Psalm 89:38-45 “But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed. You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust. You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin. All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors. You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all of his enemies rejoice. Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword, and haven’t supported him in battle. You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down to the ground. You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered him with shame. Selah.”

We’re reminded here that sin and faithlessness bring God’s displeasure and discipline. What is amazing is the fact that, although Jesus was perfect and never sinned, He may have experienced something very similar to what this passage describes. But He did it for us!

Hebrews 4:15 “For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.”

Matthew 27:45-46 “Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, ‘Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?’ That is, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’ ”

1 Peter 2:24 “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.”

2 Corinthians 5:21 “For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”

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