IT IS FINISHED

These were the famous words that our Lord uttered when He was about to give up His Ghost at the cross, words that have profound significance and yet little understood by the church today as it is busy trying to do what Jesus has finished 2,000 years ago. John 19:30 " So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said," It is finished!" and bowing His head, He gave up His spirit." The modern grace message which has been called all sorts of names like greasy grace,cheap grace, easy grace e.t.c by its critics has been gaining traction among many churched and unchurched here in Rwanda as I found out recently on a visit to a family in Kigali, a family which I came to understand were devout churchgoers in the former years until they came across the gospel which is all about Jesus and His FINISHED WORK and this is where they repented and started sharing this gospel to their brethren in the church but the church leadership was not impressed by this and they expelled them and this is a similar fate that has happened to many here in Kigali where many churches continue to preach from the "depths of Satan" (see my earlier blogs). The fact that salvation of man cannot be attained in any way or form by man himself is a message that has been hard to receive by many in the church today because it takes away the credit from man and gives it all to God, man by nature loves credit and the christian is no different, he always thinks that his eternal destiny is dependent upon his decision or his "freewill" but Jesus tells us in his scriptures that WITHOUT HIM we can do nothing of ourselves for we are like dust that can be blown away by the wind and it is only because of God's mercy that we are saved not of our works or our faith lest anyone should boast but how many of us have boasted of our faith? we often hear many in the church say that they will go to heaven when they die because they believed in Christ, well it sounds spiritual but wait a minute, if it is true that we go to heaven because we have believed in Christ, then who is the source of our faith? is it not God Himself who has testified in the scriptures that unless the Father draws one to Christ, he cannot believe for man is not capable of seeking God; John 6:44, Romans 3:11. these verses prove that NO ONE can take a decision for Christ unless the Holy Spirit reveals the TRUTH to him for the whole plan of salvation was initiated by God from before the foundation of the world and that EVERYONE will come to the knowledge of the TRUTH who is Jesus Christ for it is the Father's will to do so. Dear reader, let it be known that your salvation and mine is entirely in the hands of Jesus and the scriptures say in 1 cor 15:22 that ALL die in Adam, but ALL shall live in Christ, all shall be saved for the Lord secured the salvation of all at the cross and its a done deal as far as God is concerned, IT IS FINISHED!