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John 19:
PRAYER
Words from the Cross
For the past 6 weeks, during the Lenten series, we’ve been focusing on the last words from Jesus on the cross.
Today we get to that final word from John.
But before we go there, it think it’s important to go back to his first words.
The Gospels are the first four books of the New Testament.
Matthew, Mark, Luke & John.
After calling his disciples Jesus, according to the Gospel of Matthew shared these words with his disciples:
the phrase the “Law or the Prophets” encompasses the entirety of the Old Testament, which was the Bible of the time.
And then at the end of Jesus’ ministry here on earth, he has the words from the cross we’ve been studying.
We’ve been going through the Words of Jesus on the Cross - thus far we’ve been through:
We began with forgiveness and taking our sin seriously.
Our
Our need to take our sin seriously
Our need to give/receive forgiveness
We talked about our Hope of being with Jesus after this life.
Not about all the religious rules
It is about depending on Jesus.
Jn 19:23-
We talked about relationships and our call to those relationships.
God calls us to relationship with
Jn 19:
We talked about how sin separates us from God, and the separation we experience every single time we sin, and Jesus took all of that on Himself at the cross.
Taking our sin very seriously.
Recognizing Christ is on the cross because of us.
John 19:28
Last week we talked about how this is all in fulfillment of the Scriptures, AND that there is perhaps no more basic need than our thirst.
We all need to hunger and thirst for Jesus.
Finally, today we get to , which reads:
This is an incredibly rich statement.
It is only one word in the Greek.
One of the greatest reformed preachers of the 19th century wrote this concerning Jesus exuberant cry from the cross:
an ocean of meaning in a drop of language, a mere drop, for that is all that we can call one word.
“It is finished.”
Yet it would need all the other words that ever were spoken, or ever can be spoken, to explain this one word.
It is altogether immeasurable.
To translate it into English, we have to use three words; but when it was spoken, it was only one,—an ocean of meaning in a drop of language, a mere drop, for that is all that we can call one word.
“It is finished.”
Yet it would need all the other words that ever were spoken, or ever can be spoken, to explain this one word.
It is altogether immeasurable.
It is high; I cannot attain to it.
It is deep; I cannot fathom it.
“Finished.”
Spurgeon, C. H. (1894).
Christ’s Dying Word for His Church.
In The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons (Vol.
40, p. 25).
London: Passmore & Alabaster.
What do we do with this term “Finished”?
Why did he say this?
It’s the completion of everything Jesus came to do
We’re not so good about finishing things.
How many of us have started projects that still wait around for us to complete them?
Jesus life work.
Jesus has done it - this means there was no more penalty left to be paid for sins for all Jesus’ suffering was “finished”.
To comfort the church - none of the words of Jesus from the cross are addressed to his Church but this one.
Jesus laid down his life for the one’s he loves.
Not only is Christ’s suffering finished, but his Father’s as well.
The redemption of Christ’s church is perfected.
There is not another penny to be paid for her full release.
It is finished, once, for all.
The reality of “finished” -
You cannot make God love you more.
You cannot make God love you less.
Your debt is paid - your salvation, your redemption, your justification is complete.
“IT IS FINISHED!”
It was a Conqueror’s cry; it was uttered with a loud voice.
There is nothing of anguish about it, there is no wailing in it.
It is the cry of One who has completed a tremendous labour, and is about to die; and ere he utters his death-prayer, “Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit,” he shouts his life’s last hymn in that one word, “Finished.”
“IT IS FINISHED!”
It is a cry of victory of Jesus, for you, and for me.
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