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Seven Final Sayings of Jesus: #6 'Victory'
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04/12/2010
By Admin, Admin
He said, “It is finished!”
That’s all folks! Show’s over! Let’s clear the area, please, nothing left to see. Jesus has left the building.
The suffering is ended. The ordeal is finished and nothing remains but blessed peace in the absence of all sensation. But Jesus’ cry is more than just one of welcoming the end of pain-it is more than an expression of relief that death will come soon.
He did not merely say, “It is over” he said, “It is accomplished, fulfilled, achieved.” (The meaning, the sense of the words is that the work is finished or the debt is paid in full) But what had he accomplished, what had he completed with the ending of his life?
What did he achieve that transformed his very death into triumph? Well, Jesus was a man with a mission—even from the age of twelve he knew he had to follow God’s plan for his life. As he proceeded with his ministry, never once did he fail in obedience to his Father, never once did he surrender to lesser goals –not even in the pain and agony and weariness of these last hours.
He finished--he completed the work He came into the world to do—in Jesus Christ, God found us. In Jesus Christ, we have found God. Everything is done…except love. He is never finished loving us and transforming us. Only love is not done. The God who found us in Jesus Christ will never leave us. The victory of the cross is true today, tomorrow, always. It is finished!
Pastor Jeannette Conver
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