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Jesus' seven last statements on the cross reveal a profound depth of love and purpose that transcends the horrific torture he endured. Spoken from a place of unimaginable physical agony—after being falsely accused, mercilessly beaten with rods, whipped nearly to death, and hung on a Roman torture device—these words carry extraordinary weight precisely because of where and how they were uttered.

The final statement, "Father, into your hands I commend my spirit," showcases a trust and surrender that defies human logic. After declaring "It is finished," Jesus placed his very being into the safest (yet physically unseen) hands possible—those of his Heavenly Father. This profound act of trust followed his temporary experience of separation when he took on humanity's sin, making his return to unity with the Father all the more significant.

Many struggle with the concept of "Father" because of painful earthly experiences. Fathers who abandoned, abused, or failed their children have created distorted images of fatherhood that affect how we relate to God. Jesus came specifically to demonstrate who the Father truly is—not harsh, angry or difficult to please, but loving, protective and good. When Philip asked to see the Father, Jesus responded with surprise: "Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father." Their relationship was so intimate that, as Jesus described, "you couldn't really see where one stopped and the other started."

The security Jesus felt in committing his spirit to the Father is the same security he offers us. We live between D-Day (Christ's victory on the cross) and V-E Day (the final consummation of all things), and though battles continue, the ultimate victory is secure. Jesus invites us to come home to the Father, to break free from misconceptions about God that have kept us distant, and to find our true security in the Father's hands.


Ready to experience the security that comes from relationship with your heavenly Father? Join us as we explore how Jesus' final words can transform your understanding of God and invite you into a deeper connection with the One who calls you home.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
we've been looking at the last seven statements that
Jesus made while he was hangingon the cross, and in doing so
we've emphasized the fact thatwhat he said is so powerful
because of where he was, ofwhere he was, given the fact

(00:33):
that he had, 12 hours previously, began the process of being
interrogated and falsely accused, mercilessly beaten, beaten,
literally beaten to the point ofdeath, whipped and then just
smacked, hit with rods, thinrods that would just nearly

(00:55):
crack a person's bones, bruisethem deeply.
And he was hit all over hisbody with rods as a form of
torture prior to his crucifixion, which was a torture device
made out of wood in which a manwould hang on until he would die

(01:18):
.
And Jesus hung on that cross oftorture until he gave up his
spirit.
Interesting point he said veryclearly no one takes my life, I

(01:47):
give it.
He didn't take his life either,he gave his life.
Big difference there as well,suicide is taking one's life and
, granted, there's forgivenessfor that, but it leaves things
in such a place of disarray.

(02:08):
When one gives one's life,they're offering it on behalf of
someone else.
Jesus gave his life so that wecould have his life.
Those of us who believe in himbelieve that what he did was

(02:33):
what it took in order for us tohave a relationship.
We stopped trying to do it onour own.
We stopped trying to findanother way, because all other
ways lead to a dead end.
And trying to find another way,because all other ways lead to
a dead end and trying to do iton your own only leads to
exhaustion and disappointment.
It's called dead religion.

(02:55):
Trying to work our way intorighteousness impossible.
Jesus gave his life intorighteousness Impossible.
Jesus gave his life so that wecould have his life, the life
that he has with the Father.
He is both the destination andthe door.

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Although he leads us to thedestination of relationship with
the Father, as we pass throughhim, into him, we experience God
, our Father, which leads us tothe final statement that Jesus

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made while he was on the cross.
And again, the fact that hesaid anything coherent is
amazing, because typically aperson would be in shock or
they'd be in such a foul moodthat the things that came out of
their mouth it's not worthrepeating because it's so vile.

(04:04):
It's not worth repeatingbecause it's so vile, and some
of us have said some prettyraunchy things in our life, so I
mean, we know what that is, soI don't have to go into any

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depth and describe that right.
But the things that he saidwhile on the cross were so full
of love, and he had withinhimself the mind to see to it
that the kingdom of God would behanded over to us.
The keys to the kingdom, thekeys to functioning like he

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functioned, would be given to usso that we could continue on
that way, and even in a greaterfashion, partly because there
would be more of us, but alsobecause there would be a release
of even greater demonstration.
As the powers of darkness getmore and more intense, so does
the power of God.
And so Jesus, hanging on thecross with people mocking him,

(05:17):
said to them and to the Father,so they could hear him.
But he spoke to the father.
He said Father, forgive them,they don't know what they're
doing.
And they didn't really.
I mean, the Romans were justdoing what they do.

