Oct 11
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David said, “I have been young, and now am old: yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread” (Psalm 37:25).
God will never forsake a righteous man. This gives us some glimpse of what was going on while Christ hung on the cross. He was certainly the righteous man. He never sinned! Yet He cried, “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?” God has never and will never forsake a righteous man. As the sin-bearing substitute, Christ was so truly made sin, that the Father forsook Him. In bearing our sins in His own body on the tree, he deserved to be forsaken by God! It was the justice and righteousness of God that caused Him to forsake His Son.
But there is wonderful assurance here. Just as Christ was truly made sin, everybody for whom he died as a substitute is made the very righteousness of God. And the righteous will never be forsaken Todd Nibert.