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Summit Life with J.D. Greear

Why Have You Forsaken Me?

Summit Life with J.D. Greear

J.D. Greear Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever felt abandoned? Maybe a spouse left you, a friend betrayed you, or a parent wasn’t there when you needed them most. Pastor J.D. reminds us of the incredible truth that Jesus knows exactly how that feels. It’s part of our series called The Difficult Sayings of Jesus.

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0:00.0

Today on Summit Life, Pastor JD Greer takes us to the darkest moment in Jesus' life.

0:05.5

Here is the Son of God, who spoke the worlds into existence, who would speak to a legion of demons

0:13.2

and they would flee, who called to dead men in their graves and they got up. Here is that Son of God,

0:19.0

crying out under such strain that the capillaries in his face begin to burst. What's happening here?

0:30.0

Welcome back to Summit Life, I'm Molly Vitavitch. Have you ever felt abandoned? Maybe a spouse left you

0:41.6

or a friend betrayed you or a parent wasn't there when you needed them the most? To some extent,

0:47.7

I'm sure that we have all felt alone like this at some point in our lives. Today on Summit Life,

0:54.4

Pastor and Theologian JD Greer reminds us of an incredible truth that Jesus knows exactly

1:00.4

how that feels. It's part of our new teaching series called The Difficult Sings of Jesus,

1:06.1

and we're looking at one of the most shocking statements ever made when Jesus asked his father.

1:12.2

Why have you forsaken me? So let's open our Bibles, but more importantly, let's open our heart

1:17.0

as Pastor JD brings an encouraging word today. I will confess to you that where we were about to go

1:24.4

in Mark 14 this weekend is a deeply mysterious place. I would say it is one of the most mysterious

1:31.2

places in all scripture. It is a holy place. It is the kind of place honestly that I get a sense

1:37.6

that I ought to come into on my knees because there is nothing that I could say here that would

1:45.2

do anything really except for take away of the majesty of what is happening in these verses.

1:51.3

The Apostle Paul called the things that we are about to look into. He called them the unsearchable

1:56.8

riches of Christ. If they are insurgable, then who am I to stand up here and try to search them out

2:03.0

with you? Paul said that these were things that you could not know that Paul in fact prayed this

2:08.8

in Ephesians 3 that God would give us the spirit of wisdom and revelation that we could know the love of

2:14.9

Christ, how wide, how high, how long, how deep is this love which surpasses all knowledge. When you

2:20.8

think about it, it is kind of a contradiction. How do you know something that surpasses knowledge?

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