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Subject: Jesus Death and Burial,
John 1O:17-42-Golden Text, 1
Cor. 15:8-Commit Verses 80,
4O-Commentary.
TNIE.-Wednesday, between the
evenings. April 5. A. D. 80. PLACE.
-Golgotha.
EXPOsITION.-I. "It is Fin.
ished," $3.50. What was finished?
(1) His own sufferings were finished.
From the beginning of His ministry
the shadow of the cross darkened the
Saviour's life. Now it was all over.
The dread and horror of all those
years was over at last. Thank God!
(2) The mission upon which the
Father had sent Him into this world
was finished. The Father had given
Him a certain work to accomplish
John $500. 1t was His very meat
to finish this work of the Father
(Jno. 4:34). Now the death in which
that work was to be completed was
right at the door and in anticipation
of 1t Jesus cried, ut is finished" (3)
The prophecies concerning the suffer-
ings of death of the Messiah (intO
which angels and the prophets them
selves had desired to look. l Pet.
1:11-13) were finished. This Is the
immediate thought of the context Tvs.
28, 29). The Old Testament proph-
cts, centuries before. had set forth
step by step the sufferings the COM
ing Messiah would meet In redeeming
His people. One by one Jesus had
fulfilled the details of those Old Testa-
ment prophecies. The last prediction
OF the long list Of sufferings and dis
honor which Jesus had doubtless
often conned until they were indeliblv
printed upon His mind is fulfilled and
with cry of victory and relief He ex-
claims. ''It is finished" (4 The
work Of atonement was finished. The
curse of the broken law must be
borne and Jesus had borne it (Gal.
3:13; 2 Cor. 5:21; Pet. 2:24. 1t
Is finished. There is nothing left for
you or me to do to atone for sin. 1t
is all done. ut is finished" Would
that we might all believe 1t and not
try to add anything to the finished
work of Christ. 60 The Mosaic law.
as far as its claims on the believer
are concerned. was flushed (Rom.
.10:4; Col. 2:14: Eph. 2:15. 16).
Every claim of the Mosaic law was
settled and the law itself done away
by the death of Christ on the cross.
COZ Satan's power was finished fHeb.
2:14, r. w.; Col. 2:15. II. ": Juo.
12:3D. The death OF Christ on the
cross was the death-knell to Satan's
power 1t seemed the moment of
49, ;oh tho
moment of his utter defeat. "It is
finished"
ii. "a Bone of Him Shall Not he
Broken" 31-37. 1t was "the Prepara-
tion," /. e., "the Preparation of the
Passover" the day before the Pass
over began (v. IA; CT. ch. 1929.
The next day would be a Sabbath.
not the weekly Sabbath, for the first
day of the Passover was always a
Sabbath with the Jews whatever day
in the week 1t came U.ev. 23:O.
This year it came on Thursday. The
Passover Sabbath was high day.
The Jews would not endure the
thought that their great day should
be polluted by criminals hanging on
cross. They were not at all sensitive
about its being polluted by their own
hands being stained with the murder
of the Son of God. Jesus was dead
already and His legs were not broken.
BY this seeming chance the o. T.
prophetic type of the Pascal Lamb
was literally and minutely fulfilled
". 36). But the soldiers will make
sure that Jesus is dead indeed, so a
spear is thrust into His side. Jesus Is
s.,t1 Iipn Tn viii Pm
Czech. 12:10). And then notable
thing comes to pass; forth from that
pierced side flows blood and water,
not blood only, but blood and water
John is impressed by the fact and
records it. though in the state of
scientific knowledge then existing he
could scarcely have understood its
full significance. That water mingled
with the blood shows that Jesus died
of extravasation Of the blood, |. e.,
of a broken heart (cf. Ps. 69:2O.
What broke that heart? Sin, your
sin and mine. The record of the fact,
which of course could not have been
fabricated by one who did not know
it's significance, Is one of the many
incidental but conclusive proofs Of
the genuineness Of the story and one
of the numerous indications that the
record here given is by an eye-wit-
ness of the facts recorded. Is there
any spiritual significance in the blood
and water coming out? Water came
forth from the rock smitten by Moses,
and we are told that that rock was
Christ" IL Cor. 10:4). 1t is from
the smitten rock, Christ, that the liv-
ing water and atoning blood flow.
III. He Made His Grave With the
Rich, 38.42. Another Old Testament
prophecy is fulfilled in the place and
manner of Jesus burial ". 3S; CT.
Matt 25:57-60; Is. $500. The death
of Jesus transformed Joseph and
Nicodemus from secret disciples into
open ones. Their discipleship did not
count for much until they become
open disciples. They had made feeble
protests but were soon silenced
(chap. 7:50-52; Luke 1850, SD.
Unless they had come out openly the
Lord would not have confessed them
and they would not have been saved
Matt. 1882, SO; Rom. 1919, 10).
They did their best for Jesus. They
embalmed His body. But this was
unnecessary, for God promised hun
dreds of years before that He would
not suffer that body to see cOrrup-