What do you think your last words will be whenever you are getting ready to leave this world and walk out into eternity? It is interesting what people say in their last hours and moments before they know they are going to die and walk out of this life to meet God.

President George Washington said, “I am going. Have me decently buried and do not let my body but put into the fault in less than three days after I am dead.” President John Adams declared at his death, “Oh, yes; it is a glorious Fourth of July. It is a great day. It is a good day. God bless it.” Thomas Jefferson said, “Is it the Fourth? I resign my spirit to God, my daughter and my country.” (Jefferson died on the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.) Abraham Lincoln said, “It doesn’t really matter.” ( In response to his wife’s admonition not to hold her hand at Ford Theater. President Dwight Eisenhower said, “I’ve always loved my wife, my children, and my grandchildren, and I’ve always loved my country. I want to go. God, take me.” President Kennedy said, “That’s very obvious.” (Spoken in response to a comment of Dallas’ love for the President).

The fact is, all different types of things are said by mankind at death, but no words are more profound than the words of Jesus at the cross, two-thousand years ago. Of the seven sayings of the Lord from the cross, three of them are addressed to God, and four are addressed to man. The very first word from the cross of Jesus Christ, who had been mocked, ridiculed, abused, was a word of pardon.