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Posted At: 3:21am by Brent Kuhlman
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Good Friday Trinity Lutheran Church
14 April 2006 Murdock, NE
+ Jesu Juva +
St. John 19:30 “It is finished!”
“It is finished.” Then the Lord Jesus bows His thorn-crowned head and dies.
He’s finished. Mission accomplished. Job well done. Nothing more can be done to answer for your sins. Jesus has died. The salvation job’s done.
Then why do you live as if Jesus hasn’t died? As if He never said, “It is finished?” Why do work so hard on trying to answer for your sins when that job’s been done? Why do you live as if there never was a Good Friday?
What sins do you have? Plenty. More than you can count or keep track of. More than you can confess. Sins that you hate. Ashamed of. Sins that you love. Hold on to with all your heart.
Then there is the endless tyrannical toil of trying to answer for them. Atone for them yourselves. Make up for your mistakes. It’s never ending. Always unfinished business. As if Jesus has done nothing. Contradicting His “It is finished.”
For you today hangs the crucified and dead Jesus. Counted with A World Full Of Sinners Jesus. The With His Stripes You Are Healed Jesus. The Jesus who knew no sin but was made to be sin for you.
Behold! See how God treats all sin and every sinner. Look no further than Jesus -- dead on the Cross. Carries the sin of the world in His Body. Answers for it all. He is damned. Cursed. In your place. Mine. The world’s.
What else is there to do? Can you add to His suffering? His death? Would you dare to say to Jesus? “That’s a nice start Man. Now with your help, of course, I can take care of the rest!”
What part of “It is finished” don’t you understand? God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. All things in heaven and earth are at peace with God the Father through the Blood of Jesus. Atonement’s made. All sin is forgiven.
Yes, that’s right. All. What sin didn’t Jesus die for? What sin of yours isn’t included in His It Is Finished Death? Well? That’s right. None. The Father doesn’t count any of your sin against you. He refuses. Because Jesus His Son died for you.
“Good” Friday. Truly. Absolutely. Salvation achieved. Salvation done.
From Palm Sunday to Good Friday: six days. After His work of winning salvation in those six days, the Lord Jesus rests. In the tomb. Holy Saturday. What’s He’s done is “very good.” And then after that . . . well, that’s getting ahead.
I’ll see you then, the day of our Lord’s Resurrection. The New Creation Day. For Jesus, our Paschal Lamb has set us free. Free to rest in Him and His perfect work as His new creations. “It is finished.” Indeed it is!
Happy Good Friday. In the Name of Jesus.
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