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“Substitution”
Substitutes always get you in trouble.
When I say the word “substitute” what do you normally think of?
Teachers … exactly.
Substitute teachers are the Rodney Dangerfields of education.
They can’t get any respect.
You know some of you who have been substitute teachers.
To principals, the school’s principals, substitute teachers are heroes.
Because they have saved the bacon of many a principal.
Because when a teacher gets sick somebody’s got to care for the kids.
So in a principal’s book, in an educator’s book, substitute teachers are up there right next to angels.
Because they are so helpful.
But a lot of times the kids don’t give the substitute teacher any respect.
Because the truth is, most of the time if we get a substitute we’re disappointed.
Like if you went to a concert and the guy got up and said, “I’m sorry U2 can’t be here tonight.
We’ve got U3.” You’re going to go, “Huh?” Substitutes just don’t work.
You want the real thing.
But sometimes you know what I’ve discovered.
Sometimes substitutes are better than the original.
Sometimes a substitute teacher can actually be more engaging, more interesting, less boring than the one you had every week.
Jesus was on the cross, the Bible tells us, for six hours.
From nine a.m. in the morning to three p.m.in the afternoon.
In the first three hours when Jesus was hanging on the cross, he says the first three statements.
The first three words.
We’ve already covered those.
First we covered the word of Forgiveness where he says, “Father forgive them.
They don’t know what they’re doing.”
Then we covered, two weeks ago, the word of Assurance when he says to the thief on the cross who had said, “Lord, remember me.”
He said, “Today you’ll be with me in paradise.”
If you did not hear that message you need to go listen to it online.
I want you to be absolutely certain for sure that you’re going to heaven when you die.
You need to listen to that message and settle the issue, the word of assurance.
You are assured of your salvation.
Last Sunday we looked at the word of Love, which is really about relationships.
We talked about family and what Jesus said to his mother, Mary, and his best friend, John.
That’s in the first three hours.
Nine o’clock, ten o’clock, eleven o’clock.
At noon things changed.
Jesus is on the cross for six hours.
At noon everything goes dark.
You know as well as I do that from noon to three are usually the brightest parts of the day.
It’s usually the hottest part of the day – from noon to three.
But when Jesus is hanging on the cross after three hours it goes dark at noon.
We don’t know what God did.
He may have just brought a cloud cover in.
Maybe a storm.
We don’t know.
All we know is that it turned dark.
The Bible says:
This is the fourth word of life that Jesus says from the cross.
God makes it dark in the middle of the day.
The word there in Greek ska tas literally means obscurity.
He’s obscuring what’s going on on the cross.
The darkness is like a curtain falling over this scene in the final torture of Jesus Christ.
In one way God is saying this is so bad, this is so evil, this is so terrible to watch, I’m just going to darken it so it’s not as clear.
Jesus is sacrificing himself for the sins of the world.
And it’s such an ugly, horrible sight that Jesus Christ cries out.
He cries out this fourth word.
And literally anabo aho in Greek literally means he screamed it.
The fourth thing that Jesus says from the cross is this: ‘Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?’
Which means, “My God! My God!
Why have you forsaken me.”
The fourth thing that Jesus says from the cross is this: ‘Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?’
Which means, “My God! My God!
Why have you forsaken me.”
This is the most shocking word of all the things that Jesus says on the cross.
We can understand “Father, forgive them.”
We can understand “Today you’ll be with me in paradise.”
But when now he says to God the Father, “Why have you forsaken me?”
The word there literally means you’ve rejected me.
You’ve forsaken me.
You’ve abandoned me.
Father, God, you have deserted me.
Some of you know the pain and the sting of abandonment.
Nothing hurts more than being rejected by somebody.
If you’ve ever felt the sting of rejection you know how bad that hurts.
Some of you growing up were rejected, abandoned by a parent.
Some of you as an adult have been rejected or abandoned by a spouse.
Or maybe a boyfriend.
This happens.
So what happened here?
1. WHAT HAPPENED?
In Jesus’ crucifixion, in the last days he’s progressively abandoned by everybody.
First he’s abandoned by Judas, one of the twelve disciples.
Then he’s abandoned by the other disciples.
They all leave.
They’re afraid they’re going to get arrested and killed.
Now on the cross he says,“My God, my God.
Why have you forsaken me?”
It’s interesting.
Every time Jesus refers to God in the Bible he always calls him, “Father”.
This is the only time in the Bible where Jesus has not called God the Father, Father.
He just calls him “My God, my God.”
Because at this point the relationship had been broken between the Father and the Son because of the sin that Jesus is carrying on the cross.
I want you to understand the price that Jesus Christ paid for you to be able to go to heaven.
Your salvation is free.
But it certainly was not inexpensive.
And it broke the relationship between God the Father and God the Son at this very moment.
Jesus had never known what it meant to be out of fellowship with God.
He had never known what it meant.
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