This week we will look at the perspective of the thieves on the cross and the way God is a god of second chances.

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3. For the message of the cross is
foolishness to those who are
perishing, but to us who are being
saved it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians 1:18 (NIV)

4. I. The Promise: Death

5. Matthew 27:44
In the same way the robbers who
were crucified with him also
heaped insults on him.

6. II. The Purpose: A Second
Chance

7. Luke 23:39-41
One of the criminals who hung there hurled
insults at him: “Aren’t you the Christ? Save
yourself and us!”
But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you
fear God,” he said, “since you are under the
same sentence? We are punished justly, for we
are getting what our deeds deserve. But this
man has done nothing wrong.”

8. Luke 23:42-43
Then he said, “Jesus, remember
me when you come into your
kingdom.” Jesus answered him, “I
tell you the truth, today you will
be with me in paradise.”

9. Joshuas 14:11-12
So here I am today, eighty-five years
old! I am still as strong today as the
day Moses sent me out; I’m just as
vigorous to go out to battle now as I
was then. Now give me this hill country
that the Lord promised me that day.

11. III. The Power: Forgiveness