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we open the word of God to John chapter 19.
and the beginning
our reading
When They Crucified him and two others
with him
on either side one and Jesus in the midst
midst
and pilate wrote a title and put it on
the cross and the writing was Jesus of Nazareth
Nazareth
the king of the Jews
now to verse 28
after this Jesus knowing that all things
were now accomplished
that the scripture might be fulfilled
saith I thirst
now there was said a vessel full of
vinegar and they filled a sponge with vinegar
vinegar
and put it upon hyssop
and put it to his mouth
when Jesus therefore had received the
vinegar he said it is finished
and he bowed his head and gave up the spirit
spirit
the Jews therefore because it was the preparation
preparation
that the body should not remain upon the
cross on the Sabbath day for that
Sabbath day was a high day
besought pilate that their legs might be
broken and that they might be taken away
then came the soldiers and broke the
legs of the first and of the other who
was crucified with him but when they
came to Jesus and saw that he was dead already
already
they broke not his legs
but one of the soldiers with a spear
pierced his side
and immediately there came out blood and water
water
and he just saw it bore witness and his
witness is true
and he knoweth that he's saith true that
ye might believe
for these things were done that the
scripture should be fulfilled a bone of
him shall not be broken and again
another scripture saith
and thus they treated the king
who cried
at the age of 33
most people are saying
it is getting started
but our lord Jesus said
it is finished
he did not say I am finished
it was not the defeated
moan of a
man who had failed
he had held his head high during those
and now for the first time he was to Bow
lifted up was he to die it is finished
was his cry
in the original word that Jesus used
when he was on the cross
it was one word
to tell us die
when our lord Jesus spoke from the cross
and when the Holy Spirit through John recorded
recorded
in the Gospel of John
the word that was written is the Greek
word tetelestai
it is finished
it stands finished it always will be finished
you and I have to confess that there are
many things we've never finished
and we also have to confess that some of
the things we have finished didn't last
very long
and yet here is the Lord Jesus Christ
in the most difficult situation possible
dying in weakness on the cross
and he's able to cry out the Cry of a
Victor to telesty
it is finished it stands finished and it
now this word is important to us
because Jesus finished something on the
cross that you and I better know about
I suppose the things that are finished
in Congress
and I suppose the things that are
finished in the United Nations
ultimately have to touch our lives in
some way
but oh my friend what Jesus finished on
the cross
touches every life
and therefore we better understand this word
word
my Lord cries out this shout of Victory
if you and I are going to understand it
and appropriate appropriate it I think
we need to lay hold of three very
familiar word
now you smile at that because the word
to telesti is not too familiar to us
today because we don't speak the Greek language
language
you'll probably never see it on a menu
but you'll find it in the Bible
in fact it's used back in verse 28 of
the Gospel of John chapter 19 Jesus
knowing that all things were now
accomplished same word
this word is not a familiar word to us
but it was a familiar word in our Lord's
day and you would hear it in the
marketplace you would hear it in the
homes you would hear it in the various
places of the city to tell us die
several different people use that word
the slaves used it
a master would call one of his slaves
and say do this do that
and the slave would go off and do it
you'll remember there were six million
slaves in the Roman Empire
and many of these slaves were highly educated
educated
highly trained people
and after a few hours the slave would
come back to his master and he would
simply say to tell us die
which means I have finished the work
that you gave me to do
the Lord Jesus Christ came as a servant
they wanted him to come as a king they
wanted him to come as a great conqueror
they wanted him to come and deliver them
from the physical problems of Roman rule
but that's not why he came
you can set a man free politically and
never touch him spiritually
you can elevate a man materially and
never raise him spiritually our lord
Jesus came to get to the heart of the
problem and the Heart of the problem is
and he humbled himself
I don't think anyone here wants a
demotion if you went to work tomorrow
morning and you found a slip in your
place at the clock that said please see
the manager and you went to see the
manager and he said to you I have good