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The soldiers would often justget drunk and that was just
their job.
So after a while they got numbto it and they were mocking him,
king of the Jews.
So they rolled dice to see whowould get his garments, and the

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religious leaders surrounded himlike bulls and dogs and animals
mocking him, taunting him,demonic powers coming against
him, the invisible forces ofdarkness heaping themselves upon
him, tearing away at his verymind.

(06:20):
But in that condition, in thatopposition, he said, father,
forgive them, not the demons,but the people, because, he said
, they don't know what they'redoing, they're being driven.
And then to a thief hangingnext to him, he had the mercy

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and the compassion to say to him, as if he said remember me when
you come into your kingdom.
He said today, I tell you,today you'll be with me in
paradise, you will be with me inparadise.
What a bedtime, deathbedconfession.

(07:06):
He was with his mother and oneof his followers, john, and he
said to her dear woman, beholdyour son.
And she he was referring toJohn, he was her son.

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But now he's saying John, isher son interesting?
And he said to John, is her sonInteresting?
And he said to John John,behold your mother.
Well, john had a mother.
But Jesus said behold yourmother.

(07:53):
There is such a thing as thefamily of God and, you know,
sometimes a family of God runseven deeper than our own
biological families.
Some of our biological familieshave some really messed up
backgrounds, and so father,mother, brother, sister.
They can have a lot of negativeconnotations to them, but Jesus

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is talking about a kingdom ofGod, relationship where there's
righteousness, peace and joy inthe Holy Spirit.
That makes up the atmosphere ofthe kingdom of God, not
bitterness, strife and envy,confusion, competition,
rejection.
Next he said my God, my God,why have you forsaken me?

(08:47):
Because he felt the beginningpangs of the weight of the sins
of the world coming upon him andhe felt the separation that
there was in his relationship,of which he'd never experienced
before.
But he needed to experience itbecause that's what we walked in
and it was tormenting to him.

(09:09):
What had become normal to uswas tormenting to him, but he
identified with it.
It and he took it because hehad to bridge the gap.
The only way, the only way tohave relationship with God was
to cease to have the wrath ofGod stop, and not by the blood

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of bulls and goats, and birdsand sheep, by a man.
The blood of an innocent manwould be the ultimate sacrifice
of the Messiah, the Savior.
He's the one who cut covenant,the new covenant, the new

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relationship in his blood.
Blood covenant, bloodrelationship, a family born in
blood.
Hallelujah, powerful Life is inthe blood.
The life of God is in the blood, the blood of Jesus.

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Next, he said I thirst.
And that was a propheticfulfillment of something that
was taking place, because it wasthe cup of wrath that he was
drinking, the wrath of God.
What was destined for us, hewas taking, saying no, I want
them to experience newness oflife.
I want them to experience lifein the kingdom, apart from this

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life of sin and death, and Iwant them to experience it in
reality and I'm going to give itto them, I'm going to have it
given to them by none other thanmy Father, by none other than
my Father, sending Holy Spiritto live and dwell within them.
We become temples of the HolySpirit Wow, powerful.

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Next, he said it is finished,paid in full, he completed it.
He completed what we could notdo.
He fulfilled the law completely, perfectly, and it was finished
.
It never had to be completedagain.

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And now it could be lived outby faith, supernaturally,
natural, not by strict coherenceto some set of rules that we
can't live up to anyway and liveunder the control of people
that claim they do but theydon't, barring the way to the

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kingdom and don't even go inthemselves.
Jesus gives us the keys to thekingdom.
He said relationship is nowestablished, it's finished.
And then he said, father, intoyour hands I commit my spirit,

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or I commend my spirit, I giveyou my spirit.
And he breathed his last, died,he gave it up.
He fulfilled what he said.
He's gonna do, he goes, I'mgonna give it.

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He said it before creation wasever created.
I'm gonna give it, I'll give it, I'll give it.
This is a divine.
I will show the world, theflesh, the devil.
I will show the depth of mylove for my bride, my people.

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I will go to this length tohave them be mine forever, so
that we are one, not justindividually but collectively.
See, that's again, that's thereal, that's going to, we're

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coming back to that Unity, unity, unity, not uniformity, not
being unanimous, but unity, true, heartfelt unity.
Not just beyond, I should say,not just feelings, beyond

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feelings the reality of beingmelded together by the power of
the Holy Spirit, as a result ofthe experience of that power of
the Holy Spirit, that fire thatjust purges away from us, that
draws and causes us to be meltand gold, so we can bond
together.
The presence of the Lord iswhat does that.

