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Introduction

In Forsaken For Us All Part 4, we will continue to examine the great Messianic text of Psalm 22. Our Memory and Meditation Verses as we prepare to Remember the Crucifixion on Friday, April 18th, 2025, are Psalm 22:1-15. The series’ aim is to improve and guide our Christian meditation together. Read Forsaken For Us All Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 before going any further if you’d like.

Forsaken & Scorned Yet Perfect

Jesus felt forsaken by God. He felt the sting of the injustice of his prosecution, and he recognized in the sword of Pontus Pilate another sword, the Father’s.

“Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. ³ For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, ⁴ for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer (Romans 13:2-4).”

Not just anyone could have put the Lord Jesus to death. God’s stroke of justice falls from the magistrate’s hand. So, in one piercing, in a humiliating, naked, mocking, public execution–Jesus feels forsaken–but He was indeed scorned. All without cause.

Jesus Never Knew Sin

In last week’s installment, David witnessed the mocking of Christ by the people, specifically the leaders in His prophetic vision. Yet, Jesus continued to love them and proceeded to die for them even under the stresses of death as they mocked Him–as we mocked Him. Jesus loved us to the end. He prays and calls the Father as a witness against those who mock Him; nevertheless, He loves us and dies for us. A people not good, or even pretty good, but who are in every way his enemies (Romans 5:6-8). Even in His moment of witness against us, He only ever knew goodness and righteousness.

Born of God & Into Adam’s Curse

Jesus is God Incarnate. It means He is, not was, but is, fully God and Man. One Christ. As the Scriptures teach and the creeds witness, He w”as “born of a woman, born under the law to redeem those who were under the law (Galatians 4:4)“–the curse for disobedience is death. Yet, He was born of the Virgin Mary (Nicene Creed), the mother of God (Chalcedonian Creed). The creed says “mother of God” in regards to Mary because Jesus was Divine from His holy birth. He didn’t become the Christ. The Christ is the God-Man from His conception.

Echoes of the Virgin Birth

Of course, then, part of His witness against us for what we were doing was to point to His holiness and purity of person. “Yet you are he who took me from the womb; you made me trust you at my mother’s breasts.¹⁰ On you was I cast from my birth, and from my mother’s womb you have been my God (Psalm 22:9-10).” We should hear in this witness echoes of the Virgin birth, his Divine nature, and His status as a prophet. Jeremiah and John the Baptist, both path-straighteners and wrecking-ball prophets, have similar things said about them:

“Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations (Jeremiah 1:5).'”

“And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth, ¹⁵ for he will be great before the Lord. And he must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb (Luke 1:14-15).

Yet, Christ stands alone as the unique only Begotten Son of God. Jeremiah and John the Baptist knew sin, they were in need of a sacrifice. Jesus did not. He is the priest and the offering. “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God (2 Corinthians 5:21).”

Conclusion

The Lord Jesus Christ placed Himself willingly under God’s justice and our scorn. He could take our justice because He had none due. Jesus was holy, innocent, and pure. He never knew a time when He did not know, love and serve the Father. I pray that when we and our children are old, we never remember a time when we did not know, love, or serve the Father either. If we do, it will not be because there were no times of sin and unfaithfulness. On the contrary, it’ll is the Father and Christ Jesus that graciously hold us in place through the power of the Spirit. God works in us “both to will and to work for his good pleasure (Philippians 2:13).” It is not we who keep ourselves but God who holds us. Amen! What Wondrous Love Is This! 

Forsaken For Us All Part 5

In Forsaken For Us All Part 5, we will move on to verses Psalm 22:11-13. We will continue to get the incredible privilege of listening to Jesus pray as He offers Himself as “the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world (John 1:29).”

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Go in peace to love and serve the Lord,

Pastor Jeremy

Additionally, you can read our previous Series Christ, His Church, & Marriage if the mood strikes ya!