My God, My God (Matthew

In the final episode of our Out of Context mini-series – Pt 6: My God, My God, Walking The Text Founder Brad Gray examines Jesus’s last words on the cross. Each year during Holy week, Christians the world over remember and reflect on the words: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46). But was Jesus claiming God abandoned him on the cross, or was he saying these specific words at this specific moment for a specific reason?

Clearly, there’s more going on here than meets the eye. We’ll explore three critical observations about Jesus’s final words, including his use of a rabbinic technique called “remez.” Remez means “hint,” and it was a way to hint at a passage from the Hebrew Scriptures assuming your audience would recognize the reference. Not only does Jesus assume his audience will recognize the passage he’s quoting, but he also expects that they’ll understand how it connects to his experience on the cross.

That’s because even as he was dying, Jesus never left the Text. He read the Text. He studied the Text. He taught the Text. He memorized the Text. He lived the Text, and he died the Text. Out of Context Pt 6: My God, My God will clarify the true meaning of Jesus’s last words, and it will fill you with the hope and confidence that God never leaves us even in our darkest moments!

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