IMPACT FXBG | JESUS Said - John 19:30

Jesus is actively being executed by the Romans as he's saying these things. He's not sitting with his friends. He's actively being executed. He's been wrongfully accused, beaten, mocked, scorned, humiliated, whipped, scourged, and eventually nailed to a cross. He's spoken to the thief on the cross. He's spoken to his mother and to one of his disciples. He's spoken to God in prayer a few times. He's spoken to his executioners. But this time, in unknowable agony and suffering at the end of his life, he says, it is finished. He doesn't even just say it. He says he cries out. It is finished. It's done. Because that that is a statement, a proclamation of victory. It's not something he whispered into the darkness. He cries out, it is finished. It is a shout of victory. [00:36:09] (55 seconds)  #ItIsFinished

So so picture this with me, a holy and righteous God who is the definition of good. That is who he is. The one who designed and created the entirety of the universe and all of its workings from its smallest entrochies to its largest moments. He is the only one who is God. So when people sin, when we sin, when we choose to take his place and say, you know what? No. I'm gonna be God. There is only one response to that, and it's death. Death death is the response here because what else satisfies that extreme rejection? That separation from him. Because we're choosing death because he is the source of life. [00:41:28] (44 seconds)  #SinSeparates

If we belong to him, then our standing before god is not hanging by the thread of our latest performance. We can rest from trying to be good enough because he's completed that work. See, the completeness of what Jesus finished on the cross is final. It is finished. It is done. Complete telestie. It is done. Today, let us know, even if it's for the first time, that in Christ, our salvation is truly complete. It's done. Because on the cross, Jesus finished what we never can or could. Let's pray together. [01:09:27] (40 seconds)  #CompleteInChrist

This is the the sixth statement that Jesus made on the cross. It is finished. And we have one more next week that we'll we'll talk about. But this one, I think, is a really, really important one because this is the moment. This is the darkness has won. This is everything looks bleak. All of the things are wrong, and the the savior of the world is dying. This is the moment. That word, it is finished, is one word in the Greek, and it is teteleste. That is my butchering of Greek. But it's one word, and it's really beautiful. It's a pretty word. It looks pretty. It sounds pretty. And it means complete. It means done. It is finished. [00:35:06] (44 seconds)  #Tetelestai

Sync that in for a second. Christ didn't die for us when we had it together. He he didn't die for us when we were good and when we were restored. He didn't die for us when we were clean. He didn't even die for us when we loved him. He died for us when we were still sinners, when we were caught in our rebellion, when we were dead in our sin, when in other places in scripture, when we hated him, that's when he died for us. So what great love does God have for us that he gave us Jesus, his only son, so that we might have a way to experience his love for us forever. John three sixteen. Right? My brain just blanked. My brain blanked, Mark. I'm supposed to know that verse as a pastor. For God so loved the world. Right? [00:59:33] (56 seconds)  #DiedForSinners

And it all started, like I said, in Genesis three. You might be familiar with the story, so humor me for a second. God created everything. Right? In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. He created everything, spoke it all into existence. And then he creates humans to enjoy this creation that he's made, and he gave them one rule, don't eat of the fruit of this one tree. And what did they do? They ate it. Right? They were tempted, they ate it, and they failed. They chose to decide for themselves what was right and wrong. This is what they did. They chose to decide for themselves what was right and wrong. They chose to be like god themselves, to take his place in their life. [00:39:01] (45 seconds)  #OriginalSin

And how could a a sheep ever pay for the weight of all the sins of all the people who have ever lived or will ever live? It it couldn't and it can't. So what does God do? Well, he sends himself. He sends God the son to pay the price. He sends his son to bear the weight of all of the wrath that should be poured on sin, all of the wrath that should be poured on the rejection of God as God. And he shed his own perfect blood to pay the price for that rebellion. That's why in in second Corinthians five twenty one, Paul writes this. He says, for our sake, he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us so that in him, we might have the righteousness of God. Like, this is the point. Jesus was sent to bear the weight of sin so that we could be freed from its payment. See, Jesus took on that full punishment that our rebellion required. He satisfies God's justice against sin. [00:44:31] (67 seconds)  #RememberTheCross

But we humans are forgetful creatures. I'm finding that true more and more every day. We are forgetful creatures. Our memories are only as good as our attention spans, and those aren't good. K? They're not. That's why we have to look to the cross and be reminded. That's why God tells us, like, remind yourselves of this. I love you. Our circumstances, our life in this broken, sinful world will tell us, no, he doesn't. They will lie to us again and again and again until we can start to believe a lie, which is God has forgotten me, God doesn't love me, God doesn't know me. Friends, that is not true. You didn't do anything to earn God's love, and you can't do anything to make him take it back. His love is secure on the cross. He gives it to us, and he shows it to us so that when we question and doubt, we can look at it again and again and again and remember his voice. It is finished. It's done. [01:02:41] (74 seconds)  #GodsLoveOnDisplay