Latest / End-Time Revival Ministries, USA / Episode 219 - IT IS FINISHED
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- 0:13Speaker 1: How great is our God. He is great, He is
- 0:17Speaker 1: greatly to be praised, from the rising of the sun
- 0:20Speaker 1: to the going down of the same. It is the
- 0:22Speaker 1: name of the Lord that is to be praised. Everything
- 0:27Speaker 1: that has breath, Praise ye the Lord God. Bless you.
- 0:33Speaker 1: Once again, we welcome you to this another edition of
- 0:37Speaker 1: End Time Revival Ministries USA Podcast. I am your host,
- 0:41Speaker 1: Pastor al Zachary. And again we are as always thankful, grateful,
- 0:50Speaker 1: mindful of God's goodness and mercy and loving kindness and
- 0:55Speaker 1: favor that He's shown toward us while we were yet sent.
- 1:00Speaker 1: The Bible tells us Christ died for the un goodly.
- 1:04Speaker 1: Jesus came into the world to save sinners. And thank
- 1:10Speaker 1: God that he saved a wretch like me. He delivered me. Amen,
- 1:15Speaker 1: from my own self, my own will, my own way,
- 1:19Speaker 1: that path on which I was traveling, that way that
- 1:22Speaker 1: seemed right. But the Bible says, the end thereof is destruction,
- 1:28Speaker 1: the end thereof is death. And He has delivered us
- 1:32Speaker 1: from so great a death. And He doth yet deliver Amen,
- 1:39Speaker 1: all who call upon Him in sincerity and in truth.
- 1:43Speaker 1: God will save. God will set you free and give
- 1:49Speaker 1: you that great hope, amen, and rejoicing that is to
- 1:53Speaker 1: be found in Christ, Jesus, our Lord and Savior. All right,
- 1:59Speaker 1: God bless you again and again those of you who
- 2:01Speaker 1: pray for and or support the work of this ministry.
- 2:05Speaker 1: A man, we are, a man by the help of
- 2:08Speaker 1: the Lord, continuing day by day, week by week, month
- 2:12Speaker 1: by month, year in and year out, proclaiming the truth
- 2:17Speaker 1: of God, the liberty, the freedom a man, the joy,
- 2:21Speaker 1: the hope that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. And
- 2:25Speaker 1: today we continue a man in the words of our Lord,
- 2:30Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. And now we're going to see, of course,
- 2:33Speaker 1: as we come to the close or to the end
- 2:36Speaker 1: of this great gospel written by the Apostle John Jesus
- 2:43Speaker 1: is now delivered up and hanging on the cross, and
- 2:51Speaker 1: he speaks final words. And that is what we're going
- 2:56Speaker 1: to examine in our session on today. But again we
- 3:01Speaker 1: thank God for each of you who pray for and
- 3:03Speaker 1: support to work this ministry. If you have not already
- 3:06Speaker 1: become a subscriber, please by all means do so, and
- 3:12Speaker 1: take just a moment or two to share it with
- 3:15Speaker 1: someone else. It is our goal, it is our endeavor
- 3:19Speaker 1: to freely, freely proclaim this liberty that is in Christ,
- 3:25Speaker 1: Jesus our Lord. All right, today we're in the Gospel
- 3:29Speaker 1: of John chapter November nineteen, So if you have your bibles, please,
- 3:32Speaker 1: by all means follow along with us as we read
- 3:36Speaker 1: from the Word of the Lord and expound upon the scriptures.
- 3:40Speaker 1: Before we begin. Of course, as always, we take just
- 3:43Speaker 1: a moment Amen, as we invoke the presence of the
- 3:45Speaker 1: Lord Father. Again, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you,
- 3:48Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, thank you. Ten thousands of our
- 3:51Speaker 1: tongues could not begin to even fathom in our hearts
- 4:00Speaker 1: rise to the level of thanksgiving, of praise, of glory,
- 4:06Speaker 1: of honor. That's due to your great name. So with
- 4:09Speaker 1: the fruit of our lips, Lord, we just want to
- 4:12Speaker 1: just say, blessed be the name of the Lord. Thank
- 4:16Speaker 1: you for this great salvation, thank you for this great hope.
