IT IS FINISHED

IT IS FINISHED

My lesson today is being written because the time of Jesus’ return is getting closer. This event is referred to as the rapture.

So many people aren’t prepared for this event. They don’t understand the consequences of missing the Rapture.

When Jesus said it is finished He was saying to all mankind, everything you need on planet earth has now been made available to you.

On the cross, Jesus took all our sin upon himself, all of Gods wrath, and at the same time he traded his life for our life. He took our life of sin and gave us a covenant of life and grace with the Father.

By accepting what Jesus did, we won’t miss the rapture, therefore we will be spending eternity with Him.

Let me start at the beginning so the ones who don’t understand what I am saying will come closer to knowing and understanding the truth.

In the garden of Eden, God told Adam and Eve not to eat of the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden.

Genesis 3:3   ³ But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

When God said lest ye die, he wasn’t talking about a physical death, he was speaking of a spiritual death.

Before God made Eve, he had already given Adam compete freedom in the garden, with the responsibility to tend and care for, but one tree was off limits.

The tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Adam had told Eve about this. She knew when Satan approached her that the fruit was not to be eaten.

She decided to eat the forbidden fruit and Adam also ate it. At that moment, the fate of creation was set in motion.

In that moment of rebellion, something beautiful, large and free was shattered: Gods creation.

Adam was separated from God by his desire to act on his own, those thousands of fragments could not be re-gathered

In the case of Adam and Eve’s rebellion, God already had a plan in motion to overcome the effects of the rebellion.

The entire bible is the story of how that plan unfolds. Ultimately leading to Gods own visit to earth through his son Jesus.

Jesus’ sinless life and death made it possible for God to offer forgiveness to all who want it. Our small and large acts of rebellion prove that we are descendants of Adam. Only by asking forgiveness of Jesus Christ can we become children of God.

Since the rebellion of Adam, everyone from that day forward to date, are separated from God. The one and only way to have fellowship with God is to have a relationship with His Son, Jesus by accepting what he made available at the cross.

Everything was lost at the garden of Eden, everything was restored at the cross.

John 19:30   ³⁰ When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

Everything Jesus came for was finished. When the word finished is spoken it means to end or complete. The one who is the “finisher” is Christ Jesus, the Son of God.

The word for finisher is a decisive happening, which puts an end to something at the cross. The curse of Adam was reversed so we can now have fellowship with our heavenly Father through Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 12:2   ² Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

The Christian life requires us to struggle against sin with the power of the Holy Spirit. To live effectively we must keep our eyes on Jesus.

We will fail if we look away from Jesus and start looking at the circumstances surrounding us. We are not alone, there is help. Christian maturity develops our patience and makes our final victory sweet.

Let us run with endurance the race that God has set before us. We do this by keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, whom our faith depends on from start to finish.

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