222: Mick Roberts – Exhortation: The Last Words of Jesus on the Cross

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Welcome back for this week.
We’re listening to an excitation

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that was given by Brother
McRoberts earlier.

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This year, right after the
Idlewild Bible school and Title

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of his exhortation is Jesus last
words on the cross and the focus

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of Brother mix words for this
excitation are one of the ones

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that is like a classic.
Look at what an excitation is

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meant for.
He’s looking at.

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What are the words that were
thinking about when we partake

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of the emblems every week?
I didn’t realize in, this is one

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of the little nuggets that he
shared during his excitation

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with while Jesus was on the
cross.

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He only said, 50 words less than
even what’s in the Lord’s

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Prayer.
And those phrases are Right

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across the various gospel
accounts of Jesus crucifixion.

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I found this to be a really
powerful look at the crucifixion

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of Christ.
Since it is something that we

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remember every Sunday, there’s
lots of times when you hear her

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different expectations where you
think about Christ’s sacrifice

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and about the things going on
around that event.

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And I just found it to be a
really interesting way to look

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really closely at the words
because every word that Jesus

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chose and phrase that he spoke
Carried some significant, some

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impact for us as those that are
reading of it, and those that

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heard it during that that
fateful day.

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So I found it to be a really
powerful lesson to look at.

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He has some good notes as he
goes through looking at the

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meaning and the impact behind
each of the phrases that Jesus

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spoke while he was on the cross.
So I would advise you to write

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those down and take notes.
As you’re going, I found it to

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be a really powerful thing.
Something to go back and look

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at, I’m not going to spoil.
Anything else from his

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exhortation?
I’m going to let you go ahead

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and listen to that.
So as always, thank you for

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sending and suggestions for
listening for all the support,

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we greatly appreciate it.
And with that, I’m going to turn

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it over to brother and McRoberts
for his extrication, entitled.

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Jesus last words on the cross,
but I wanted to take as a theme

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this morning, something that was
triggered by a conversation.

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I had a while ago.
We somebody who just simply said

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to me, when we break bread and
wine, What do you think about

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when you actually partaken of
the bread and the wine?

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What goes on in your mind?
And I thought, well, that’s a

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strange question, because it
depends week-to-week what’s been

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going on.
And there may be all sorts of

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Silent prayers and all sorts of
things that are passing through

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my mind.
And I said, well why what do you

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think about?
He said, well this brother said,

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well, what I find helpful for me
is I I visualize I go to the

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foot of the cross.
He said that that’s that’s just

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what I do that was his his
moment in silence as you share

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the bread and shared the wine
that was his, I won’t call it a

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technique but that was Where his
mindset went that, he just felt

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helped him to focus on what he
was doing and why I was doing

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it.
So, I thought that’s an

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interesting idea and something,
which I’ve tried from time to

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time, but I also then looked at
the idea of what if I thought

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about the words that Jesus spoke
during those Quiet Moments, When

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a taking the Bread and Wine.
Now this is not a test so don’t

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fear that it’s a test that’s
coming.

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But when I looked at this, I
asked myself the question.

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What do I do?
I know what Jesus said when he

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was on the cross in those last
few hours of Is life because

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it’s only about 50 words that
Jesus speaks Which is less than

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the Lord’s Prayer and we could
all stand up now and recite the

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Lord’s Prayer without any
hesitation.

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But the idea is saying well
could we all stand up and just

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recite what the Lord said in his
last few hours on the cross?

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I know I would struggle.
And I’d also perhaps really

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struggle thinking, and what was
the sequence in which those

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things were said, but the gospel
writers Faithfully recorded for

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us?
Those seven statements or

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phrases or words, the words that
Jesus spoke in his last hours,

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and you may have looked at it
before, as a study and you may

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have explored those sayings and
considered their sequence and

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consider their impact.
So, it might be that we’re going

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to try on some familiar ground,
but then I have another thought

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and the thought was that the
things that Jesus spoke on the

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cross, actually, may have a
different impact.

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On me at different times
depending on, what’s going on in

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my life.
So the worst that I read six

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months ago or six years ago,
when I thought about it, when I

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thought about those 50 words,
they just might land differently

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this morning or last week or
next week if the Lord reminds

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away.
So it’s a very simple

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exultation.
I want to have us all think

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about this morning before we
share the bread and the wine.

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And whether you choose to let
those words tumble through your

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mind, when we partake of the
bread and butter take of the

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wine, that’s, that’s clearly up
to you, but it might be in a

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quiet moment at some point when
you just sort of sat there

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thinking I’ve got nothing to do
and I know with Idlewild.

