Number 47: April 16, 2006
 
He is risen! Praise God! On Resurrection Sunday we celebrate the finished work of Jesus Christ. His purpose was to carry out his Father’s work, which totally freed and completely redeemed all of mankind. The foundation for our lives as Christians is found in this completed work. He gave his life when all his work was finished. He had become the perfect, complete sacrifice.
 
John 4:34:
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
 
John 19:28a,30b:
After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled…
…he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
 
God is still speaking to us today through Christ’s finished work because of Christ’s exalted position; seated at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
 
Hebrews 1:1-3:
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.
 
Jesus Christ purged us from all our sins, past, present and future. He brought total deliverance. We can add nothing. His work as the total savior is absolutely perfect, complete, finished.
 
Hebrews 9:12:
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
 
Redemption means a releasing, deliverance or liberation procured by the payment of a ransom. We were slaves held captive in the Adversary’s domain, under the dominion and control of sin and death. Jesus Christ paid the ransom price with his own life, shed his innocent blood, leaving us with an eternal inheritance. The completed work of Jesus Christ is the finished work of love. The work Jesus Christ finished on our behalf was the greatest display of the Father’s love for us.
 
John 3:16:
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.