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John 19:28-30 It Is Finished
I. The seven sayings of Jesus on the cross.
A. "Father forgive them they know not what they do." Luke 23:34
B. "Woman behold thy son, behold thy mother." John 19:26,27
C. "Today you will be with Me in paradise. Luke 23:43
D. "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" Matthew and
Mark.
E. "I thirst" John 19:28
F. "It is finished." John 19:30
G. "Father, into Thy hands, I commend My Spirit." Luke 23:46
II. What did He mean, "It is finished?"
A. In verse 28 we read, "After this Jesus knowing that all things
were now accomplished"
1. What things were now accomplished?
a. Luke tells us that on the mount of
transfiguration when Moses and Elijah appeared
and were talking to Jesus they were talking
about His death that He should accomplish at
Jerusalem.
b. Again in Luke, He said to His disciples, I
have a baptism to be baptized with and how I
am distressed until it is accomplished.
c. In Luke 18 He said to His disciples, "We are
going up
to Jerusalem and all the things written by the
prophets concerning the Son of Man, shall be
accomplished."
d. Luke 22: This I say unto you the things that
are written
must yet be accomplished in Me, "He was
numbered with the transgressors" for the
things written of Me must be fulfilled.
2. John 18:4 tells us that Jesus knew all the things that
were to happen to Him.
a. He knew them because they were determined in
the counsels of God before He ever came to
earth.
b. Peter speaking to the Jews concerning their
crucifying Jesus said, "You according to the
determined counsel and foreknowledge of God
with your wicked hands have crucified and
slain."
c. God had spoken by the prophets the things that
He must suffer in bearing the sins of the
world.
1. He was to forsaken by the Father, "My
God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken
Me?"
2. His hands and feet were to be pierced.
3. They were to divide his clothes among
themselves but they would cast lots
for His robe.
4. They would give Him vinegar for His
thirst. Ps 67
5. He would give His back to the smiters,
and they would pull out His beard.
6. That His face would be so brutally
beaten that He would not even be
recognized as a human being.
7. That He would be numbered with the
wicked in His death.
8. That He would bear our sins, for God
would lay on Him the iniquities of us
all.
B. The it is finished could very well be all of the prophesies
concerning His death.
1. Paul spoke in the synagog in Antioch in Pisidia on the
sabbath day concerning Jesus, and he said, "And when
they had fulfilled all that was written of Him, they
took Him down from the tree, and laid Him in the
sepulchre."
C. I believe that it is that and more.
D. I believe that He was also speaking of the work of redemption.
1. Earlier in the gospel of John He had said, "I did not
come to do My own will, but the will of Him that has
sent Me and to finish His work."
2. God's work in the redemption of man.
3. The Bible tells us that in 6 days God created the
heavens and the earth, and all the life forms in them,
and the 7th day He rested from His works.
4. Man created in the image of God as a self determinate
being was in the beautiful garden paradise called
Eden, living in fellowship with God, communing and
worshipping his Creator.
5. After Satan enters the scene, and tempts man to
disobey the will of God, and follow his own lusts, man
fell from the image of God and lost his fellowship and
close communion with God.
6. God's work began anew, this time it was the work of
redemption of man, which would ultimately be
accomplished by sending His Son into the world to take
the sins of the world upon Himself and offer Himself
as a sacrifice for sins.
7. One day when Jesus was accused of violating the Sabbath
day, by the healing of the lame man at the pool of
Bethesda, and telling him to take his cot and go home,
He answered the Pharisee's by declaring "My Father
worketh hitherto, and I work."
8. What was the work of the Father? The restoring of this
man from the curse of sin, by making him whole.
9. When Jesus cried, "It is finished." He was declaring
that God's work of redeeming man from the power of sin
was finished. The work of redemption was a finished
work.
E. What does this the mean as far as you are concerned?
1. There is no good work that you can do to redeem
yourself from the guilt of your sin, the work of
redemption is a finished work.
2. All you must do or can do to be redeemed from the
power of sin is to believe in the finished work of
Jesus Christ.
3. When Jesus was asked one day, what they must do to do
the work of God, He responded, "This is the work of
God that you believe on Him who He has sent."
4. He told Nicodemus, that God so loved the world that He
gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in
Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
5. When the rich young ruler came to Jesus seeking
eternal life, Jesus said, "If you would be complete
sell what you have and distribute the money to the poor
and come and follow Me."
a. In the command to sell what he had, Jesus was
telling him to forsake his other gods, know the
true God, follow Me.
b. The first commandment of the law is "Thou shalt
have no other gods before Me." He wants to be
first in your life. With this young ruler his
money was first in his life, and was keeping
him from following Jesus.
c. What is it in your life, that keeps your from
following Him fully?
F. The work of redemption is finished, it is done, all a person
must do to be redeemed from the power of sin is to believe in
Jesus Christ and to make Him the Lord of your life.
1. It is so simple that a child can do it.
2. It is so complex that the wisest of men cannot fully
comprehend what is the length and the depth and the
height of God's love that prompted this glorious plan
of redemption.
G. When Jesus cried, "It is finished." It was not a cry of
defeat, but of glorious victory.
1. Satan's power to control and destroy man, and to keep
Him from fellowship with God is finished. He has been
defeated, the price for the redemption of the world is
now paid, and man who desires to know God and be
restored into His image now has the way opened to Him
and the power available.
a. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the
life, and no man cometh to the Father but by
Me."
b. Jesus said, "And you shall receive power after
the Holy Spirit comes upon you and you shall
be witnesses unto Me both in Jerusalem and
Judea and in Samaria and unto the uttermost
parts of the world."
c. Paul wrote, "And we with unveiled faces
beholding the glory of the Lord are changed
from glory to glory into the same image, by
the power of the Spirit."
2. We are no longer under the curse of sin, the power it
once had over our lives has been broken, Paul said,
"Sin shall no longer have dominion over you." The day
of to sin is finished, it is over, Jesus has
triumphed, and it is finished.
a. The barriers that once kept you from fellowship
with God have been removed, the door is opened
from all to come.
REV 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that
heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And
whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
b. It is up to you to make the choice to come,
the door is open.
c. Man exercised his right to choose when he left
his fellowship with God and God has ordained
that he must also exercise the same right of
choice to return.
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