Here We Still Stand-Matt Popovits

John 19:26-30

I love those three words “It Is Finished”
Tetelestai is good news. These words stand in opposition to every other solution the world offers.
Jesus says no striving allowed and no doing, but remember “it is finished”

Every time I hear these words I am transported from the battlefield to the dance floor.
When I hear these words (it is finished), life ceases to be about my striving and doing and instead on celebrating what has been DONE in Jesus Christ.

  • Living in the finished work of Jesus Christ is appreciation and awe for what Jesus did for us on the cross.

Thirst in the Scriptures is associated with spiritual dryness or absence of God. 

  • Living in the finished work of Jesus is freedom that God is working in you as you rest in Him.
    • This leads to dependence on God as he forms and works on us.  It includes fear, love and trust in God in all things.
God is not in the punishing and atoning game with you because He has already has done that in Christ.

  • Living in the finished work of Jesus is freedom that God is at work around you.
    • What brings us together is this hope in the deep thing of the finished work of Jesus Christ.
    • It’s not us vs. them tribalism. If anything, the cross of Jesus builds empathy for those who still believe they have to save themselves.
    • Your neighbor is on the battlefield trying to work hard, strive for moralism and earn salvation. Your neighbor does not know that the war is over. We must tell them that “it is finished.”
This is the good news—it is done and you are free.  He is drawing you deeper into what He has done.  

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