His demeanor was such that those pagan centurions attending to the crucifixion were amazed at Him with one exclaiming, "Surely He is the Son of God"-VICTORY! When the darkness-a penetrating, palpable, evil darkness-engulfed the world for three hours and Jesus was most likely attacked by the devil and his angels, He did not rebuke them-VICTORY! When the Father laid on Jesus the sins of the world during that time and poured out His wrath upon His Son, Jesus cried out in despair, "My God, My God, Why hast thou forsaken me?" Jesus, who had eternally had perfect fellowship with the Father experienced the separation from the Father that all humans experience because of their sins, but it was infinitely more acute for Jesus because He had never sinned and thus separated from His Father. This was the worst thing He suffered. The Father is too pure to look upon sin, so He forsook Jesus during that time of His suffering ( Hab. 1:13) We are told that not only did Jesus pay for our sins, but He BECAME sin. He experienced the wickedness of sin ( 2 Cor. 5:21) so that we could be His righteousness-VICTORY! How awful that was for Jesus to be what God hated!
When Jesus knew that He had received the totality of the Father's wrath for us, He proclaimed in a loud voice, "IT IS FINISHED!"
This was His victory shout! He had crushed the head of Satan. He despoiled the devil and his wicked angels of all their power over sinner. He was divested of all of his authority to keep men captive to sin. He was weakened tremendously. In this sentence, Jesus is proclaiming that the powers of evil darkness are finished with using their weapons against God's chosen successfully. And because of this disarming of the evil ones, the gospel would be preached throughout the world with great success until He returns.
Pt. 9
His demeanor was such that those pagan centurions attending to the crucifixion were amazed at Him with one exclaiming, "Surely He is the Son of God"-VICTORY! When the darkness-a penetrating, palpable, evil darkness-engulfed the world for three hours and Jesus was most likely attacked by the devil and his angels, He did not rebuke them-VICTORY! When the Father laid on Jesus the sins of the world during that time and poured out His wrath upon His Son, Jesus cried out in despair, "My God, My God, Why hast thou forsaken me?" Jesus, who had eternally had perfect fellowship with the Father experienced the separation from the Father that all humans experience because of their sins, but it was infinitely more acute for Jesus because He had never sinned and thus separated from His Father. This was the worst thing He suffered. The Father is too pure to look upon sin, so He forsook Jesus during that time of His suffering ( Hab. 1:13) We are told that not only did Jesus pay for our sins, but He BECAME sin. He experienced the wickedness of sin ( 2 Cor. 5:21) so that we could be His righteousness-VICTORY! How awful that was for Jesus to be what God hated!
When Jesus knew that He had received the totality of the Father's wrath for us, He proclaimed in a loud voice, "IT IS FINISHED!"
This was His victory shout! He had crushed the head of Satan. He despoiled the devil and his wicked angels of all their power over sinner. He was divested of all of his authority to keep men captive to sin. He was weakened tremendously. In this sentence, Jesus is proclaiming that the powers of evil darkness are finished with using their weapons against God's chosen successfully. And because of this disarming of the evil ones, the gospel would be preached throughout the world with great success until He returns.
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