It Is Finished By The King

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Jesus was the long awaited King of the Jews, fulfilling prophecy, and finishing the work of redeeming fallen humanity.

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ME:

Let’s start this morning by talking about government
Our government here in America was quite unique when established by our founding fathers
There was no queen, no prince, no lord, and no king
It made America distinct from our European ancestors
But we see in the Old Testament, we see the nation Israel
governed in an even more distinct way
Israel was governed by God Himself
It was a theocracy
Not only did God govern His people, He also defended them
But Israel was not satisfied being governed by God
So they repeatedly expressed a desire to be governed by a king
like all the other nations were
time and time again, they cried out for a human king
Eventually, God did give Israel their human king
First was Saul
After Saul was David, and David was a great king
After David, was an up and down cycle of some kings doing what was right in the eyes of the Lord
But most kings doing what was evil in the eyes of the Lord
This resulted in Israel being split into two nations
with both nations experiencing defeat and captivity
Their desire for a human king proved catastrophic
But that isn’t where the story ends
God had promised to send a King who would rule over Israel and all other nations as well
The OT foreshadows repeatedly this coming King who will reign over an eternal kingdom
We see it in Jacob’s blessing in
In Balaam’s final prophecy in
Moses and Joshua both served as human leaders, but neither were king
Gideon and Samson were judges that delivered Israel from foreign powers, but neither were kings
In fact Judges ends saying, “In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.”
Israel gets David to serve as a king, but he is not the fulfillment of the earlier prophecies
but the prophesied King will come from the line of David
So who then is this king?
Back in , we see Jesus’s disciple, Nathanael, who is a Jew, state;
John 1:49 ESV
Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!”
And last week, we were in the first 32 verses of
We observed Jesus was sovereign over all the events that had been taking place
as vs. 4 stated, Jesus knew everything that was happening
So Jesus orchestrated His arrest, predicted Peter’s denial, and guided His trial with the high priests to be brought before the Roman governor, Pilate
So that Jesus could control how He dies as well, by being lifted up
We ended with Jesus before Pilate
And now we pick up in vs. 33 with him asking the question that was proclaimed by Nathaneal back in chapter one
Is Jesus the King of the Jews?
This is the question before us this morning
So let’s pray this morning then we will open up John’s gospel together
So let’s pray this morning then we will open up John’s gospel together

WE:

