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Welcome to week number four of Red Letter Day. If you have your

Bibles with you or your mobile phones let's grab them and turn to John 19. John 19 is

where we'll be today. I'm excited to tell you that today I will be team teaching

with about 120 pastors from all over the world so I'll teach for a little bit

and then your local pastor will come and share some from God's Word and then

I'll be honored to wrap up this message as we look at one of the sayings from

Jesus on the cross. Let me give you some context. If you'll remember shortly

before the cross Jesus was in the garden of Gethsemane and the Bible says he was

in such agony that literally drops of blood was coming from his brow as he

thought ahead of to what he would experience on the cross and sure enough it was

worse than any of us could ever imagine. If you know much about what would have

happened the Roman soldiers beat him senseless after whipping him 39 times

across his back to where very likely his internal organs would be exposed.

They beat him again and again in the face, they mocked him, they spit on him,

the creation abusing the creator. They took a crown of the sharpest thorns you could ever imagine,

thorns really long pushing it down across his brow so that blood streamed across his bruised

face that barely even looked human at all. The soldiers then took long stakes and drove them

through his wrists and through his ankles and suspended him mid-air on a cross and as man did

his worst God was at his best when Jesus spoke the very first words and prayed Father

for give them, for they don't even know what they're doing. We pick up the story in Luke 19 verse 28

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