WEBVTT - Midnight at Midday:  What to Do When You Feel Abandoned by God, Part 2 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:03.560 Jesus is saying, look, when you feel abandoned by God, 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.800 get to the word. Go to the Word of God. 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:10.840 Commit yourself to revelation. So you will see throughout that 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:14.040 Jesus quotes in these seven last words. He quotes the 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:16.560 Old Testament over and over and over again. 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:28.240 Welcome to Treasure Truth with pastor and author James Ford, 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:31.120 junior senior pastor of the Christ Bible Church in Chicago. 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:34.040 I'm Steve Heller. Glad that you're with us today. And, pastor, 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:37.199 I think you bring out such an important point. I mean, 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:39.720 here we can look to no better example than to 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:42.560 Jesus himself. We need to know the Word of God, 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:45.520 because there are times where we feel like he's not 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:48.160 answering our prayers, not even hearing our prayers. We feel 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:50.519 like we're in the dark night of the soul. And 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:53.400 you wonder, does God even care? But yet you're saying, hey, 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:56.040 go to Scripture and cling to its truth? 0:00:56.080 --> 0:01:01.640 Yeah, well, because, you know, the Bible speaks to us. 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:09.080 The Psalms speak for us. So whenever I'm down depressed, 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:12.760 I like going to the Psalms because they lift me up. 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:17.160 But but think about it. Uh, Jesus, when he was tempted. 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:20.760 How did he overcome temptation with the word quoted scripture? 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:21.039 Yeah. 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:23.760 Yeah. He said, it is written, it is written, it 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:28.440 is written. And so Isaiah said in Isaiah 5511, so 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:31.160 shall it be. The word that goeth forth from my mouth. 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:35.240 This is what Yahweh is saying. It shall always accomplish 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:38.120 that which I set for it to do. It will 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:41.440 never return unto me void. And so God says, use 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:45.360 my word, because there's power in the word. And so 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:49.360 in Psalm 119 he says in verses 9 to 11, 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:52.600 wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:55.600 heed there to according to thy truth, thy word is truth. 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:58.120 With my whole heart have I sought thee. Oh, let 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:01.600 me not wander from thy commandments. Thy word have I 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:05.840 hid in my heart that I might not sin against you. 