news for you we're demoting you
'd say good news that's no good news
I've been here for 10 15 20 years I've
worked my way up in this organization
you're demoting me and yet here is
almighty God The Sovereign who becomes
the servant
here is the master of all who becomes
the slave of all and he became obedient
as a servant obedient unto death and not
just any kind of a death even the death
of the Cross and when those Philippian
Christians read that in Paul's letter
they must have looked at each other
because no citizen of a Roman city could
kind of death
and yet Jesus as the servant
who had come to be the slave of God
the servant of God lifts up his head and
he says to his father to tell us die I
have finished the work
that you gave me to do
in fact he said that in his prayer in
John chapter 17. father the hour is come
glorify thy son that thy son Also may
glorify Thee I have finished the work
which thou gavest me to do I have
the slaves used that word
it was a familiar word because the
priests used it
if you were going through the temple
area any day when the sacrifices were
being offered
like at Passover you would have heard
the word here comes a worshiper here
comes a man with his lamb or his gold or
whatever the sacrifice might be and the
first task the priest had to perform was
to examine the sacrifice no priest would
ever offer on the altar a sacrifice that
was not perfect
and the priest would look at the eyes
and he would check the ears he would
look at the body he would make sure the
animal was not sick
and having examined the animal
he would say
to tell us die you know what that means
it's perfect
it's complete
it's faultless
and so as our Lord hangs there as the
Lamb of God
as he hangs on the cross as God's
sacrificed for sins
he's able to say as both the priest and
the sacrifice to telestyle it is perfect
so thoughtless was the sacrifice that
his enemies had to hire Liars to testify
against him
they examined one witness after another
and they could find no fault in him
did you not ever hear him speak
that was wrong never no man ever spoke
like this
did you never see him do a deed that was
contrary to the law no no we watched him
we we saw nothing
even the demons had to confess that he
was the son of God
when he began his ministry and came down
to the Jordan River he was approved by
God the Father this is my beloved Son in
whom I am well pleased he was approved
by God the Holy Spirit who came down
like a dove and lighted upon him
he was approved by the prophet John the
Baptist who said I have need to be
baptized of Thee
and as he walked and talked and worked
and lived they watched him
and they listened
and they spied upon him and during that
last week prior to Passover that week
when the Lambs were always examined they
examined him
the men came up and said now we know
you're a teacher and you don't listen to
what people have to say you don't you're
not swayed one way or another we want to
ask you a question and they tried to
trap him
and as he walked through that week when
the Lambs were being examined they
examined God's lamb
and they went away and said we find no
fault in him even pilate said that
to tell us die I offer a faultless
complete sacrifice the priests used that word
did you know the artists use this word
oh there was a great deal of art back in
this day all of us have been through the
museums and we've seen the Roman art and
the Greek art and the Jewish art
and did you know that when an artist had finished
finished
whatever he was preparing be it a mosaic
a drawing
he would look at it and he would say to telestay
telestay
it is finished
what he meant by that was every color
was in place everything
to be there's a pattern here there's a
picture here and you can look at it it's
not like some of the art we see today
I recall walking to an into an art
gallery in the city of Cincinnati
and they're on the wall was a frame 18
inches by 24 inches and in the frame was
a matting of white and on that matting
was a solid black canvas
no picture no etching just a solid black
canvas and it was for sale
and I looked at it and I said that's not finished
finished
now perhaps I don't appreciate Modern
Art if that is modern art
I always enjoy walking through the art galleries
and it's difficult to enjoy a picture
that's not finished
our greatest picture of George
ever since the creation of The World God
had been painting a picture
God had put the universe out there God
had planted
trees and flowers God had made man
God called Israel
and God had to make a tabernacle and God
did this and God did that and we saw
parts of the picture but nothing seemed
to fit together even the Old Testament
prophets were not sure what was going on
some of them saw a messiah who would
suffer and die some of them saw a
messiah who would reign in glory and
