A message based on Psalm 22

1. ‘When we
feel abandoned
by God’
Psalm 22

2. 1. The Passion of the Cross (22:1-21)
2. The Promise of hope when we
feel abandoned (22-22-31)

3. Abandoned
My God, my God, why have you forsaken
me? Why are you so far from saving me, so
far from my cries of anguish? - Psalm 22:1
The Passion of the Cross
Fulfilled in Matt 27:46

4. But now he has reconciled you by
Christ’s physical body through death to
present you holy in his sight, without
blemish and free from accusation
Col 1:22
The Passion of the Cross

5. Despised
But I am a worm and not a man,
scorned by everyone, despised by
the people – Psalm 22:6
The Passion of the Cross
Heb ‘tola’ = ‘Crimson worm’

6. Physical suffering
• attacked by enemies 22:12–13, 16
• life poured out like water 22:14a
• bones out of joint 22:14, 17
• heart melted like wax 22:14
• strength totally dried up 22:15
• hands and feet pierced 22:16
• clothes divided up/gambled for 22:18
The Passion of the Cross

7. "Father, forgive them, for they know
not what they do."
Luke 23:34
The Passion of the Cross
“It is finished"
John 19:30

8. God is sovereign and we can trust Him
Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One; you
are the one Israel praises. In you our
ancestors put their trust; they trusted and
you delivered them. To you they cried out
and were saved; in you they trusted and
were not put to shame – Psalm 22:3-5
The Promise of hope when we feel abandoned

9. Our testimony can encourage others
I will declare your name to my people;
in the assembly I will praise you
Psalm 22:22
The Promise of hope when we feel abandoned

10. God has exalted Jesus and will exalt us
… all the families of the nations will bow down
before him, for dominion belongs to the LORD
and He rules over the nations
Psalm 22:27b-28
The Promise of hope when we feel abandoned

11. And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself by becoming obedient
to death—even death on a cross!
The Promise of hope when we feel abandoned

12. Therefore God exalted Him to the highest
place and gave Him the name that is above
every name, that at the name of Jesus every
knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and
under the earth, and every tongue
acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
The Promise of hope when we feel abandoned

13. “Every time we look at the cross, Christ seems
to say to us, ‘I am here because of you. It is
your sin I am bearing, your curse I am
suffering, your debt I am paying, your death I
am dying.’ Nothing in history or in the
universe cuts us down to size like the cross.

14. “All of us have inflated views of ourselves,
especially in self-righteousness, until we have
visited a place called Calvary.
It is there, at the foot of the cross,
that we shrink to our true size”
John R. W. Stott