Hospital rooms, hospices, cemeteries, and quiet bedrooms are all why places, and no amount of health or wealth or faith keeps you out of them. Sooner or later, everyone asks God the same one-word question.

In this fourth message, we turn to Psalm 22 and Mark 15, where Jesus breaks three hours of darkness with a scream: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” He is quoting a psalm that keeps going, and a few lines later comes the answer beneath the question: “Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.”

Do not filter God through your problems. Filter your problems through who God is and where he sits. Jesus reached the far side of his why, and it was an empty tomb. And at the cross, we see why that hope is possible: God does not overlook sin. Jesus takes its guilt, shame, and penalty on himself. The holy God remains holy, the loving God remains loving, and you do not have to make the payment yourself.