THE MEANING OF "IT IS FINISHED!" | Pastor Paul Sheppard
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- When Jesus was about to die on the cross, He uttered "it is finished." (John 19:30) What did this mean? Pastor Paul explains this and more in this video. Learn the depths of Christ's love, and if you haven't already, make a decision to respond to that love today!
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Pastor Paul is awesome!! I listen every morning at work and it keeps me focused on what's most important for the path for my life, the Lord.
Jesus' work is not finished. Jesus is at work right now. Jesus says:
■ "As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent." (Jesus, in Revelation 3:19)
He is the potter, we are the clay. While we abide in Him in repentance, following the lead He provides through the holy spirit, we remain "in his goodness" or grace (Romans 11:22) and we are not under condemnation:
■ "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." (Romans 8:1)
While we abide in Him in repentance, following the lead He provides through the holy spirit, Jesus advocates for us with the Father (1 John 2:1) and covers -present tense- new sins by His blood (1 John 1:7).
What did Jesus finish on the cross? He gave His life to make His death and blood *_available_* to cover the death penalty we earn for sin.
*That* was what He came to do (Matthew 20:28) and that is what He finished on the cross.
He gave His life to make His death and blood *_available_* as a ransom. With that ransom He can now -as our living advocate with the Father- redeem us:
■ "Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works." (Titus 2:14)
Without the redemption He made available on the cross, we would all be hopelessly doomed to perish. We would all perish in death as the "wages" of our sin (Romans 6:23). But now, thanks to Jesus, coverage of our death penalty is available.
What do we need to do to have this redemption, this coverage? We need to follow directions:
■ "And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent" (Acts 17:30)
Follow directions, and we'll receive His promised mercy:
■ "He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy." (Proverbs 28:13)
If we'll follow directions, our past sins will be "blotted out," and we'll receive the gift of the holy spirit . . . by which we'll enter His "presence":
■ "Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord" (Acts 3:19, NKJV).
■ "And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him." (Acts 5:32)
■ "Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." (Acts 2:38)
Otherwise, outside of repentance, we will perish. We'll receive no mercy, and no redemption. Jesus warned:
■ "except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish." (Jesus, in Luke 13:5)
Peter makes it clear: come to repentance, or else perish:
■ "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." (2 Peter 3:9)
Jesus saves believers. True *_believers_* -like Abraham- are those who act on their faith and obey God. Otherwise faith is dead.
Connecting the dots: today Jesus is
■ "the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him" (Hebrews 5:9)