they argued with each other and said
your denomination is wrong we're right
but none of them saw the whole picture
and Moses added to the mural and Samuel
added to the mural David came along and
added Isaiah took his brush and he added
to it
but it wasn't until Calvary
where Jesus Christ dipped the brush in
his own blood
that the picture was finished
and the master artist who had framed the
universe the master artist who had
framed all of history
by whom the Ages were framed said
said
to tell us die it's finished now you can
look at the picture and you can see what
God is doing
that's why my friend if you take the
cross out of the Bible
you don't have the whole picture
you'll never understand why God called
Abraham and asked him to put his son on
the altar you'll never understand why
God Called Moses and told him to build a
tabernacle you'll never understand why
Isaiah the prophet talked about one who
was suffering one who was rejected
to tell us diet was an artist's word
Calvary puts the whole picture together
the slaves used this word and the
priests used this word
the artist used this word
and would you believe that if you went
down to the marketplace you'd hear the
merchants using this word
have you ever been in an oriental
marketplace where they're haggling and
arguing over prices and values and
amounts and commodities and finally they
arrive at a price and you give him the
money and he says to tell us die the
if you had a mortgage with some Merchant
back in our Lord's day and you were able
to pay off the mortgage
and you brought your mortgage papers
down to the firm he would accept your money
money
and he would write on the receipt to
tell us die the debt has been paid it is
fully paid and it always will be paid I
well that says something to us as
Sinners doesn't it
that says to me there was a time when I
was in debt to God
God said here is my standard and I said
I can't live up to that standard he said
you are guilty I said I know I'm guilty
he says the wages of sin is death
but Jesus Paid It All
all to him I owe
sin had left a Crimson Stain he washed
it white as snow
Jesus Christ took my spiritual bankruptcy
bankruptcy
and he substituted his spiritual solvency
solvency
my Lord took my bank book and he wrote
across it righteous he took my death and
he wrote across it to telestyle it is finished
finished
it has been fully paid completely paid
finally paid and it always will be paid
and no claim can ever be made against
you again
it was a familiar word
and as you and I come to the Lord's
table I hope that we'll hear that word
the servant did the work
he offered the perfect sacrifice he
finished the picture of Revelation and
made it clear
he paid the debt
it was a familiar word secondly that was spoken
spoken
by a faithful Savior
he shouted it
it is finished
he had Faithfully finished the work that
God gave him to do he was faithful
as you read the life of our Lord Jesus
given to us in the Gospels
you find that from the very beginning
from the very beginning he was conscious
of a work he had to do in Hebrews
chapter 10 we have the birth of our Lord
Jesus and when he came into the world he
said sacrifice and offering is not what
you want you've prepared me a body I
come to do your Will O God he was born
to do God's will when he was just a
young man
just a lad of 12.
he left his parents one day and they
found him three days later in the temple
remember that
and they said we've been looking for you Sorrowing
Sorrowing
and he was shocked he said why don't you
know I must be about my father's business
business
even at the age of 12 our Lord knew he
had a work to do
when he began his ministry he went to
that wedding Feast they have no wine
he said to his mother gently woman what
have I had to do with thee my hour has
not yet come
he knew he had a job to do and an hour
in which to do it all the way through
the Gospel of John he talks like this he
says my food is to do the will of him
that sent me and to finish his work they
sought to take him but they could not
his hour had not come they sought to
arrest him they could not his hour had
come then finally we hear father The
in the amount of transfiguration
our Lord talked with Moses and Elijah
about his decease his Exodus that he
would accomplish at Jerusalem
he had a work to accomplish he said one
day I have a baptism to be baptized with
and how I am constrained until it be accomplished
accomplished
his whole life was motivated by the
God the father had finished the old
creation and God the son was now going
to finish the new creation
and he did that work in spite of Satan's
opposition he did that work in spite of
his nation's rejection he did that work
in spite of the Apostles own
misunderstanding his family's own
misunderstanding he just kept going going
and he was able to say to tell us die it
