It is Finished
Series on the Cross • Sermon • Submitted • Presented • 27:51
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· 784 viewsIt's only a few days from Palm Sunday to the Crucifixion. How fickle the world's praise! One Sunday you're crowned, the next crucified. Jesus' sixth word from the cross is the hallelujah cry of the saints.
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It is Finished
It is Finished
A. Is the message of the cross current?
A. Is the message of the cross current?
A. Is the message of the cross current?
A. It’s only a few days from Palm Sunday to the Crucifixion
1. How fickle the world’s praise!
2. One day you’re crowned, the next crucified
3. The sound of hosannas had hardly died when they were crying “Away with Him! Crucify Him!”
B. We’ve been unpacking Jesus’ sayings from the cross. There are seven of them.
1. “Father, forgive them...”
B. Two short words show us how current this message of the cross is: “I thirst”.
2. “Today, you will be with me...”
3. “Woman, Behold your son...”
4. “I Thirst...”
5. “It is finished...”
6. “Into Your hands...”
C. Today, we’re looking at the sixth word, “It is finished...”
28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I thirst!”
30 So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.
The Word of Completion
The Word of Completion
A. Many leave this world with their tasks uncompleted
A. John’s primary purpose was to show Christ’s deity, but here he shows His humanity.
The pen drops from the writer’s hand
1. He grew as a boy ()
The painter’s brush falls before the painting is done
The chisel tumbles from the grip of the sculptor
2. He became tired (), compare to Isaiah (40:28-31)
3. He slept ()
B. But Christ is the great finisher
4. He wept ()
1. Creation finished (Gen. 2:1)
2. The new heaven and earth (Rev. 21:6)
3. Redemption finished (John 19:30)
C. What Christ completed on the cross
34 they gave Him sour wine mingled with gall to drink. But when He had tasted it, He would not drink.
1. Completed all the requirements of the law ()
14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
16 So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, 17 which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ.
2. Completed all the OT sacrifices ().
11 And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, 13 from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. 14 For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
15 But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before,
16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,” 17 then He adds, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” 18 Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.
3. Completed all the suffering required to pay for our sins ()
7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.
D. Jesus Paid it All!
The Word of Conquest
The Word of Conquest
30 So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.
A. The awful thirst of hell ()
jn 19
A. With a loud cry (; ; )
46 And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, He said, “Father, ‘into Your hands I commit My spirit.’ ” Having said this, He breathed His last.
B. Not a sigh of defeat, but a cry of victory!
1. The promise in the Garden of Eden ()
15 And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her Seed;
He shall bruise your head,
And you shall bruise His heel.”
2. Satan and all demons were defeated at Calvary ()
15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
C. The call of the crowd: “Come down from the cross!”
24 “Then he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.’
D. Thousands of angels stand ready for His call
E. But Jesus stayed on the cross, defeating Satan
F. We are not defeated Christians. We are equipped to win! We have a victorious Christ!
1. Think how physical thirst affects us.
2. A mirage in the desert can make thirsty people do unusual things.
B. Those three hours of darkness as Jesus took our place are difficult to comprehend in His agony.
C. There, compressed into those hours was an eternity in torment.
D. Hence the cry, “My God, My God”
E. This goes beyond physical thirst to the thirst of the soul.
F. In 21st century people still die without Jesus and will go to an eternity of darkness
G. In the 21st century, they still have such spiritual thirst that it drives them to drink, drugs, crime, etc.
The Word of Comfort
The Word of Comfort
28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I thirst!”
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21 They also gave me gall for my food,
And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
A. The debt of sin is really paid
B. And 240 of these were fulfill4d by the time of His ascension
C. The Word of Go is so important to the Savior that He will utter every word necessary to fulfill it.
B. This is only one word in the Greek language, “tetelestai”
D. Let others deny it: Jesus declared it to be true.
C. The word for tax receipts (paid in full)
E. The Bible stands.
D. How good it feels to have a bill paid!
E. This is the word that assures peace
F. What this must have meant to the dying thief
G. What peace this must have brought to his heart
Conclusion:
A. Christ paid your debt too
B. Trust in Christ and be saved
B. The call to thirsty souls
“This frail vessel Thou hast made, no hands but Thine can fillThe waters of this world have failed…And I am thirsty still”
C. Rest in His finished work on the cross for you
“This frail vessel Thou hast made, no hands but Thine can fill
The waters of this world have failed…And I am thirsty still”
The waters of this world have failed…And I am thirsty still”
The waters of this world have failed…And I am thirsty still”