Continual Burnt Offering: Daily Meditations, August 22 (19:30)
“When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, He said It is finished: and He bowed His head, and gave up the ghost” — John 19:30.
IT is finished!” It was only one word of the Greek that Jesus uttered but it told of a completed work to which nothing now can be added. There on the cross He bore the full penalty for sin. He paid the utmost farthing. The anxious sinner seeking salvation has nothing to do but believe the message in order to enter into peace. Nothing can be added to a finished work. To attempt to add to it is but to spoil it. The debt is paid, sin is atoned for. The guilty soul is instantly cleansed from every stain, and justified freely by His grace, when he puts his trust in Jesus, and rests upon that finished work.