The Last Words Jesus Spoke from the Cross
September 11, 2022 · 2:24:18 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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Summary
The congregation gathers around the Lord's Supper to remember the suffering and death of Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 11:24). The preacher walks slowly through the final sayings Jesus spoke while hanging on the cross, reminding us that every single word cost Him great pain, so each one carries real weight for our lives.
"Father, forgive them" shows Jesus interceding for the very people crucifying Him, a call for us to genuinely forgive even those who wrong us, as Stephen did (Acts 7; Matthew 5:44). To the dying thief He promised, "Today you will be with me in paradise," proving that salvation comes through faith in Christ rather than through deeds, baptism, or church membership. By entrusting His mother to John (John 19:26) He shows that God does not overlook the small, ordinary needs of our lives and often meets them through His church. And the cry "My God, why have You forsaken Me?" reveals that Christ bore the sin of the world and the separation of hell so that we could be reconciled to God.
After sharing communion, a closing word urges believers not to despise the value of fellowship, service, and prayer. We are called to fight our spiritual battles in prayer, even praying ahead of trouble, and to come boldly to Christ with our needs instead of believing the enemy's lie that it is not worth it.
Key Points
- Forgive as Christ did: pray for and release those who wrong you, even your enemies (Matthew 5:44; Acts 7)
- Salvation comes by faith in Jesus, not by works, baptism, or church membership, as the thief discovered in his final hour
- God does not overlook the small, everyday needs of our lives, and He often meets them through His church
- Closeness to Jesus, like John the beloved disciple, shapes the mission He entrusts to us
- On the cross Christ was forsaken by the Father, bearing our sin so that we could be reconciled to God
- Communion is not merely bread and wine but a real encounter with the power of Christ's body and blood
- Prayer is spiritual warfare: come boldly to God, even before trouble strikes, and refuse the enemy's lie that it is pointless
Devotional
When you come to the table to remember the cross, look honestly at your own weakness, then turn your eyes to Christ who gave Himself freely for you. His last words still speak today: forgive the one who wronged you, trust Him for a salvation you could never earn, and bring even your smallest need to Him. He was forsaken so that you would never have to be. Do not let the enemy convince you it is not worth it - draw near, receive His blood and His grace, and let them make you new.
Salvation does not depend on us. We only repent and confess our need, but Jesus is the one who answers, today you will be with me in paradise.
Christ was forsaken on the cross so that we could be brought near and reconciled to God.
Jesus went to the cross so that I would never have to go there.
Transcript
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for allah let us pray that god's mercy and his grace would be here in this service let our hearts be prepared let every valley be filled with such grace let every mountain be humbled before the lord is [Music] [Music] during worship and now you can greet each other [Music] i hear the savior's [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] so [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] it [Music] me jesus died my soul to say my lips shall still repeat jesus [Music] he was [Music] he washed it white [Music] oh praise the [Music] oh praise the lord [Music] oh praise the one who break my death and raises [Music] jesus paid it all and all to him i owe church let us just raise our hands raise our voices to him because he is worthy of the praise he is worthy of the glory he is worthy of our voices crying out to him glorifying him magnifying him for he is the one that is worthy he was the lamb that was slain he is the one that has atoned for our sins he is the one that has come to this earth and has redeemed mankind we are we are we belong to him we are his children we are his creation and out of his great love for us he poured out his blood and his body was on the cross for us and we glorify you jesus christ in this place we glorify your holy name your precious name by your blood we have been saved by your body lord jesus we praise you lord in this place we give you all of our praise all of the glory belongs to you jesus it is the name of jesus the name of jesus is the name above all names and we glorify that name in this place we as a church are gathered here in your presence lord jesus and we ask that you come by your spirit by your power and you speak through your word lord let us let your word find a place in our innermost beings lord the places that we are locked up that we have shut closed lord and we ask that by your power by your spirit and we humble ourselves lord to your face and we seek you and allow your spirit god to touch all the parts of our lives every part of our lives that we have been have hidden away from you lord jesus we ask that you shed your light you shine your light into our lives and your blood cleanse us and your and your spirit do his work in us lord we ask you in jesus name that you that we dedicate this service to you that we dedicate all the time that we have here today to you lord that we give all of our attention all of our