Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast.

I wanted to thank you for joining us today.

Hope this inspires you.

Hope it builds your faith.

Hope it gives you perspective to see God is moving in your life.

Enjoy the message.

I really value the Word of God and the effect that it can have in my life when I embrace

it, receive it, and apply it.

These seven last sayings of Jesus from the cross have had particular significance to

us in these last seven weeks.

And I guess we're coming to quote boys to men, the end of the road.

I thought about singing it, but date me.

When we look at Luke 23, 44, we see the very last thing that Jesus said and we're going to read

the context of it. Luke tells us, Luke 23, verse 44, it was now about noon, and darkness

came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, for the sun stopped shining.

And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Jesus called out with a loud voice, Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.

And when he had said this, when the word of God had spoken his final word, he breathed

his last.

And he gave up his life.

Now look at Luke 24, because this passage for us has been a picture of this idea of spiritual

journey where we've been following these two travelers, one of them called Cleo.

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