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 it says, “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. Every sin is paid for by someone, and at the cross the wrath that would have erased you was swallowed whole so you could walk out dry.