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:09.760 And so you know, Psalm 19 talks about the word 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:16.280 converting the soul, enlightening the mind, and actually cleansing us 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:20.600 from sin. So we need the word of God. It's basic. Yeah. 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:23.680 You know, Jesus himself said it. Man shall not live 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:27.320 by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:31.119 of the mouth of God. And so every day we 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:33.720 need the word, and then we need to apply it 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:38.440 so that it's not just on the pages of holy writ. 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:40.240 It's written on my heart. 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:44.840 Sure. Yeah. You know, I can imagine some listening today saying, hey, 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:47.760 if I had grown up in the church, if, you know, 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:50.720 I'd been in Awanas, you know, if I'd done these things, 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:53.120 I understand I could have the word in me because 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:55.960 I started when I was young, when I could remember things. 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:58.880 But man, I'm old now, and it's so hard to 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:01.350 memorize scripture to learn what the Bible says. 0:03:01.350 --> 0:03:04.389 I'd ask them, what's your phone number? And they would 0:03:04.389 --> 0:03:07.550 quote their phone number. I'd ask, what's your address? And 0:03:07.550 --> 0:03:10.230 they would give me their address. Did you know that 0:03:10.230 --> 0:03:12.829 when you first got your phone, didn't you have to 0:03:12.870 --> 0:03:18.470 memorize that? Just begin to have a repetitive time in 0:03:18.470 --> 0:03:19.470 the Word of God. 0:03:20.470 --> 0:03:23.190 Well, I love that. Let's go ahead and get into 0:03:23.190 --> 0:03:25.989 the Word of God. We're in Matthew chapter 27 today 0:03:25.990 --> 0:03:30.190 as we continue the message midnight at midday. What to 0:03:30.230 --> 0:03:33.790 do when you feel abandoned by God? Here's Pastor Ford. 0:03:34.750 --> 0:03:36.830 Uh, me and brother just talk about this all the time. 0:03:37.230 --> 0:03:38.750 The only reason to go to a baseball game is 0:03:38.750 --> 0:03:45.310 for the hot dogs. I don't like baseball, but I've gone. 0:03:45.830 --> 0:03:48.750 And whenever I go, give me 3 or 4 hot dogs. 0:03:49.910 --> 0:03:52.070 Because I remember when I was a shorty, I used 0:03:52.070 --> 0:03:54.150 to go to show, and folk had hot dogs, and 0:03:54.150 --> 0:03:55.910 I didn't have money for that. I just barely made 0:03:55.910 --> 0:03:58.950 it in. And whenever I got, when I got me 0:03:58.950 --> 0:04:01.270 a little money, I'd go to the show and I'd 0:04:01.270 --> 0:04:05.710 always buy me 3 or 4 hot dogs. Yeah, but 0:04:05.710 --> 0:04:07.670 I didn't like baseball. And somebody say, let's go to 0:04:07.670 --> 0:04:10.510 a game. Okay. They got hot dogs. Now, you know, 0:04:10.550 --> 0:04:12.190 I don't go at all now because I don't eat 0:04:12.190 --> 0:04:16.630 meat anymore. So. But I was interested about something. The 0:04:16.630 --> 0:04:18.990 last time I went, which is about three years