(14:16):
His word is.
What does that?
His promises are?
What does that?
They do that when we believe.
When we believe, and Jesus saidFather, into your hands, I

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commend my spirit he placed themin the most secure, safe hands
possible, and that's the handsof the Father.
I have now done the same thing.
I have placed my life in thehands of my Heavenly Father and

(15:06):
I can tell you that in my lifethere is a peace and a security
and a growing authority that Ididn't have before.

(15:27):
Jesus was approached by one ofhis disciples on the same night
in which he was betrayed, andPhilip said to him Lord, show us

(15:52):
the Father, and that will besufficient.
Show us the Father, and thatwould be sufficient, kind of a
you know.
I mean, he'd been with Jesusfor over three years and he'd

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seen some of the most profoundmiracles.
And the teachings that camefrom Jesus could only have come
from another source, and Jesusopenly said that they come from
my Father, they come from God,my Father.
He said, when you pray, praylike this Our Father who art in
heaven, hallowed.
Be thy name, hallowed, be yourname Holy.

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Be your name.
Holy is your name, your kingdom, come your good pleasure, the
things that make up your kingdom.
Your will be done allthroughout the earth as it is in
heaven.

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And Jesus said, and I quotedon't you know me, philip, even
after I've been among you such along time?
That was Jesus saying that, butthat was also the Father saying
that through him, you see,jesus had that kind of

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relationship, and that kind ofrelationship is a relationship
that he is offering to us tohave as well, the same
relationship that he enjoyedwith the Father.
He wants us to have, he wantsyou to have.
We can have that.
I have that.
Praise God.
I can say it boldly.

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I'm a fact, I live it.
I live it daily.
I walk in the security of myHeavenly Father, and there's no
other security but the securitythat comes from a Father, a
Heavenly Father, our HeavenlyFather, god.
I had a good relationship withmy dad, my earthly dad, but

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there's nothing that can compareto the security that I feel as
a result of my Heavenly Father.
And I'm 66 years old.
I'm not a boy, I'm a grown man.
But as a grown man I need thesecurity.
Pardon the dogs in thebackground.
The studio is in my home and soI got a delivery.

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That's come and they're goingto bark.
Please ignore that.
So he came to demonstrate to usthe Father, not just any father,
and I can hear it in the backof my head that some of us have

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had fathers that have beenabsolutely evil.
Only word I can use is evil.
They've just been evil.
Some of you have been abusedmentally by your fathers and
you're still struggling with theeffects of that.
The echoes of that are stillgoing on in your life.

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The word father conjured upsomething very negative.
For me that wasn't the case,but I've seen others where their
fathers have actually sexuallyabused them.
I'm not just talking girls, I'mtalking men, boys, sexually

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abused by their dads, physicallyabused by their dads, dads
leaving people Just dropping thefamily and leaving Abandoning
their children.
It leaves a negative mindsetconcerning the Father, and Jesus

(20:01):
talks a lot about the Father,and so for many of us, even
myself included, for a while Ijust kind of tuned out the
Father talk that Jesus gave andI got Jesus all right, holy
Spirit I'm getting acquaintedwith, but the father seems so

(20:23):
mean, for some reason, so angry,so mean, harsh, harsh, hard to
please.
That was the misconception thatI had, and Philip had something
going on because he hadn't madethe connect yet.
He goes man, show us the Father, do something different so that

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I can really see the Father.
Because I'm not getting it yet.
And you know what I appreciateabout Philip.
He was honest.
He was like I don't get it,instead of pretending like, yeah
, I got it.
And how many of us do the metoo thing?
Me too, yes, I got it, but youdon't really get it because it's

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not real.
Well, philip was like I don'treally get it because it's not
real.
Well, philip was like I don'treally care.
Right now, things are gettingkind of squirrely anyway.
So I got to find out Show us,and it'll be enough, that'll be
enough.
As if Jesus hadn't.
And that's why, jesus, have Ibeen with you such a long time
that you don't know me yet?

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And once again, why Jesus, haveI been with you such a long
time that you don't know me yet?
And once again, though, it wasJesus talking.
The Father was talking to himand through him.
Because they had that kind ofrelationship.
They were one, not just kind oflike one, not just one.

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A lot of the time they were one.
I mean, you couldn't really seewhere one stopped and the other
one started.
It was one.
That's why, jesus, when he wasseparated, he was like ah, my
God, what is this?

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It's horrible, it's hell.
Why have you forsaken me?
Why did you forsake me?
He had to.

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It's a price that had to bepaid.
It had to be paid.
Well, I don't like the factthat it had to be paid.
So what?
There are a lot of things inlife we don't like, but they're
real.
Life we don't like, but they'rereal.
The reality was and is theprice had to be paid.

