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"It is finished"

- These are the words that Jesus Christ proclaims in John 19:30 while hanging on the cross, dying for you and me. What does He mean when He says these words? Though they mean more than could be fit in a short paragraph, put simply, He declares that He completed the work of salvation for mankind on the cross. Though man feels the need to do enough good to overcome their sin and earn their own way to Heaven, the Bible assures us that "There is none righteous, no, not one" (Rom. 3:10). None of us can possibly make ourselves righteous before God or deserve a place in Heaven because "we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags" (Is. 64:6), but our inability to make ourselves righteous is precisely the reason that Christ came to earth. He came to die and shed His precious blood for us to cleanse us from our sins and justify us before God. When Jesus said, "It is finished", He was saying that He did the work of salvation at Calvary. My friend, there is nothing left for us to do but accept His work. The Bible says, "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved" (Rom. 10:9). As the songwriter put it, "We need not live to pay the cost, for it was finished on the cross.