Top 10 Prayers of the New Testament #4

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Speaker 1: What do you do when the bottom falls out of your world and the unforgivable happens and you just can't do a thing about it? Do you grieve? Honestly? Do you armor up to move on using coping strategies that just cover the wound? This prayer number four is for hurting angry wounded people. There's a God who says that you should feel outraged by what's happened to you. You were created that way. You were created to hate, dishonor, and to long for real honor, love, and glory. To stuff that inward is to commit a small crime against your own soul, self inflicted wounds. Welcome to the Top ten Prayers of the New Testament, number four, and welcome to Gospel rad podcast and doctor Bill Singord YouTube channel. I'm your host, doctor Bill Sinyard. We're free wherever you get podcasts or on YouTube as well. Doctor Bill Sinyard one word please subscribe below. As always, one of the fastest ways you can help us grow is by leaving a comment below if you're on YouTube or emailing me Bill at gospeldeshapp dot com on the podcast. Thank you for making Gospel r At podcast one of the top ten percent in the world. Yeah, thank you for listening every week. We hope that it helps to regularly hear about God's love for the lovable, the love the and lovely, the unworthy, unlikely, and the herding that's all of us any given day. All right, I want to get right into it. After this brief word from our sponsors, We'll be right back. This is a legal complaint against God, approved by God on the Cross Jesus quotes Psalm twenty two. Picture our formal legal complaint filed in a metaphorical courtroom, addressed to God against God, yet heard and preserved by God. My God, My God, Why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me? So far from the words of my groaning? So I'm twenty two one God, Here is l meaning strength. The sufferer's source of strength seems absent for a Jew relationship with God to find your identity. No God means no me. The Niv's groaning hides the Hebrews roaring. There is this deep, incontrollable guttural howling. These are not just words for Jesus, They are what he felt in his human experience. The Father never actually abandoned the son. Trinitarian breach is impossible. I know that's a popular thing that people say. There's no way that the God actually abandoned the Father actually abandoned the son, but the son felt it. That's the point. The shame and anguish felt like abandonment. So no celestial spend, no image management. Jesus both openly accused the Father in public. This is liturgy. This is liturgical. If you were inventing a religion, man, you wouldn't have Jesus saying this. You know this should be positive and health and wealth, but not here. And God leaves it in. This is real. The Psalm twenty two goes on that Jesus is referring to But I am a worm, not a man, scorned by everyone, despised by the people. All who see me mock me. They hurl insults, shaking their heads. He trust in the Lord, They say, let the Lord rescue him. That's verses six to eight. The bulls of bashans surround. These are unruly, narcissistic, insensitive predators. His heart melts like wax a shock and terror. Bones are out of joint. The emaciation and dislocation garments are divided, total defeat because he's not gonna need them, Total physical, emotional, social devastation, right at the edge of death. This is not whining. It's an accurate description of common human experience and emotions, and Scripture recognizes it. No rose tinted denial. We've all felt it right. Step one of healing, according to the Bible, is toward the anguish and vocalizing it to l God even supplies the script there's fifty plus lament Psalms three, four, five, six, thirteen, twenty two eighty eight. He commands us to bring this to him raw, and he invited it. Come yell at me, bring me your cries and hurts. I'm in session to hear your complaints and grief. Don't wait until you have your act together. Come as you are. That's what we do, father and child bearing. The pain is not honor to you or me. It is unbelief. Your words are not changed by love for you. Come do we ah. And by the way, this is not a license to vent on other people, parents, spouses, kids, coworkers, neighbors, parking officers. That's destructive. Only God has the shoulders broad enough, and love deep enough and power enough to absorb unfiltered rage without being warped or retaliating so that it would affect his relationship with you humans. It'll affect our relationship with you, not helpfully. One covenant privilege of Jesus followers is that we may puke out our stuff on the Holy God and not be rejected. Since