Date: October 2, 2026. Lesson 195-2026. Luke 23:39-43 - Faith Friday: He Began the Day Mocking
00:00 Welcome to Morning Manor. Welcome to Morning Manor. Your teachers, Rekwiles and Dr. Burkla. Get your Bible and notebook and get ready to here before. Good morning. This is Morning Manor and today is Faith Friday. Faith Friday means two things. Firstly, our topic for our lesson today will be faith.
00:38 And secondly, we will begin our lesson with the Lord's supper. And you are invited to join this worldwide virtual Holy Communion meal. So please have bread and your choice of grape juice or red wine so that you can participate in this sacred meal. All born again, baptized, believers in Christ are welcome to participate. We ask that you approach the Lord's table with reverence for this. sacred meal, and that you believe that we are feasting by faith on the flesh and blood of our crucified Savior Jesus Christ. We always start our communion service with the Lord's prayer. So please join with multitudes of Christian brothers and sisters worldwide by saying aloud the
01:31 prayer that our Savior taught us to pray. Let's pray now together. Our Father, which are heart in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven, give us this day, our daily bread, and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever, amen. Praise the Lord. Let's enter into the Lord's table this time. Join with me in prayer. prayer. Almighty God, in your tender mercy, you gave your only begotten son, Jesus Christ, to suffer death upon the cross for our redemption. He offered himself and made once for all time a perfect
02:20 and sufficient sacrifice for the sins of the whole world. He instituted this remembrance of his passion and death, which he commanded us to continue until he comes again. And so, Father, we ask you to bless and sanctify with your word and Holy Spirit these gifts of bread and wine that we may partake of his most blessed body and blood. Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed once for all upon the cross. Therefore, let us keep the feast. Hallelujah. On the night that he was betrayed, our Lord Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks,
02:56 he broke it, and then he gated to his disciples saying, Take eat. This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me. Thank you, Lord. the body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is given for you, preserve your body and soul to everlasting life. This is the bread of heaven. Take and eat in remembrance of Christ died for you.
03:27 After supper, Jesus took the cup, and when he'd given thanks, he gave it to them saying, Drink this all of you, for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins. Whenever you drink it, do this. me. Thank you, Lord. The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, which will shed for you, preserve your body and soul to everlasting life. Drink the cup of salvation and remembrance that Christ's blood was shed for you and be thankful. Behold the Lamb of God. Behold Him who takes away the sins of the world and blessed are those who are invited to the Married Supper of the Lamb. This sacrament is the gift of God for the people of God. Feed on him by faith with thanks.
04:18 Thanksgiving, that Christ died for you. Praise the Lord. Heavenly Father, we thank you for feeding us with the spiritual food of the most precious body and blood of Jesus Christ, your son and our Savior. And for assuring us in these holy mysteries that we are living members of the body of Christ and heirs of your eternal kingdom. And now, Father, to you, to Christ our Lord. and to the Holy Spirit, be honor and glory now and forever. Amen. Amen. Praise the Lord. Well, today we're going to resume our series titled Scarlet Thread of Faith. Now, if you recall in lesson one, we examine the story of Rahab, a Canaanite prostitute who had heard secondhand reports of the God of
05:12 Israel and acted on them at enormous cost. And her disqualification was actually her background. Now in lesson two, we're going to examine a man whose disqualification was different, and by every ordinary reckoning, absolutely more absolute. And so he had no time. And we're talking about, in particular, the individual, the thief on the cross. And it's the shortest recorded faith journey in the Holy Bible. Now, from his position, the entire distance between mockery and salvation was covered in what may have been a matter of hours, maybe even minutes. Matthew and Mark established that he began the day definitely on the wrong side of it. What makes this account so theologically important as everything that it lacks?
06:07 He was not baptized. He made no restitution to anyone he had robbed. He joined no congregation, received no instruction. performed no active service and had no opportunity to demonstrate a changed life. By any standard the church has ever constructed for trying to assess genuine conversion, he would fail every single one of those tests, right? Not because he refused the requirements, but because he was nailed to a cross and simply could not meet a single woman.
