COME DOWN vs. IT IS FINISHED

 "Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, "So! You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, come down from the cross and save yourself!" Mark 15:29-30 NIV

"He's the King of Israel! Let Him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in Him." Matthew 27:40

"From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land. About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice-Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? -which means, My God, my god why have you forsaken me? Matthew 27:45-46 NIV (from noon to 3p.m.)

Luke and John record the death and happenings but especially when the Jews yelled out, "Crucify Him!"

But the do not record the base of the cross and the jeering, insulting comments of the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked Him.

Friends,

Let us approach this cross and examine the attitudes of the leaders. I repeat the soldiers, romans, the Jews all mocked and hurled insults to our Savior.

We are now on the other side of the cross. Would we ask such a thing, "Come down!"

I just sit now staring at the cross with humble, complete sadness that God thought of me that He let His son die for me. He had to go to death to come to new LIFE.

We would not cry out, "Come down"!

He was the final sacrifice. Every Jew must know that sacrifice with the spotless lamb must be done yearly, but God was saying stop!, no more, my son finishes it all.

Therefore, Jesus cries out, "It is finished!"

It is finiahed!

I thank God that it is finished and we know the whole story and I live in the victory fully knowing that Christ is the Savior!

Friend right now pray:

I pray for_____who needs to understand the work of God and the finished story of the cross. His wonderful love and grace! Open the eyes of their hearts so they can see. In Jesus name!

He could not come down from the cross to show He was the son of God! They needed no more proof.

It was finished! Amen