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Jesus' Last Words 1.0
Luke 23:32-47
by Eric Stillman
March 25th, 2007
 | Play |  | Download mp3 | This morning I’m beginning a three week series on the last words that Jesus spoke on the cross before his death. The whole concept of famous last words can be an interesting phenomenon. Of course, there are plenty of people in this world for whom death takes them by surprise, so they don’t have the occasion to say something profound. For example there was Billy the Kid, before he was shot and killed – “Who is it?” John F. Kennedy’s last words were “That’s obvious,” and Abraham Lincoln, well, he just laughed. But when a person knows that they are nearing death, lying sick on their deathbed or something like that, the deathbed can often be the place for something meaningful. Deathbed words can be the occasion for overdue words of love spoken to loved ones, or summaries of what a person stood for, what is important in life. There is Saint Lawrence defiantly saying “turn me – I am roasted on one side” as he was being burned alive as a martyr. There is the revolutionary Che Guevara, saying with pride “I know you have come to kill me. Shoot, coward! You are only going to kill a man.” And there is the socialist Karl Marx on his deathbed, saying “Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough!” Before we get to Jesus’ last words, I’d love to test your knowledge of famous last words. See if you can identify who spoke these famous last words: “You too, Brutus?”
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
“Win one for the Gipper!”
“Leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub”
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