IT IS FINISHED

Sunday Morning - April 13, 1997

Text: John 19:30 "When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost."

GOD FINISHED

Genesis 2:1 "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them."

 Acts 15:18 "Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world."

 Acts 4:28 "For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done."

COST

Luke 14:28-30 "For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? 29. Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, 30. Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish."

Acts 3:18 "But those things, which God before had showed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled."

JESUS FINISHED

John 19:30 "When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost."

 G5055. telew, to bring to an end, complete, fulfill:-- accomplished(3), carried out(1), completed(3), finished(11), fulfilled(2), performed(1).

 John 19:28 "After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished [finished, v. 30], that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst."

 John 4:34 "Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work."

 John 5:36 "But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me."

 John 17:4 "I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do."

BOWED HIS HEAD

John 19:30 "When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost."

WORSHIPPED

Exodus 34:8 "And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped."

 2 Chronicles 20:18 "And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshipping the LORD."

GAVE UP THE GHOST

John 19:30 "When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost."

 John 10:17-18 "Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. 18. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father."

FOR EVERY MAN

Hebrews 2:9 "But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man."

ONE DIED FOR ALL

2 Corinthians 5:14-15 "For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: 15. And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again."

WHILE WE WERE SINNERS

Romans 5:8 "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."

John 1:29 "The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world."

HE IS OUR ATTORNEY

1 John 2:2 "And he is the propitiation [pro- before; petere- to seek] for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world."

ENEMIES!

Romans 5:10 "For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life."

ENEMY OF GOD

James 4:4 "Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God."

REPENTED NOT

Revelation 9:20-21 "And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: 21. Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts."

ONCE

Hebrews 9:24-27 "For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: 25. Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; 26. For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

JUDGEMENT

Hebrews 9:24 "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:"

THE LORD SHALL JUDGE

Hebrews 10:30-31 "For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. 31. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God."

JESUS MADE SALVATION EASY

Acts 16:30-31 "And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? 31. And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house."

FELLOWSHIP WITH CHRIST

1 John 1:7-9 "But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. 8. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."