- 4:19Speaker 1: Thank you for this gospel. Thank you for Jesus Christ,
- 4:21Speaker 1: Thank you for the Blood. Thank you that we live
- 4:24Speaker 1: now with hope, with eternity, with an assurance. Amen, and
- 4:28Speaker 1: blessed quietness and peace that you have provided for us.
- 4:33Speaker 1: And we honor you today, Lord, and we pray that
- 4:36Speaker 1: somewhere someone will hear the voice of the Savior as
- 4:40Speaker 1: you knock at the door of their heart, that they
- 4:43Speaker 1: will come in to this great gospel, into this ark
- 4:47Speaker 1: of safety, into this saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, the
- 4:51Speaker 1: hope of glory. We pray and give you thanks for
- 4:53Speaker 1: all things, and bless your name from this time forth
- 4:57Speaker 1: and forevermore. Amen and Amen. Gospel of John chapter number nineteen.
- 5:02Speaker 1: Again Jesus is at the cross on the cross, and
- 5:07Speaker 1: what we're going to see is a great moment of time.
- 5:12Speaker 1: And we're going to examine the last three words that
- 5:16Speaker 1: Jesus spoke in this moment. It is finished. It is finished,
- 5:28Speaker 1: VERSEI number twenty five. Now there stood by the cross
- 5:32Speaker 1: of Jesus his mother and his mother's sister, Marry, the
- 5:39Speaker 1: wife of Cleophus, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus therefore saw
- 5:46Speaker 1: his mother and the disciples standing by whom he loved,
- 5:53Speaker 1: he said, unto his mother, woman, behold thy son. Then
- 5:59Speaker 1: said he to the disciple, behold thy mother. And from
- 6:06Speaker 1: that hour that disciple disciple took her onto his own home.
- 6:16Speaker 1: After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished,
- 6:24Speaker 1: that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith i thirst. Now
- 6:30Speaker 1: there was set a vessel full of vinegar, and they
- 6:34Speaker 1: filled a sponge with vinegar and put it up on
- 6:38Speaker 1: hissop and put it to his mouth. When Jesus therefore
- 6:45Speaker 1: had received the vinegar, he said, it is finished. And
- 6:56Speaker 1: he bowed his head and gave up the ghost. It
- 7:04Speaker 1: is finished. That is the focus of our session today,
- 7:09Speaker 1: these final words of Jesus, our Lord and Savior, while
- 7:13Speaker 1: impaled on the cross, willingly submitting himself over to the
- 7:19Speaker 1: predetermined plan of redemption that was set and settled in
- 7:26Speaker 1: the eternity past, and in this moment of fulfillment of
- 7:31Speaker 1: the plan of God. It was in this moment we
- 7:37Speaker 1: find that what God had promised, what God had purposed
- 7:44Speaker 1: from the very beginning when Adam and Eve sinned in
- 7:46Speaker 1: the garden, God would not leave us in this falling,
- 7:51Speaker 1: sinful state with no hope in no future. It was
- 7:56Speaker 1: now being accomplished, as it was decreed according to the
- 8:00Speaker 1: prophecy of God's holy Word that he breathed out through
- 8:06Speaker 1: the mouth of all of his holy prophets, and by
- 8:08Speaker 1: the way he himself, God himself first again at the
- 8:13Speaker 1: beginning of the fall of Adam and Eve foretold of
- 8:17Speaker 1: this very moment that would come to pass in time.
- 8:22Speaker 1: Paul wrote about this I believe. In the Book of Galatians,
- 8:25Speaker 1: he says, in the fullness of time God sent forth
- 8:29Speaker 1: his son, made of a woman, made under the law,
- 8:33Speaker 1: to redeem those who were under the curse. All of
- 8:35Speaker 1: us under the curse, all have sinned, fallen short of
- 8:39Speaker 1: the glory of God. But God so loved, as Jesus said,
- 8:44Speaker 1: the world that he gave is only begotten son. Whosoever
- 8:46Speaker 1: believes in him would not perish, but have everlasting life.
