Then Jesus called out in a loud voice, “Father, into Your hands I commit My Spirit.” And when He had said this, He breathed His last.Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.And Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said this, he gave up the ghost.
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… 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. Of course, there are earthly things to fear and to be nervous about. There's no discounting those. But the ultimate fear for the people of God in death is gone. We are to be received by God and his hands. So as you can read in the catechism, this phrase, descent into hell, is a summary statement of suffering, death, and burial, which is to say, and this is pretty much anywhere else except this context, crude language, but that Christ went through hell. …
… What happened at the cross? and when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, he said, Father, into your hands, I commit my spirit. Having said this, he breathed his last. These are Jesus' final words, his last words. Now, a person's first words are not that big of a deal. I know parents think they are, and they think, oh, I know what he just said. He just articulated a sentence. No, he He just kind of grunted, basically, but you might think it's an actual communication, but a person's first words are generally like every other person's first words, but a person's last words, now those are significant. A person's last words are significant because they differ from person to person. People die differently, and I've watched a lot of people die over the years. And I've noticed that people die differently. Some die in hope, some die in despair. And that is because of the way they lived. The way you die is because of how you lived. …
… let's read the word of God together. Luke 23, verse 44 through 47. Everybody, it was now about noon and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. Verse 45. For the sun stopped shining and the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Verse 46. Jesus called out with a loud voice, Father, in your hands, I commit my spirit. When he said this, he breathed his last. Verse 47. The centurion, seeing what had happened, praised God and said, Surely this was a righteous man. Let's read verse 47 again with a little bit more vim, vigor, and vitality. Everybody, the centurion seeing what had happened, praised God and said, Surely, it is your life. Amen. You may be seated in the presence of the Lord. the centurion seeing what had happened praised God and said surely this was a righteous man I want to preach for a little while today using as a subject you got the wrong one look at the person beside you and tell them you better tell them You got the wrong one. …