The Finished Work Walk

The Miracle of Resurrection Power

Bible Passages: John 19:30, Romans 8:10–11, Romans 8:13, Zechariah 4:6, Galatians 2:20

Christ's finished work not only secures our salvation but also equips us to walk in newness of life, relying on the Holy Spirit for strength and guidance.

It is Finished: Jesus Accomplished Everything

John 19:30 “So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.”

When the Savior said, “It is finished" Jesus declares His complete victory over sin and death. This marks the moment when His work on the cross was fulfilled, ensuring our salvation and preparing the way for His resurrection power.

The question for us is how do we live the Christian life? Do we make progress by working hard at it? By total surrender? By feeling sorry? By contrition and penitence? Are there formulas for success?

The Christian life starts with the words “it is finished” and can be lived by the power of those same words. Let’s look deep into this important subject. Follow along this week.

1. The Body is Dead

Romans 8:10–11 “And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.”

If you are a Christian I have news for you. Every Christian inhabits a dead body. A body separated from the life of God and spiritually dead. It is unable to respond to the new life that as a Christian you possess.

Paul remarks of the great dichotomy of body and spirit in Romans 7:22–25, “For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.”

Paul saw the battle between a dead body willing to sin and the born-again spirit wanting to please God.

:24 “O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?”

After hashing out the struggle of the flesh and the spirit Paul finally reveals the answer in verse 25.

:25 “I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.”

Every Christian at some point needs to realize this important point, your body is dead and no amount of effort on our part can bring it into obedience to the “law of God”.

But there is great hope. The Spirit of life occupies the body of death.

2. You Will Live

Romans 8:11 “But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.”

Romans 8:12–13 “Therefore, brethren, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. 13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.”

As we have seen no amount of effort on the part of the body can bring about complete obedience to God. No programs, rites, giving, or traditions can bring the experience of life to the dead body. But if the Spirit dwells in you… the Spirit can and does give life to the body we live in on earth. This resurrection life is the power to live the Christian life.

If we live “according to the flesh” we reap death or experience the death that is the old man. If, however, we live by the Spirit and put to death the deeds of the body, we live - experience the life of the new man.

“You will live” means you will experience the riches of living the finished work walk.

3. He is Not Here

Luke 24:6 “He is not here, but is risen! Remember how He spoke to you when He was still in Galilee,”

Zechariah 4:6 “So he answered and said to me: “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ Says the Lord of hosts.”

Living the finished work life is reckoning the old man is dead. When Satan comes to call you say to him, “he is not here”. The old man, the body of death is not in charge, he is dead. And the new life is empowered by the resurrection power of Christ.

The tomb may still exist where Jesus was buried, but He is not there. Just like that our bodies are still mortal, but now occupied by a regenerated spirit and the Holy Spirit because of imputed righteousness.

Because of this we can say like Zechariah 4:6b “ ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ Says the Lord of hosts.” We can live as overcomers because of the resurrection power of the Spirit.

Co-Crucified with Christ

Let’s sum up the power available for the finished work walk.

Romans 6:6 “knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.”

Romans 6:11 “Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Reckon means, do the accounting - Get the facts straight. On one hand you’re dead, on the other you’re alive.

Galatians 2:20 “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.”

If you’re dead what is going on in your body? Resurrection life.

Romans 6:5–6 “For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.”

Romans 6:4 “Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”

This newness is not talking about our future resurrection it is now. No longer slaves to sin and walking in newness of life is for today.

The Mystery of the Resurrection is the first step to understanding the Finished Work Walk.