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Hi everybody. Max Lakato here from my home to yours.

Thanks so much for joining me for today's encouraging

word. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

Thank you for allowing me to camp out on this

passage. And we're going to look at that very moment that God gave his one and only son. The gospel of

Matthew says, at noon the whole country was covered with darkness, which lasted for three hours. And at about three o'clock,

Jesus cried with a loud voice, Eli, Eli, Lama Sabakhanai, which means, my God, my God, why did you

abandon me?

Those profound words are in Matthew 27, 45, and 46.

I don't know if tougher words could be spoken or more important passage could be pondered.

It is at this moment that God gave his one and only son. Here's the context. By the time

Christ screams these words, he has hung on the cross for six hours. Recall around 9 a.m. on that

Friday that he was crucified, he stumbled to the cleft of the skull hill,

and a soldier pressed a knee on a forearm

and drove a spike through one hand,

and then the other, and then both feet.

As the Romans lifted the cross, they unwittingly placed Christ in the very position in which

he came to die between man and God. That's the place of a priest. A priest positions himself between

God and man. So he is a priest on his own altar. Now, initially initially the hill is noisy. There's the gawking of the

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