06:45 And yet Jesus told him without qualification or delay, Today, shall thou be with me in paradise? And we find this story in Luke chapter 23, starting at verse 39, in the King James I'm reading, and one of the malefactures which are railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and does. But the other answer in rebuked him saying, just thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation, and we indeed justly, for we received the due reward of our deeds,
07:22 that this man hath done nothing amiss. And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember when thou comest into thy kingdom. Jesus said in him, verily I see unto thee, today, shalt thou be with me in paradise. And another text that we can look at to add to it today is Matthew 2744. The thieves also which were crucified with him cast the same in his teeth and also in Mark 1522. And they that were crucified with him reviled him. And so what we have in this picture here is we know that both of them mocked and reviled him. And yet at some point there was a change in the attitude in one of them.
08:08 So Rick starts us off today with how the day began for the thief on the cross who ended up in paradise. Rick, tell us how this journey started. Doc, this is absolutely one of the most fascinating stories in the Bible, and it is the first salvation. The first salvation took place on the cross. Do you ever think about this, Doc? somebody was offered by Jesus the honor of being the first person to be saved. Did Jesus give it to an old widow? Did he give it to a righteous man who had set the poor and been kind to homeless children?
09:01 and did he give it this honor to someone who went to the synagogue every single week and kept the law, did everything right? No, he gave it to a vile sinner. He gave this honor to a vile sinner. So Luke's account records two thieves behaving differently on the cross, on their crosses. Matthew and Mark record something Luke leaves out. And it changes how this passage should be read. Matthew 2744, The thieves also, which were crucified with him, passed the same in his teeth.
09:54 Mark, in Mark 1532, says, They that were crucified with him, reviled him. So the man who will shortly later say, Lord, remember me, was earlier in the day joining the other criminal mocking Jesus Christ. This should not be overlooked. His conversion happened on the cross. He did not arrive at Galgotha as a secret believer, a secret disciple, who finally spoke of.
10:36 He arrived hostile. He participated in verbal abuse against our Savior. And yet he changed his position while dying. Something happened to him in those final hours. And Luke does not tell us what. And there's been much speculation. And that's okay. We can speculate.
11:08 What he had access to was limited. But I was specific. He could see Jesus Christ and hear him on the cross. He watched a man being executed who did not behave as men being executed behave. He heard soldiers gamble for his garment. He heard religious leaders taunting him. And he heard Jesus say over the men driving the nails into his flesh, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.
11:50 He may have read the sign above Jesus's head. This is Jesus the king of the Jews. Pilate had it written in three languages. Pilate may have intended to, as mockery, but then he may have been mocking the Jews. But the thief read it as a fact. Matthew Henry observed that the same crucifixion which hardened one criminal converted the other, the identical circumstances, the identical proximity, the identical hours,
12:34 and that the difference cannot be attributed to anything but grace working in one thief and not the other. That's right, Rick. So let's revisit how he began his day by mocking the Savior. If this man had been a decent person caught in a bad situation, his salvation would prove something limited, that God accommodates the basically good when circumstances turn against him. But scripture removes that. We can't read that into it.
13:09 He was a Kakugos. Now, that's Luke's word. It's the Greek word there, meeting an evil-doer. An evil-doer, Rick, a criminal. He was justly condemned by his own admission. I mean, he said it. And his final recorded act before his conversion was to revile the Son of God. Now, the Apostle Paul told us that revilers will not inherit the kingdom of God.
13:38 So we read in 1 Corinthians chapter 6, starting at verse 9, know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Be not deceived, neither fornicators nor adulterers, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves of mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkard, nor revilers. You've got him on two points already. Nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God. And so this makes the thief's case a demonstration of something much, much bigger.
14:13 There is no position so late or so hostile that grace cannot reach him. Now, the Apostle Paul made the same argument about himself. In 1st Timothy chapter 1, starting at verse 13, he says, I was before a blasphemed
14:30 and a persecutor and injurious, but I obtained mercy, and the grace for our Lord was exceeding abundant. He then goes on later, in chapter 1 of 1st Timothy and verse 16 to say that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all long suffering for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe
14:55 and so using the Apostle Paul for an example the thief on the cross serves that very same function he's a pattern placed in the gospel record as a permanent demonstration of the reach of the cross, established at the cross itself. So who brought about this thief's last-minute turn of affairs,
15:23 this last-minute salvation? The thief apparently contributed nothing but the need. He had no works to offer. Couldn't perform any. He was nailed to a cross. He had no time to produce any. and no capacity to reach for anything. We have to simply say he was saved by grace.
