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" Will you and I believe? Will we place our faith once and for all in the one who came and died and rose again so we can be forgiven and have eternal life? If so, our Easter has dawned, and God’s Morning Star has arisen in our hearts.1 For true believers, every day is Easter, and we can celebrate Easter joyfully, thanking God for his amazing salvation and looking forward expectantly to the day when our Lord will return and summon us to spend eternity with him, for his glory and for our eternal happiness. “The Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come.’ And let the one who hears say, ‘Come.’ And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price. . . . He who testifies to these things says, ‘Surely I am coming soon.’ Amen. Come, Lord Jesus! "
― Andreas J. Köstenberger , The Final Days of Jesus: The Most Important Week of the Most Important Person Who Ever Lived
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" At the ninth hour, Jesus utters a despairing cry: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”104 Jesus drew this lament of utter God-forsakenness from Psalm 22:1, which states, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?” In some mysterious way beyond our human understanding, Jesus, the second person of the Trinity, is cut off and separated from God because he is bearing the sin of humanity and enduring God’s wrath as a substitute for and in place of sinful humans.105 Of course, Jesus knows how Psalm 22 ends—in vindication—and may be reminding us that forsakenness is not the end of the story. "
― Andreas J. Köstenberger , The Final Days of Jesus: The Most Important Week of the Most Important Person Who Ever Lived