WHY DID JESUS SAY GOD AND NOT FATHER?

 

APRIL 20, 2022

Mark 15:34

“My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?”

WHY DID JESUS SAY GOD AND NOT FATHER? 

I have pondered, researched, prayed and asked others for the answer. 

Until today after sharing with Ben at Anytime Fitness who also has been to seminary and he didn’t have an answer that satisfied my searching heart either.  However, while walking on the treadmill, the Lord chose to open my mind and reveal the answer I needed to connect the dots and make absolute sense.

Why did Jesus ALWAYS refer to God as Father everywhere in Scripture except in this moment? 

He is quoting David from Psalm 22:1, but that doesn’t explain why He said it at this moment.

Knowing that Jesus is MAN and GOD, I kept thinking it has to do with Him being Man since He became man to have blood to sacrifice for Sin.      I always thought that it was because at the moment He was taking on the SIN of the world and SIN separates from God, so God couldn’t even look on Him.  Others have agreed and said the same thing.

On the Cross, He said:  “Father forgive them for they know not what they do.”   Later He said:  “Father, into Your Hands I commend My spirit.”  So, why in this moment did He call Him, GOD?

My Aha revelation is this:

Jesus was the ONLY one who could have perfect blood because He was sinless.  And, the only one who could take on Sin and not be affected by it because He was God and totally Pure.

Therefore, at the moment Jesus took on the SIN of the world, God was not his Father!  For the first and only time, Jesus the Man knew SIN and needed GOD to redeem him.  When he said:  “It is finished!” the Sin debt had been paid, and mankind no longer has to be separated from God because of their sin…Jesus has paid our debt!  “The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” 

JESUS BECAME SIN, BUT HIS BLOOD PAID THE PENALTY AND PUT SIN TO DEATH TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE!      

Further read:  Ephesians chapters 1-2; John 14:23