15:48 Now, this might bother people, but it's the Word of God, folks. Ephesians chapter 2, starting at verse 8, says, for by grace, by grace, by grace, are you saved through faith? And that not of yourselves? it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.
16:12 He could not have boasted if he wanted to, Rick. His hands were nailed to a cross. What act could he perform? What good deed could he do? To obtain righteousness, obviously none. Rick, what did he see and what did he say? It's an amazing story. How two men nailed on crosses beside Jesus.
16:44 Both were thieves and both were revilers. And also Paul told us that neither thieves nor revilers shall inherit the kingdom of God. So as you said, these guys had two counts against them. Right. If they got over one, they still had to deal with the other one. They were both thieves and they were both revilers. What is a revirer? This is someone who mocks a righteous person.
17:11 It's verbal abuse. That's the best way to put it. It's verbal abuse. So they were verbally abusing Jesus. So you got two men hanging on crosses next to Jesus. Both are thieves and both are revirers. And yet God saved one and did not save the other. How do you explain it?
17:39 I mean, it's grace. Yeah, we like, we like the, we like the part that grace saved this man, but hey, the denial grace sent the other one to hell. We don't like that part, Doc. That's right. God withheld grace from the other man. He extended grace to one, and he withheld it from the other one. We don't like that. But God is sovereign, and you better get over it.
18:17 He does whatever he so chooses to do. That's what you get to do when your title is God. And you're not going to put God in some little religious box and say this is the way he always behaves. So let's take a look at this thief's comment because there is theology in these statements. does not thou fear God seeing thou art in the same condemnation this is what the one thief says to the other feet he begins with the fear of God he's ours from death and he's addressing another man who is also ours from
19:10 death and the first thing he names is reverence towards God looking at this other guy saying what's wrong with you do you not fear God we're going to be dead in a couple hours and you don't fear God. The next thing he says is, and we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds. This is his confession of his sins. This is not a general acknowledgement of imperfection.
19:45 He's not saying, I got some issues. We all have issues. Can we all just get along? That's not what he's saying. He is making a public admission that his death sentence was deserved. Do you understand that before you were saved, you deserved spiritual death.
20:12 You deserved eternal self damnation. Do you understand that? It frightens me. Doc, it frightens me. I don't even like to think about it. Like, what if I had not been saved? What if I had lived my whole life into this age I was unsaved? What?
20:36 That would mean I was eternally damned. So he's dying by torture, and he says the punishment fits. He says, I deserve it. He's not blaming circumstances. He's not blaming his parents. He's not blaming the neighborhood he grew up in. Well, I was in a tough neighborhood. He didn't blame Rome.
21:05 He didn't blame the Jews. He didn't blame bad fortune, bad luck. He didn't blame anything. He said, we are receiving the due rewards of our deeds. We deserve to die. Then he says, but this man, talking about Jesus, but this man hath done nothing amiss. This is the declaration of the innocence of Jesus Christ,
21:37 and he made it publicly. He confessed Christ. purity. He confessed it publicly. And with our by mouth confession is made unto salvation. And he made this confession at the precise moment when the entire visible world had concluded otherwise. Everybody else except a handful of disciples and Mary and a few others there at the cross.
22:09 Everybody else said, that man up there deserves to die. Talking about Jesus. and he's on the cross looking at him and say he does not deserve to die. I deserve to die, not him. Consider who else was present. The Jewish Sanhedron was there. They convicted him. Pilate had sentenced him. The crowd had chosen Barabbas.
