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Abandoned.

Abandoned by your Master. Abandoned by your God.

Even in the face of betrayal by Yahweh himself, Jesus still finds a way to entrust the care of his soul to him. Still calls him Father. And then he’s gone. His body utterly broken and
humiliated. Murdered. Executed.

Dead.

They did it. They won. The bad guys won. How can this be? You can’t make any sense of it. He was supposed to save us. Jesus somehow was

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Imagine the scene: you’re one of Jesus twelve disciples. You came into
Jerusalem earlier in the week for Passover, and you were expecting big
things. This was when he was going to do something dramatic, and show
the world that he really was the long-awaited Messiah. You didn’t know
what he was going to do, but you knew it was going to be BIG.



But now it’s Friday, and you’re standing on a rocky crag just outside
the city walls. The stench from gehenna, the city’s burning trash
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When they were slamming on the door of the upper room that Sunday morning with their incredulous news, do you think the women had any idea the import of what they had just witnessed? On that morning a new era
of history was born, and our Western calendar would eventually be broken
into two periods: before Him and after Him.

Even if the Resurrection didn’t really happen, it’s still the most important event in history. The belief that a Jewish rabbi rose from the d

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