I recently read a book by Augustus Toplady (1740-1778; England) titled Contemplations on the Sufferings, Death and Resurrection of Christ. Excellent! In the chapter titled “The Sufferings and Death of Christ ,” he focused on the verse from Matthew 27.46, My God! My God! Why hast Thou forsaken me.” An excerpt:
Long before our blessed Saviour was manifested in the flesh, the particular circumstances of His humiliation and death were revealed to the ancient prophets, and by them made known to the people. Neither can there be a more unanswerable proof given of the Messiahship of Christ than that all the prophecies from the least to the greatest, that were descriptive of the Messiah, were accomplished to a tittle, in Him. Thus, for instance – Isaiah, who flourished abut eight hundred and thirty years before the coming of Christ, foretold of Him that He should be despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; that He should be wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities; that He should be numbered with the transgressors, and make His soul an offering for sin.”
May these thoughts encourage you in salvation, fill you with thankfulness, and humble you in His unending and unbounded love.
Terry Burlingame
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