22:39 His disciples had scattered. There were a few standing afar off. And you've got a condemned criminal and reviler on an adjoining cross, announcing that Jesus Christ was innocent. Amazing story, doc. It is. Then in the story, we read that he turns and speaks to Christ himself. He says, Lord, important word there,
23:07 remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. Wow, consider this journey from mockering to acknowledging the lordship of Christ and acknowledging that he was a king. Take that sentence apart because what it assumes is extraordinary given what he was looking. And he calls him Lord. Akiri, he's addressing a man in the identical condition as himself, strict, bleeding, and yet he's sovereign. He speaks of Christ coming into a kingdom. While watching him die, every visible fact argued that this man's claims had just been
23:52 comprehensively refuted. Yet somehow the thief concludes the kingdom is still coming. And he asks only to be remembered. Not rescued, not taken down, not vindicated. He makes the smallest
24:13 possible request that when the king enters his kingdom, that he would call to mine a criminal who died decided. Now it's interesting, Adam Clark observed that the thief's faith exceeded that of the apostles at that hour, since the 11 had fled in the conviction that everything was finished,
24:36 while a dying criminal is making plans about a kingdom. Rick, what happened in those hours? Doc, there are six things about this thief's confession that are vital for us to see and understand. Number one, he feared God. Proverbs calls the beginning of knowledge the fear of God. And this is where his statement begins. Number two, he acknowledged his own guilt without mitigation. He said, we receive the due reward of our deeds.
25:22 This is repentance in its most compressed form. He affirmed the innocence of Jesus. This man hath done nothing amiss. It's a confession of the sinlessness of Jesus that makes this substitutionary atonement possible. He confessed the Lordship of Christ. He addressed Jesus as Lord. Everybody else down on the ground is mocking him.
25:55 Hey, if you're a king, save yourself. If you're a savior, save yourself, come down off that cross. And you've got a thief on the cross calling him Lord. He believed in a coming kingdom. He didn't say, Jesus, come down off that cross. and conquer the Romans and reestablished the state of Israel. He believed in a kingdom. He recognized that Jesus had a kingdom.
26:31 And that meant he understood that there's a resurrection. This is a dying man. This is a dying man talking to another dying man, saying, yeah, but you're going to be resurrected. And when you do, remember me when you come into your kingdom. and then he cast himself on mercy alone, asking only to be remembered. Like he didn't ask for anything else. He just said, would you remember me?
27:03 Just remember me. That is a complete conversion. Fear of God, repentance, recognition of Christ's righteousness, confession of His Lordship, hope in His eternal kingdom, and an appeal to grace. And he said all of it in two sentences. And this came out of the mouth of a man who was mocking Jesus as hours earlier, which says there's hope for everybody.
27:43 I mean, dog. If you were dying, and there's somebody there mocking you as you die, are you thinking about how you're going to bless that guy? I mean, he'd be thinking, you'd be thinking some rotten thoughts towards that guy. Yes. He did not know much about Jesus and salvation,
28:15 but what he did know was enough. That's the point. He knew enough. He had no knowledge about the resurrection, the ascension, at the cost. He had never heard of the term of tonement. He could not have articulated the doctrine of justification. What he had,
28:39 was an accurate assessment of himself. He was a thief and a reviler. He had an accurate assessment of Jesus Christ, and he had the willingness to ask to be remembered. Romans 10, verse 9 states the requirement. If thou shalt confess with thy mouth, O Lord Jesus, and shall believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved and this thief dead boat and that was the only form available to a man in his position what did he have to lose doc in an hour or two he's going to be dead yes this guy came to his census somehow he had wasted his life and yet in the last minutes of his life, he was in his right mind and saw, I'm going to be dead very soon. And it's not going to be good after I take my last breath. My only hope is that this man over here, this man who's never committed to sin, never done anything wrong. My only hope is that this man remembers me.
29:58 And that is your only hope, too, and it's my only hope. That when you close your eyes, when you take your last breath and your eyes are closed, you better hope that Jesus Christ remembers. And the way that you do is you get it, you, you, you, you get things straight with God today while you still can do it. You believe, you confess, you believe on his name, and you get baptized. All right. So, ah, then today thou shalt be with me. Yes. Today shall thou be with me, the words of Jesus. And Jesus's answer contains four. four elements, and each gave the thief more than he asked. And that fulfills Jesus' promise about the reason he came to earth.
30:48 I am come that they might have life, that they might have more abundantly. And so we start off with saying, verily I say into thee. And so this is Jesus himself. It's a solemn assurance. Christ is not offering just happy words or an encouragement. He's issuing a guarantee. Verily, Sandy, I guarantee it. The thief had asked for something uncertain and distant.