- 8:53Speaker 1: The final words, these final words it is finished, that
- 8:58Speaker 1: was spoken by Jesus from the cross, were arguably the
- 9:02Speaker 1: most powerful pregnant of words ever spoken, and befitting by
- 9:08Speaker 1: the way in this climatic cause for which Jesus came
- 9:14Speaker 1: down into this world. This was the climatic epic moment,
- 9:23Speaker 1: finishing a man, sealing what God, in his infinite wisdom,
- 9:30Speaker 1: in his infinite foreknowledge, planned and purposed to come to pass.
- 9:38Speaker 1: The Bible tells us by the way. I believe it's
- 9:40Speaker 1: in the Book of Acts, chapter fifteen. James the Apostle,
- 9:44Speaker 1: a man at this first we referred to Jerusalem Council,
- 9:48Speaker 1: said these words in verse number eighteen, known unto God
- 9:54Speaker 1: are all his works from the beginning of the world.
- 10:01Speaker 1: This was not happenstance. It was not a what we
- 10:06Speaker 1: call a haphazard Oh what am I going to do
- 10:10Speaker 1: now that they have done this? Oh? God, See, by
- 10:13Speaker 1: the way, God is not reactionary, ladies and gentlemen. Amen,
- 10:18Speaker 1: God knows he four knows, he is already. Amen. Finished
- 10:26Speaker 1: the work as it were. We're going to see that.
- 10:28Speaker 1: And that's what Jesus is talking about. It's finished. It's finished.
- 10:32Speaker 1: God dwells and resides in eternity. We have no I mean,
- 10:37Speaker 1: we just have no concept. We have no ability to
- 10:43Speaker 1: fathom time not existing. We are governed by time. We
- 10:51Speaker 1: are confined to time. God dwells in eternity, where there
- 10:55Speaker 1: is no past, present, or future. It's just existence. Amen.
- 11:04Speaker 1: This again, was not something that, by the way, the
- 11:09Speaker 1: ruling authorities of the Jews or the Roman government was
- 11:13Speaker 1: in control of. They erroneously, the Jews especially, thought that
- 11:18Speaker 1: they were ridding themselves of a Nemesis pilot understood that
- 11:24Speaker 1: they were jealous of Jesus, envious of him, and he,
- 11:28Speaker 1: being the governor, thought that he was making the best
- 11:31Speaker 1: of a quagmire. Pragmatically and diplomatically he wanted, you know,
- 11:38Speaker 1: peace in a sense, and not wanting to a man
- 11:42Speaker 1: have certainly not having to answer to a man, the Emperor,
- 11:48Speaker 1: if you will, the Caesar, for any kind of disturbances, uprisings.
- 11:53Speaker 1: And he simply sought to satiate the blood thirsty desires
- 12:00Speaker 1: of these people who were calling for Jesus to be crucified.
- 12:04Speaker 1: They insisted on the pilot. Had Jesus beaten Marge beyond recognition,
- 12:12Speaker 1: and yet they said, crucify him, crucify him. This was
- 12:20Speaker 1: the most epic moment in the history of this world
- 12:24Speaker 1: since the creation. When the spirit of God moved upon
- 12:30Speaker 1: the face of the deep, moved upon the face of
- 12:33Speaker 1: the waters, when he spoke light into the depth of
- 12:39Speaker 1: the darkness, this was the most epic moment. This was
- 12:44Speaker 1: the climactic moment that sealed the Old Covenant concurrently with
- 12:51Speaker 1: the New Testament. Bloodshed of Christ. Without the shedding of blood,
- 12:57Speaker 1: the Bible says, Old Covenant, there is no mission of
- 13:00Speaker 1: sin without the shedding of blood, without this blood of Christ,
- 13:04Speaker 1: the New Covenant, the New Testament. Jesus said it, by
- 13:07Speaker 1: the way, this is the New Testament in my blood.
