Paradise & Behold your son | Final Words | Week 2

/> ### MESSAGE NOTESFinal WordsFather, forgive them. • February 25, 2024Teacher: Dave Brown--/> Father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing./> Today you will be with me in paradise./> Here is your son.  Here is your mother./> My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?/> I thirst./> It is finished/> Into your hands I commit my spirit./> The first three phrases display Jesus’ character./> 1.  Love your enemies/> 1.  Father forgive them/> 2.  My yoke is easy and my burden is light/> 2.  Today, you will be with me in paradise./> 3.  Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends./> 3.  Here is your son.  Here is your mother./> Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection has a two-fold meaning for us./> It offers us mercy and grace/> It is the example of what it means to be truly human./> Our lives are lived well only when they are lived on the terms of their creation, with God loving and us being loved, with God making and us being made, with God revealing and us understanding, with God commanding and us responding.—Eugene Peterson/> Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face…—Mike Tyson/> Who are we when following Jesus gets hard?