ago now, 0:04:19.350 --> 0:04:22.910 and I was watching it and I said, wait a minute, 0:04:23.589 --> 0:04:25.870 I need to know something about the rules. So here's 0:04:25.870 --> 0:04:28.349 what I did. I went and I looked it up, 0:04:29.310 --> 0:04:32.270 and here's what I found, because I was interested about 0:04:32.310 --> 0:04:35.990 a pinch hitter and how that works. So so listen 0:04:35.990 --> 0:04:40.469 to the rules. A batter can be substituted anytime the 0:04:40.470 --> 0:04:44.710 ball is dead. Ball gotta be dead. The manager can 0:04:44.710 --> 0:04:48.229 use any player who is not yet in the game. 0:04:48.230 --> 0:04:50.950 So it's got to be somebody that hasn't been in 0:04:50.950 --> 0:04:56.510 the game up to this point. So then he can 0:04:56.510 --> 0:05:01.909 replace a starting player When the pitch hitter is thought 0:05:01.910 --> 0:05:04.190 to have a better chance, of course, of getting on base, 0:05:04.230 --> 0:05:07.950 hitting a home run. He comes on deck and the 0:05:07.950 --> 0:05:12.670 batter that he replaces is out of the game. He 0:05:12.670 --> 0:05:15.990 can't come back in the game. I'm going somewhere. Can 0:05:15.990 --> 0:05:20.190 you hold on for a minute? Yeah. So then the 0:05:20.190 --> 0:05:24.950 home run that he hits is not attributed to the 0:05:24.950 --> 0:05:29.390 batter whose place he took. It's called a pitch hitters 0:05:29.950 --> 0:05:37.710 home run. I thought, wow, if that's not the gospel, 0:05:38.190 --> 0:05:41.350 I don't know what is. See, it was Adam's turn 0:05:41.350 --> 0:05:46.390 at bat, and he had already struck out. And we 0:05:46.390 --> 0:05:50.230 were losing in this game of life. But the manager 0:05:50.230 --> 0:05:54.430 of the team of humanity, God the Father, called a 0:05:54.430 --> 0:05:59.510 pinch hitter whose name was Jesus Christ, to replace Adam. 0:05:59.510 --> 0:06:02.230 And he brought him out on the mound. Now, when 0:06:02.230 --> 0:06:06.150 he brought Jesus out as the pinch hitter, Adam had 0:06:06.150 --> 0:06:09.430 to sit back down and could not ever get back 0:06:09.430 --> 0:06:14.830 in the game. So then when Jesus Christ came on deck, uh, 0:06:14.830 --> 0:06:18.510 he hit the ball of salvation over the offense of 0:06:18.510 --> 0:06:22.470 eternal life on Calvary. And now we can return to 0:06:22.510 --> 0:06:29.310 Paradise because of a pinch hitters home run. Romans 512 0:06:29.350 --> 0:06:35.750 says In Adam, all die in Christ. All are made alive. See, see, 0:06:35.790 --> 0:06:38.310 see when you begin to look at them, uh. What happened? 0:06:38.350 --> 0:06:41.630 The first Adam failed in a garden, and we were 0:06:41.630 --> 0:06:46.109 separated from God. But the last Adam agonized in a garden, 0:06:46.110 --> 0:06:49.589 and we were started back towards God. The first Adam 0:06:49.589 --> 0:06:53.950 died with his bride. Uh, the last Adam died for 0:06:53.950 --> 0:06:57.590 his bride. The first Adam took us out because he 0:06:57.589 --> 0:07:00.830 ate of a tree. But the last Adam brought us 0:07:00.830 --> 0:07:03.750 back in because he died on a tree. Y'all ain't 0:07:03.750 --> 0:07:07.790 going to pray with me. The first Adam, uh, tried 0:07:07.790 --> 0:07:10.950 to hide from God because he sinned. But the second 0:07:10.990 --> 0:07:20.190 Adam had God hide from him because he took our sins. Yes. Yes. Mm. Now, 0:07:20.190 --> 0:07:27.630 that was my introduction. Amen. Now, now, I got a 0:07:27.630 --> 0:07:32.310 six point message that is equal in length to my introduction. 