It Is Finished! (Tetelestai!)

“But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:4-7 NKJV

What a fellowship it is among the children of God! It is a cheerful, exciting, sincere, and honest life sharing in Jesus Christ the Lord. Of course, there shall be tears, agonies, pains, toils, sufferings, heartaches, and joys and victories in the Christian fellowship. This is the body life in the Lord Jesus Christ.

However, there is little recognition of the fact that we have already been cleansed and washed by the blood of Christ Jesus, upon which we stand as the holy [whole] and blameless children of God in His sight. It means there is nothing to contribute in our part to access the throne of grace [the holy of holies]. Why so? It is because Jesus Christ the Lord has finished on the cross in our place.

All we need to do now is come to Jesus Christ the Lord and accept that we have been made whole and blameless by His blood. Christ Jesus the Lord was sinless, so He didn’t have to die. But He died not for Him but for all of us. The cross of Jesus Christ the Lord is a timeless and eternal event. When Christ died we died with Him. When He was buried we were buried with Him. Likewise, when He was raised from the dead we also were raised from the dead (Galatians 2:20).

This is the good news. No human can break the bondage of sin and death by his own merits. We were dead in sins and trespasses (Ephesians 2:1). Jesus Christ the Lord is stronger than the devil, so that He set us free through His blood (Mark 3:27). God rescued us from the strong Satan through the ransom price of His begotten Son Jesus Christ the Lord. God also implanted His Son’s life into us by pouring out the Holy Spirit.

Those who believed in the Son Jesus Christ as Lord and the Father God who sent Him received the gift of the Spirit (Acts 2:38). That’s the infallible mark of Christian. The remarkable deliverance enabled to enter into the perfect state of peace with God, so that we can stand before the Immortal God with confidence in the Lord Jesus Christ. By the mystery of Christ, we were made sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2:6).

The throne of grace is not somewhere in remote space, nor something we can get after death. The throne of grace is accessible right now because it is within us. We were made as living beings (Genesis 2:7). We have not only body and soul, but spirit as God made man in his image and in his likeness. The human spirit was dead in Adam but made alive for the first time in Christ Jesus the Lord.

The human spirit has now been infiltrated by the Holy God, so that we are filled with His Spirit. We became living beings in Jesus Christ the Lord. The state we have been restored in Jesus Christ is exactly what God intended us to before the foundation of the world. We can function and operate as God intended man to do in the Son Jesus Christ through His blood. Do you take it by faith? Do I?