"It is Finished" - The 6th Words of Christ on the Cross

 "It is Finished" - The 6th Words of Christ on the Cross

"It is Finished" - The 6th Words of Christ on the Cross - John 19: 30

The 6th Words of Christ on the Cross is "It is finished" taken from John 19: 29-30.

29 Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.

30 When Jesus, therefore, had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

It is the words of a dying man. But is "It is finished supposed to be the right word? A man who is dying in pain should be crying  I am finished just as do say.

However, pains and death cannot finish Jesus; he finished them. The difference between it is finished and I am finished is that the first represent the completion of a project while the latter represents the loss of the project.

*Men were finished in the Garden of Eden by the Serpent. Adam shouted I am finished when he saw his Master in Eden. But Jesus on the Cross said “it is finished”

*Sin and curses finished man in the Garden of Eden but Jesus finished the sins and curses on the cross.

* We are free from the law, from the power of sin. We are no longer bound. He has called us to the Lord's table, Unto His throne of mercy. Jesus drank our dejection and finished it on the cross.

(1)    Our sorrow      (2) our pains       (3) disappointment       (4) near-success syndrome          (5) Sicknesses, cancer, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, coronavirus – He drank them and said “it is finished.

    When Jesus, therefore, had received the vinegar, He said, it is finished and He bowed His head and gave up the ghost. It is finished is the sixth word of Jesus on the cross.

"It is Finished" - The 6th Words of Christ on the Cross

                                           Two major points to draw from the sixth word

(1)    Determination to undertake any project and finish it:

 This Jesus project began in Isaiah 6:8 – whom shall I send. And He accomplished it. He ran to finish. I don’t know that project or task that God has placed in your hands, learn from Jesus. Jesus could have given excuses to His father and returned to Him without dying on the Cross. The original plan was for Jesus to be crucified flogging wasn’t part of the plan. But He saw our infirmities, our diseases, our pains.

 He allowed them to chastise Him. Those with smelling teeth spat at Him – bible says he endured the Cross. The agony and temptation He passed through during His 40 days in the wilderness, He didn’t give up. He ran to finish, why are you giving up on life? Learn from Jesus to run to the finish.

(2)    The sixth word of Jesus on the cross reminds us about our freedom:

The freedom comes in 3-folds:

(1^st) freedom from sins

(2^nd) freedom from sorrows

(3^rd) freedom from sickness

"It is Finished" - The 6th Words of Christ on the Cross

Summary

As we remember the death of Christ on the Cross of Calvary, we should emulate Him and keep good faith even when we find ourselves in an unpleasant situation. God does not leave His own people to perish. Jesus has drunk our bitter vinegar, He nailed our curses on the Cross.

Therefore, we have been bought. The life we live is not ours. We live for Christ and Christ in us is the hope of glory.

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