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Father Forgive Them
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How many of you would agree that men can say some pretty stupid things?
Sure, we all say stupid things, but usually us guys take it to a whole other level.
Usually we say something like, “Watch this!” right before something very bad happens.
“Here, hold this... Hit ‘Record’... Look what I built.”
and it’s just this pile of wood fashioned into a sketchy bicycle ramp.
Famous last words!
How much you wanna bet I can do this?…
I’ve never tried this before, but what could go wrong?…
I’m no electrician, but how hard could this be?
zzzzzp… I’ve never ran a chainsaw before, but it looks easy enough… One time a guy who is no longer with us asked a woman how long she had been pregnant and she wasn’t even pregnant.
I know you ladies are smarter than us because sometimes you even try to trap us by asking questions like, “Do these jeans make me look fat?”
There was a video floating around the internet a couple of weeks ago of a guy who apparently had at least 3 opportunities to say some famous last words.
First, he probably said, “Watch this” right before he walked up to a police car and attempted to vandalize it.
When the officers raced up to him on foot he stepped back and I am guessing his next famous last words were, “I’m never going back!” because he took off running.
He was very fast too, because the officers stopped chasing him.
That’s when he looked back and probably said, “HA!
You’ll never catch me!” and promptly ran square into a pole.
We can do some pretty stupid stuff.
Normally when we utter our “famous last words” things end up going very bad for someone.
Fortunately, not ALL famous last words end bad for US.
Our dying Saviour blessed us with His famous last words while on the cross.
Today we are starting a new series for the month of June called “Famous Last Words.”
In this series we will look at Jesus’ famous last words while He was on the Cross.
Some of the key thoughts of this series, including the series title, are borrowed from a Life Church series of the same name.
While he was suffering on the cross, He uttered seven phrases that should be the most famous last words in all of the world.
Today we are going to look at the first one in Luke chapter 23.
Starting in verse 32, the bible says...
Before we talk about the first thing Jesus said on the cross, it is crucial to think about what has happened up to this point.
God loved the world so much that He gave us His one and only Son, Jesus, so that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but would inherit eternal life.
He was born of a virgin, Mary, without the sin nature.
He lived a perfect sin-less life.
He completely fulfilled the will of God for his life.
We are able to read the amazing stories of His life.
How He loved EVERYONE.
He loved with unconditional love.
He loved the people that society rejected.
He spoke a revolutionary message about God’s love.
He called the religious people hypocrites telling them to pull the plank out of their eye.
They preach religion, but don’t know God personally.
He said He didn’t just come to preach the law, but to fulfill it.
He did countless miracles, He changed lives, His touch caused the blind to see and the deaf to hear, He healed the broken, He caused dead people to rise.
Even though He did so much good and fulfilled God’s will in such an awesome way, He was betrayed by one of His own.
He was taken to a mock trial.
He was falsely accused, tried, and condemned.
He was tortured, mocked, and beaten.
The OT prophesied of Him that you couldn’t even recognize Him as a man.
The Roman soldiers would pummel Him in the face and then say, “Prophesy.
Tell us who hit You.”
As He fought to remain conscious, they forced Him to carry the cross to the point of exhaustion.
Then they brutally mounted Him to it with nails and lifted Him into the air to await His death.
Jesus never retaliated.
Never spoke a word of evil against them.
According to the Gospels, at this point He hadn’t spoken up at all.
Hanging on the cross, suffering for our sins, Jesus’ lips finally begin to utter something.
If I was listening I’d be thinking, “Oh man, now you guys are gonna get it!
You better watch out!
In fact, I am taking a couple of steps back from you, because I don’t want to be standing there when the lighting strikes or the ground disappears from beneath you.”
Jesus didn’t do that though.
The first of His famous last words were this, in verse 34...
Luke 23:34 (NLT)
34 Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.”
In the middle of all of this pain and suffering, He looked up to heaven and prays for the people who are destroying Him.
“Forgive these people.
They don’t know what they are doing.”
Famous last words.
Absolutely amazing.
For us, Jesus’ prayer has a ton of significance.
If you are taking notes we will look at 3 important thoughts...
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PRAYER
JESUS FULFILLED PROPHECY.
Seven hundred years before this moment in Jesus’ life, Isaiah the prophet prophesied that one day this would happen.
So what exactly did he say?
First, Isaiah talks about Him being just an average looking guy.
Isreal wanted a larger than life king.
Someone tall, dark, and handsome.
He doesn’t HAVE to glow, but that would be good too.
Isaiah says, actually He will be average.
We will turn our backs on Him.
He will be despised and rejected.
Even so He will carry our burdens, be punished for our sins, beaten so we could be healed.
He will be treated harshly, but He will never say a word.
He will be unjustly condemned.
Never having done anything wrong, He will be buried like a criminal.
Put in a rich man’s grave.
But because of His experience, He will bear the sins of many, making it possible for them to be counted righteous…
Isaiah 53:12 (NIV)
12 ... For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Seven hundred years before Jesus does it, Isaiah said that He won’t say a word, but when He does speak He will pray for the transgressors.
Jesus’ prayer asking God to forgive the people torturing Him is significant.
First, Jesus is fulfilling prophecy.
Second...
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PRAYER
JESUS MODELED THE IMPORTANCE OF PRAYER.
Jesus was a person of prayer.
He began His ministry with prayer.
In the end, He closed His ministry with prayer.
He taught a lot about prayer.
Here He prays the same way that He taught other people to pray in Matthew chapter 6...
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