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It is Finished
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
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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...”
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
1. Completed all the requirements of the law ()
2. Completed all the OT sacrifices ().
3. Completed all the suffering required to pay for our sins ()
D. Jesus Paid it All!
The Word of Conquest
A. The awful thirst of hell ()
jn 19
A. With a loud cry (; ; )
B.
Not a sigh of defeat, but a cry of victory!
1.
The promise in the Garden of Eden ()
2. Satan and all demons were defeated at Calvary ()
C. The call of the crowd: “Come down from the cross!”
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
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In the 21st century, they still have such spiritual thirst that it drives them to drink, drugs, crime, etc.
The Word of Comfort
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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”
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