Hello, this is Erwin Raphael McManus. I'm the lead pastor of Mosaic. Welcome to our podcast.

Thank you for joining us today. I hope this talk inspires you, encourages you,

and transforms you, and that this is just the beginning of a conversation between you and Jesus.

Enjoy the message.

If could try to hit a topography, it would be the desert.

It was a day that I felt like I'll hope and joy and possibility was gone.

Night was overtaking life. Night was overtaken. Light.

And Jesus was at the last moment of his life. And all those who followed him had to be confused,

had to wonder what in the world is going on. John who followed Jesus and

was that particular disciple that Jesus loved so much, writes to these words in John 19,

verse 30. He says that when he had received the drink, Jesus' idea just finished.

With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. John is describing this moment where

Jesus is agonizing on the cross, where it's the end of his life. And he cries out on thirsty.

It's that moment of just raw humanity, that moment which seems that Jesus is just begging

for just the smallest relief of his agony and pain. And they take a blend of wine, vinegar, and

soak a sponge in it and attach it to the end of the stock of his plant and press it against Jesus'

lips. But what we discover is that Jesus wasn't really looking for this wine vinegar to alleviate

his pain, which is sometimes what they did for those who were being crucified. He actually wanted

to clear a throat. He wanted to be heard. He wanted to make sure that his last words were clear.

So it says when he had received the drink, he said it is finished. Now for those of us who are

listening, we hear three words, but really when Jesus spoke, it was one word.

That's a less sorry. And when Jesus spoke that word, he made that declaration. It could have been

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