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It had to be paid in blood, hadto be paid by a perfect man who
did things according to the lawof God, without stumbling and
without causing other people tobe lost in the meantime, but to
actually save those that theFather has placed into his care.

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And he's still doing it,hallelujah.
He's still calling the childrenhome, regardless of your age.
He's still calling the childrenhome, regardless of your age.
He's still calling us.
He's still calling you home.
If you're listening and you'rewondering why am I listening?
You're listening because you'rebeing called home.

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Holy Spirit is saying to youcome home, come home, come home,
come home to Jesus, come home,come home, come home, come home,
come home to Jesus, comethrough the door, come and be
clean, come and experiencenewness of life.

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Come, come, hallelujah, come,hallelujah Come.
Jesus said to Philip have I beenwith you this long and you
still don't know me?
Anyone who has seen me has seenthe Father.

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How can you say, show us theFather?
How can you say, show us thefather?
Don't you believe that I am inthe father and that the father
is in me?
What an amazing concept Godbeing in us, not just us doing

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good things to try to please God, but God being in us, the
Father being in us the same wayhe was in Jesus.
Perhaps Jesus baptizes us bythe Spirit into the heart of the

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Father.
We get immersed into the heartof the Father, which burns with
passion, cleanses us by virtueof the blood of the Lamb and by
the fire that is within hispresence and causes impurities

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to come to the surface so thathe can skim them away and we
become suitable members of thebody of Christ, citizens of the
kingdom, but also as the brideof Christ, to be prepared for
him.
We're pure, we don't blemish,but Jesus, yes, jesus.

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Jesus said Father into yourhands, I commend my spirit, not
just any old hands.
And nor did he say man, youtreated me so bad.
What do I ever want to have anyrelationship to do with you?
Why would want to have anyrelationship to do with you?
Why would I want to haveanything to do with you?
Who are you?

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I don't ever want to know youagain.
Get out of my way, get out ofmy life.
I would have did this on my own.
Who needs you?
Some of us have said that.
Some of us have said that Someof us have had such a mistaken

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notion about who God the Fatheris that we've made some strong,
strong, strong statements, someinner vows that need to be
broken, and we can see thembroken.
We can experience freedom frombeing controlled by those things
and we can see them broken.
We can experience freedom frombeing controlled by those things

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so that we can have freedom inrelationship with him, because
Jesus had freedom ofrelationship with him, even to
the point of death on the cross,the painful death on the cross.
The last thing he said wasFather into your hands.
I commend my spirit.
We can say the same thing.
He said was father into yourhands.
I commend my spirit.

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We can say the same thing.
I do say the same thing.
I'm saying it right now.
Father, into your hands, I giveyou my life.
There are things going on insideof us that sometimes we don't

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understand, but many of thosethings are us being prepared to
have intimate relationship withour Heavenly Father Because
we've had such marredrelationships with our earthly

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fathers and our concept ofFather is so distorted and it's
being renewed and granted.
Sometimes it's a process.
God's aware of that.
That's why he loves us in themidst of it.
We are perfect in his eyes andwe're being made perfect in the
process.
We live outside of eternity,but we live within the realm of

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time and space.
We've already learned it, butwe're learning it now.
It's already done, it isfinished, but it's being
finished.
Now we're living in betweenD-Day and V-E-Day.

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D-day.
In World War II the victory waswon.
D-day is the cross.
The victory was won.
Ve Day was when the executionof judgment took place against
the armies that were trying totake over the world.

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The war crimes were beingjudged and sentences were being
executed and the war wascompletely over.
V-e Day took place, but inbetween D-Day and V-E Day there
were some intense battles thatwent on.
Some of the bloodiest battleswent on in World War II.
The example is relevant today.

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There are some very significantbattles still going on, but the
victory has been won.
Jesus is victorious, the end issecure and we have been
empowered to fight the fight.
In the meantime and in the end,we can commend our spirits to
our Father, but in the process,let's do that right now.

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In the name of Jesus, let'spray.
Father, our Father, the name ofJesus, let's pray.
Father, our Father in heaven,holy is your name, your kingdom

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come.
The things that make yourkingdom happen be done in the
earth as it is in heaven.
Father, give us today our dailybread and forgive us our sins,

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as we forgive those who sinagainst us, and lead us not into
temptation but deliver us fromevil, for yours is the kingdom,
the power and the glory forever.
Amen, amen, amen.

(31:12):
So be it, folks, I love you,amen, amen, amen.
So be it, folks, I love you.
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(31:34):
God bless you.
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