hearts all of our lives lord jesus and we just place it at the altar before you and we ask you jesus that you touch each and every life in this place every heart be touched and transformed and let your spirit work in our lives lord and let your word transform us in this place in jesus name we pray amen so [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] foreign foreign [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] yes [Music] is [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] is [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] me we have gathered in the name of jesus christ in order to fulfill the command in which he has given us when he was leaving this earth he said remember my suffering and hardship for you first corinthians 11 verse 21 it says 24 2024. in other words if we have come to this place we have come for one goal is to remember the suffering and death of our lord and savior or my lord and savior jesus christ but we have plenty of opportunities or are limited limited opportunities and therefore we forget when you constantly put yourself in a place where you're remembering something it makes you know something more and why is this so important and it's because in our life everything goes passes by very quickly and we don't value it and i would like to talk of the last words that jesus said on the cross there were seven phrases in which he sat there on the cross these were the last six hours of his of his time life here on earth it was from three to nine they're spent on the cross moment i would say the final phrases of his life in which he shared are very important for us and which the lord wanted to share we have uh you know when we're born we say that our first words and if i knew i was passing away in a couple moments i would make sure i say something very important before it passes and these last phrases are important because it shows what christ was trying to relay in the last moments of his life and we also must remember that while hanging on the cross in order to say anything would bring great suffering if we imagine a person or human that is being crucified on a cross process the process even leading up to the crucifixion was a very tough and painful process and so when pilate had ordered them to beat jesus um when he was brought out he said look this is a human you can't even tell that he is. but they were still chanting uh in one voice uh crucify him crucify him give us barabbas and the word of god even says that when he was given to carry the cross he was following because of the weight of the cross here that nails were put into the palm of the hand and into the feet to hang on the cross because therefore if you wanted to say anything you would have to take a deep breath lift your body up it's not just us sitting and having a uh easy conversation yes and the body was just uh probably uh falling apart because again loud cry you know it's not easy this is verse 34. i would like to read along with you yeah verses 33 and 34. and so this is the first phrase that jesus christ said on the cross christos smith difficult pain in front of the people that were crucifying him [Music] and says that the pharisees and the scribes were all there also laughing at him said to him uh if you saved others take yourself off the cross and save yourself and even the thieves they also um were mocking and laughing at him and jesus instead of uh having some kind of anger or offense he actually began to pray for those that were crucifying him christos christ is praying for them and asking god in heaven to forgive them and not count those sins against him he is interceding for them and praying for the the releasing of their sins because if someone is doing something evil to me i get filled with evil myself i want to but to be filled with love towards those that are doing evil to me being uh crucifying me it is something much greater matthew 5 44 it shows that jesus didn't only teach but he showed it practically in his life he said love your enemies and pray for those that are persecuting him and jesus christ prayed for those that persecuted him he loved his enemies he blessed those that cursed him for to for them to be forgiven today we have a very important lesson for our lives in which i would like us to take for ourselves there at the crucifixion of christ to check ourselves and see if we truly have forgiven everyone even those that are doing evil even those that are persecuting we know about stephen the first martyr um and we read in acts of the apostles in chapter 7 it is written to not count that sin against them when he was being stoned and for in man's perspective it's not possible or manifest the character of god when he was being stoned uh for for the name of christ people are throwing rocks at me i would think oh what what poor people yeah hospital actually cried out and said do not count the sin against him and christ said similarly that to uh forgive them and let them be free of what they are doing and we can we will learn how and therefore he is asking us to forgive our enemies or people maybe you'll run home and send a message to those that you have had bad relationships with for a long time path to the cross has made softened your heart and made you a person willing to forgive christ the second phrase that jesus christ said on the cross he was speaking to the thief look at what is and he said truly i tell you today you will be with me in paradise christos christ on this cross with pain and suffering and one of them was uh to his right