How the Finished Work Transforms Lives

Mission accomplished: The finished work. A short communion message.Show more

There's only one person in history who will never leave behind any unfinished business.

Consider the truth of "The finished work of the cross".

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.

This was a cry of victory! Mission accomplished! Think of some of what Christ finished at the cross:

My debt is cancelled. He paid for our salvation. He cancelled the record of debt of my sin that stood against me. He bore my sin in his own body on the tree. He broke the power of sin against me. He has taken it away. Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. He has paid the full redemption price for me, for you. It's been paid - paid in full. Cancelled. 1 Corinthians 6:20, ye are bought with a price. Payment has been made. I'm purchased. I've been bought with a price.

He has made peace. He's made a complete work of peace. Colossians 1:20, And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself… He extends generous terms of surrender such that we who were his enemies can know a sure peace, a full peace, a complete peace with God.

He has released me from my judgment. He has granted me full pardon. As the judge he has authorised pardon. He has fulfilled the law, all of its ceremonies and sacrifices, all of the priesthood, all of the types and pictures that previewed his coming. He's finished with them. He has fulfilled the law. He has replaced my condemnation with his overflowing grace. He has declared my justification. Romans 3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

He has granted my full and free forgiveness. 1 John 4:10, Herein is love, not that we love God, but that he loved us, and sent his son to be the propitiation for our sins. It means that he's removed the wrath of God from us. God's anger against us, for our sin.

God has taken our sin and laid it on Christ. The iniquity or the guilt of us all. Isaiah 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

He became a curse for us. Galatians 3:13, Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree. The Lord Jesus was made a curse for us - that we would receive blessing. He bore the shame for us - that we can share his glory. He has undone the fall of Adam - the very curse - it is finished now.

He has set us truly free. He has given us freedom. Galatians 5:1, Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
He has granted my adoption – for we who were once the children of the devil - he's made us children of God. He has granted your adoption. It's been declared, that you are his, and he is yours.
He has granted my full citizenship in His eternal Kingdom, with the full privileges of a son of the most high God. Everything has been granted. It is finished.

He has brought us to life. He tasted death for us. He has defeated death.

The veil is torn wide open now. He has opened wide the way for my free access into the very presence of God Almighty. I am accepted in the beloved. Ephesians 2 18, For through him we have access by one Spirit unto the father.

He has brought about reconciliation to fellowship with God.

He has effected a great exchange - he's traded places with us. 2 Corinthians 5:21, For he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

He has accomplished victory, and put the devil to open shame. Thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ, 1 Corinthians 15:57.

The truth is that everything has been completed for your salvation. Will you trust the Lord today?