Jesus finished. You haven’t. But with Him you will. What does this mean? When you are united to Jesus by faith—the Bible often refers to this as being “in Christ”—all that He accomplished on the cross becomes yours. Here are four things that are y...

There was only one person who could ever truly say, “It is finished.” None of us will be able to say that when we die, because none of us have been able to say it while we live.

None of us will be able to say to God “I glorified you on earth...

What did Jesus come into the world to do? He came to seek and save the lost. He came to give His life as a ransom for many, and on the cross He said, “It is finished.”

What is finished? Jesus finished bearing the guilt of our sins. He finish...

Humanity’s conflict with the devil goes back to the beginning. Satan tempted the man and the woman and led them into the sin that forfeited paradise. They got the knowledge of evil and came under the power of the evil one. That’s been our story ev...

Why did Jesus come into the world? One important reason the Son of God became a man was to live the life you and I would have to live in order to enter heaven.

Jesus lived the perfect life. There was no sin in Him, and the night before He di...

What was finished? One thing that was finished was the long night of Jesus’ suffering. Jesus knows about suffering from the inside. He has been to the edge of endurance.

Jesus knows about excruciating suffering more than anyone else has ever...

We could list passage after passage from the Old Testament that was fulfilled by Jesus’ words here, but let’s focus on just two of them:

First, Psalm 22 is an amazing prophecy depicting the cross in extraordinary detail. It was written a tho...

The same Jesus who once called out to a crowd, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink” (7:37), also cried out from the cross, “I thirst.” This is the only time that Jesus refers to His own physical suffering on the cross. Jesus thirsted ...

What did it mean for the Father to give up His dearly loved Son to a cross? What did it mean for the Holy Son of God to give Himself up to become our sin-bearer and be shut out from the love of the Father?

Christians sometimes say something...

The clearest revelation of hell is at the cross. Hell has six dimensions and Christ experienced all of them on the cross…

1. Jesus was in conscious suffering. Hell is a place of weeping and gnashing of teeth (Luke 13:28), and Jesus entered i...

As Mary stood at the foot of the cross her heart must have been crying out, “My son, my son, my son…” And Jesus was saying, “You must no longer think of me as your son.”

When Jesus said, “Woman, behold, your son,” He was saying, “From now on...

This wasn’t an eclipse. An eclipse doesn’t last three hours. God turned off the light. The sudden darkness tells us something entirely new was happening.

The darkness reminds us that the events that took place in these hours are beyond our u...

The thief on the cross went from being an unbeliever, to being a believer, to being in heaven in a single day. Jesus could do this for every Christian if He wanted to. Imagine what that would be like: Every conversion on a Sunday morning would lea...

Can you imagine anything further from the mind of this man? He feels that he is already in hell, and that the worst is still to come. He’s absolutely hopeless and powerless, and in the middle of all his pain and guilt, Jesus says, “Paradise... tod...

Don’t you just hate waiting for exam results? You take the test, hand in your paper, and then you wait. Imagine living your whole life waiting for the results. Will I make it into heaven, or will I spend eternity in hell?

When this man says ...

If the thief had lived 30 more years, he would have lived a new and different life, but he didn’t have that opportunity. The fact that he entered paradise anyway shows us where the basis for our salvation lies.

Our salvation in Christ involv...

Here is a man who is full of anger against God, but then something changes in his soul. Let’s consider four things we are told in this story:

He begins to fear God.

“Do you not fear God?” (23:40), he said to the other criminal.

H...

His life is slipping away. Earth is receding, and eternity is beginning to loom large. It’s right on the horizon. He had not planned on this, and he had not prepared for it either.

As a Jew, he’d always believed in God, but it had never made...

One of the two criminals who was crucified with Jesus spoke in the last hours of his life. He was completely lost, completely helpless, and he was still angry with God.

You can almost feel this man’s hostility toward Christ... “If you’re God...

How is it possible for God to forgive the worst sins, and for Him to embrace the worst sinners? That question takes us to the heart of this amazing prayer.

Man’s sin reached its full horror and its most awful expression on the cross as we cr...

Had anyone ever prayed for these men? It is possible that not a single prayer had ever been said for even one of these Roman soldiers at any time in their lives. But Christ prayed for them. And Christ prays for you, too, when nobody else will.

We’ve taken a step back to look at what the men who crucified Jesus were actually doing at the cross. Now let’s take a look at what Christ Himself was doing on the cross.

Thank God that Jesus does not just look down from the cross and say, “...

You haven’t really understood sin until you begin to see who it is that you sin against. Sin is much more serious than breaking a moral code. It is an offense, an affront, an insult against God. That’s what makes it so serious.

You may never...

What were these men really doing when they were nailing Jesus to the cross? Well, one thing they were doing was shutting themselves out of heaven. Did you know that it is actually sin that shuts people out of heaven?

If you could see the joy...

The soldiers took hammers and metal spikes, and they nailed the Son of God to a beam of wood. They lifted Him up on a pole and dropped it into a hole in the ground. Then Jesus spoke for the first time from the cross: “They know not what they do.”<...

This is the true gospel—what Jesus did for us on the cross (gave Himself for our sins), and what He does for us now by the Spirit (rescues us from the present evil age). Notice who gets the glory: “Our God and Father, to whom be glory forever and ...

Throughout history, there have been three versions of Christianity – one that centers on the individual, one that centers on the church, and one that centers on Jesus Christ.

The self-centered gospel is about what you can discover. It goes l...

The battle with the flesh will continue every day of your Christian life. You will never be done with the flesh until you see Jesus. While you cannot get rid of the flesh, you can weaken its position. Grasping this will really help you make sense ...