0:07:33.430 --> 0:07:35.590 I know you don't believe it. Watch it. I'm going 0:07:35.590 --> 0:07:39.150 to drop em, not push em. What do you do 0:07:40.350 --> 0:07:46.350 when you feel abandoned by God? Same thing Jesus did. Well, 0:07:46.350 --> 0:07:48.470 what did he do? Pastor, I'm glad you asked. You 0:07:48.470 --> 0:07:51.870 asked intelligent questions. Let's drop em. Let's not push em. 0:07:51.910 --> 0:07:54.429 First of all, I want you to notice when you feel. 0:07:54.470 --> 0:07:57.190 Is anybody ever feel abandoned by God? Can I get 0:07:57.190 --> 0:08:06.110 an amen? Amen. Amen. Are you super spiritual people. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. 0:08:07.790 --> 0:08:12.590 Number one what do you do when it's midnight at midday. Mm. 0:08:12.950 --> 0:08:18.590 Number one commit to revelation. Alright. Where do you see that. 0:08:19.830 --> 0:08:22.070 My God, my God why hast thou forsaken me. Guess 0:08:22.070 --> 0:08:26.590 what this is. This is an 800 year old. Well, 0:08:26.590 --> 0:08:31.070 just say over 700 year old Scripture. It's taken from 0:08:31.070 --> 0:08:36.510 Psalm 22. David wrote it and he wrote it about himself. 0:08:36.510 --> 0:08:40.670 But God made it a messianic psalm. What's a messianic psalm? 0:08:40.790 --> 0:08:46.070 That it was 800 years predicting what Jesus would go 0:08:46.070 --> 0:08:49.710 through when he dies on Calvary. Now, what's so significant 0:08:49.710 --> 0:08:56.190 about that? Because it's 800 years before crucifixion? I'm not. 0:08:56.230 --> 0:09:01.420 I'm sorry. Sorry. 600 years before crucifixion Jen was ever 0:09:01.420 --> 0:09:07.100 a form of execution. Wow. And here. Now, what does 0:09:07.100 --> 0:09:11.059 Jesus do? He's in agony. He feels abandoned. So he 0:09:11.059 --> 0:09:15.340 quotes scripture. Oh, I don't have to make that. I mean, 0:09:15.340 --> 0:09:18.500 you understand it. Jesus is saying, look, when you feel 0:09:18.500 --> 0:09:22.179 abandoned by God, get to the word. Go to the 0:09:22.179 --> 0:09:25.860 Word of God. Commit yourself to revelation. So you will 0:09:25.860 --> 0:09:29.740 see throughout that Jesus quotes in these seven last words. 0:09:29.740 --> 0:09:32.939 He quotes the Old Testament over and over and over again, 0:09:33.780 --> 0:09:37.060 or the writers quoted over and over and over again. 0:09:37.100 --> 0:09:42.660 You need to commit yourself to the revelation of God. Listen, listen, listen. Uh, 0:09:42.700 --> 0:09:44.780 you know, it's like this happens to me all the 0:09:44.780 --> 0:09:47.620 time because I don't read directions. And I say to myself, 0:09:47.620 --> 0:09:49.980 every time this happens, I say, you better start reading 0:09:49.980 --> 0:09:53.540 the directions. So I'm talking to my insurance agent, and 0:09:53.540 --> 0:09:56.699 I'm telling him about this coverage that I want. And 0:09:56.700 --> 0:10:00.100 he said, okay. He said, I'll send it to you. And, 0:10:00.500 --> 0:10:03.060 and he told me what it cost. I said, well, 0:10:03.059 --> 0:10:06.300 I'll have to wait for this additional covenant. He said, no, 0:10:06.300 --> 0:10:08.580 you don't. I said, what do you mean? He said, 0:10:08.580 --> 0:10:12.060 you don't read your policies, do you? He said, we 0:10:12.059 --> 0:10:15.900 have the three for three. I said, what's that? He said, 0:10:16.340 --> 0:10:19.860 your house is covered by us, your vehicles are covered 0:10:19.860 --> 0:10:23.140 by us, and you have life insurance with us, and 0:10:23.140 --> 0:10:25.939 you have enough life insurance with us that this rider 0:10:25.940 --> 0:10:29.660 that you want, we give that to you because we 0:10:29.700 --> 0:10:38.100 cover everything that you have. Alright. I said, well doggies, 0:10:39.660 --> 0:10:42.900 look at here. And I said to my wife, I said, 0:10:42.900 --> 0:10:47.660 you know what? This is free. It's free. You sure? Yeah, yeah. Look, 0:10:47.700 --> 0:10:51.620 it's in the contract. It's