Is Jesus the King of the Jews?
That is our question this morning
And I am going to go ahead and give the answer
And I am going to go ahead and give the answer
Yes, yes He is
Well ok, that settles it, we can all go home
Not really
Yes, Jesus is the King of the Jews who came down to earth for a specific task
and He won’t depart until it is finished
So yes, Jesus is the King of the Jews
But we are going to study God’s Word to explore this truth
We are going to start to see that The King is Down to Earth in ;
John 18:33–40 ESV
So Pilate entered his headquarters again and called Jesus and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus answered, “Do you say this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?” Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered you over to me. What have you done?” Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.” Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.” Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” After he had said this, he went back outside to the Jews and told them, “I find no guilt in him. But you have a custom that I should release one man for you at the Passover. So do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?” They cried out again, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.
This passion narrative continues in John 18
If you recall back to last week, earlier in this chapter we saw Pilate didn’t want to deal with this
The Easton Bible Dictionary gives some background information on Pilate, describing him as a...
“Typical Roman, not of the antique, simple stamp, but of the imperial period, a man not without some remains of the ancient Roman justice in his soul, yet pleasure-loving, imperious, and corrupt. He hated the Jews whom he ruled, and in times of irritation freely shed their blood. They returned his hatred with cordiality, and accused him of every crime, maladministration, cruelty, and robbery. He visited Jerusalem as seldom as possible; for, indeed, to one accustomed to the pleasures of Rome, with its theatres, baths, games, and gay society, Jerusalem, with its religiousness and ever-smouldering revolt, was a dreary residence. When he did visit it he stayed in the palace of Herod the Great, it being common for the officers sent by Rome into conquered countries to occupy the palaces of the displaced sovereigns.”
“typical Roman, not of the antique, simple stamp, but of the imperial period, a man not without some remains of the ancient Roman justice in his soul, yet pleasure-loving, imperious, and corrupt. He hated the Jews whom he ruled, and in times of irritation freely shed their blood. They returned his hatred with cordiality, and accused him of every crime, maladministration, cruelty, and robbery. He visited Jerusalem as seldom as possible; for, indeed, to one accustomed to the pleasures of Rome, with its theatres, baths, games, and gay society, Jerusalem, with its religiousness and ever-smouldering revolt, was a dreary residence. When he did visit it he stayed in the palace of Herod the Great, it being common for the officers sent by Rome into conquered countries to occupy the palaces of the displaced sovereigns.”
It was believed to be custom for Pilate to go to Jerusalem to preserve order during the Passover
So after Pilate wasn’t able to just disregard this accusation, He brings Jesus in and cuts right to the chase, as we read this morning
Jesus, are you the King of the Jews?
And as was common for Jesus, He doesn’t answer Pilate directly, instead, He responds with a self-reflecting question for Pilate
And Pilate, still seeming to operate with a sense of callousness, asks if he is a Jew, implying, Jesus isn’t his king
Then takes it one step further, Your own nation handed you over to me
Your own people betrayed you
The Jews have handed their King over to the Romans to be crucified
So, King of the Jews, what did you do?
And Jesus tells him, I’m not just the King of the Jews
My Kingdom, is not of this world, it transcends this world
So I wasn’t betrayed by my subjects
If My Kingdom was of the world, my subjects would have seen to it that the Jews were not able to hand me over like this
Pilate’s tone seems to change slightly in vs. 37
So, you really are a king?
Jesus just said His Kingdom is not of this world
now He is saying that He is the King that has come down to earth
He came to bear witness to truth
A subject Pilate seems to not be a fan of
because He basically walks away from Jesus at this point rhetorically asking, what is truth?
But then, He goes out and announces that Jesus isn’t guilty and refers to Him as the King of the Jews publically
This is the first of four public proclamations by Pilate that Jesus is King
In 19:14, after Jesus is whipped, Pilate says “Here is your King!”
Then immediately after, in vs. 15, He asks “Should I crucify your king?”
And we will look in greater detail when we get there, but the sign he places atop the cross says “King of the Jews.”
Those four accounts, in addition to vs. 33 and 37, which we just read and three other times in chapter 19, Jesus is described as King
This is a key focus of His crucifixion in John’s gospel
It is made abundantly clear that Jesus is the King that has come down to earth
His crucifixion began the night before, recorded in , where we saw Jesus was a humble servant
When we connect that passage to where we are now, we see Jesus is the servant king
Even though Jesus came down to earth as a humble servant, He is the King of Kings
Jesus’s Kingship is littered throughout Scripture
;
Isaiah 9:6–7 ESV
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
Daniel 7:13–14 ESV
“I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him. And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed.
Acts 2:30–32 ESV
Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants on his throne, he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption. This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses.
Ephesians 1:20–21 ESV
that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.
1 Timothy 6:13–15 ESV
I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords,
and ; ;
Hebrews 1:3–4 ESV
He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.
and ; ;
Revelation 1:5–6 ESV
and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Revelation 17:14 ESV
They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful.”
Revelation 19:13 ESV
He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God.
Revelation 19:16 ESV
On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords.
Scripture is loaded with evidence and we see it clearly explained and publically proclaimed in this passage of John
That Jesus is the King of the Jews
and the King is down to earth
In his book, King’s Cross, Tim Keller comments;
“Jesus came as a king—but a king who had to bear the greatest burden anyone ever has.”

GOD:

