The You're going to do you.

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do you do When you stop and think about the suffering and the humiliation Jesus endured, despite the fact that he was innocent. It's easy to imagine that he would

have wanted to curse his tormentors from the cross, but that's not what he did.

Today on Truth for Life, Alistair Begg examines Jesus astonishing response. Father, we pray that as we study the Bible, we may take our stand firmly upon its truth.

We ask for the help of the Holy Spirit to illuminate our minds and our understanding.

We ask you to free us from every distraction and that we might hear from you the living God and in Jesus name we pray. Amen.

I invite you to return to the verses that were read for us earlier in Luke

chapter 23 and our focus this morning is on the two words that Luke records for

us here as spoken by Jesus from the cross. One is a prayer in verse 34 and the other

is a promise and that comes in verse 43.

First of all in verse 34 Jesus said,

Father, forgive them,

for they do not know what they are doing.

Of all the cries that came from the victims of execution,

surely none was more amazing than this.

The soldiers who probably felt that they had experienced

everything that a man could experience

in the carrying out of their duties, soldiers who had grown accustomed to threats and

vile abuse coming from those who were on the receiving end of their carrying out their instructions. Soldiers who had listened to

curses galore must have found themselves looking at one another and saying is he really saying forgive them?

Yes said one to the other, I believe he is.

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