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 the final part of a message called the Word of Substitution. There's a well-known

story you've probably heard it before about two friends in New York

who went through law school together.

Happened a number of years ago.

It was in the papers.

But after graduation, these two law school graduates went different paths.

One of them became a respected federal judge.

The other became a cocaine addict and then later a cocaine pusher and dealer.

Got addicted, became a criminal to support his expensive habit.

One day, the second guy was arrested for his fraud.

He got caught in his expenses and he sent to court and it just so happens

he ends up in his friend's courtroom, the guy he went to law school with. And everybody

wondered if the judge would be lenient to his friends. But surprising, without explanation, the judge did two things. First,

looking at his friend and realizing all the lives he had ruined through his pushing of drugs,

he levied the heaviest fine allowed by law on his friend. Justice demanded. The heaviest fine.

And then, without explanation, he steps out from behind the judge's podium. He took off his

judicial robe and he paid that outrageous fine out of his own bank account.

What happened in that scene is both justice and mercy were satisfied at the same time.

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