Well, I want you to turn your Bibles with me to John chapter 19, verse 28, this is Red

Letter Day and we are looking at some of the sayings of Jesus on the cross.

So John chapter 19, verse 28, this is a great scripture, Jesus is on the cross having a really,

really bad day.

John chapter 19, verse 28, later knowing that all was now completed and so that

scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, I am thirsty. There's some key words

here. It says later, knowing that all was now completed. You've got to understand

that Jesus lived his life, not like many of us where we are thrown by circumstance,

local, that circumstantial living, thrown by things that are happening in this life and

there's these emotional cries that come out. We kind of say things that we don't really

mean or we mean things that we don't really say. Jesus, when he spoke, when he said things,

it was calculated. He meant what he said. And a lot of what Jesus actually said if you

read through the gospels was Messianic. His whole priority was to fulfill all of the

Messianic prophecies. A lot of this, if you look back to Psalm 22, you go back through Isaiah,

you go back through Jitteronomy, Leviticus, Exodus. You see, a lot of these things actually

relate back to things that had happened. We're talking about a Messiah to come. And when

he said things, he was clenching the deal. So to try and confirm to everybody, I am the

one. So it says he had knowing, knowing that all was now completed. And so that scripture

would be fulfilled, Jesus said, I am thirsty. In the New King James version, it says, I

first, which is kind of what I want to give it as a title today. I first, you got iPod,

you got IMac, you got IGoogle, you got ILifeChurch.tv, you got I first, okay? So we're talking

about I first. It says, a jar of wine vinegar was there. So they soaked a sponge in it, put

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