Open Heavens 23 July 2016:
Saturday daily devotional by Pastor E.A. Adeboye – it is finished
Memorise: For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that,
though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor; that ye through his
poverty might be rich. 2nd Corinthians 8:9
Read: John 19:28-30, (KJV)
19:28 After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now
accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
19:29 Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they
filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.
19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said,
It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
Bible in one year: Ephesians 4:17-6:24, Psalms 18:29-42
MESSAGE
When our Lord Jesus Christ cried,
“It is finished”, He really did mean that it is finished. However, some
children of God do not know the important of that statement. Some believe that
the wages of sin have been fully paid and so we are on our way to Heaven.
Correct. Some people believe that all the misfortunes that came upon human race
as a result of the fall have been paid for. This is equally true. The problem
we must however fix in our devotional reading for today is irregularity in the
doctrine of the atonement of Jesus Christ. We must get it right and perfect.
Some believe that when Jesus
Christ said “it is finished” He meant that He had paid the debt of sin in full
and do not believe that they are missing a gem in the work of redemption. This
category of disciples focus on the spiritual aspect of redemption, without
paying close attention to the physical. It is needful here to say that the
atonement of Jesus Christ is all-encompassing – spiritual, physical, material,
emotional, psychological and what have you. For example, when Adam sinned, it
was not only the spiritual aspect of his life that was affected; his career as
a gardener was affected because he had to labour more for less. Even his wife
had to undergo the rigours of labour at childbirth. In the same vain, when the
cure for sin came, it came in full. So, if you have been redeemed by His death
at Calvary, I say congratulations because your ailing business, marriage,
health condition etc are now redeemed! The Bible says:
“For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that,
though he was rich, yet, for your sakes he became poor; that ye through his
poverty might be rich.”
2nd Corinthians 8:9
“Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his
seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. In this
the children of God are manifest,”
1st John 3:9-10a
On her encounter with Jesus
Christ, the woman whose sin of adultery was forgiven her was told to “Go and
sin no more.” (John
8:11). So also was the impotent man that was healed by Jesus (John 5:4).
Beloved, Jesus paid it in full for your deliverance for spiritual and physical
calamities; sin, sickness, poverty and all, but He did not pay for you to
continue in sin. (23 July 2016 open heavens)
Prayer Point
Father, I thank you for sending your Son, Jesus to pay the debt He
did not owe on my behalf. Please let this atoning work deliver me from all woes
of sin in Jesus’ name.
Open Heavens Daily Devotional, written by Pastor E.A
Adeboye
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