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The writers were telling us, that each and everyone makes a ‘last will and testament’ that cannot be enforced while the
testator is alive, so it was with our lord, His last will and New Testament could not become valid while He was alive. He
had to die for it to be valid. The prophets foretold that a new covenant would come to replace the old – Jerimiah 31:31-34
“Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of
Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them
out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: But this
shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their
inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no
more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the
least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no
more.” Our Lord confirmed that as all covenants under the Jewish law, had to be sprinkled with blood to be binding so
would the new – Matthew 26:28. “For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of
sins.” Apostle Paul taught in Romans 11:27 “For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins,” of
the important part of the covenant. Let us examine the clauses that our Lord included in His last will, which were His last
words. Remember a will is the distribution of one’s wealth to others, who played no part in those gifts.
1. Luke 23:34 “Father forgive them; for they know not what they do.” He was now asking His Father to forgive all
the Gentile Nations as He was now claiming them to be His bride. Read Psalm 2 – What a gift!
2. Luke 23:43 “Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in Paradise.” Hell would now not be the destiny
for Christians under the New Testament. Paradise was to begin – 2 Corinthians 12:4; Revelation 2:7 – What a gift!

3. John 19:26-27 “Women, behold thy Son” and “Behold thy Mother”. Introducing that the church world-wide were
to become one in Christ, all one Family of God. Read Matthew 12:46-50 – What a gift!
4. John 19:28 “I thirst”. Our Lord was saying for the future, that He would thirst for Righteousness from the church,
but He would add His righteousness to it and distribute it freely to all. Psalm 85:10; Matthew 3:15; Romans 5:21-
What a gift!
5. John 19:30 It is finished”. Our Lord has brought an end to all the penalties of the law, all the ordinances were now
null and void and the veil in the temple was rent from top to bottom so all could look in. The old was finished and
the new was to begin. An innocent person had suffered and God could now close the old and begin the new.
“Grace would now be the way” Zechariah 4:6-7; John 1:16-17 – What a gift!
6. Mark 15:34 “Eloi, Eloi, lame sabachthani” (My God, My God why hast thou forsaken me?”) Under the law God
could not stand with one that had sinned. Our Lord took the sins of the world on Himself and for the first time in
His life, His Father had to leave Him. Psalm 31:22; Luke 22:42 (This was the cup He prayed for) Isaiah 54:7-8.
Because our Lord understood the pain in having God leave Him, if only for a moment, He set in place that this
need not happen in the future – Hebrews 13:5; Matthew 18:20; Matthew 11:28; John 14:18 – What a gift!
7. Luke 23:46 “Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.” Our Lords last act is what allows the church with
confidence to proclaim, life with God does not end with the death of the body, but we can commit the soul into
God’s hands. – John 11:25-26; 2 Corinthians 13:4; John 11:11-14; Revelation 1:7 (clouds of souls) – What a gift!
With His death and the sealing of the new covenant finished – John 19:34-35- Our Lord had to now appoint
trustees to administer His last will and testament. This was done when He rose from the grave and He appointed
His apostles – John 20:21.
“Then said Jesus to them again. Peace be unto you: As My Father hath sent me, even so send I you.”
These blessings are all still valid for every new believer to-day.