The last words of any man are significant, but how much more when those last words are spoken by the God man, the Lord Jesus?

In today's study, we visit the cross and listen to the final words of Christ spoken just before his death.

You will find that they hold tremendous truth and application for all of us who live on this side of the cross.

Open your Bible and let's join Scott Pauli now at Calvary.

It was midnight in the middle of the day when God the Father turned his back on his own son.

I mean, literally, the lights went out.

And this was not a normal solar eclipse.

This was a spiritual darkness, a darkness that could be felt. We're in Matthew

27 and verse number 45 where the Bible says, now from the sixth hour, there was darkness over

all the land under the ninth hour. So on the Jewish timetable, that is from noon to three

o'clock in the afternoon. Friend, it's not dark from noon to three o'clock in the afternoon.

Friend, it's not dark from noon to three o'clock in the afternoon.

That's the peak of light.

That is the sun at its height and yet darkness over all the land.

Verse 46 says, in about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice saying,

Eli Lama Sabakthan, that is to say, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

We're moving from the why to the what.

We've learned already something from this about Christ's separation and our reconciliation.

Why was he separated so that we could receive eternal life? That's the what. But today,

let me talk to you about Christ's question and our consolation. Just a practical application.

We know, theoretically, he was separated for our salvation, but just practically, did it ever dawn on you that the Lord Jesus Christ cried, why? Something bad happens. What's the first thing we all ask? Why? You get bad news. Why? Somebody dies. Why? It's normal. It's natural. And mad, I say, it's not sinful.

Because if Jesus cried, why, it must not be sinful. All men ask, and Christ was all man. He was the

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