31:17 When, he didn't know when it would be, they said, when thou comes into thy kingdom. Christ answers with certainty. When's that happening? It's happening today. Today, today. I'm entering my kingdom today. The thief asked about some sort of future date,
31:37 the future rival. Christ replies with a time frame of hours, maybe even minutes. So there's no interval, there's no probation, there's no purification, there's no waiting period, he's not waiting, you know, in a waiting room somewhere.
31:53 The man dying beside him would be with him before the sun even set. So, shalt thou be with me, and this is the phrase that exceeds everything. The thief had merely asked to be remembered. Just remember me. Just remember me. Just remember me. Just to occupy some small place in the king's memory. But Christ promises presence. Not just a memory of the person,
32:24 not just a memory of the individual, not recollection from a distance, but you will be with me. He offers him companionship in the afterlife. And this is the pattern of every encounter in our series. Rahab asked for her family's lives. She got much, much worse. She received a place in the genealogy of Jesus Christ.
32:49 The woman in the crowd asked for healing and was called a daughter. The thief asked to be remembered and was promised companionship and company. And then, the fourth thing Jesus said, in paradise.
33:06 Herodaiso. And this actually a lone word from the Persian language meaning a walled garden, a royal park. The Septuagint uses it for Eden in Genesis 2,
33:24 verse 8. So Jesus Christ, final word to this man is the name of the garden humanity was expelled from. He's saying, you're going to be with me in paradise and Eden. Same word.
33:40 It's the same word, Rick. And he promised to walk into it with him that afternoon. That day. Charles Spurgeon observed that the dying thief received a better answer than he asked for, and that this is the habit of Christ. He hears the request, and he answers the need behind the request. He always gives more. than is asked for.
34:07 Doug, Alexander McLaren expanded, let me say this again, Alexander McLaren expounded on the completeness of the thief's brief confession.
34:23 McLaren observed that the fear of God, the acknowledgement of guilt, the innocence of Christ, his lordship, his coming kingdom on the field of mercy, are all present
34:37 in two sentences from a man who had spent his morning mocking the son of God. So this exchange that we just read from the thief to Jesus, it is one of the most significant passages in the Holy Bible for the doctrine of salvation. And there are several things that we, there are several things that we should glean from. Number one, salvation is by grace through faith alone. The thief performed no sacrament, no restitution, no service, no act of obedience beyond confession. He couldn't.
35:25 And yet Jesus pronounced him saved. This does not diminish baptism, obedience, ordinary means of grace. Scripture commands all of them. And a person who can obey and refuses is in an entirely different position. That's right. That thief didn't have any option. So what is baptism? It is your old nature dying underwater and you being reborn with a new nature.
36:04 You go down into the water of sun. sinner in the water, your old nature, your sins are washed away and you come up a new, a new creature. The thief died on the cross instead of in the water. One way or the other, you must die. Do you choose to die in baptism's waters, or do you choose to die on the cross, baptized in your blood? So people who say, well, this guy wasn't baptized, yes, but he died. The point of baptism is death. That is the point of baptism. You're dying in the water. Your old nature is dying.
36:52 This guy died on the cross. If I had a choice, Doc, I'd rather choose baptismal water than being nailed to a cross. Amen. All right. We're getting off easy. Number two, salvation is immediate, as Doc pointed out today, no probationary interval between death and the presence.
37:21 of Christ. Apostle Paul said, absent from the body, present with the Lord, to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better. Number three, Christ was sovereign while dying. He was not merely enduring the cross. Jesus was admitting people to his kingdom from the cross. This is amazing. Jesus was in in agony on the cross, and yet he's saving people and admitting them into the kingdom. He saved one. The first one admitted into the kingdom under the cross was a thief and a reviler. Jesus was stripped, he was nailed, he was mocked, and yet he granted a man's interest to paradise on his own authority and set the time. today
38:28 today did you did you ever think about it I don't know the time difference between when Jesus died and the thief I mean I'm assuming the thief
38:44 died shortly after Jesus but I never thought about it that Jesus is in paradise and he notices oh hey I want to introduce you to somebody this is my friend, this is my companion. I just met him a few minutes ago on the cross.
