My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?

By Ted Stone

The repercussions of the "unjust death of Jesus Christ" and the damages awarded to him are infinite for each believer and the kingdom of God. This brief narrative reveals the Pauline epistles are rife with these truths, which are referenced throughout the entire Bible. This was taught and believed by the early church. You will see the gospel of Jesus Christ was accepted so readily by the world and even many of the chief priests simply because "it just makes sense."

This book is a condensed account of how God set up the "mystery of the ages" and how Jesus was the bait in a trap set to redeem mankind from slavery to Satan.

If you will receive the truth set forth herein, it will cause a confidence that cannot be shaken as to how Jesus paid for your salvation. You will understand that you are reconciled to God through what Jesus did and it has absolutely nothing to do with what you have done or left undone. It will also solidify the fact that Jesus is the only way to fellowship with God.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Aug 5, 2022
• ISBN: 9798885405270

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My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?

Ted Stone

Copyright © 2022 by Ted Stone

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Table of Contents

My Plight

The Prelude

The Premise

The Practice

The Puzzle

The Power

The Precedent

The Name of Jesus

Chapter 1

My Plight

I didn’t come from a Christian home, and as such, it was at the age of twenty-four (after six years of secular college) that people began giving me books about the end times. My curiosity was pricked when things like a cashless society were predicted and nuclear war was prophesied over 2700 years ago. There were other amazing proofs of the validity of the scriptures, too numerous to dismiss as coincidence. Something within compelled me to begin reading the Bible voraciously for two years. Then, at the age of twenty-six, I had to just humble my pride and ask God to save my soul no matter how juvenile this process may seem.

Many truths found in the Word of God were being touted in my university studies as modern psychology and sociology, modern finance, physics, English common law, and paleontology, but with a secular twist. Certain aspects of these studies lined up with the Bible, and some were in direct opposition. I found the scriptures all lined up, while much of the academia had missing links.

I realize that many of us come to faith in Jesus Christ through different circumstances and with varying emotional conditions. Deep needs and traumatic experiences may draw us to him. But there are a few of us who had no great, daunting problems confronting us. I simply discovered or rather had a revelation of the reality of God and his infinite power.

Having had the latter-type conversion, I just realized that I needed to serve God because nothing else made sense in the scheme of eternity. As such, I was rather cold in my worship, and I often felt slighted in my relationship with God. I saw many others with tremendous emotion, weeping at the altar. I understood their heart was true. However, I seemed to lack something that they had.

I just couldn’t understand how someone else could pay for my sins. My mind requires knowing how things work, or it will be very difficult to totally buy in. I believed that God did forgive me. But how could Jesus actually pay for not only my sins but the sins of every man, woman, and child who would place their trust in him? I could see possibly one man could trade places with one other person. But one man for millions, or perhaps billions, of others? It was not something I could picture. While many saints would be tearfully thankful for Jesus’s substitutional death and resurrection, I was curious as to the mechanics involved. Not only that, but how could he secure healing for all? How did Jesus acquire everyone’s peace, prosperity, and everything else included in the atonement by just this solitary death?

I did not doubt that God had saved me, but just how was it accomplished? I accepted the gift of life even though it did not totally set within my intellectual grid. I even longed for the revelation that would cause my heart to break like so many of my friends with whom I worshipped. They would weep and be genuinely broken in a spirit of thankfulness, as I just stood there observing and longing for whatever they were experiencing—and even praying God would have mercy on my lack of faith.

I was reading through Luke, chapters 1 and 2, about Zachariah’s demand for proof vs. Mary’s honest question as to how God would perform this miracle birth. Then God revealed to me there is a major difference between doubting God and desiring to know his ways. In Psalm 103:7 (KJV), it is written, God showed Moses His ways and the children of Israel His acts. God