side that he was saying he was laughing at him mocking him he said take yourself off the cross. the one on the other side said that we have we have been uh we have been judged accordingly for and we are being punished for our deeds but he pointed at jesus and said but this one he he did no wrong praise he is admitting that he is worthy of the punishment uh for his sin which is death and so he turns to jesus and and sees no wrong in him and said and uh is turning to him as if he is god himself not a human he says i know you will go into your kingdom you and so this shows us that our salvation does not come from our deeds christ but salvation comes through faith in jesus christ when you admit your guilt in repentance and in prayer cry out to jesus the lord and savior you know this man that was on the cross he didn't have time to be baptized we lived he didn't have the time to become a member of a church or maybe do good works but the lord jesus told him today you will be with me in paradise therefore it means that salvation does not depend on us from us we repent we show our need of jesus but jesus is the one that responds today but because of the love of jesus christ that was revealed because the salvation it was the through the sacrifice that jesus christ made and therefore when i have achieved attain the salvation and god gives me life and there i go into being baptized member of the church all of us were to be to have our lives ended the same way as the thief on the cross and we are alive and serving the lord today because christ has revealed his love to us a person will say would say lord save me they have a chance to receive salvation and to receive this answer today you will be with me in paradise the next phrase in which jesus said ivana from the gospel of john 19 26 we see that christ was uh taking care his responsibility to take care of his mother these are the last what about and at this time she was a widow and nowhere in the bible does it give any reference to joseph again um she had more children which we could say were half brothers and sisters of jesus christ because christ had a mother but his father was the one who was in heaven uh you know christ he didn't turn to her referred to her as a mother but as woman you know for jesus uh mary wasn't just a woman who was his mother and gave birth to him and therefore it shows that there is no um relative uh relatives don't have any significance in your salvation meaning like uh pretty much that there will be no relative um uh relatives you won't have a there will be no significance to having uh relatives no benefit or benefit even in heaven when there was 120 on the day of the pentecost christian was there the mother of jesus christ praise be to our lord she was in need of the grace of the holy spirit and therefore when she was in that place she was filled with that holy spirit regardless of the fact that she was the most she was chosen by god and she received the mercy of the lord this is this means to us that christ uh did did care for his christ christ wants us to have the proper relations between one another um you know he's still worried about his uh close relation with his mother and in in in comparison it's something very specific after times when we think god is taking care of these great wonders great things so what does he have to do with my problems i have to have an uh surgery on my eye my name is i was let go for my work so what does he care but god does not uh neglect the little things in our lives he actually uh in this example he takes care of his mother um there at the cross even the best and here's our heavenly father in a small moment in which i would like to turn our attention and it's written there that john took her um it took responsibility for her and uh took care of her today another lesson for me and us the best god the father in heaven could have taken care of mary in many different ways he gave her food and all other things but god uses uh people here on earth because he has gone to heaven we must remember that we as a church of jesus christ as believers we are brothers and sisters we are the and therefore the will of god is being fulfilled through us as believers here on this earth if the lord wants to do something he says go and give that person money give some bread to that person maybe give a ride to somebody and his blessed is the church of the lord the church of christ that we can hear the voice of him who did jesus give the the caretaking of his mother who was it ivan it was john you know it says when they were all sitting it says that john was laying on the chest of jesus christ he truly was the disciple that jesus loved him brothers and sisters that speak something to us our relationship with jesus christ have great meetings the mission in which christ has given us here as a church it will depend on how close we are [Music] may the lord help us take this lesson for ourselves let's go let's go further the fourth phrase jesus said matthew 27 45 verse 45. m this means that jesus christ was uh forsaken by his own father the sins of all of the world were there on the cross where jesus was the test sin is what goes against the character and the nature of god with when jesus was hanging there on the cross all of the uh um the judgment of god was there on him it shows to us how uh great and how strong the sin of the world was it separates man from god [Music] in other words god the father was not able to look at his son in uh going through the pain and suffering an apostle paul in second