HAVE you considered this utterance of the dying Savior? In John 19:3030When 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 but one word (tetelestai): what other word ever said so much? It was the close of a life on earth with which none can compare. Who but Jesus had ever lived only to do the will of God? Who but He had never indulged even once in doing His own will? "I do nothing from myself, but as the Father taught me, I speak these things. And he that sent me is with me; he hath not left me alone, because I do always the things that are pleasing to him ... Which of you convinceth me of sin?" His life, here set out and in the face of all evil, was one unbroken course of obedience; a far more wondrous thing than all the miracles which studded His ministry. Thereby was the Father glorified in the Son, a man who sought not His own glory but the Father's, the manifest contrast with the first Adam and all the race. Adam, sinless, in a paradise where all was very good, listened through Eve to the tempter, and disobeyed unto death; Jesus in a world of sin and darkness, became obedient unto death, yea, death of the cross.
Yet all this moral perfection as man and Son of God tried to the uttermost could not have saved a lost sinner. Excellency in good presented as an offering, however grateful in itself to God, cannot efface sin. There must be an adequate sacrifice for all that is hateful to God's majesty, nature, and will. Who in all the universe could bear our sins, and bear them away? None but the selfsame Jesus. Therefore Him Who knew no sin God made sin for us that we might become God's righteousness in Him.
Thus was God glorified as God by the Lord Jesus. To be glorified by His willing and perfect obedience as Son was glory to the Father; but our iniquity remained undiminished, and all the more manifestly vile and inexcusable. Would the Holy One of God stoop to bear my burden, intolerable to me and every other when awakened to see its exceeding sinfulness? And how much more intolerable to Him Who hated all sin with an absolute separateness from it? Would He in infinite love for the glory of God and for guilty and lost man suffer for our sins, Just for unjust, that He might bring us to God? This is what He Himself looking on to the cross says in John 13:31, 3231Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him. 32If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him. (John 13:31‑32): "Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in Him. If God be glorified in Him, God also shall glorify Him in Himself, and shall straightway glorify Him.”
Yes, "it is finished." All is finished for your need, as for God's glory. Oh, cast your soul on Him by faith. There is no other way: He is the way. All other ways of saving your soul are not only Satan's delusion but God's dishonor, deadly dishonor to His Son which He must revenge. Oh, submit to God's righteousness in justifying you, however unjust hitherto. God can afford to do it through the blood of Jesus. No sinner can be justified otherwise. Hear, and your soul shall live.