When You Feel Abandoned by God | Doubting God: Part 7

Life.Church with Craig Groeschel

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🗓️ 29 May 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Do you feel abandoned by God or wonder if He cares about you? If He really loves you, why do bad things keep happening in your life? In this message, we’ll learn what we need to remember on our worst days.

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0:00.0	I think about this thought of why would a loving God allow bad things to happen?
0:07.3	Have you ever wanted that?
0:08.3	How many have ever wanted that?
0:09.3	Why would a loving God allow bad things to happen?
0:13.3	And as we explore this fault today, I want us to realize and to recognize that even Jesus
0:20.6	experienced bad things.
0:24.0	I want us to look at Matthew chapter number 27 in verse number 45.
0:28.5	It says from noon until three in the afternoon, darkness came over all the land.
0:35.7	About three in the afternoon, Jesus cried out and allowed voice, Eli, Eli, Lama Sabaktani,
0:42.6	which means my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
0:48.6	And the Greek word there for cried out means to scream.
0:54.0	Literally Jesus screamed on the cross, Eli, Eli, Lama Sabaktani, my God, my God, why have
1:04.7	you forsaken me?
1:10.4	And that word forsaken means to be rejected, deserted, let go abandoned.
1:20.7	Jesus was on the cross and he had deep feelings of being abandoned and rejected.
1:29.2	And I think about Jesus during his last day on earth before he was crucified, he had been
1:37.4	abandoned by everyone.
1:39.8	Judas, one of the twelve disciples abandoned him and rejected him and turned his back
1:45.8	on him.
1:46.8	The crowd left Jesus.
1:50.7	He was on the cross and he was on the cross, nails in his hands, nails in his feet.
2:14.7	He was carrying your sin.
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