corinthians the bible tells us that the sins of my sins and everyone else's sins lies there on jesus christ and this suffering and pain and and and all everything he went through jesus took it out only for one and when i hear this and when christ is praying that uh he was forsaken by god uh oftentimes people ask what is hell islam is you know a lot of people have different uh reasonings and ways to explain what is hallowed bibles it says that the fire doesn't die down and the pain doesn't uh it doesn't go away um but hell is actually separation from god and is the hardest therefore christ has experienced all of the the pain and suffering of hell when he was separated were at the bed about to pass away the people that loved you and cared about you were at your bedside it says that the father who was in heaven who he had constant connection and contact with in that moment he has left him and therefore he says christ was forsaken in order for us to be made closer to god and be reconciled with him oftentimes people ask can we ask god with god why why jesus christ and jesus christ himself asked that question he said why lord why have you forsaken me it is therefore if we have any kind of questions or anything on our mind we can go into our secret place and and ask him anything maybe we won't receive the answers in which we we want to receive but in heaven we will receive all the answers needed today but in the sufferings of our life we often times in prayer ask god lord why and this is a lesson for us today is if we want to receive what jesus did for us we must realize that he was forsaken by trees i have three more phrases to share but uh we're going to close up and i'll go back to the cross version [Music] of the first is when he said lord forgive them for they know why have you forsaken sanctified and to have hope for uh everlasting life jesus went to the cross so i no longer would have to go there foreign foreign foreign foreign is foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] foreign [Applause] [Applause] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] is [Music] foreign i mean [Music] [Music] yes [Music] she [Music] [Music] peace [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] please [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] i would like to invite you to our communion service at the remembrance of jesus christ i believe while we were listening to this good song we were thinking about it about the suffering and death of jesus christ i don't know about you but often times i need to be practiced or remind myself about the power of god to remember his mercy to remind myself who he actually is look in into yourselves and look at christ in this command in which we are fulfilling today we are remembering the death of jesus christ the more we look at ourselves we see our shortcomings our weaknesses because the word of god calls us to look at the cross and there the power which was given freely for all of us here today to receive with faith receive the body and the blood of jesus christ i would will be praying for the bread i mean foreign [Music] [Music] so [Music] do dear brothers and sisters a very important word is the people that are able to take part in the communion are the ones that are in peace with the lord you've made history peace with the church who is not under any uh church warning or discipline we ask you to take part in slovenia and receive the blessing for yourselves i will support you as blessed may the lord bless you [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] so do [Music] is [Music] us [Music] did everyone get a chance to take part in communion [Music] [Music] do [Music] [Music] our strength is in the blood of jesus christ with faith the power of god for your healing of your spirit and body father god i thank you as we are here in this place lord we are about to take part in the blood that you have shed for us jesus we stand here we thank you lord that you have shed your blood for us that you went through the suffering you went through the pain you went through that hardship lord you have died on the cross and that blood that was shed for us jesus it was for the cleansing of our sins it was for us to be sanctified lord to be made new lord and i pray that as we take part in this in this in this mystery lord then when we receive the blood that was poured out for us jesus may it cleanse us may it sanctify us lord let us be made new let us let this blood flow through our veins lord every day of our lives let us commune with you jesus that we may be in you lord that this blood be be a part of our lives every day let us remember you through the blood that was shed on the cross through the pain that you went through lord jesus let us receive this lord worthily because we know lord we have fallen short lord but you are the one that was on the cross the blood that was shed lord there on the cross lord we are receiving today and we thank you above all things lord that you have done such a great work for us jesus and we receive the power of your blood the power of the blood that was shed on that cross lord let it sanctify us let it purify us and let us let it cleanse us in this place today in jesus name we pray amen [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] okay so [Music] [Music] you okay [Music] first so [Music] dear brothers and sisters if we missed anyone please let us know so [Music] [Music] [Music] me it is a blessed time when we are becoming one along with each other and jesus himself through his blood