Milford chronicle., 1942-10-23
1T IS FINISHED
Last words Of our Lord

1T is finished" We're the las
words of our Lord as He died OF
the CROSS. He didn't mean his lif,
was finished. In three days he wal
walking on the earth again full,
and eternally alive. remaining OF
Z the earth (part the time among hi
disciples) for forty days. And ever
after his ascension met John on the
Isle of Patmos and said these
burning words of which we have
record in Rev. 1918, 1 am he thai
liveth and was dead and behold
am alive forever more. No, he
meant something much more far
reaching than that. He came to
seek and to save that which was
lost and when he said it is finished
he meant he had done that-he
bore our sins and carried the bur-
den of them to the cross, even the
sins Of the whole world, and there
between earth and heaven he hung
in awful agony til the last drop of
his blood was shed from his body
for the remission of those sins,
saying with his dying lips, it is
finished, 1t was the accomplishing
and the consummation of all
things written of him since the
foundation of the world. God let
man discover for himself by his
own experience through the ages
that he could do nothing himself
to save himself from the sin that
separated him from his rfghtful
heritage-life eternal. God didn't
want the man he made in his own
image to die. He wanted him to
live to be glory to his name.
But. he said the soul that sinneth
shall die, Eze. 1874. So since our
first parents, Adam and Eve Cwho
we're perfect in Gods sight COM
mitted the first transgression by
disobeying God, men continue to
die as the effect of sin. Yet we
sing, Since / Have Been Redeemed.
Stop singing it. We are not re-
deemed yet. Read Rom. S:23-the
price. of our redemption was paid
in full on Calvary, but we will not
come into actual possession of it til
on that. glorious morning when
Gods sunlight of Heaven pene-
trates the darkness of this old sin
cursed world and we come forth
clothed in his likeness to live
eternally with him. That's why l
feel inspired at this time to tell
just what Jesus meant when he
said sit is finished" We know
when anything is finished-there is
nothing more to do about it, or can
be done about it. God from the
beginning since the fall of man has
decreed that sin should be remit
ted only by the shedding of blood.
Types of it are scattered all
through the Bible from Abel's
offering of the first of his flock all
the way down to Calvary, when
Jesus said, "It is finished" She'd
ding of blood for the remission of
sins was finished. That's what the
writer of Hebrews meant, Heb.
1925, by saying, For if we sin
wilfulIy after having come into the
knowledge of this truth and refuse
to accept it as the way and only
way of escape from the consequent |
ces of personal transgression, then |
there remains no other sacrifice for |
sin. Can't go back and claim any
thing under Moses code of sacrifi- !
cial law. Read 28th verse, He that
despised Moses Law died without |
mercy under two or three witness
es, complete in 10Th verse, of how
much sorer punishment suppose
We shall he be thought worthy who |
hath trodden under foot the Son of |
God and hath counted the Blood .
of the Covenant wherewith he was |
sanctified an unholy thing and |
hath done despite unto the Spirit
of Grace, Eph. 1888. Not by works,
not by any efforts of our own can
we become the recipients of this
marvellous gift, the expression of
Gods love, for if we could buy it
or do something to merit it, it
would not be a gift, and if there
was anything expected of us in the
matter of good and righteous living
the last words of our Lord would
not be so. Salvation from sin would
not have been complete nor ever
could be-, for we never could live
good enough to get rid of sin. It's
the Blood and only the Blood that
covers our sins. Blessed is the
man whose sins are covered, Ps.
S1:1, for the all-seeeing eye of God
can't see our sins through the
Blood that was shed for us freely
that day on Golgotha's Hill. And
our Journey Heavenward has got
to begin there if we ever see the
City, for there is no other pathway
that leads to mans eternal abode;
for there is no other name under
Heaven given among men whereby
we must be saved, Acts 4:12. He
went the Blood way; there is no
other way for us. He paid the
price of our redemption through
great and awful suffering. It's a
gift to us from our Fathers heart
Of love. Nothing for us to pay,
nothing for us to do or can do but
accept it through true repentance,
Faith and trust. Are you not glad
it's finished?
P. S.-Some would raise the
question as to the kind of life we
have to live to make sure of not
losing the way after having started. /:
There is only one answer, if we
have come under the blood through
Faith believing in the atoning
grace of his shed blood, we are
done with sin and the living will