in the contract. It's in 0:10:51.620 --> 0:10:55.380 the contract. Yeah. See, see see, the problem with some 0:10:55.380 --> 0:10:59.820 of us is we don't know what's in the contract. See? 0:10:59.860 --> 0:11:02.860 See if you're down and out and you need joy. 0:11:02.980 --> 0:11:06.460 That's in the contract. He. He said, rejoice in the Lord. 0:11:06.460 --> 0:11:09.380 And again I say, rejoice. If you want peace, it's 0:11:09.380 --> 0:11:13.020 in the contract. My peace I give unto you. Hey, 0:11:13.020 --> 0:11:15.660 if you want protection from your haters, he says, the 0:11:15.660 --> 0:11:18.140 Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He says, 0:11:18.140 --> 0:11:21.100 he's my rock, my sword, my shield, my will in 0:11:21.100 --> 0:11:24.620 the middle of the will. Hey, it's in the contract. Yeah. 0:11:24.620 --> 0:11:27.540 You're not reading the contract. That's why you don't know 0:11:27.580 --> 0:11:29.140 the coverage that you had. 0:11:33.580 --> 0:11:36.100 Yeah. Amen. 0:11:38.059 --> 0:11:41.100 Hey, he says you gotta commit to the word. And 0:11:41.100 --> 0:11:42.940 I gotta say it again. I know you say it 0:11:42.940 --> 0:11:44.140 all the time. So what? 0:11:44.860 --> 0:11:45.580 Amen. 0:11:46.340 --> 0:11:50.220 Do you realize, since he quoted a 700 year old 0:11:50.220 --> 0:11:54.340 or over 700 year old word, that God's word has 0:11:54.340 --> 0:12:01.220 no expiration date? There's no new and improve. The grass 0:12:01.220 --> 0:12:03.579 withers and the flower fades. But the word of our 0:12:03.580 --> 0:12:05.820 God is joy. I can trust this book. 0:12:08.260 --> 0:12:11.220 You're listening to Treasure Truth with Pastor Ford. A message 0:12:11.220 --> 0:12:15.060 called midnight at midday. What to do when you feel 0:12:15.059 --> 0:12:17.140 abandoned by God. And we're going to get back to 0:12:17.140 --> 0:12:19.380 this teaching in just a few moments here. If you 0:12:19.380 --> 0:12:22.060 ever miss a broadcast, come to our website, listen online, 0:12:22.059 --> 0:12:25.500 or stop by Treasure Truth Radio. Org stream the program 0:12:25.500 --> 0:12:28.459 through your computer or mobile device. You can download MP3's 0:12:28.460 --> 0:12:31.620 or order copies of this broadcast on CD. You can 0:12:31.620 --> 0:12:34.059 also sign up to be in podcasting the program. You'll 0:12:34.059 --> 0:12:38.180 find those links at treasure truth Radio.com. Back to the message. 0:12:38.179 --> 0:12:39.300 Here's Pastor Ford. 0:12:40.140 --> 0:12:42.860 Yeah, he said, when it's midnight at midday, when you 0:12:42.860 --> 0:12:45.660 feel like God's commit, the no second thing he says, 0:12:46.700 --> 0:12:50.820 he says, cry out. Realistically, it says about the ninth hour. 0:12:50.860 --> 0:12:55.100 Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, now, now, now, 0:12:55.100 --> 0:12:57.740 now get this, now get this. Oh, I'm sorry for 0:12:57.740 --> 0:13:01.100 all this Greek, but the But there are words that 0:13:01.100 --> 0:13:03.860 mean cry out or shout. The the number one word 0:13:03.860 --> 0:13:08.500 is bull. I say bull and it means to cry 0:13:08.540 --> 0:13:11.540 with a loud voice. But this has the root, but 0:13:11.540 --> 0:13:14.020 it has a preposition. Here we go with prepositions again 0:13:14.540 --> 0:13:18.500 it has the preposition ana a a. Now guess what 0:13:18.540 --> 0:13:27.900 ana means. Upward bow. Crying out loud. Upward. Crying out loud. 0:13:28.780 --> 0:13:32.100 Do you know what Jesus realized? His mama can't help 0:13:32.100 --> 0:13:43.059 him right now. So he cries out upwardly man, look, look, 0:13:43.820 --> 0:13:45.860 here it is. I looked it up and it says 0:13:45.860 --> 0:13:47.820 it literally means to go upward. And when it's used 0:13:47.820 --> 0:13:50.420 as a prefix, it could mean one of three things 0:13:50.420 --> 0:13:55.060 or all. It could mean doing something reflectively, which means 0:13:55.059 --> 0:13:58.420 you're thinking about what you're crying out. Uh, or it 0:13:58.420 --> 0:14:05.660 means Intensity. Or it means with regularity. Probably all three. 