Prelude

Hymn #237                                                                          At the Cross

Hymn #95                                   No One Ever Cared for Me Like Jesus

Prayer                                                                            Announcements

Hymn #107                                                                         No, Not One!

Hymn #133                                                 Why Should He Love Me So

Communion Service                                             Pastor Dan Cleghorn

Closing Hymn #641                                                    Thank You, Jesus

Postlude

9:15 a.m. --- Prayer Time & Answers in Genesis DVD

"Why is There Death and Suffering"

10:00 a.m. --- Fellowship Time

10:30 a.m. --- Worship & Communion Service

Wednesday

Bible Study & Prayer Meeting, 7:00 p.m.

Saturday                  

Ladies’ Walking Fellowship at the track, 10:00 a.m. (New time)

Next Sunday 

Missionary Bryan Tanner & family, 9:15 & 10:30 a.m.

Fellowship dinner to follow

October 7                   

Ladies’ Bible Study, 11:00 a.m. – Lesson 2

October 17                 

Tentative Baptismal Service

Audio and video sermons will be posted at chewelahbaptist.org when available.

Remember Jesus #15                                          September 26, 2021

Matthew 27:45-46; Mark 15:33-34; Luke 23:44

 I. The God Who Judged – “My God, My God”

Because God is holy, He cannot overlook sin. On the contrary, He must punish it. The Lord Jesus had no sin of His own, but He took the guilt of our sins upon Himself. When God, as Judge, looked down and saw our sins upon the sinless Substitute, He withdrew from the Son of His love. (William MacDonald, Believer’s Bible Commentary: Old and New Testaments, 1309)

 II. The Why of Judgment – “why”

The only way that the curse, which began with Adam and Eve (Gen. 3:17) and is explained further in the law, could be removed from us, is if one without sin is made sin and a curse for us. (John Legg, The King and His Kingdom: The Gospel of Matthew Simply Explained, Welwyn Commentary Series, 516)

It was during that time that He bore the indescribable curse of our sins. In those three hours were compressed the hell which we deserved, the wrath of God against all our transgressions. We see it only dimly; we simply cannot know what it meant for Him to satisfy all God’s righteous claims against sin. We only know that in those three hours He paid the price, settled the debt, and finished the work necessary for man’s redemption. (MacDonald, William; Believer’s Bible Commentary: Old and New Testaments, 1309)

III. The Loneliness of Judgment – “hast Thou forsaken Me?”

forsake = to leave in the lurch, forsake, desert, abandon (Spiros Zodhiates, The Complete Word Study Dictionary: New Testament (Chattanooga, TN: AMG Publishers, 2000).

At some point before He died, before the veil was torn in two, before He cried out it is finished, an awesome spiritual transaction took place. God the Father laid upon God the Son all the guilt and wrath our sin deserved, and He bore it in Himself perfectly, totally satisfying the wrath of God for us. As horrible as the physical suffering of Jesus was, this spiritual suffering—the act of being judged for sin in our place—was what Jesus really dreaded about the cross. This was the cup—the cup of God’s righteous wrath—that He trembled at drinking (Luke 22:39–46, Psalm 75:8, Isaiah 51:17, Jeremiah 25:15). On the cross, Jesus became, as it were, an enemy of God who was judged and forced to drink the cup of the Father’s fury. He did it so we would not have to drink that cup. (Matthew, Guzik’s Commentaries on the Bible, Mt 27:46–49)