More data is available than I ever thought concerning Jesus’ Sufferings on Calvary. I mean in His Soul, in His Spirit!

Last Lesson we focused on Psalm 22, that Mount Everest of Bible Prophecy. But I cannot get it off my mind.

Verse 2 especially … “O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.” And this complex Sentence is immediately preceded by Jesus speaking of “the words of His roaring!”

Yes, we do have a record of Jesus speaking (coherently) from the Cross. The Four Genuine (Canonical) Gospels give us a composite of seven Cries from Calvary!

But not one of these can qualify as “roaring words” or our Lord’s “crying day and night,” presumably during both the daylight hours on Calvary as well as the hours of darkness!

How can these holy “noises” be explained? Or is that even humanly possible?

Surely, they represent His (as I have called them) “Soul Sufferings!” His Agony beyond the physical pain. (Which is certainly NOT to be minimized, marginalized.)

The sin debt (our accumulated iniquities) He bore on the Cross! That unprecedently “Separation” from His Father!

Oh, let’s just ponder the Anguish here indicated, and love our dear Saviour all the more!

No Help, just Words of Roaring! (Verse 1 at the end.)

Crying in the daylight, not silent in the darkness! (Verse 2 now.)

There certainly is no record of Him crying like that when He was scourged!

Or even when nailed to the Wood of the Cross!

But when He atoned for our sin, suffered God’s Wrath on our behalf … then He roared and cried and ______________, no telling what else!

Let us bow. We stand on Holy Ground.

Oh, what a Saviour!

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

We worship Thee, our wonderful Lord Jesus Christ!

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