"Salvation is of the LORD." -Jonah 2:9

It is Finished  (Part 3)  by D.G. Miles McKee   If you want to be effective as you serve the Lord Christ, never tire of hearing and applying the gospel.  In the light of the cross, we can learn to agree with the old Puritan preacher, John Flavell, who, when speaking of Jesus, declared,   "The condemnation was Thine, that the justification might be mine. The agony was Thine, that the victory might be mine. The pain was Thine, that the ease might be mine. The stripes Thine, that the healing balm issuing from them might be mine. The vinegar and gall Thine, that the honey and the sweet might be mine. The curse was thine, that the blessing might be mine. The crown of thorns was Thine, that the crown of glory might be mine.  The death was Thine, that the life purchased by it might be mine.  You paid the price, that I might enjoy the inheritance."   It is Finished!  We were lost and condemned by sin.  We could not perfectly and fully sati...

"When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, He said, It is finished ." -John 19:30 [KJV]   Perhaps these words formed the sixth cry of the Lord Jesus on the cross. The glorious close of all His sufferings was now arrived; and full of these high ideas which occupied His holy mind, He cried out, "It is finished!" What is finished? Redemption-work is finished. All the long series of prophecies, visions, types, and the shadows of good things to come, which pointed to Jesus and redemption by Him, were now finished in their accomplishment. The law was finished in its condemning power; and the gospel commenced its saving influence. Jesus, by that one sacrifice now offered, had for ever perfected them that are sanctified.    The separation between Jew and gentile was now finished and done away for ever. Jesus had now "gathered together, in one, all the children of God which are scattered abroad." The iron reign of sin and Satan, of death and he...