0:14:06.059 --> 0:14:10.380 In other words, he's crying out here. And let me 0:14:10.380 --> 0:14:13.459 tell you, I remember we live in a parsonage, and, uh, 0:14:13.940 --> 0:14:16.420 this was the parking lot. Kids would come and play 0:14:16.420 --> 0:14:19.100 with my children. We're about 8 or 9 kids in 0:14:19.100 --> 0:14:21.060 the parking lot, and all of a sudden I heard 0:14:21.260 --> 0:14:28.300 one child cry out, daddy! And out of all those children, 0:14:28.300 --> 0:14:32.140 I recognized the voice of my child. And I hit 0:14:32.140 --> 0:14:35.620 that back door. And I saw him running across the 0:14:35.620 --> 0:14:38.140 lot with a dog chasing him. And the dog really 0:14:38.140 --> 0:14:39.780 wasn't trying to get him. He was just jumping on 0:14:39.780 --> 0:14:43.020 him and everything. And he was daddy. Help him. I said, 0:14:43.020 --> 0:14:46.740 I'm coming, and he headed toward my voice. We met. 0:14:46.740 --> 0:14:48.860 I picked him up. Dogs jumping up, I said, get 0:14:48.860 --> 0:14:49.980 on out of here. Get on out of here! Get 0:14:50.020 --> 0:14:54.220 on out of here! Dog got away and my son 0:14:54.220 --> 0:15:02.410 looked at me and he said, ha! Here. It was 0:15:03.730 --> 0:15:11.650 this crying out and I responded to it. I'm telling you, 0:15:12.370 --> 0:15:18.250 we've got to be those who understand. I must tell 0:15:18.250 --> 0:15:27.250 Jesus all of my trouble. I cannot bear these burdens alone. 0:15:28.130 --> 0:15:34.570 That's it. Jesus cries out to the father, and he's 0:15:34.570 --> 0:15:39.290 real about what's going on. He just lets it all 0:15:39.290 --> 0:15:45.010 hang out. You know what I find about some of us? 0:15:45.850 --> 0:15:52.330 We fake and phony. We fake and phony. I bet 0:15:52.330 --> 0:15:54.170 you I don't want you to raise your hands. How 0:15:54.170 --> 0:15:57.450 many of you like me? Whenever there's times when I say, Lord, 0:15:58.130 --> 0:16:01.090 I don't even want to go to church, and it's 0:16:01.090 --> 0:16:04.250 Sunday morning and I'm on my way. Somebody's going to 0:16:04.250 --> 0:16:06.210 come and mess up my preaching because they're going to 0:16:06.210 --> 0:16:06.770 tell me something. 0:16:06.770 --> 0:16:08.450 I gotta talk to you right now. I know you're 0:16:08.450 --> 0:16:17.330 getting ready to preach. Well, leave me alone. But this 0:16:17.330 --> 0:16:18.890 is important. This is important. I gotta talk to you. 0:16:18.890 --> 0:16:20.330 I gotta talk to you. I gotta talk to you. 0:16:23.010 --> 0:16:31.010 Now, now. Call and make an appointment. That is honest. 0:16:31.050 --> 0:16:33.570 There are times I tell God I don't want to pray, 0:16:33.890 --> 0:16:36.850 but I am. I don't want to read the Scripture, 0:16:36.970 --> 0:16:39.930 but I am. I don't want to deal with my wife, 0:16:40.890 --> 0:16:45.690 but I am. Oh, I guess I'm the only one real. Y'all. 0:16:45.730 --> 0:16:48.970 Y'all y'all. Y'all stuck up folk talking about, you know. Yeah. 0:16:48.970 --> 0:16:53.370 That's right, that's right. Sometimes I just have to tell 0:16:53.410 --> 0:16:56.570 God how I feel. I don't feel like giving you 0:16:56.570 --> 0:17:00.290 all this money. But I. 0:17:00.290 --> 0:17:00.650 Will. 0:17:03.730 --> 0:17:05.690 I've been praying about this for a long time. 0:17:05.690 --> 0:17:06.850 I'm tired of waiting. 