Famous Last Words

I got to thinking the other day about famous last words ... you know ... the last words (dying words?) of a usually famous person. They can give quite an insight into the person who speaks them. Here are a few:

"Thomas Jefferson still lives!" - President John Adams, the second president of the United States (July 4, 1826 - the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence - Jefferson died the same day!) 

"Is it the Fourth?" - Thomas Jefferson, 1826

"Nothing but death" - Author Jane Austen, 1817 (When asked by her sister Cassandra if there was anything she wanted.) 

"That was a great game of golf, fellers!" - Bing Crosby, 1977

"Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough." - Karl Marx, "founder of communism," 1883

"I'm not the least afraid to die" - Charles Darwin, 1882

"Put out the light" - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1919

The gospel accounts record for us the last words of the Lord Jesus Christ (last words in the sense of his earthly life). These were spoken on the cross in the last few hours of his death. Among these words, the final were ... "It is finished. Father, into your hands I commend my spirit." What was finished?  His mission ... and his mission was to come and to seek and to save those who were lost ... and to give his life as a ransom for many (see Luke 19:10 and Mark 10:45). Praise God that in these last words uttered from the cross on which Jesus Christ died ... we have hope. Hope for today and for all eternity!! 


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pj