It Is Finished

One of my goals for 2019 was to begin blogging for this site. With this plan mentally set, I began thinking originally of a piece that would explain why Meeting on Main Ministries came to be. That blog will come in due time, but as I was preparing for it, many daily thoughts continued to rise. I decided to put that off till later and just begin to journal thoughts that I have. Some if these thoughts you may already have had or some you may never have thought about. With that said, the first blog will not be about this ministry but the person in which this ministry points to.

As I was driving today a wonderful song came through my phones shuffle. The song is called, ‘It is finished’ by the Gaither Vocal Band. It’s fantastic and I believe everyone should go listen to it. Something hit me as I listened to the last part of the final verse. Here are the lines:

Then I heard that the King of the Ages
He had fought all my battles for me
And victory, victory, was mine for the claiming
And now, praise His name I am free!

The concept of the song comes from John 19, a verse I have read many times within my life. So often when we teach the cry of ‘it is finished,’ we strictly attach it to the fulfilling of Scripture (which is context), while the underlining necessary presupposition seems to linger quietly in the background. A foundational belief in order for anything to be finished. By this I mean Christ’s Deity.

Think about this for a second. What a fantastic verse to show who believers think Christ is as well as who He thought He was. We seem to leave these verses on the level that Christ completed what He set out to do on the cross, yet for a man to say at that moment, that He has just fulfilled the Holy Scripture, is a claim that only God could make. Not only has Christ just stated He has accomplished His mission (we have sort of speak a mission from and for God – God’s will for our lives), but the underlying message is that of whose mission. The answer – God’s personal mission. The mission only God stated He could do. He has just fulfilled God’s own personal mission. We can state it like so:

1)     God has a plan for salvation stated in Scripture that only God Himself can finish

2)     Jesus finished Gods plan for salvation that is stated in Scripture that only God Himself can finish

3)     Therefore Jesus is God

I just thought it interesting, that when we often read verses in the Bible, sometimes we touch on what the ink states instead of what the words are saying.

No wonder the song writer writes victory!

Ryan Willert