0:17:08.890 --> 0:17:09.210 Yes. 0:17:10.530 --> 0:17:19.609 See? He knows anyway, you're up there. No, father. I 0:17:19.650 --> 0:17:28.730 come in the name of Jesus. No. God's not afraid 0:17:28.730 --> 0:17:29.810 of how you feel. 0:17:30.050 --> 0:17:31.409 Amen. Amen. 0:17:31.730 --> 0:17:36.090 Why don't you try being real with him? That's what 0:17:36.090 --> 0:17:38.369 I tell people all the time. Look, look. If I 0:17:38.410 --> 0:17:39.930 don't like you, I'm going to tell you I don't 0:17:39.930 --> 0:17:50.610 like you. Now I love you in Jesus. See what 0:17:50.650 --> 0:17:55.610 Jesus does. He cries out with intensity. He cries out 0:17:55.609 --> 0:17:58.609 with you. You know what's going on in the inside 0:17:58.609 --> 0:18:01.850 by what he said. He says. He says, My God, 0:18:02.250 --> 0:18:03.530 my God. 0:18:03.570 --> 0:18:08.930 Why hast thou forsaken me? Why? 0:18:12.410 --> 0:18:15.770 And when you feel abandoned, you're not going to make 0:18:15.770 --> 0:18:20.370 God upset by telling him you're upset with him because 0:18:20.369 --> 0:18:21.610 of the way things are going. 0:18:22.570 --> 0:18:23.129 Amen. 0:18:25.210 --> 0:18:27.330 Somebody said, oh man, I ain't never heard no preacher 0:18:27.330 --> 0:18:35.010 say nothing like that. Notice, third thing you do converse 0:18:35.730 --> 0:18:41.170 in regular language. He says, Eli, Eli. Now guess what 0:18:41.170 --> 0:18:46.170 that is? Aramaic. It's not Hebrew. Now, why cry out 0:18:46.330 --> 0:18:54.210 in Aramaic on the cross? Because Aramaic was the lingua 0:18:54.210 --> 0:18:57.570 franca of the day. What is that? The economic language 0:18:57.570 --> 0:19:01.730 of the day, like English, is in this world. That's right. 0:19:01.730 --> 0:19:04.890 Like English is in this world. I done already told you, 0:19:04.890 --> 0:19:10.850 I'm getting ready to learn Spanish. You know. Amen. Because 0:19:10.890 --> 0:19:16.050 they they now have become more of their the second highest, 0:19:16.170 --> 0:19:20.210 I mean, their first highest minority in America. We're second now, 0:19:20.850 --> 0:19:24.490 you know. So we need to learn some Spanish. Amen. 0:19:24.570 --> 0:19:25.169 Amen. 0:19:25.490 --> 0:19:31.370 See? Habla espanol. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Y'all think I'm kidding? 0:19:31.369 --> 0:19:34.169 That's on my bucket list. I want to learn Spanish. 0:19:34.210 --> 0:19:38.330 I said man, so and so. In other words, here's 0:19:38.330 --> 0:19:40.649 here's my point I'm trying to make. See, I'm trying 0:19:40.690 --> 0:19:44.090 to help somebody who right now came in here with 0:19:44.090 --> 0:19:46.210 a smile on your face, but pain in your heart. 0:19:46.210 --> 0:19:49.210 And I mean to tell you, God, I change my 0:19:49.210 --> 0:19:53.129 message because I felt that God was leading me to 0:19:53.130 --> 0:19:55.330 do this because of the people who have lost loved ones, 0:19:55.330 --> 0:19:57.650 because the people I know in this congregation, who have 0:19:57.650 --> 0:20:00.130 loved ones in the hospital This is the best. Just 0:20:00.130 --> 0:20:02.970 left here to go with her husband. That's a faithful man. 0:20:02.970 --> 0:20:06.570 He loved the word, the scriptures been faithful and and 0:20:06.570 --> 0:20:09.050 and and he's got cancer. That's eating his brains up. 0:20:09.210 --> 0:20:09.810 Amen. 0:20:09.850 --> 0:20:12.810 Can you imagine? You don't know her seeing her, Minister. 0:20:13.090 --> 0:20:13.530 Right? 0:20:14.090 --> 0:20:17.810 Don't think she doesn't have some issues. Some problems? Don't 0:20:17.810 --> 0:20:20.530 think they're not agonizing. God, why? There are people who 0:20:20.570 --> 0:20:22.290 don't love you sitting up in there. How come you 0:20:22.290 --> 0:20:23.290 didn't give it to them? 0:20:23.930 --> 0:20:27.169 Alright. Alright. 