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That might seem a long way off.
But there might be, those just

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moments just sitting quietly and
just to let those 50 or so words

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just run through your mind and
to see what they’re saying to

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you today, what am I taking from
them?

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Today?
That might be exultation ‘l.

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That might be encouraging.
That might be.

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Shall we say?
Just what I need.

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So let me just read you those
phrases because if you are

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reading this week during
Matthew, you would have read one

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of them but Matthew only
records.

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One of them.
We have to put together, John’s

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record and Luke’s record to get
the 7 and to try and put them

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into some sort of a sequence.
So let me just read them to you.

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Father, forgive them for they
know not what they do.

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Assuredly I say to you today.
You will be with me in Paradise.

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Woman, behold your son.
Behold your mother.

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My God.
My God, why have you forsaken

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me?
I thirst It is finished.

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Father, into your hands.
I commend my spirit.

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Now as I say it wasn’t a test
but just a read them out to you.

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You might have.
Yes, that’s right.

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That’s a cut that comes next.
And, and that comes next.

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But the sound of those words
that were spoken and Faithfully

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recorded, I think.
I think offers a amazing

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exultation and I’m I’m wanting I
guess to share with you what I

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found helpful.
I ended up when I wrote the

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Lister out of trying to find
what would be a word that

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encapsulates for me, that
sentence or that statement.

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And I found I could come up with
a word that began with the

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letter c for each.
So let me share with you what

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they were.
We begin with Father, forgive

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them for they know not what they
do.

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Maybe it’s reminding me that
there are things that might be

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going on that right now in my
life, I’m so close to.

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I can’t see the wider context
when Jesus said, father forgive

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them, they know not what they
do.

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Jesus was clearly one who knew
the whole picture, you knew

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exactly what was going on.
He knew that those Roman

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soldiers were effectively just
instruments in his father’s

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hands.
Ends and who knows what’s going

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on in our lives right now, that
we’re so close to that because

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we can’t see the context.
We’re scared, Jesus wasn’t at

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that moment, when he’s being
taken ready for execution, he’s

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talking about forgiveness
because he can see context,

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brothers and sisters, do you,
and I sometimes lose context.

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And we need to remember,
Context.

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When Jesus said, assuredly, I
say to you today.

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You will be with me in paradise.
And we, of course, we don’t know

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the backstory that we
desperately, want about that

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Thief.
That was on the cross.

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Alongside the Lord Jesus.
But there is Jesus in his Agony

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extending Words, which would
have provided Comfort to that

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man.
We know from the conversation

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that’s recorded that you had an
appreciation.

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Maybe he had heard the master
speak before and knew that he

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was deserving, whereas the Lord,
Jesus wasn’t deserving, and in

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his Agony, Jesus wasn’t focused
on himself.

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He was focused on the needs of
others, he was reaching out.

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He was perhaps responding to the
agony and the cries that they

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were making, as they also hung
on their crosses and Jesus

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speaks words of comfort, I
wonder what it would have meant

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to a man in his final hours of
life to hear from the Lord

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Jesus.
Those words assuredly without

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doubt because of that Act of
Faith.

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A man who was ultimately
baptized into the death of

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Christ at that moment.
You’ll be with me in Paradise.

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What what is it brothers and
sisters that the Lord is saying

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to you and saying to me that
even though we might be in great

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distress like the thief
incomparable, perhaps in its

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physical poem. but maybe in the
mental stresses and strains that

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were failing, And we just need
to hear and take comfort when

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the Lord speaks to us.
Assuredly certainly don’t doubt.

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You’ll be with me in Paradise.
This is look at some words will

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look at one or two of them.
Will look at John from moment,

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John 19.
Because we have the amazing.

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Words that Jesus speaks to his
mother and his disciple, which

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we believe to be John.
They are it says in verse 25 of

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John 19 at the foot of the
cross.

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And Jesus speaks.
Woman, behold your son.

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And to the disciple, behold your
mother.

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Now what’s that saying to you
and me brother and sisters this

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morning?
It may have said something to us

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before and it makes her stomach
different next week.

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But what’s it saying to you this
morning about relationships

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about the importance of care
that’s there?

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Or my third see. that Jesus, at
this time was concerned about

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the welfare and well-being of
those who are near to him and

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the importance of placing on
them, our responsibility of

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relationship, Woman, behold your
son and to the disciple.

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Behold your mother.
We could read that initially.

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And just say, I’m wanting John
to look after my mom, which in

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itself is wonderful, Given that
he knows that he stressed.

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That his mother would have been
him.

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We know how much distressed she
was in the last time.

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He got lost in Jerusalem and she
and her husband, Joseph will be

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side themself when they didn’t
know where he was.

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But he’s also saying, woman,
behold your son?