39:05 Can you imagine Jesus putting his arm around his former thief, walking him through paradise, saying, this is my, this is my friend. If you recall in the story of the crucifixion, at the end of the day, as the sun was setting, they came and broke the legs of the other people on the cross. and so it's in their death. And so the thief died one way or the other by the end of the day. I mean, that's obvious.
39:41 But Jesus, there was not a bone broken in his body. He had already given up the ghost. So Jesus was there waiting for the thief in paradise. He was ready to receive him. And this application reaches in two directions. here, Rick, to first of all, to anyone who believes they've waited too long. This man's entire spiritual biography occupied maybe a few hours. And the first part was spent reviling Christ.
40:16 Now, there is no such thing as too late for someone who's still able to speak, who's still able to reason, still able to think, still able to consider. We don't know the whole story. What changed in that thief? What did it? Does it matter? It happened.
40:36 But there's a necessary caution here, too. The thief is one man in one account. And Scripture records him one time. He's proof that deathbed faith is possible. But he's not a reason to plan one. Okay. Every other instance of saving faith comes with a confession.
41:02 In fact, Second Corinthians 6-2 says, Behold now is the accepted time. Behold now is the day of salvation. So the emphasis is, don't wait, don't wait, don't wait until you're on the cross. The thief had no other option. If you're watching or listening today, you do have an option. Most people have an option.
41:28 I would say 99.9% had that option, Rick, and having it is precisely what makes delay dangerous. Don't put it off. Why would you put it off? Why would you wait? The old observation stands and should be repeating. One thief was saved that none should despair, and only one, only one that none should presume.
41:54 There were two thieves, only one got saved, Right? One didn't make it. One didn't confess. One reviled right to his death. One was cursing Christ right till they broke his legs. You know, why wait? That's always my question to people.
42:16 Why wait to believe and be baptized? What's the delay? What's stopping you? What is it other than your own? your own failure to acknowledge grace. Yes. Years ago, there was a gentleman who lived in Texas. He had been a supporter of this ministry.
42:44 From the first week, I had gone on the air radio in Dallas, Fort Worth, Texas. He's passed away now. But he called me one day, Doc. he was very angry at me because he'd heard me say that you have to be baptized. And he wanted me to know that his elderly mother was never baptized. She went to church every Sunday for decades, but she was never baptized. And I said, why wasn't she baptized? And he said, she didn't want to be baptized.
43:18 And I said, well, all I can see is your mother's a rebel. He didn't like that. I thought of that. No, it was the last time he ever spoke to me, Doc. I said, if your mother, your mother was a rebel, she refused to obey Christ on something essential. I don't understand it.
43:44 He wanted me to agree that his mother was saved without baptism. I said, I can't do that because it's contrary to the word of God. That's tough to say to somebody. As Doc said, Why are you putting it off? What are you delaying? Well, Doc, one thing I do know, as you pointed out,
44:06 the Roman soldiers broke the legs of the thieves. But I know this, that saved thief, former thief, he did not enter paradise in a wheelchair or a walker or crutches. He walked in. He walked in.
44:29 He walked in. He didn't have broken legs when he got to paradise. They didn't have an angel that's bringing him in. He went on a stretcher. He walked in the power of Christ. Really never thought about it, Doc, but Jesus welcoming him in paradise saying, hey, this is my companion.
45:00 I met him on the cross. My friend, listen to me, all of us have to meet Jesus on the cross. all of us. That's the place. See, I've heard thousands of sermons meet him at the foot of the cross. This thief didn't meet him at the foot of the cross.
45:26 He met him on the cross. Amen. If you meet him at the foot of the cross, you haven't been crucified yet. You're still you. Let the Lord crucify your flesh from the cross. For most of us, it takes decades to get to that place to say, Lord, nail me to the cross. Let me die.
45:58 And you live in me. That's the challenge of the Christian walk. I hope there's been a blessing to you. It's been fascinating to me. I love this lesson. And I encourage you to share it with people. We'll be back here on Monday with more lessons from Proverbs, chapter, 30.
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