0:20:27.730 --> 0:20:34.650 Mm. And so he just listen and just use regular language. 0:20:34.650 --> 0:20:37.250 I was with, I was with some people and, uh, 0:20:37.530 --> 0:20:39.410 there was a new believer, I just let this, this 0:20:39.410 --> 0:20:41.810 person of Christ about two days ago, three days ago 0:20:41.850 --> 0:20:43.609 he come, he come. And I said, well, we're praying, 0:20:43.609 --> 0:20:46.490 come on in with us. And so, uh, these guys, 0:20:46.490 --> 0:20:48.450 they wanted to show how much they knew they was 0:20:48.450 --> 0:20:52.609 in a prayer battle. Ever hear them prayer battles? Oh, 0:20:52.650 --> 0:20:56.889 thou God that dwelleth in the highest heaven. Thou art immutable. Voracious. 0:20:56.930 --> 0:21:01.240 You are the God that is you know, and they 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:04.360 changed their tone of voice and, you know, and they 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:06.280 just doing it, they're just doing it. And I'm saying 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:08.560 to myself, oh man, we got a new believer here. 0:21:08.560 --> 0:21:11.320 He does not know what sanctification is. He does not 0:21:11.320 --> 0:21:15.240 know what glorification is. He does not know what epilepsy is. 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:20.840 I don't know what animism is. So then it comes 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:23.600 time for him to pray. And I say, okay, you 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:28.440 can pray now too. And he said, uh, uh, I 0:21:28.440 --> 0:21:30.960 don't want to pray. I can't pray like that. And, 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:33.520 and my friends got upset at me. I know they smile, 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:36.200 but I knew they was upset because I immediately said, uh, uh, 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:39.560 you don't gotta pray like that. God ain't looking for 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:40.040 you to pray. 0:21:40.040 --> 0:21:40.320 Like. 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:45.960 That. Well, you know, you prayer is a conversation with God. 0:21:46.000 --> 0:21:48.000 You know how you talk to me, talk to him 0:21:48.000 --> 0:21:50.000 the same way. And then he begin to pray. Uh, 0:21:50.000 --> 0:21:52.560 Pastor Green, he said he said, Lord, I, I just 0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:55.040 all I know is this I don't know, you know 0:21:55.160 --> 0:21:57.640 who you are, and I know I accepted you as 0:21:57.640 --> 0:22:00.359 my savior. I know I'm hurting on the inside. And 0:22:00.359 --> 0:22:02.159 they told me you can help me. So would you 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:07.960 please help me? It was this real man. 0:22:10.720 --> 0:22:14.600 A real pertinent message as we approach Easter. Pastor Ford 0:22:14.640 --> 0:22:18.919 has called it midnight at midday. You're listening to Treasure Truth, 0:22:18.920 --> 0:22:20.320 and you can find out more about us when you 0:22:20.320 --> 0:22:24.400 come to the website Treasure Truth Radio. You know, when 0:22:24.400 --> 0:22:27.119 it comes to the Bible, there are basically three types 0:22:27.119 --> 0:22:29.959 of people. Those who see the Bible as just another 0:22:29.960 --> 0:22:34.000 book filled with wise sayings, genealogies, maybe a few crazy 0:22:34.000 --> 0:22:36.520 stories or visions. Then there are those who believe that 0:22:36.520 --> 0:22:40.119 the Bible is marginally important. 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