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Maybe there’s a mutual need,
there’s a mutual support,

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there’s a mutual care, which is
made possible because Jesus has

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given the instruction So who
needs you or I to reach out

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because I need to look at my
brother behold, my sister,

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behold my brother, we get the
example, don’t we?

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And the encouragement in the
letters of treating, the older

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as mothers in the Ecclesia.
And when we read that, the

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writings to my dear children,
that sense of the family that we

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are.
So is Jesus.

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Also speaking to me today about
taking care of my brothers, and

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my sisters, my elders, and my
younger ones.

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We then have Jesus crying out.
Those words, my God.

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My God.
Why have you forsaken me?

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And, of course, on the surface,
when we read it, we could easily

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take it as the Lord has suddenly
His faithless collapsed.

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But we know it happened.
Because when we read all of

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that, Psalm 22, we know that it
goes on to speak of the fact

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that he has been answered.
His cry has been heard.

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It says, in verse 24 of Psalm
22.

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So, when Jesus speaks that song,
I think he’s confirming.

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Not an anxiety that has been
forsaken, but a contentment that

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these things are being worked
out.

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Out and that his father has
heard him and does know his

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circumstance and does appreciate
his situation.

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So, brothers and sisters, who
are you content?

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Are you finding contentment?
Even in the struggles that we

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might be facing?
Have you forgotten that the Lord

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does here?
A father does here.

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We read in Romans, we, we cry
out, Abba, Father, Just like the

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Lord did.
And we cry out, not in

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desperation.
But we cry out in confirmation.

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We cry out content that we’re
being listened to if your Bible

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is still open in John.
And 19, and at verse 28 after

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this.
Jesus knowing all things were

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now accomplished that the
scripture might be fulfilled

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said, I thirst.
Now, we could read that in two

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ways couldn’t we?
We could read it as being the

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man who is understanding of what
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So to fulfill that prophecy, he
calls out and they bring him

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that vessel the sponge, the wine
vinegar.

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So it could be in that sense.
So we might say the Lord is in

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control at this moment.
When he cries out I thirst it

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could be that he also knows that
he wants to have a voice that’s

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loud.
Enough to be heard when he cries

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out his next statement.
He’s in control.

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That’s the main thing.
Brothers and sisters, and isn’t

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it phenomenal when we just pause
and think about all the agony,

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which the Lord is going through
that, the man is in control,

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Give me something that I might
drink.

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I thirst fulfilling prophecy,
but giving him the voice that

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enables him to cry out the next
statement.

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It is finished.
And it’s so loud and clear that

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everybody would have heard it.
Who was there?

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And he wanted everybody to know,
it’s something, which he

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himself.
Of course had said a little

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earlier in John chapter 17, I
have finished the work which you

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have given me to do.
And now on the cross, he’s

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making sure if you missed it.
It’s finished.

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That provision.
Nothing has been left undone,

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its completion.
Brothers and sisters.

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What have you?
And I left incomplete.

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That needs to be done in the
Lord’s service, the example that

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we’ve got is a man who finished
are you?

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And I in control as it were,
well, we know that the Lord is

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in control, but are we letting
him take control of us that we

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make the right choices and do
the right things?

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And his final words, father into
your hands.

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I commit my spirit.
Commitment in the ultimate

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sense.
The complete example of trust,

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not a desire to hang on and
fight to hold on to life which

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is what it is in our DNA.
It’s their natural response that

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if we’re drowning with fight to
save ourselves, but for Jesus,

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there was no fight.
There was a commitment.

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I commend my spirit.
I commend my life.

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I have poured out all that I
have to give. 50 or so words.

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But spoken and recorded.
For our learning.

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So, while we sing context, are
we drawing Comfort?

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Are we inspired by his example
of care.

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Are we content?
Are we controlling ourselves

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completing the work?
And making that commitment.

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Now, we said those 50 words
might be 50 words that might

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wash around our mind when we
share the bread and wine.

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If not now then maybe those 50
words can wash around this week.

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when there’s a moment when we
just need to pause and reflect

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on what we have done together
this morning, what a privilege

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brother and sisters that
wherever we are, whatever we

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doing.
However, low, we might feel that

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in effect.
The Lord has given us a mind

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that enables us to listen to the
Son of God speaking at the end

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of his life.
I think that’s an amazing

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privilege and an amazing
blessing, which I know I don’t

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listen to half as much as I
ought to as I sit down with and

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sisters, I’ll remind you.
That whilst of course, those are

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the last words that were spoken
on the cross.

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They’re not the last words that
we have recorded that he said,

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and as we share the Bread and
Wine, We can look forward to

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because he also said Shirley I’m
coming quickly.

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