It's a Done Deal
I recently read something that made me think of the depth of the meaning of Messiah’s words when He died on the cross: “It is finished.” If you’ve grown up in the church, you know that means that Christ took the penalty for our sins and that he bore God’s wrath and judgment in place of us. But, everything in His life—33 years He walked on this earth—led Him up to this moment. If He didn’t stay in the temple when he was 12 years old [ Luke 2:41-52 ], would He have been able to say, “It is finished”? I think He had to do everything He did, from teaching the Pharisees that the Law will not save them to healing sicknesses and diseases to casting out demons and making the dead live to making the waters still and praying for an abundance of food, in order to be able to say, “It is finished.” Christ abided in the Father by the Holy Spirit [cf. Matthew 3:13-17 ], and did everything in accordance to the will and plan the Father had set before Him. Not a single thing was missed. Christ e