crucifixion and if nothing else
Verse 18 they parted my garments among
them and cast lots upon my vesture they
were blind to the scriptures and people
today are still blind to the scriptures
the God of this world has blinded the
minds of them that believe not and they
open the word of God and the pages are blank
they were blind to the scriptures and
they were blind to the savior
there he hangs on the cross
there he is made a curse
for them there he is bearing their sins
and they say he waits for Elijah to come
let's see if Elijah will take him down
come down from the cross
whenever I think of that statement come
down from the cross I think of the reply
of Nehemiah remember what Nehemiah said
they sent word to him to come away from
his work and meet them that they might
kill him
and Nehemiah said I cannot come down
they were blind to the Savior and people
are still blind to the savior
oh if I speak just now to someone who's
never trusted Christ my dear friend the
spirit of God wants to open your eyes to
the Savior not the teacher the savior
not the example the savior
the one who died for you the one who on
but most of all they were blind to their
standing before the cross
seeing what God does to sin
they were blind to their own sin on
Calvary it's as though God is saying to
the world come look this is what sin is
it's ugly
sin is death sin kills sin defiles sin
isolates sin separates sin means
loneliness sin means Darkness come
but they were blind to their own sin
the darkness had moved into their own
minds and hearts
and instead of trusting him
they mocked him
I Marvel
that in the city of Chicago where you
can punch on the radio and hear the gospel
gospel
where you can walk into a bus station
and be handed the gospel a library there
is the gospel a drugstore a dime store
there is the Bible
where there are thousands of Christians
some of whom are witnessing Faithfully
for God I'm Marvel
at the blindness
of lost sinners
in the city of Chicago where you can
walk down the streets and see what sin
the greatest blindness of all is
spiritual blindness
people don't go to hell because of their
IQ they go to hell because they reject
have you seen the Lord Jesus
Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away
the sin of the World by faith have you
many of you have read the short stories
of Oh Henry
one of America's truly great writers
and when he was dying
he said to those standing by
please lift the shade
are you gonna go out into the dark
the darkness lifted a voice of Triumph a
the greatest Wonder of all is that you
could sit in the Moody Church and hear
the word of God sung and preached
and still be blind
and God graciously Waits and God
graciously calls and the Holy Spirit graciously
Jesus said while you have the light
believe in the light lest the darkness come
at the cross at the cross where I first
saw the light
and the burden of my heart rolled away
it was there by faith I receive my sight
and now says the songwriter I'm happy
Behold the Lamb of God
who takes away your sin
Our Father
we Rejoice that today our lord Jesus is
enthroned in light in heaven
in him is no Darkness at all
and we thankful father that he went
and he has made us by faith the children
and he's called us to walk in the light
as he is in the light
but oh Father there are many who are in
darkness mental darkness and moral Darkness
Darkness
spiritual Darkness
and father we would win them we would
woo them we would bring them to the Cross
Cross
lest they should die and have eternal Darkness
Darkness
oh gracious father
by the Holy Spirit through the word
apply the word to Hearts here
and not only here but wherever this
message shall be heard
there might be those who will trust
Christ and be born again
translate it out of Darkness into your
Marvelous Light out of the kingdom of
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