Today I want to share some thoughts and reflections from what historically has been designated as the second word of the Seven Last Words of Jesus Christ from the cross on Calvary. I believe that this is the last known conversation to take place between Jesus Christ and a human being before he died.

Today we will think for a few moments about the two other crosses that flanked our Savior''s cross: one cross on the left, and another on the right. Both of which held people who had been called thieves or criminals.

My research leads me to believe that the two thieves who were also crucified that day were men who, in their early years, had noble ambitions. They had become a part of a revolutionary political group that had great hopes of overthrowing the repressive government of Rome and brin…