was a familiar word spoken by a faithful Savior
Savior
may I remind you before we look at the
third fact
that our lord Jesus is still faithful
he's the same yesterday and today and
forever on the cross he Faithfully
finished the work today on the throne he
is a merciful and faithful high priest
and he's faithful to forgive
if we confess our sins he's faithful and
just to forgive us our sins he's
faithful to
session God is faithful and will not
permit you to be tempted above that you
are able
he's faithful to keep us I know whom I
have believed
and I am persuaded that he is able to
keep that which I have committed unto
him against that day are you trusting
this faithful Savior
to tell us that it was a familiar word
spoken by a faithful Savior about a
finished work
it is finished
what was finished
well the types and the prophecies were finished
finished
now we can look back at Genesis and
exodus and Isaiah in Psalms and the
light from Calvary Shines on that page
and we say we see it we understand it
Genesis chapter 3 verse 15 God said that the
the
son of the woman the seed of the woman
would crush
the head of the serpent that happened at
the cross
Jesus Christ defeated principalities and
powers and made a display of them openly
he openly put them to shame when he said
as you walk through the Tabernacle
you say what does all this mean
here's this huge Brazen altar where the
blood is shed oh those sacrifices that's Jesus
Jesus
well here's the Laver where you wash oh
he's the one who cleanses us did you
know that when the veil of the
Tabernacle was torn in Two For the First
Time people could see that the
arrangement of the furniture was in the
shape of a cross
the Old Testament types and prophecies
were fulfilled it is finished
the law was fulfilled now this bothers
some people they say do you mean that
God abrogated his law no
no God fulfilled his law
God maintained his law in the death of
Jesus Christ on the cross God met the
righteous demands of his holy law and
now that he has met them we can be made
righteous in Jesus Christ
the Cross of Christ does not destroy the
law it establishes the law God used his
own law to set us free from the law
Galatians chapter 3 verse 13 says that
when Jesus died on the cross he bore the
curse of the law the law can no more
curse you if you're saved there is
therefore now no condom Foundation to
for the spirit of life in Christ Jesus
has made us free from the law of sin and death
death
for what the law could not do in that it
was weak through the flesh God sending
his own son in the likeness of sinful
flesh and for sin condemn sin in the
flesh that the righteousness of the law
might be fulfilled in us who walk not
after the flesh but after the spirit the
law has been finished free from the law
oh happy condition
in Colossians chapter 2 verse 14 Paul
puts it so vividly Paul says Jesus
Christ took that Bond of the law that
was against us and he nailed it to his cross
the law was finished
and so today we don't celebrate Jewish
holy days and holidays
we don't bring sacrifices we don't have
a priesthood we are a priesthood
we have no altar
because the sacrifice has been finished
the work of Salvation is finished
and the greatest commentary on this is
in Hebrews chapter 9 and I'm going to
read it to you
Hebrews chapter 9 verse 24 would you listen
listen
imagine yourself to be this synagogue
congregation that had received this
letter to the Hebrews and you're
concerned you can see the temple you
can't see the Heavenly Temple you can
see the Earthly sacrifices you can't see
the Heavenly sacrifice Christ you can
see the Earthly priests which you can't
see your high priest up in heaven and
Hebrews is saying don't go back don't go
back go ahead go on
why it's all been finished why go back
to that which is unfinished
go ahead because what you have in Christ
is finished why go back to the Shadows
go on into the light 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 nor yet that
he should offer himself often as the
high priest entereth into the holy place
every year with the blood of others for
then must he often have suffered since
the foundation of the world but now Once
In the End of the Age hath he appeared
to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself
himself
and as it is appointed unto man wants to
die but after this the Judgment so
Christ was once offered to Bear the sins
of many and unto them that look for him
shall he appear the second time apart
from sin unto salvation now the law
having a shadow of good things to come
and not the very image of these things
can never with those sacrifices which
they offered year by year continually
make those who come to it perfect
for then would they not have ceased to
be offered because the worshipers once
purged should have no more consciousness
of sins
but in those sacrifices there is a