that was shed if you have any worries needs or requests you may uh make uh notes and so give them forward submission in order for us to pray at the end i'll also make announcements for the future events and services [Music] today at six o'clock we will be having a youth service at this place therefore youth try not to miss out on us monday at 7 30 we have our prayers um and fasting for uh the situation in ukraine so that god would stop uh put an end to the bloodshed wednesday as always we will have our service here at 7 30. and sunday prayer begins at 10 30 in the conference room group and they prepared um coffee and time for fellowship in the hallways so that we could spend time together and just have fellowship with one another you meet hiroshima and have a good fellowship and we will be having our teen camp um um so unfortunately the seats are all the spots are taken so whoever already signed up you're going all right uh nursing home is planning to have a service uh on the 18th of september we are awaiting a guest uh leo frank family day we will be [Music] we are planning to do a family camp we're already making efforts with halloween so it will be at the last week of october around the 31st when everyone usually celebrates halloween halloween actually are suffering from uh but instead we will be uh spending time at a family camp and if you have any uh uh if you have a desire or any questions you can turn to passwords and now is our time to do our offerings for the knees of the house of the lord he may the lord help us in each one of us in this thank you [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] me [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] here [Music] me [Music] [Music] [Music] to come here to the front before when they're coming out i would like to read the word of god that is written in the book of john chapter 15 verse everything that we can do for the future of our children we can bring him to jesus christ so can you hear his word and the word of god and jesus says himself when his word remains in them and whatever they ask in his name they will receive it is our future sunday foreign with you how's it going time goes faster and our god is great and our god is great amen you know we have very little time left therefore we want to have a full sermon right now but i would like to say a few words before we come to jesus in prayer you know when we were just had communion what a blessing and what an honor that we are able to be part of this breed we able to touch with our fingers with our lips the body and the blood of jesus christ and we know this is not just the physical bread and you know it's not just the physical blood it is but behind all of this there is a tremendous power that is that is ingrained in this what we are doing and i was thinking to myself yet how many times are heavenly father he did everything possible just like pastor paul was preaching earlier uh he did everything for the good of you and me on zelda when he was on the cross his name was on his lips and in his mind chris because we know those that believe in him our names are written in the book of life life by the blood of jesus christ and how many times god is preparing for you and me he's preparing tremendous blessing for all of us how many times whatever god has prepared for me something so special and so great but for some reason in that time in that moment i did not count it as something special and something that is very very very precious did not find value in this for example premiere the word of god slow abortion it is something so valuable that another coyote when you maybe were alone and maybe thinking about something about or maybe you were in a difficult situation and you did not know what to do next and at that moment somebody came with this maybe your wife or somebody's close to you and they said next to you and the words that they shared with you and we you and me we have experienced that in our life but god he left his word for you and me this is not the word of moses or any of those authors of the book it is the the word of god that he left for you and me at the end and how many times you got chester we don't find value in this individual there is a tremendous value in this book it is the the good news it is the it is the word it is the lie to our feet at a sweet lena dobre novice but for some reason we don't find value in that my videos you know a lot of times when we read the book of the person who was sowing the seeds and the grain fell into different areas different soil is you know when i was reading that i was thinking you know that's that's for non-believers this is for those category of people this is for those kind of people you know but recently god spoke to me and it says you know what it was you were busy by life that will prospect insanity somebody would you it was something else that was taking your attention it was rubbing away you didn't see the value in that word of god [Music] another area uh area is this fellowship that we have one another in church it is a tremendous value that god has placed he he has he placed his church here on earth is that it is you might be thinking that's how god is working is through brothers and sisters through his church in this earth and how many people's they don't they miss the value of this fellowship that you might have when you come to church they don't find this value in their brother and sister who may be going through the same things in your life and bible says you are going through difficult