Jesus Was Treated Like A Disowned Son

Why did Jesus cry out, "My God! My God!" on that cross and not, "My Father! My Father!"?

Because the Truine God loved sinners so much that Jesus was treated like a disowned son on that cross, so that all who repent and believe in Him might be adopted as God’s sons & daughters forever!

Joel Beeke: The consciousness of His son-ship seems to recede. I don't say He loses it altogether, but the sense of sinner-ship - the sense of 2 Cor. 5:21: "He Who knew no sin became sin that we may be made the righteousness of God in Him" - overwhelms Him! Engulfs Him! Submerges Him! & He cries out of the depths of it: "My God! My God!" . . . He began by crying out on the cross: "Father". He ended in the seventh cross word by crying out: "Father". But in this middle cross word, the sense of son-ship has receded. The sense of sinner-ship has come to the foreground . . . In this moment when He became the anathema of God and bore the curse of God, He does not cry out, “My Father!”. When He enters His suffering on the cross, He cries out, “Father! Forgive them, for they know not what they do!”. When He leaves His suffering and dies, He says, “Father! Into Thy hands I commit My spirit!”. But in this three hour period, in His own self image, He's not the beloved son, with Whom the Father is well pleased. He sees, He feels not His son-ship, but only sinner-hood. He becomes sin, not son. He becomes the cursed one, the vile one, the repulsive one, the foul one. (Also see here.)

Ian Hamilton: He cannot say Abba. All He can say is "My God!" Abba is out of reach. The Father & the Son had gone together up to Calvary . . .  but now there is no sense of His divine son-ship. There is no sense of the Father's love . . . fellowship with His Father was lost . . . He endured hell for you that you might never endure hell!

William Shishko: It's the word "Eloi" - God, powerful God, a God known . . . in His raw, almighty actions . . . in His terrors. Jesus here utters words in which He is exposed to the terrors and the power of God - to Whom He has no liberty to call "Father" at this time . . . [Jesus is asking] "Why am I now in the place of those who will one day be told: 'Depart from Me! I never knew you!'" . . . that One of Whom the Father had said, "I am well pleased!" is the One of Whom the Father would now say, "He is vile. He is repulsive. He must be cast out of My sight."

Hallelujah! What a Savior!

God And The Gospel

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