A study of the person, mission, and current status of Jesus is both unequally rewarding and endless. Jesus is many-faceted and highly complex because he was both God and man (Col. 2: 9; I Tim. 2: 5). Such a study involves spiritual excitement, hope

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The Forsaken Jesus

• A study of the person, mission, and current
  status of Jesus is both unequally rewarding and
  endless. Jesus is many-faceted and highly
  complex because he was both God and man (Col. 2
  9 I Tim. 2 5). Such a study involves spiritual
  excitement, hope beyond the grave, and also much
  sadness.

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The Forsaken Jesus

• 1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is
  the arm of the LORD revealed? 2 For he shall
  grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a
  root out of a dry ground he hath no form nor
  comeliness and when we shall see him, there is
  no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He is
  despised and rejected of men a man of sorrows,
  and acquainted with grief and we hid as it were
  our faces from him he was despised, and we
  esteemed him not (Isa. 53).

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The Forsaken Jesus

• Forsaken by his neighbors.
• 1. Mark 6 3, Matt. 13 55.

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The Forsaken Jesus

• 55 Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his
  mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and
  Joses, and Simon, and Judas? 56 And his sisters,
  are they not all with us? Whence then hath this
  man all these things? (Matt. 13.)

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The Forsaken Jesus

• Forsaken by parents.
• 1. Luke 2 43-50.

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The Forsaken Jesus

• 43 And when they had fulfilled the days, as
  they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in
  Jerusalem and Joseph and his mother knew not of
  it. 44 But they, supposing him to have been in
  the company, went a day's journey and they
  sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance.
  45 And when they found him not, they turned back
  again to Jerusalem, seeking him. 46 And it came
  to pass, that after three days they found him in
  the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors,
  both hearing them, and asking them questions.

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The Forsaken Jesus

• 47 And all that heard him were astonished at his
  understanding and answers. 48 And when they saw
  him, they were amazed and his mother said unto
  him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us?
  behold, thy father and I have sought thee
  sorrowing.49 And he said unto them, How is it
  that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be
  about my Father's business? 50 And they
  understood not the saying which he spake unto
  them (Luke 2).

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The Forsaken Jesus

• Forsaken by his people.
• 1. Mark 15 13, 14, John 1 11, 12.

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The Forsaken Jesus

• 10 He was in the world, and the world was made
  by him, and the world knew him not. 11 He came
  unto his own, and his own received him not. 12
  But as many as received him, to them gave he
  power to become the sons of God, even to them
  that believe on his name. (John 1)

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The Forsaken Jesus

• Forsaken by disciples.
• 1. John 6 66, Matt. 26 56.

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The Forsaken Jesus

• 56 But all this was done, that the scriptures
  of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the
  disciples forsook him, and fled (Matt. 26).

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The Forsaken Jesus

• Forsaken by the legal system.
• 1. John 19 6.

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The Forsaken Jesus

• 6 When the chief priests therefore and officers
  saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him,
  crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him,
  and crucify him for I find no fault in him
  (John 19).

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The Forsaken Jesus

• The Jewish trial of our Lord was absolutely
  illegal, the court which condemned Him being
  without jurisdiction to try a capital offense,
  which blasphemy was under the Jewish law. Even if
  there had been jurisdiction, it would have been
  irregular, as the judges had rendered themselves
  incompetent to try the case, having been guilty
  of the violation of the spirit of the law that
  required judges to be unprejudiced and impartial,
  and carefully to guard the interests of the
  accused. Even the letter of the law had been
  violated in a number of important respects.

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The Forsaken Jesus

• All the subsequent proceedings were contrary to
  both the letter and the spirit of the law.
  Although Pilate took his place upon the judgment
  seat, his acts, properly speaking, were not those
  of a judge, and had no legal force or value but
  were rather the futile attempts of a weak and
  vacillating politician to appease an angry mob
  thirsting for the blood of an innocent
  countryman. The carrying out of a sentence
  imposed in such circumstances, and under such
  conditions, may not inaptly be described as a
  judicial murder.

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The Forsaken Jesus

• Forsaken by the Father.
• 1. Matt. 27 46.

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The Forsaken Jesus

• 46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a
  loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?
  that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou
  forsaken me? (Matt. 27, Ps. 22 1, 2.)

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The Forsaken Jesus

• Forsaken by neighbors.
• Forsaken by parents.
• Forsaken by his people.
• Forsaken by disciples.
• Forsaken by legal system.
• Forsaken by the Father.