Welcome back to Shemus Popery. I'm Joe Heschmer. I want to talk about one of the most powerful

lines in the whole Bible and how it's connected to what I think might be the most incredible,

prophetic, and detailed Old Testament account of the crucifixion. It's the line where Jesus cries out

from the cross, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Now, those words by themselves are terrifying in their

implications. If Jesus is the man, he says he is, if he is truly the God man, how can he speak

of God having abandoned him? And I've seen Christians stumble over this verse, thinking that it

means that God the Father has somehow turned his back on his beloved

son and whom he is well pleased. I'm going to address some of those confusions and

misinterpretations in another video. But today, I want to talk about why, despite the perhaps

chilling nature of these words, they're actually incredibly important in proving Jesus to

truly be the promised Messiah. And in fact, I think they're excellent evidence that Christianity is true.

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

Jesus isn't actually the first person to say these words.

They're at the beginning of Psalm 22, which is a plea for deliverance from suffering and hostility.

When you read that Psalm with an eye to the cross, the connection between Psalm 22 and the crucifixion, they're astonishing.

In fact, the historical

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