Did the Father Really "Turn His Face Away"?
Core Christianity
Aaron Simon
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🗓️ 15 April 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Episode 946 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions.
Questions in this Episode
1. Did Jesus's crucifixion actually take place on Thursday?
2. One of my favorite hymns is "How Deep the Father's Love For Us," but I recently heard that the line in it that says "the Father turned his face away" is controversial to some. What is your view on that?
3. How can I make sure that I'm interpreting the Bible correctly?
4. How can I build my faith up?
5. Is doctrine worth debating about with other Christians?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Did the Father turn his face away from Jesus on the cross? |
| 0:10.3 | That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity. |
| 0:15.4 | Hi, I'm Bill Meyer, along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez on this Good Friday. |
| 0:19.8 | This is the radio program where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life every day. |
| 0:25.7 | We would love to hear from you. |
| 0:26.7 | Here's our phone number, 8333-833-843-2673. |
| 0:33.7 | You can also post your question on one of our social media sites. |
| 0:36.8 | You can email us any time. If you've got a question, here's our email address. It's Questions at Core Christianity.com. Adriel, I'm assuming you have a Good Friday service at your church. And if so, what do you do every year? Yeah, we do have a Good Friday service at our church. I really love, you know, |
| 0:55.9 | these services. A lot of scripture reading will go through basically the, you know, the section |
| 1:04.1 | of the gospels leading up to the passion of Christ and then the crucifixion of Jesus. So scripture |
| 1:10.6 | readings and then typically Psalms or hymns |
| 1:13.6 | that we're singing in between each scripture reading. |
| 1:16.4 | So tonight we're going to be singing Psalm 22. |
| 1:19.4 | And of course, you know, Jesus' words on the cross, my God, my God, |
| 1:23.2 | why have you forsaken me taken from Psalm 22? |
| 1:25.8 | We're going to be singing from Psalm 55 as well. |
| 1:27.8 | Some of these, some of these Psalms that have an association with, you know, the passion of Christ |
| 1:33.6 | or the things leading up to it, you know, the betrayal and everything there. |
| 1:38.7 | And so a lot of Bible and a lot of singing. |
| 1:42.1 | And so it's a good time. |
| 1:46.0 | You know, it's interesting because Good Friday can be such, you know, a sorrowful, somber day. And yet we have that amazing celebration on Sunday |
| 1:54.5 | to look forward to. And you often say on this program that we should be really celebrating Easter |
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