Thanks for joining us here today on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.

Today we continue in a series called The Seven Greatest Words of Love.

There are seven words in particular that Jesus spoke during his final hours on the cross that hold the keys

for finding fulfillment in your life, relationships, and even your career.

Right now, here's Pastor Rick with part one of a message called the Word of Assurance.

If you have a Bible, you want to open to Luke chapter 23. If you don't have a Bible,

all the verses we're going to look at are in the outline. If you'll take that out, the message

notes. And I told you that we're going to continue in this series on the seven greatest

words of love, the seven last statements of Jesus on the cross. Now they weren't the last

statements of Jesus because he resurrected and talked a lot after that, but these are the last

words as he is dying on the cross. Now I have been at the bedside of, I don't know, maybe

hundreds, I don't know how many people who I watched them

take their last breath as I've been there as a pastor.

And I want to tell you something.

Last words are important.

Not all the time, but a lot of the time, the last thing somebody says is extremely significant.

And that's why we're taking seven weeks to look at the seven last statements of Jesus

and what they are all about, the last things that he says.

And in this second word, last week we looked at the word of forgiveness.

Father forgive them, they don't know what they're doing.

And in this second word, we get the word of assurance. And it's a word that he says to a thief

who's dying on the cross beside him. As you know, Jesus was led up the hill to Galgotha. He was

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