- 13:13Speaker 1: And so this moment brought together the old and the new,
- 13:19Speaker 1: sealed the covenant. So when Christ breathed his last breath,
- 13:28Speaker 1: there was a great chasm that was immediately closed. This gorge,
- 13:34Speaker 1: this separation, this divide between God and man. No no, no, no, no, no. No,
- 13:44Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. And this moment, you no longer needed
- 13:48Speaker 1: a priest, You no longer needed an intermediary. You no
- 13:51Speaker 1: longer needed a man to intercede, to go in on
- 13:57Speaker 1: your behalf. No, no, no. Christ. In this moment breathing
- 14:04Speaker 1: his last breath, the Bible tells us the veil of
- 14:08Speaker 1: the temple was torn from top to bottom. It was over.
- 14:16Speaker 1: The way is open. He is the way, by the way,
- 14:21Speaker 1: he is the way. It's open. You don't need a ram,
- 14:26Speaker 1: you don't need a goat, you don't need a bull,
- 14:28Speaker 1: you don't need a sheep, you don't need a turtle dove.
- 14:34Speaker 1: Just come to the foot of the cross. The blood,
- 14:38Speaker 1: the blood, the blood was shed in that moment. And
- 14:43Speaker 1: in that same instance, there was a repentant thief by
- 14:47Speaker 1: the way, dying next to the Son of God, who,
- 14:51Speaker 1: by the words, by the promise, by this great sacrifice,
- 14:55Speaker 1: by what Jesus was now accomplishing in this moment that
- 14:58Speaker 1: thief would be in paradise with Jesus. On the strength
- 15:04Speaker 1: of the words of Jesus. He said, today you will
- 15:09Speaker 1: be with me in paradise. Oh what a moment, Oh
- 15:14Speaker 1: what a moment. The earth trembled, as the powers of
- 15:19Speaker 1: hell would now be shaken as never before, with the
- 15:25Speaker 1: darkness again again, rather being dispelled, light, light, light, Let
- 15:33Speaker 1: there be light. God commanded the light to shine into
- 15:39Speaker 1: the darkness of our hearts in the face of Jesus Christ,
- 15:43Speaker 1: the Savior of the Redeemer, the mediator who opened up
- 15:48Speaker 1: the way again. Who is the way you see. Jesus
- 15:54Speaker 1: came into the world to seek and to save. Jesus
- 15:57Speaker 1: came into the world. He came with a purpose. Us.
- 16:01Speaker 1: Jesus came into the world on a mission. He came
- 16:06Speaker 1: into the world for a cause. He said, I came
- 16:10Speaker 1: to testify to the truth. I came to give my life.
- 16:15Speaker 1: I came to seeking to say that which was lost.
- 16:19Speaker 1: I came to die this death. Except the grain of
- 16:26Speaker 1: wheat fall into the ground and die it bided the lawn.
- 16:31Speaker 1: Jesus came to this hour, he said, for this purpose.
- 16:35Speaker 1: I've come to this hour I come to destroy the
- 16:38Speaker 1: works of the devil. Jesus knew exactly what was before him.
- 16:44Speaker 1: Jesus knew he was going to die this death. He
- 16:47Speaker 1: knew how gruesome it would be. He knew the agonizing,
- 16:54Speaker 1: the torture. But that, ladies and gentlemen, was not what
- 16:58Speaker 1: Jesus agonized over. It was the physicality, the pain that
- 17:04Speaker 1: was brought on to that physical body that he was in,
- 17:09Speaker 1: the torture, the agony. No, ladies and gentlemen, what Jesus
- 17:17Speaker 1: dreaded when he prayed in that garden, if it be possible,
- 17:22Speaker 1: let this cup pass. Nevertheless, what Jesus dreaded, ladies and gentlemen,
- 17:30Speaker 1: Church of the Living God, was sin. All of our sins,
- 17:41Speaker 1: all of our transgressions, all of our iniquities, all of
- 17:49Speaker 1: it would be placed upon him. The Bible says, he
- 17:56Speaker 1: who knew no sin. Not only was our sins placed
- 18:02Speaker 1: upon him, ladies and gentlemen, the Bible says, he who
- 18:07Speaker 1: knew no sin became sin. He became the most vile,
- 18:15Speaker 1: the most disgusting. And this is why, by the way,
- 18:21Speaker 1: if you read in the other gospel accounts, in that moment,
- 18:24Speaker 1: in that hour, the sun fled away. There was darkness
- 18:32Speaker 1: over the face of the earth. This is in the
- 18:35Speaker 1: in the afternoon, when the sun is bright, when the
- 18:40Speaker 1: sun is shining. But in that moment, in that epic moment,
- 18:47Speaker 1: when the work would be finished, all of our guilt
- 18:54Speaker 1: was put upon him, God, honest Jesus, for our sins,
- 19:08Speaker 1: our rebellion, our malice and hatred of him. The Bible
- 19:16Speaker 1: speaks of this. We were haters of God. On Jesus.
