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

Today we kick off the 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 Forgiveness.

Let me ask you how many of you have gone on a trip on an airplane? I don't

ever think those are any fun because they're always crowded and cramped to me. A little bit more

fun. Has anybody ever gone on a plane trip? Excuse me, a train trip. A train trip, sorry,

sounds a similar. Plain trip, train trip. Yeah, okay. That's more fun.

Have we ever gone on a car trip? Yeah, I think those are a lot of fun, car trip. Anybody ever

gone on a guilt trip? Yeah, that's what we want to look at this weekend. God says guilt is not something he wants you to carry in your life. Guilt creates all

kinds of fears in our life. The fear that I'll be found out, the fear that somebody is going to

reject me if they find out what I've done, the fear of that somebody will retaliate for what I've

done, the fear that God is going to judge me. Guilt creates

enormous fear in your life and God does not want you to walk around being guilty. God doesn't

want you to have guilt in your life and he doesn't want you to have it because it creates all kinds

of negative emotions and problems.

And Jesus came to die to pay for your guilt.

Now this weekend, we're beginning a series on looking at the cross in detail.

When Jesus was crucified on the cross, he made seven public statements.

They're called, very famously called

the seven last words of Christ. They're not actually the last words of Christ because Jesus

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