ICS Daily Devotions
It Is Finished
Romans 8:32-35,37 (NKJV) He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? …. Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
Jesus― whom would have been called Yeshua in His native language, so to speak―was the perfect sacrifice for us. He completed the work of redemption and is now sitting at the right hand of the Father.
The death of Jesus on the cross unveiled for all to see the immeasurable depth of God’s unconditional love for us. God sent Yeshua to be the unblemished sacrifice to bridge the yawning gap that centuries of slaughtered animals could only patch temporarily at best.
This is as if we now hold a signed document bearing ‘p.p. Yeshua’ that shows the cancellation of all our debts. Jesus had willingly acted in the Father’s Name. it is as good as done. We exercise our faith in the Risen Lord knowing our righteousness comes from Yeshua, and we boldly enter into the Father’s throne of grace with praise and thanksgiving.
Per procurationem (a Latin term that most of us would know by the much simpler ‘p.p.’) means ‘through the agency of’, signifying an acknowledgement that another person is signing the document, but that they are doing so with authorisation. (https://lawpath.com.au/blog/legal-sign-someone-elses-behalf)
The moment we have received Jesus Christ into our hearts, we are given the right to become a child of God. We become co-heirs with Jesus and given the privilege and pleasure of walking daily with our Father, the Creator of heaven and earth.
However, humans being humans with our concomitant insecurities, feelings of condemnation and unworthiness remain to be huge struggles among Christians. Although a constant awareness of our fallen nature is healthy to keep us in check, the ‘accuser of the brethren’ must not be allowed to steal our joy.
We need to renew our mind and constantly fix our eyes on Yeshua. It is God who justifies and no one, not even the devil, can bring charges against God’s elect. Yeshua is the Christ― the Anointed One― and He had atoned for our sins by His shed blood on the cross.
As Yeshua said some 2000 years ago, ‘It is finished’. Let us live like it truly is.
Sermon Series: The Day that Changed the World – Resurrection Sunday
