The Prayer of Jesus from the Cross

In our sermon series on Mark's Gospel, we have come to the time of the crucifixion of Christ and of His resurrection on the third day. This being so, I want to present to you a new Psalm of Focus which we will sing from every week until we finish Mark. The Psalm I have chosen is Psalm 22 which I will preach from today. Psalm 22 is the Psalm the cross. Even though it was written by King David a thousand years before Jesus came, we have in it (by prophecy) the very prayers that Jesus prayed when He died on the cross. When it comes to properly understanding the Psalms, we should not read them as if we don't know about cross and the resurrection, but in light of the cross and the resurrection.