Episode Transcript
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[00:00:09] Welcome back to the weekday podcast. In Psalm 22, verse 31, it says they will come and will declare his righteousness to a people who will be born, that he has performed it. So I've been thinking about last words. Not in a morbid way, more in a what does a person's final moment reveal about what they really care about? Kind of way. When everything else falls away, when someone is down to their last breath and the pretense is gone, what comes out in that moment is the truest thing about a person. Last words, they are revealing like that. So I want you to think about today, about what Jesus was actually communicating in his final moments on the cross. Because if you understand what he was doing when he was quoting Psalm 22, which we talked about all week long, then his last words aren't just an expression of pain. They their declaration. Now, crucifixion kills by suffocation. The weight of the body collapses the lungs, and a person slowly loses their ability to breathe. So in Jesus's final moments, every word cost him something. Breathing was a fight. And yet he used that breath to quote a psalm, specifically the opening line, so that everyone within earshot would recall how it ends. And it ends here in verse 31, Psalm 22, verse 31, it says, they will come and they will declare his righteousness to a people who will be born, that he has performed it. People who will be born, a future generation. People not yet alive at the time of David, when David wrote these words, people not yet alive when Jesus even spoke them from the cross. You and I, we are those people. We are the ones that this verse is talking about. Thousands of years removed from that hillside, we are still hearing, still declaring what he did there. I think sometimes we read the crucifixion about something that happened to Jesus, like Rome won the day, or the religious leaders finally got their way. But that's not what was happening. Jesus walked into that moment fully aware of where it was going. He had read Psalm 22. He knew the script. He knew what was coming, and he went there anyway, on purpose, willingly, for you. Now, the cross wasn't an accident. It wasn't a tragedy that God had to scramble to redeem. It was a long, promised, carefully orchestrated plan that Jesus entered into with his eyes wide open.
[00:02:25] And if he walked into the hardest thing imaginable, fully knowing what he was doing, then I think we can trust that he sees what you're walking through right now. Nothing in your life has caught him off guard. He performed it then, and I just want to remind you today he's not finished performing it. Now, the cross was not the end of the plan. It was always the plan. So let him walk with you today, Sam.