remembrance again made of sins every year
year
for it is not possible that the blood of
bulls and of goats should take away sins
wherefore when he cometh into the world
he says sacrifice and offering thou
wouldest not but a body hast thou
prepared me invert offerings and
sacrifices for sins thou Hast had no pleasure
pleasure
then said I lo I come in the volume of
the book it is written of me to do thy
will o God
verse 10. by which will we are
Sanctified through the offering of the
body of Jesus Christ once for all
and every priest standeth daily
ministering and offering often the same
sacrifices which can never take away
sins but this man after he had offered
one sacrifice for sins forever sat down
on the right hand of God
from henceforth expecting till his
enemies be made his footstool
for by one offering he hath perfected
forever them that are sanctified
and their sins and iniquities will I
remember no more
more
the Old Testament sacrifice
was repeated over and over again the
blood could cover sin the blood could
never cleanse sin but this man offered
one sacrifice
never again to be repeated
that takes away sin
the Old Testament sacrifices were
imperfect they were Shadows
animals can never meet the moral demands
for humans
no animal ever died voluntarily and yet
Jesus the God man the perfect man came
and voluntarily died for us
the Old Testament sacrifice is only brought
brought
ceremonial purification on the outside
but Jesus Christ brings spiritual
purification on the inside he touches
the conscience and you're able to say
praise God my conscience is clear before
God because Jesus has died for me
the Old Testament priest didn't sit down
there were no chairs in the Tabernacle
his work was never finished
when Jesus Christ died on the cross
he shouted a familiar word to tell us I
spoken by a faithful Savior about a
finished work and he sat down when he
returned to heaven
because his work was finished
father I have finished the work
which thou gave us me to do now since
salvation is a finished work
all you have to do is receive it
it's finished it's complete you can't
add anything to it
and you dare not take anything from it
and you must not substitute anything for it
it
it stands alone unique eternal
and you either receive it
and you're saved
some years ago
a British mother was greatly concerned
about her teenage son oh he was a good
boy but he wasn't converted
and left her children in the care of
another and while she was on this
holiday she got a tremendous burden for
her son so she went off to a room and
she knelt down and she prayed that God
while she was praying
her son was back home looking for
something to do and he rummaged around
in the library and he found a pamphlet
and he knew at the beginning of the
pamphlet there would be a story and at
the end there would be a story and in
between there would be preaching
and so he decided he would read the two
stories and forget about the preaching
but as he was reading He Came Upon a
phrase that stopped him it arrested him
the finished work of Christ
and he looked at it the finished work of Christ
Christ
and he said out loud if this work is finished
finished
then all I need do is receive it and
right there while the boy was reading
and the mother was praying miles away he
bowed his heart and received Christ as
his savior
his name
James Hudson Taylor
the man whose missionary Enterprise
there once was a very eccentric
evangelist whose name was Alexander
Wooten even his name is eccentric
I think it was Alexander Wooten who used
to open his umbrella and stick his
umbrella in the ground then March around
it until a crowd gathered then pick it
one day Mr Wooten was busy with
something in a smart alec young man came
along and said sir what must I do to be saved
saved
and Wooten didn't even look at him he
just said he's too late [Music]
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the shocked the sophisticated smart Alec
and he said well what must I do to be
saved too late
do you mean sir I can't be saved I
didn't say that
I said it's too late
all that has been done to save your soul
has been done
it's finished
all you need to do is receive it and the
boy was saved
what must you do to be saved
it's been done
not what my hands do but what he did
it's glorious to know that it's finished
Jesus did not make the down payment and
then say keep up the installments you'll
get to heaven
oh we sang it before
lifted up was he to die it is finished
was his cry now in heaven exalted High
hallelujah what a savior is he your savior
savior
are you depending on his finished
finished
work to tell us die
the shout of victory
thank you Father
that our Lord held nothing back he gave
his arm
I pray that today there might be those
who will trust Christ rest upon this
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