Today on Summit Life with JD Greer.

You must stand amazed at his love for you and his darkest hour.

The circumstances of the cross were designed to put God's love for you on display.

God turned his back on his most beloved son because God so loved the world. You.

Welcome to Summit Life with Pastor, author, and theologian JD Greer. I'm your host, Molly Vittavitch.

Today we're looking at what is possibly the most shocking moment in all of scripture when God

the Father turned his face away from his son Jesus. And why did he choose to do that?

So that by his son's sacrifice, he could ultimately welcome us into his presence someday.

It's part of our new teaching series called The Difficult Sayings of Jesus.

And if you've missed any of the previous messages, you can hear them free of charge at JD Greer.com.

Today we'll hear the conclusion of a message we began last week titled Why Have You Forsaken Me?

March 14, verse 32. And they, that is the disciples in Jesus, went to a place called

Geath Semini, which literally in Aramaic means oil press. And Jesus said to his disciples,

sit here while I pray. And he took with him Peter and James and John and he began to be greatly

distressed and troubled. And going on a little farther, he fell on the ground and prayed that if

it were possible, the hour might pass from him. And he said, Abba, Father, Daddy, all things are

possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.

Here is the Son of God, who spoke the worlds into existence, who created universes as easily as

you and I speak words, who walked on top of angry waves, who spoke to storms and they dissipated,

who would speak to a legion of demons and they would flee, who spoke to people with the

gravest diseases and they would be healed, who called to dead men and their graves and they

got up. Here is that Son of God, crying out under such strain that the capillaries in his face

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