Perhaps there's not a month that goes by without my hearing of somebody talking about the challenge

that they're facing in taking care of their elderly parents. Assisted living now has become a

multi-billion dollar business in America and in the West, and for a good reason.

We do not have time in our busy Western culture to be able to care for the agent.

And yet, in the Far East and the Middle East, this is an alien concept for them.

They don't understand that.

In fact, when he talk about retirement homes, they ask you what that is.

It is a strange thought because for them, they feel it is not only their obligation, but

it's their privilege to take care of their aging parents.

It's like someone said, they said,

children are a great comfort in our old age,

and they help you reach it faster too.

In the last two messages we saw how the first two statements from the cross as our Lord hung on that instrument of torture

between heaven and earth, that he exercised his divine prerogative. In the first statement,

he said, Father, forgive them. And then, he was exercising his divine prerogative

in his high priestly role as the great high priest in intercession for all the sinners. And the

second statement, he was exercising his divine prerogative too. When he received a

prayer from a repentant sinner, he was exercising his kingly role as the king of all kings,

receiving prayer from others. The first two statements revealed to us our Lord Jesus' divinity,

his supernatural nature. And in the third statement that we're going to look at today,

he reveals his humanity. Don't ever, ever forget that our Lord Jesus was fully man

and fully God, all at the same time. He went to sleep in the

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