"Paradise" & "Behold your Son." Luke 23:43
Final Words | Week 2
Dave Brown preaches on "Paradise" & "Behold your Son." (Luke 23:43)
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Final Words
"Paradise" & "Behold your Son." • February 25, 2024
Teacher: Dave Brown
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Father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing. Today you will be with me in paradise. Here is your son. Here is your mother. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? I thirst. It is finished Into your hands I commit my spirit.
The first three phrases display Jesus’ character.
- Love your enemies
- Father forgive them
- My yoke is easy and my burden is light
- Today, you will be with me in paradise.
- Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
- Here is your son. Here is your mother.
Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection has a two-fold meaning for us.
It offers us mercy and grace
It is the example of what it means to be truly human.
Our lives are lived well only when they are lived on the terms of their creation, with God loving and us being loved, with God making and us being made, with God revealing and us understanding, with God commanding and us responding. —Eugene Peterson
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face… —Mike Tyson
Who are we when following Jesus gets hard?