03/06/2025
Narrow Road Christian Fellowship weekly blog
Jesus’s last words from the cross were, “Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit” and with these words, he breathed his last.
Luke 23:46
Luke also tells us that it was about noon and yet the light from the sun was gone. It was a very bizarre day and now the real fireworks started. There was a massive earthquake, and at the same time the curtain in the temple was torn from top to bottom. I am reminded of the earthquake of when Moses was giving the law. And now we have the reminder of Jesus words “that he hadn’t come to abolish the law, but to fulfill it” some 1500 years later, the law was for filled in Jesus.
Then the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.
Mark 15:38
Perhaps one of the priests told Mark about the veil. But for sheer drama there is nothing like this in all of recorded history. This cry in the darkness of the cross, the dismissing of the spirit of Jesus, and the rending of the veil in the temple—Mark brings them all together in order that we might understand what these events mean. As Jesus’ cry rang out, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? there must have been many in the crowd who recognized that it was the opening words of Psalm 22. If you want to get the background and atmosphere of the cross, read that psalm through. There is no adequate explanation for the question that Jesus asked except that which Scripture itself gives, God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God (2 Corinthians 5:21).
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