In 1940, in what was to become one of his most famous speeches, Prime Minister Winston Churchill addressed the House of Commons in Great Britain, calling upon the people of Britain to stand firm against the insanity of Hitler’s advancing conquests. Churchill said, “Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, this was their finest hour.”

During the time Jesus was on earth he taught God’s truths with great skill and performed many miracles. But of all the things Jesus said and did, he shone most brilliantly when he said, “It is finished,” while hanging on the cross. With those words he died, paying the penalty for our sins. It was his finest hour.