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 Love. The single most important lesson that you have to learn in life is this. How to love like Jesus.

Learning to love like God loves you. The whole reason God puts you on this planet is not to make money, not to retire, not to just have a lot of fun and die.

God puts you here on this planet to learn how to love.

And if you don't do that, you miss the point of life.

He puts you here to learn how to love God and to love your neighbor as yourself. Otherwise, God

could have just created you and taken you instantly to heaven. But he puts you on this planet

for 60, 80, 100 years so you can learn how to love. And if you don't learn that, you've just

missed it. Now, for three weeks, we've been in this series that I'm calling the seven greatest words of love, where we're looking at the seven last statements of Jesus on the cross. And the first week we looked at the word of forgiveness, where the first thing Jesus says from the cross is, Father, forgive them. They don't know what they're doing.

Last week we looked at the word of assurance where he says to the thief on the cross,

today you'll be with me in paradise. If you miss that message, you really need to hear it.

It's an important message to how to absolutely know for sure, under no condition, no doubt

that you're going to heaven when you die.

You need to hear last week's message.

This week we come to the third word, which is the word of love.

And it's a word that he said to his mother, Mary, who's standing at the foot of the cross

as Jesus dying, and to his best friend, John,

the apostle, who's standing next to his mother. Now let me set this up, a little background.

Before even Jesus went to the cross, he was exhausted and fatigued from all of the blood loss

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