The twenty-second Psalm has to be one of the most important Old Testament texts in terms of understanding the cross of Christ. I grew up in church. There has never been a period of my life where I haven't been in church; more than that, there has never been a time in my life when I only went to church on Sunday mornings. As a kid, I was in church on Sunday mornings and Sunday nights, Wednesday nights for Awana's, Monday nights for visitation, Vacation Bible School, summer camps, Royal Ambassadors, choir, and Evangelism Explosion training. From the time I was sixteen, I have been leading Bible studies, and by the time I was twenty-two, I had started my own non-profit organization where I spent the next twenty years traveling, preaching all manner of events. I could not possibly tell you how early it was that I was first taught that God forsook Jesus on the cross. After all, Jesus declared, "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?" Not once in all those years did anyone point me to Psalm 22. When I finally made the connection, it was around my thirty-eighth birthday.