The Hidden Meaning Behind 'My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me' #jesus #scripture #faith — Transcript

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1. 0:00Check this out. When Jesus hung on the
2. 0:02cross, he said, "My God, my God, why
3. 0:06have you forsaken me?"
4. 0:08Because Jesus wasn't just saying words,
5. 0:10he was quoting scripture.
6. 0:13He was pointing us to Psalm 22.
7. 0:16Because Psalm 22 opens with the exact
8. 0:18same words, "My God, my God, why have
9. 0:21you forsaken me?" But today, I just want
10. 0:23to focus on one verse
11. 0:26in Psalm 22. [music]
12. 0:27Verse 6 says, "But I
13. 0:32am a worm
14. 0:33>> [music]
15. 0:34>> and not a man."
16. 0:36The common Hebrew word for worm is
17. 0:40remah, [music]
18. 0:41but the word used in this verse 6 is not
19. 0:43remah, it is tola'ath. Tola'ath refers
20. 0:46to a very, very specific type of worm
21. 0:48called the crimson worm.
22. 0:51>> [music]
23. 0:52>> What does Jesus want us to know about
24. 0:54this crimson worm?
25. 0:56>> [music]
26. 0:56>> But I'm going to spare you the
27. 0:57scientific details
28. 0:59and just read to you how Brooke
29. 1:02Ligertwood beautifully describes it.
30. 1:04[music]
31. 1:05A crimson worm only lays eggs once
32. 1:08in her lifetime. [music]
33. 1:10When her time has come, the crimson worm
34. 1:13inches her way up a tree
35. 1:15and she adheres herself on the wood.
36. 1:17>> [music]
37. 1:18>> As she takes her position and presses
38. 1:20her body against the wood,
39. 1:22she forms a hard crimson colored shell
40. 1:25which welds her [music] to the wood
41. 1:26surface.
42. 1:28Her choice is made
43. 1:30and it's permanent.
44. 1:33>> [music]
45. 1:33>> This is the position in which she spends
46. 1:35the rest of her natural life.
47. 1:38And it's there under her body, under the
48. 1:40[music] instinctive protective crimson
49. 1:42shell, that her children are born.
50. 1:45>> [music]
51. 1:46>> And then the most peculiar thing
52. 1:47happens.
53. 1:49The children of the tola'ath begins
54. 1:51[music] feeding on the living body of
55. 1:53the mother for the next 3 days.
56. 1:58>> [music]
57. 1:58>> I am a tola'ath, a crimson worm and not
58. 2:02a man.
59. 2:03And after 3 days, the crimson worm gives
60. 2:06[music] up her life.
61. 2:08And as she does,
62. 2:10one of the most profound events in all
63. 2:12of nature takes place.
64. 2:15From the body of the mother, a blood red
65. 2:18[music] substance begins to flow that
66. 2:20stains the wood to which she has been
67. 2:22attached.
68. 2:24The crimson worm has one purpose for
69. 2:26climbing that tree,
70. 2:27>> [music]
71. 2:28>> sacrifice.
72. 2:30The only way for her children to live
73. 2:33>> [music]
74. 2:33>> is for her to die.
75. 2:35She willingly climbs up that tree
76. 2:37knowing that she will not come down
77. 2:39alive. Jesus Christ has one [music]
78. 2:41purpose in coming into this world,
79. 2:45sacrifice.
80. 2:47The only way for us [music] to live is
81. 2:49for him to die. This is how we know what
82. 2:52love is.
83. 2:53>> [music]
84. 2:53>> Christ Jesus laid down his life for us.
85. 2:58That was absolutely powerful.