- 19:26Speaker 1: All of this was placed. And in that hour, in
- 19:31Speaker 1: that moment, when his blood was shed, Jesus knew that
- 19:43Speaker 1: it was for the atoning of our sins. He knew
- 19:52Speaker 1: that in his death we would have life. That's why
- 19:58Speaker 1: he said, I have come that you might have life,
- 20:01Speaker 1: and that you might have it more abundantly. Believe on
- 20:06Speaker 1: the Son of God, and you will have life. In
- 20:11Speaker 1: this moment, the earthly ministry of Jesus was finished. He'd
- 20:18Speaker 1: already prayed in his high priestly prayer, I have finished
- 20:23Speaker 1: the work that you gave me to do. I finished it.
- 20:27Speaker 1: I finished it. His earthly ministry was finished. He had
- 20:31Speaker 1: taught his disciples, he had led them for three and
- 20:34Speaker 1: a half years. He had performed the miracles, the signs
- 20:37Speaker 1: and the wonders, attesting to his deity, attesting to his sonship,
- 20:45Speaker 1: attesting to him being God manifested in the flesh. Remember,
- 20:49Speaker 1: when Nicodemus came to him, No man can do these
- 20:51Speaker 1: miracles that you are doing. This has to be the
- 20:55Speaker 1: finger of God. But this earthly ministry, it was finished.
- 21:03Speaker 1: His blood, the blood from the crown of thorns that
- 21:08Speaker 1: they forced upon his head, the blood, the blood that
- 21:11Speaker 1: was pouring out of his back side as they lashed
- 21:15Speaker 1: him and tore open his flesh. The blood, the blood
- 21:22Speaker 1: from the spikes that were driven through his hands, the
- 21:25Speaker 1: blood the blood from the spikes that were driven through
- 21:28Speaker 1: his feet, the blood from the spear that the soldier
- 21:34Speaker 1: thrust into his side. The blood has now been poured out,
- 21:41Speaker 1: and the scriptures of all of the prophecies and the
- 21:45Speaker 1: Old Covenant were now being fulfilled. In that moment he
- 21:51Speaker 1: was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace
- 21:56Speaker 1: was upon him, and by his stripes we are he.
- 22:00Speaker 1: All of the prophecies of Christ coming into the world
- 22:09Speaker 1: and dying. That death, in that moment was being fulfilled.
- 22:17Speaker 1: The sendt Now when Jesus breathed that last breath and said,
- 22:25Speaker 1: it is finished. The sendate has been paid in full.
- 22:30Speaker 1: The old serpent, that old serpent, the devil, Oh, his
- 22:35Speaker 1: head has been crushed. Death lost its sting and its
- 22:47Speaker 1: power over us. In that moment, Remember again what Jesus
- 22:53Speaker 1: said to that thief on the cross. Today, Today you
- 23:02Speaker 1: will be with me in Paradise. Jesus already proven by
- 23:09Speaker 1: the way that he is the Resurrection, that he is
- 23:12Speaker 1: the Life. Remember Lazarus, who had been dead for four
- 23:18Speaker 1: days in the grave. Already his body had already begun
- 23:26Speaker 1: the process of decay, of going back to the dust.
- 23:33Speaker 1: But Jesus, who is the Resurrection, who is the Life,
- 23:39Speaker 1: spoke to that dead corpse and said, Lazarus, come forth.