times and one of the reasons why is so you can help others that are going through a similar situation that's what the word of god says and what about the area when when we serve god when we do something for him that's another area that a lot of people they do not find value in this they think it's a waste of time it's a waste of resources you are spending money you are spending time you're doing all these different things [Music] but i'm going to say this from my own experience you know this one brother had a conversation with him and he was worried about you know how he's going to provide for his family but i know he loves the lord and i know he he's he's he's generous yes and i told him you know what you may be worried about yourself but i do not worry about you yes [Music] but i know it's coming it's being written how many times we maybe don't find value when we don't pray [Music] it is that spiritual warfare that we are going through in our life and for our families and yet we are standing there just like doing nothing because we don't see the danger that is all around us but yet god gave us this tremendous power and privilege to come before him when this whale was broken apart so that when you and me we can have access to the holy of holi have this conversation with the heavenly lord yet we are given the power of the holy spirit but we don't fill ourselves with the holy spirit and and we are not fighting this war but yet we have this may matter we have this this this this this armor of god that he's given us recently on monday during prayer pastor peter mentioned very good point how many times we pray when something happens in our life but he says god spoke to my heart that i need to pray for that that things would not happen in my life you know what god has revealed this same message to be i'd say good good five six seven years ago uh you know i worked during lunch i would have this very nice campus and i would walk around and always pray i prayed a lot for my children so they would get to know christ and you know one day god revealed me to pray about what it was when i was praying for my root i said lord yeah she's growing so fast she's becoming a teenager a teenager and i know that you have prepared a husband for her yes i know that one day he's going to be my son but what i do know for sure he is somewhere out there he is a young man that he is fighting some kind of battles and i want to pray for him i lose anymore i want to pray for him now that you would protect him where he is at st the devil knows the power of the church that god has given and empowered here on earth he knows the power of the blood of jesus christ and his sacrifice that was done for you and me and he will do everything that is possible in his power to lie to you and me to tell you it's not worth it you don't have time for this today look at these people they gave nothing to you but we know but um that there is a power in all of this stand against those attacks of the devil and his words that he is attacking and sending into yours in my life in truth of jesus christ i would like to invite you to prayer that you and me we've been lied to we've been lied too but it's time for you you know i really like and i want for a church for people to come to the front more because i know in my personal life how many times i was running here to the front to pray because i was struggling with something in my life when i go through some kind of battles in my life and i know that i can maybe do it on my own by my brothers and my fellowship people pastors they will pray for me and is it because when the person i believe when the person gets up from their feet or when they raise their hand about their need that they are mine before the lord it is not just a hand it is not just you walking here to the front here's how i understand this [Music] it is a statement in a spiritual realm we telling the world in the spiritual world listen i need help i need jesus in my life yes sometimes maybe it starts with just raising your hand maybe it's coming here to the front it's very important but here's what devil does he lies to people on ship and he says don't go there to the front don't raise your hand you know why you might be struggling something in your life you know i don't like my kids when they say i don't care that's not a good thing i need jesus i need jesus i need his power in my life we have some food prepared we can maybe go a couple minutes over that's okay if you have the need whatever they need is maybe instead of writing this note just maybe come here to the front a you what he did for all of us here i invite you not to to pastor or to something else yeah of us to jesus christ okay us you don't have your own needs today pray for these people pray for them like your own children please pray for them like your own family pray for them that are so special to you because they are special they are being paid by the blood of jesus christ and they are called our brothers and sisters period foreign foreign is [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] hallelujah hallelujah nobody is for you hallelujah foreign [Music] look at it [Music] is [Music] he [Music] is [Music] hallelujah i was once blind but now i see coliseum [Music] in your life you may have some hardships or some worries and they are blinding you allah [Music] in agreement with the blessing of god that has taken place of a relative is is [Music] you don't have to leave because the rain is falling we may have a good time [Music] [Music] [Music] you