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1. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?2. O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.3. But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praise of Israel.4. Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.5. They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.Psalm 22:1-5 The psalmist delivers a prophetic message of Christ speaking. God is the God of Christ, the man. This is the first time He experienced separation from His Father. As a man, He has fulfilled the law, keeping all the commandments. Out of His sorrows and suffering, He is not going to have any deliverance. In the daytime on the cross He carried the sins of all mankind. In the night, He submitted to the Father's will, accepting what lay before Him. God holy and perfect and righteous is just to burden Christ with the sins of the world, making His Son the justifier of all who believe. The fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, from whom our Lord Christ descended, trusted God for deliverance and received it. They cried out and were delivered, forgiven, rescued from the destroyer Satan, the enemy of God. But there is no rescue for Christ. Every sin laid on Him. He paid our debt with His life. Without a complaint or murmuring. This is the only door to heaven. Without Christ, there is no pardoned, no forgiveness, no salvation, for you still carry the guilty judgment of the law that you transgressed. There is no way to stand before a holy God. Unless someone pays that debt, we can not. We have fallen short. But Christ, our Lord paid in full our debt to sin. He has declared us not guilty. Amen.