Every day since the creation of the world, the sun has been shining in its

strengths, but on the day Christ died, the sun as you end failed, while the sun as

so, and was victorious, over heaven, and over hell.

When Jesus died on the cross, it wasn't simply like any other crucifixion, and everybody

watching that day would have known it. It was a truly cosmic, and dramatic event. This

is a Sunday edition of Renewing Your Mind, and I'm glad you're with us, as R.C. Sproul

continues to preach through the gospel of Luke. Today, Dr. Sproul walks us through those

dramatic events surrounding the crucifixion of Jesus, and what really was taking place

while he suffered on the cross. Here's Dr. Sproul.

We're going to continue now with our study of the gospel according to St. Luke, and we're

in chapter 23, and I will be reading from verse 44 through verse 49, and it would ask

the congregation, please, to stand for the reading of the Word of God. It was now about

the six-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 into. And 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. Now, when the centurion saw what had taken place, he

praised God, saying, certainly, this man was innocent, and all the crowds had assembled

for this spectacle. When they saw what had taken place, returned home, beating their

breasts, and all his acquaintances, and the women who had followed him from Galilee, stood

at a distance watching these things. This is, of course, just a small portion of the

biblical record of the death of our Savior in his atonement. These words are given to us

by the superintendents and inspiration of the Holy Spirit, who is the Spirit of Truth,

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