And Jesus said to him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.”Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.And he said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To-day shalt thou be with me in Paradise.
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… He said, Jesus, remember me when you come in your kingdom. Jesus looked back and said, because you said then, I say to you, truly, I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise, and the Egyptians you see today, you will see no more because of this then. Now the word of the Lord has come with power and velocity and great personal application to you today. What will you do with this word? You are responsible for it, that in real time, the familiar sounds of Pharaoh behind you, that's the old life, the unfamiliar terrain of the life of faith that awaits you. This is a hinge moment. What then? I spent years away from God. Then one day I went to church, and the preacher was preaching, and it got to this moment, and I realized I need God. I lifted my hands to him, and I began to worship him, and I began to praise him. I said, God, I'm sorry for what I did. …
… when you come into your kingdom. And he said to him, truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise. The promise that Jesus makes to the thief is that this day you will be with me in paradise. And Jesus claims that same promise for himself in the following verses. Continue verse 34. It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. While the sun's light failed, and the curtain of the temple was torn in two, then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, Father, into your hands I commit my spirit. And having said this, he breathed his last. When Jesus is finally ready to give up his own life, where does he trust it to? Into the hands of his Father. Amazingly, that is the same place that you and I go to the moment that we die. We enter into eternal life and are received by the gracious and comforting hands in our Lord. …
… Amen, I say to you. Today, you will be with me in paradise. The Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ. May you have a seat. So I wonder, when was the moment? When was like the moment? When was the moment of victory? When was the moment Jesus won? Today is this incredible feast, Christ the King. And we'll talk about that in a second. But I first want to tell you a story about a queen. And the story happened around the year 480 BC. What happened was this was the Jews were exiled. about the Babylonians, right? The Babylonians came in, exiled the Jews, brought many of them to Babylon. At one point, though, the Persians defeated the Babylonians. And so the entire world, essentially, the Persian Empire, extended over everything. It extended from India to Ethiopia. And there was a king. He was not a good guy. He was not a good person. King Ahasuerus is the king at this time of the story. …