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A Finished Work
At the end of His perfect pathway of faith and service to God His Father, The Lord Jesus could with confidence confirm, “I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do” (John 17:4). Then at the end of the three hours of darkness, after He had made atonement by bearing the punishment of God against sin, and just before He laid down His life, He could affirm, “It is finished” (John 19:30).
What a work … complete, done, finished and accomplished to the glory and eternal satisfaction of God. Nothing left undone. Not like in the Old Testament where the priests had to offer the same sacrifices over and over again. Now by faith we see Him, seated at the right hand of God as a proof that God is so satisfied that He will never, and could not, require another sacrifice for sin. “And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God” (Hebrews 10:11-12).
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