- 23:47Speaker 1: Death lost its sting and its power over us. Sin
- 23:57Speaker 1: is finished, Hell is finished, Death is finished, death is defeated,
- 24:02Speaker 1: Despair is finished. The curse, Oh, it's finished. It's all
- 24:14Speaker 1: done through the atoning work in that moment being finished
- 24:20Speaker 1: by Jesus. Now there is an invitation for us to
- 24:24Speaker 1: come and to rest. Jesus gave this great invitation, and
- 24:30Speaker 1: I want to I want to close in by the
- 24:31Speaker 1: way the Book of Hebrews, Chapter of Beer four. But
- 24:35Speaker 1: Jesus gave a great invitation. Come unto me, all who
- 24:41Speaker 1: are laboring and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
- 24:46Speaker 1: Take my yoke up on you and learn of me.
- 24:50Speaker 1: My yoke is easy and my burden is light, and
- 24:54Speaker 1: you will find rest unto your soul. The book of
- 25:00Speaker 1: Hebrews speaks about this rest that remains for the people
- 25:04Speaker 1: of God. But I want you to hear these words
- 25:08Speaker 1: because it speaks of God's works being finished finished, and
- 25:16Speaker 1: we walk into it by faith. We walk into the future,
- 25:19Speaker 1: by faith, we walk into sitting in heavenly places in
- 25:23Speaker 1: Christ Jesus, by faith. Let us therefore fear verse number
- 25:30Speaker 1: one of Hebrews four, lest a promise being left us
- 25:34Speaker 1: of entering into his rest, any of you should seem
- 25:37Speaker 1: to come short of it. For unto us was the
- 25:42Speaker 1: gospel preached as well as unto them. But the word
- 25:46Speaker 1: preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith
- 25:51Speaker 1: in them that heard it. For we which have believed,
- 25:57Speaker 1: do enter into rest, as he said, as I have
- 26:03Speaker 1: sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest.
- 26:07Speaker 1: Although listen, ladies and gentlemen, listen very carefully. All though
- 26:14Speaker 1: the works were finished from the foundation of the world,
- 26:23Speaker 1: for He's spaken a certain place of the seventh day
- 26:26Speaker 1: on his wives. And God did rest the seventh day
- 26:29Speaker 1: from all his works. And in this place again, if
- 26:34Speaker 1: they shall enter into my risk singing therefore it remaineth
- 26:38Speaker 1: that some must enter therein, And they to whom it
- 26:42Speaker 1: was first preached entered not in because of unbelief. Again
- 26:47Speaker 1: he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, to day,
- 26:56Speaker 1: after so long a time, as it is said, to day,
- 27:01Speaker 1: if you will hear his voice, harden not your heart.
- 27:10Speaker 1: Are you weary? Are you heavy laden? Are you living
- 27:16Speaker 1: in a life of despair? Are you living a life
- 27:20Speaker 1: of hopelessness? If you are without Christ, you have no hope.
- 27:25Speaker 1: For Jesus, and the great invitation says come him, that
- 27:30Speaker 1: is a thirst. Come. He said, I will give you
- 27:36Speaker 1: of that living water. And in fact, he said, I
- 27:40Speaker 1: will be in you a well of water springing up
- 27:45Speaker 1: to everlasting life. Father. We pray that ears will be open,
- 27:51Speaker 1: hearts will be changed, eyes will have scales to fall
- 27:56Speaker 1: from them, and they will come to see and know
- 28:00Speaker 1: and believe that you are the Christ, the Savior, the
- 28:04Speaker 1: only hope of salvation. We pray that someone will fall
- 28:11Speaker 1: on their knees right now, even now, in brokenness and
- 28:17Speaker 1: contrition and repentance, call upon your name so that they
- 28:23Speaker 1: can enter into that rest, because you have finished the work.
- 28:31Speaker 1: And we walk in by faith, but we believe you're reporting.
- 28:36Speaker 1: We stand on your word. In Jesus name, we pray
- 28:40Speaker 1: and give thanks. Amen and Amen.