the Atoning Work Is Done.

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IT is very clear that when a thing is finished nothing can be done to make it so.
When we have finished a piece of work it would be folly for another to come and attempt to complete it.
He was forsaken of God on account of the sinner. “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?” was the question of Jesus when on the cross. And what is the answer?
It is that those who believe might never be forsaken; that the sinner, who by nature is at enmity against God, might have peace with God. This peace Jesus has made by His death, and now he who believes on Him is justified, and has peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ (Rom. 5). ROM 5
The death of Christ has met all the demands of God against the sinner. His death has fully paid the wages of sin, which is death, and God is just in pardoning and in justifying the ungodly one who believes in Jesus, and by whom all who believe are justified from all things, from which by the law of Moses they could not be justified (Rom. 3:23-2623For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; 24Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 26To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. (Romans 3:23‑26); Acts 13:3939And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. (Acts 13:39)). ROM 3:23-2623For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; 24Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 26To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. (Romans 3:23‑26) ACT 13:3939And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. (Acts 13:39)
The sinner, then, has nothing to do to make the salvation of God more complete than it is.
“It is finished," and it is free to all who believe in Jesus.
THE WORK OF CHRIST IS FINISHED.
SIN IS FINISHED.
CONDEMNATION IS FINISHED.