“It is finished.” When Jesus uttered those words, He was declaring the debt owed by mankind to His Father was wiped away COMPLETLY and FOREVER! The power of sin and Satan has been utterly and completely demolished on the cross.
Let's never forget what He had to endure to save us!
You need to know and understand what He went through otherwise you will never understand ⟪how much He loves you!!!⟫ This is what He did for us to pay for our sins and to give us eternal life.
The night before Jesus Christ was crucified, He prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane. His own sweat fell to the ground in large, heavy drops – the way that blood drips from an open wound - this was caused by – anguish. Being God, Jesus knew “all that was going to happen to Him.”
He knew He was going to be betrayed by one of His very own disciples.
He knew that many who called Him "The Messiah" would now be screaming for His crucifixion.
He knew He would be beaten nearly to the point of death before they pounded the crown of thorns into His head.
He knew the prophetic words of Isaiah spoken 700 years ago –that He would be beaten so badly that He would be “disfigured beyond human likeness.” These things factored into His great anguish and sorrow, causing Him to sweat drops of blood. Yet there was more...
He knew He was going to be crucified. The crucifixion was considered to be the most painful and torturous method of execution ever created. In fact, so horrific was the pain that a word was created for it - "excruciating" - which literally means “from the cross". As our sinless Savior bore the weight of the world’s sins on His shoulders and was being crucified – His Father must have looked away – as His “eyes are too pure to look on evil”, causing Jesus to cry out “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?”—“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”. The pain of being abandoned by His Father far exceeded the intense physical pain the Lord endured on our behalf.
The cross was our place! That pain was ours to bear, that blood was ours to shed, that sin was ours to die for! But Jesus endured it ALL to rescue us, to save us, to redeem us, so we could also be glorified with the Father one day and have eternal life! He did it out of LOVE, for YOU and me!!
IT IS FINISHED!! (John 19:30) -
NOW ... God looks at the cross and sees YOU... And when He looks at YOU, He sees Christ!
Come to Jesus today!! Don't wait any longer! Believe in what He DID for you on the CROSS! Enter His Kingdom today!!
------------------------------ Bible Ref
John 3:16 ⟫ For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Luke 22:44 ⟫ And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
John 18:4 ⟫ Jesus therefore, knowing all things that would come upon Him, went forward and said to them, “Whom are you seeking?”
Isaiah 52:14 ⟫ "Just as many were astonished at you, So His visage was marred more than any man, And His form more than the sons of men."
Matthew 26:38 ⟫ "Then He (Jesus) said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with Me.”
Habakkuk 1:13 ⟫ You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, And cannot look on wickedness.
Matthew 27:46 ⟫ "And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” that is, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”
Kommentare