As we continue into chapter 19, we see Jesus is dressed as a king
not out of honor however, but out of humiliation
Jesus is taunted as a king
But as the servant King, His crown of torture and his robe of mockery
actually display his humility as king
Who rules through suffering
suffering that reveals the magnitude of our sin
and the greater nature of God’s grace that saves us
So even though the King is down to earth
In , we see the King is afflicted
John 19:1–16 ESV
Then Pilate took Jesus and flogged him. And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe. They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands. Pilate went out again and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that I find no guilt in him.” So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold the man!” When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no guilt in him.” The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has made himself the Son of God.” When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid. He entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer. So Pilate said to him, “You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?” Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin.” From then on Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.” So when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Stone Pavement, and in Aramaic Gabbatha. Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold your King!” They cried out, “Away with him, away with him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.” So he delivered him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus,
Jesus goes before the Roman governor and he is found not guilty
Back in vs. 38 of chapter 18, Pilate announced to the Jews that he found no guilt in Christ
We see Pilate isn’t concerned about judging what is right and what is wrong
Because even though he has declared he finds no guilt in Jesus
We see in vs. 1-3 that he still has Jesus whipped, tortured, and mocked
then two more times in this passage, vs. 4 and 6, Pilate again tells the Jewish people that he finds no guilt in Christ
and we see in vs. 6 it is the chief priests and officers who are inciting the riot
the leader
The leaders are the ones who are creating the uprising
motivated out of self-preservation
And we see Pilate respond by telling the Jews to crucify Jesus themselves
and how do the Jewish people respond to Pilate’s judgment?
vs. 7, “we have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has made himself the Son of God.”
They are formally accusing Jesus of blasphemy
This law they are referencing is ,
Leviticus 24:16 ESV
Whoever blasphemes the name of the Lord shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him. The sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.
Blasphemy is to slander something sacred
it is an insult against God and reveals your contempt for God
and the great irony here, is that the One who is accused of blasphemy is the One being blasphemed
What’s interesting though, is Pilate’s response in vs. 8
It says, “when Pilate heard
The word translated as heard, is also translated as learned
So when Pilate heard that Jesus has made Himself the Son of God
or when Pilate learned that Jesus made Himself the Son of God
He grew in fear
earlier we saw his tone change slightly
now his tone seems to change even more
At this proclamation, Pilate seems to be much more emotionally invested
Now, He is suddenly more interested in finding out about Jesus
But now Jesus is remaining silent
So Pilate, tries to use the weight of his position to get Christ to speak
One group of scholars seem to think Pilate
and what does Jesus say in vs. 11?
“You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above.”
Jesus tells Pilate that his authority is given to him by God
Such is the case for anyone in a position of authority;
Human authority is God-given
your parents, your employers, your teachers, government officials, law enforcement
So Jesus submits to Pilate’s human authority
But God is the highest authority
and Pilate just learned that Jesus is the Son of God
so who in this room has the real authority?
Pilate seems to be convicted by this question
Realizing who Jesus is
He seeks to release Him
But the pressure from the Jews and the fear of Caesar, a powerful man, but a man nonetheless
is greater than his fear of God
And in a magnificient display of cowardice
Pilate takes his formal judgment seat and he orders Jesus to be crucified
Continuing to declare Jesus as King
The chief priests refute by saying, “we have no king but Caesar”
Which is a bold faced lie, back in chapter 8, they told Jesus they are ens
What a revealing confession
Apparently they forgot that God was their King
It is tempting to view Pilate as the villain of this narrative, but he is more of a fool
The Jewish leaders are the true villains of this passage
their phony mask of spirituality is ripped away here, and the wickedness of their hearts is fully exposed
I mean, again, to summarize their role in all of this;
They chose Barabbas over Jesus (18:40), they incited the crucify chants (19:6), they twisted God’s law as justification to kill Jesus (even though they weren’t willing to stone him as the law states, 19:7), they threaten to accuse Pilate as a traitor to Caesar (19:12), and they deny God is their king (19:15).
all because Jesus threatened their religion, their control
you see they used guilt and fear to control, we see that in the passage we just read
but Jesus offered freedom from guilt and control
Pilate shows here clearly that the King is afflicted
Now let’s turn our attention to to see how the King is Our Substitute;
John 19:17–27 ESV
and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them. Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.” Many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek. So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but rather, ‘This man said, I am King of the Jews.’ ” Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.” When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier; also his tunic. But the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom, so they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be.” This was to fulfill the Scripture which says, “They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.” So the soldiers did these things, but standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.
Now although it is debated, this picture shows where...
Protestant archaeologists in the 19th century posited this hill in Jerusalem as the biblical Golgotha, the site of Jesus’ crucifixion, due to its skull-like appearance ().

YOU:

Pilate’s judgment was the death penalty, capital punishment
Today, it is by lethal injection
not long ago, it was by hanging
but under the roman reign, it was by crucifixion
Which you may be aware causes death by suffocation
When a person was crucified they would have to lift themselves by their hands or legs in order to breath
and eventually, they would be too exhausted to lift and their diaphragm was compressed too much that they could no longer breath
and they would eventually suffocate
crucifixion is a gruesome and torturous form of capital punishment
and this was the death penalty Jesus is enduring in this passage
The practice was to have the charge placed on top of the cross
In Jesus’s case, Pilate had it display in multiple languages, “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews”
But the Jews weren’t pleased with this
so they had the audacity to go to Pilate and tell him to change it to say “this man said, I am King of the Jews.”
But Pilate refused
Because Jesus is King
And the King is about to die
One here in this passage is the soldiers casting lots for His clothes
Usually when a king is killed, it creates turmoil in the kingdom
a fulfillment of , quoted in this passage
it leaves the kingdom vulnerable
But not Jesus’s kingdom
The Psalm starts with the words, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”
As we discussed last week, Jesus is sovereign over everything that is taking place
This is a Psalm of abandonment
He is orchestrating His death
but, not by the end of the Psalm, look how ends
As He reminded Pilate, human authority is given by God
;
Jesus’s death doesn’t make His kingdom vulnerable, it makes it victorious
Psalm 22:27 ESV
All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you.
Psalm 22:31 ESV
they shall come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn, that he has done it.
His death frees us from sin, death, and the devil
which we are enslaved to
See, if Jesus came in as a King set to wipe out His enemies
We would be wiped out because we were His enemies
Instead the King came to be a substitute
He came to lay down His life
He wiped Himself out in our place
This is the Christian doctrine we refer to as Substitutionary Atonement
Sounds very complicated, but we see it clearly explained in Scripture
Atonement is making right what you made wrong
It is the payment that sin requires
So we are required to pay for our sins
And the payment is our life
Death is required to pay for our sins
Because God is perfectly righteous, no sin can be in His presence
Most people think to describe God as love, which is true
says this
But the word that captures the essence of God more than any other word is holy
God being holy means He is the complete opposite of sinful
and if we were to find one word that captures the essence of mankind more than any other word, that word would be sinful
So the gap between man and God is an eternal sized gap
The glory of God is His holiness, the shame of humanity is our sin
But God is love!
So Jesus, the Servant King, came down to earth to be that substitute
to atone for our sin by paying for it with His perfect life
So Jesus’s death on the cross was Jesus dying in our place
as our substitue
The King is Our Substitute
the Just died for the unjust
This was God’s plan
This is why Christ was sovereign in orchestrating His own death on the cross for us
the cross wasn’t an accident, it wasn’t a backup plan
It was God’s plan A from before creation
Before the universe was made, and earth was fashioned, and mankind was born, God had determined to substitute His Son to atone for our sin
says that that Lamb was going to be slained before the foundation of the world
Revelation 13:8 ESV
and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain.
This is why the cross is foreshadowed throughout the OT
since the Garden when God shed the blood of a sacrifice to cover the shame of Adam and Eve’s nakedness
sin requires a blood payment
to cover their shame it required the death of the animal sacrifice
and it is the focal point of the entire NT
says,
1 Peter 3:18 ESV
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
Sin brings suffering
Jesus, the King, not only atoned for our sin with His death
but He was the substitute who received the suffering we deserve as well
Adrian Rogers says, “Because of God’s magnificient grace, it pleased Him to let the suffering we deserved fall upon His Son.”
Earlier I described the suffering that death by crucifixion entails
That is the suffering Jesus endured for us
But it is also well documented the amount of suffering Jesus endured even leading up to the cross
Some have objected that the Passion of the Christ drags out and exaggerates Jesus’s torture
But that objection is an unfair objection
Historical data supports the realism of Jesus’s scourging and biblical evidence states this abuse lasted through the entire night, into the next day
So the film may not even give the full extent of the suffering Christ faced
Jesus, the King is Our substitute
but it requires Him to follow through with it all to the very end
because our sin must be fully atoned for

WE:

We see multiple OT prophecies being fulfilled in this chapter
One is when was quoted back in vs. 24
when the soldiers were casting lots for His clothes
Psalm 22 is also referenced in the other gospel accounts of Jesus’s crucifixion
The Psalm starts with the words, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”
This is a Psalm of abandonment
but, not by the end of the Psalm, look how ends
;
Psalm 22:27 ESV
All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you.
Psalm 22:31 ESV
they shall come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn, that he has done it.
He has done it
The King has done it
The King has finished it
It is finished by the down to earth King
Because the King is a finisher
Let’s read how the King is a finisher in ;
John 19:28–37 ESV
After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), “I thirst.” A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth. When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away. So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who had been crucified with him. But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water. He who saw it has borne witness—his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth—that you also may believe. For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken.” And again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they have pierced.”
Jesus had to suffer and die as our substitute to atone for our sin
and look at again
1 Peter 3:18 ESV
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
How many times did He suffer?
Once!
Hallelujah, Jesus only had to suffer once!
When Jesus cried out in vs. 30 “It is finished!”
The transaction was complete!
The King substituted to atone for our sin!
In your bulletins there should be this paper
It is your certificate
You see the Greek Word Jesus said when He said “It is Finished!” is “Tetelestai!”
That is the word on the top of your certificate
This is truly magnificient
You notice your certificate also says “paid in full”
During this time, when a person was imprisoned, a certificate of debt was posted to their prison cell
it stated his crime and his penalty
And when he had served his time
the judge would write “paid in full” across it
tetelestai
so that he could never again be punished for that crime
And that person could never again be punished because his crime had been paid in full, it was finished
Jesus paid our sin-debt, in full on the cross
So when the devil comes and accuses you for your sins
you have your certificate
tetelestai, paid in full, it is finished
The debt for you sin has been paid, you don’t have to pay for it again
Christopher Hitchens, an antitheist, was being interviews by a unitarian minister, Marilyn Sewell
and she said she was a Christian but didn’t believe the Bible was literal that Jesus literally died for her sins
and Hitchens replied;
“I would say that if you don’t believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ and Messiah, and that He rose again from the dead and by His sacrifice our sins are forgiven, you’re really not in any meaningful sense a Christian.”
If you don’t believe this about Christ, then His payment of your debt is not being received
But if you do believe this, if you have trusted in Christ as your savior
Tetelestai is written in the Lamb’s blood across your soul
Jesus has died, once and for all, so that you would be paid in full
The King is a finisher
and now the King takes us by hand and escorts us into His Kingdom
By the Power of His saving blood, shed on the cross
Nothing else accomplished this work of substitutionary atonement
What can wash away our sin?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
Amen, join me in prayer.
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