The last words of any man are significant, but how much more when those last words are spoken by the God man, the Lord Jesus?

In today's study, we visit the cross and listen to the final words of Christ spoken just before his death.

You will find that they hold tremendous truth and application for all of us who live on this side of the cross.

Open your Bible and let's join Scott Pauli now at Calvary.

Each of the seven sayings of Christ from the cross in a way stands alone.

Each of them has a definite message about who he is, what he was doing, a message about what he was

enduring, and an application for us.

But at the same time, like pearls on a strand,

they're also all connected to one another.

And seeing their connection is so important, I think.

We don't know all of the chronology of the sayings.

Some people have tried to give that a perfect order. We don't know

all of that perfectly, but we know these are the things the Holy Spirit is recorded for us that

he did say. I think it's important, though, to see how they connect to one another. And I'm trying to

connect in your thinking, Matthew 2746 and Luke 2346. In Matthew 2746, he cries, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

And in Luke 23, verse 46, he cries, Father, into thy hands, I commend my spirit.

And so we're moving from the why to the what.

From why has thou forsaken me to what Jesus did and what did he do?

He put his self back in the hands of the Heavenly Father.

Let's review what we've learned already from these two wonderful statements.

First of all, we're learning something about Christ's

separation and our reconciliation. Why was he forsaken so that we could receive eternal life,

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