Eden, humanity has been haunted by guilt, shame, and fear fig leaves. You know, they just don't work, and when it hurts, whatever it is, we either blame ourselves or blame someone else. Internalized, externalize, Adam blamed Eve, Eve blamed the serpent, and some level the human race still blames God for abandoning us. It's subconscious. If there's a God, yeah, my my brain says he's got a lot to answer for. Look at the evil in the world. Lord, don't you care if we drown? So our flesh accuses him of not rescuing us. It's not rational. I'm just saying it does. It's like a like an adolescence, just lashing out, venting, and it helps justify our anger and independence fear. On the cross at the edge of death, Jesus utters that primal human scream. He voices our accusation. The Father did not forsake him either, But Jesus feels it just like I do, just like you do. And he says it, and he's carrying that cry of accusation on our behalf, My God, my God, why have you've forsaken me? The opposite of that forsaken feeling is to experience the love of God for the unlovable, the love the unlovely, the unworthy, the unlikely, and the hurting through the spirit and our inner being Ephesus three fourteen to twenty one. We covered that in one of the other prayers, and there we know we we are adored as we are and not abandoned in our pain, and yet not abandoned. This is the story of Job. We're in the pain but not abandoned. What does his prayer tell us about God? God is honest about suffering. He doesn't need to spin it. No pr God invites our anger to his face. That is amazing. God in dwells darkness as well as light, our darkness, right, and He's always light. It doesn't affect him. He in dwells in it, the Holy Spirit, and dwells in my cesspool heart. Someone said, and God allows himself to be blamed wrongly without withdrawing love and Jesus God absorbs and mirrors our common primal human scream, Why have you forsaken me? We all get that. We all get that. What does his prayer say about us? We all carry a buried complaint against God. We've inherited that. That's part of the fall, that's part of original sin. Stuffing our pain down is unbelief. It's not maturity. We confuse venting horizontally with healing enraged. Other people may feel cathartic, but it gets things worse. Our shame and fear distort reality. We desperately need love that answers abandonment. Yeah, here's a cross shape lament for today. We're writing this for all the top ten prayers. When you feel abandoned, betrayed, or unanswered, here's something that you might might want to pray. First of all, I'm sorry you're in that, But here's something you may want to pray. My God, My God, everything in me feels forsaken. You seem far from saving me, far from the words of my roaring. You said you'd be my shield. Where were you when that happened? Where were you when I was hurt, left, fired, shamed. So I'm bringing this accusation to you, not to myself or to others. You invited it, my complaint. You put these words in the Bible. I will not pretend it doesn't hurt. I will not bury it. Jesus, you cried this from the cross, carrying my screen with yours. Spirit of God, meet me in this darkness. Show me, even if only a little, that I am not actually forsaken. I'm not alone. Show me that the Father loves me as much as he loves you. Until I can feel that love. Keep me bringing my pain to your face, not hiding it and not weaponizing it like I usually do. My God, My God, here I am. Well, here's one of the discussion questions that's going to be in my upcoming book. Enough prayer. Forsaken feeling haunts us all since Eden. Jesus carries it for you. Recall a bottom falling out moment, What primal blame? Where were you? Lingers? How to spirit love? If he just three counter that orphan scream? So what's next? I'm gonna let you know. After this brief word from our sponsors, we'll be right back. So what's next John seventeen. The whole book is a prayer. The whole chapter is a prayer, but as a must read for all Jesus followers, this is his prayer to the Father amazing shortly before his crucifixion. Have you ever wondered what God's will is for your life? Well, there's probably multiple answers to that, but here are two things that we can say for sure from the very lips of Jesus in the form of a prayer. Yep. As I mentioned, I'm finishing up a book that's going to be out by the end of the year. I hope twenty top prayers old and new tenetive title good enough prayer. Email me at Bill at Gospeldeshap dot com if you want to know exactly what it's We could be released great for devotions and groups. Discussion questions will be included. All right, what was you? Next? Time? At top ten Prayer number three, Take Heart, Child of God.