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  • Hi everyone, I'm Angelo.

  • Christians believe that

  • when the Lord Jesus said on the cross "It is finished,"

  • He was saying that God's work of saving mankind had been completed.

  • So everyone feels certain that

  • when the Lord returns, He won't have any more salvation work to do,

  • but He'll just lift all believers up into the sky to meet the Lord,

  • take us into heaven, and that'll be it.

  • This is something that believers in the Lord firmly believe.

  • That's why so many are always gazing at the sky,

  • idly waiting for the Lord to take them straight up into His kingdom.

  • But now the great disasters have arrived

  • and most haven't seen the Lord's coming,

  • so their faith is waning and they're feeling discouraged.

  • Some even have doubts:

  • Was the Lord's promise even real? Is He coming, or not?

  • Actually, the Lord Jesus came back in secret as the Son of man a long time ago,

  • expressing a lot of truths

  • and doing the work of judgment beginning with the house of God.

  • But most people aren't trying to listen for the voice of God

  • or seeking to hear the Holy Spirit's words to the churches,

  • and they have been assuming all along that

  • the Lord has to come on a cloud to take them up into heaven,

  • so they're missing the chance to welcome the Lord.

  • That will be a lifelong regret.

  • This may be very closely linked to how people

  • interpret the Lord Jesus' words on the cross:

  • Let's start with this.

  • Why is it that so many believers think that the Lord Jesus saying "It is finished"

  • meant that God's work to save mankind was done?

  • Is there any biblical basis for this?

  • Is this confirmed by the Holy Spirit?

  • Did the Lord ever say

  • that He wasn't going to perform any more work to save mankind?

  • Has the Holy Spirit testified

  • that these words were referring to God completing His work of salvation?

  • We can say with certainty: No.

  • But then, why does everyone define these words from the Lord Jesus

  • as meaning that God's salvation work was fully completed?

  • That's a little absurd, isn't it?

  • Understanding God's words is no easy task.

  • It says in 2 Peter 1:20,

  • The consequences of interpreting the Scripture on your own are very serious.

  • Think of the Pharisees

  • they personally interpreted the prophecies about the Messiah,

  • and as a result, the Messiah came,

  • and they saw the Lord Jesus didn't fit with their interpretations.

  • So they condemned His work and even had Him crucified.

  • They faced very serious consequences.

  • This directly led to them being damned by the Lord Jesus.

  • They were cursed!

  • So when the Lord Jesus said on the cross "It is finished,"

  • what was He talking about?

  • Understanding this requires careful thought

  • on the biblical prophecies about the Lord's return in the last days,

  • especially the things the Lord Jesus personally said He'd do,

  • and His parables about the kingdom of heaven.

  • These things are directly linked to His work in the last days.

  • We need to have a basic understanding of these prophecies and parables

  • to correctly understand what the Lord Jesus was really talking about

  • when He said this on the cross.

  • Even if we don't fully understand it,

  • that's no call to assume that

  • He meant that God's work to save mankind was completely done.

  • This is an arbitrary, ludicrous belief.

  • In fact, if we give serious consideration

  • to the Lord Jesus' prophecies and parables for the kingdom of heaven,

  • we can gain a basic understanding of the kingdom

  • and the Lord's work upon His return.

  • Then we won't misinterpret His statement, "It is finished."

  • The Lord Jesus prophesied:

  • And in 1 Peter it says:

  • In Revelation, we see:

  • The Lord Jesus also used a lot of parables

  • to describe the kingdom of heaven, like

  • We can see from these prophecies and parables that

  • the Lord Jesus said He'd do a great deal of work when He returns.

  • But the most important part of it is

  • expressing the truth and doing the work of judgment.

  • This will lead people to enter into all truths

  • and then sort all according to their kind.

  • Those who can be perfected will be perfected,

  • and those who must be eliminated will be eliminated.

  • This will completely realize everything the Lord Jesus said about the kingdom.

  • Think of the wheat and the tares, the fishing net,

  • the wise and the foolish virgins,

  • the sheep and the goats, and the good and evil servants.

  • The work of judgment starting with the house of God

  • will separate the wheat from the tares,

  • the good from the evil servants,

  • those who love the truth from those who just crave comfort.

  • The wise virgins will attend the Lamb's wedding feast and be perfected by God.

  • What about the foolish virgins?

  • They'll fall into the disasters, weeping and gnashing their teeth,

  • because they didn't listen for God's voice.

  • This is the work of judgment to sort all according to their kind,

  • rewarding the good and punishing the evil,

  • and this will completely fulfill this prophecy in Revelation:

  • When we really understand the Lord Jesus' prophecies,

  • we can see that the Lord's coming in the last days

  • is mainly to express the truth and do the work of judgment,

  • sorting everyone according to their kind and determining their outcome.

  • So can we really claim

  • that when the Lord Jesus said "It is finished" on the cross,

  • He was saying that God's work to save mankind was finished?

  • Will we continue to foolishly gaze at the sky,

  • waiting for the Lord Jesus to come down on a cloud

  • and take us up into the sky to meet with Him?

  • Will we still casually condemn all the truths God has expressed

  • when He works in the last days?

  • Will we brazenly deny that the Lord has returned in the flesh as the Son of man

  • to do the judgment work of the last days?

  • The great disasters have already arrived,

  • and a lot of religious people

  • are still lost in their dream of the Lord returning,

  • thinking He would never cast them out.

  • It's time to wake up.

  • If they don't wake up, once the disasters are over

  • and Almighty God is openly appearing to all people,

  • God will have made heaven and earth anew,

  • and all those people in the religious world

  • will be wailing and gnashing their teeth.

  • That will fulfill this prophecy in Revelation:

  • Many are bound to ask

  • what the Lord Jesus really did mean when He said "It is finished" on the cross.

  • It's actually very simple.

  • The Lord Jesus' words were always very pragmatic,

  • so when He said this,

  • He was certainly referring to His work of redemption.

  • But people insist on understanding these practical words from the Lord

  • as being about God's work to save man,

  • but this is entirely arbitrary,

  • because God had only partially completed His work to save mankind.

  • There was still the most critical stepHis judgment work in the last days.

  • So why would you maintain that "It is finished" meant that

  • all of God's work of salvation was done?

  • Isn't that somewhat absurd and unreasonable?

  • Why was the Lord Jesus crucified in the first place?

  • What did He actually accomplish through this? What was the outcome?

  • All believers know this,

  • because this is documented very clearly within the Bible.

  • The Lord Jesus came to redeem mankind.

  • By being crucified, the Lord Jesus served as a sin offering for humanity,

  • taking on everyone's sins

  • so that people no longer had to be condemned and put to death under the law.

  • Then people could have their sins forgiven

  • as long as they believed in the Lord, and prayed and confessed to Him,

  • and enjoy incredible grace from God.

  • That is salvation by grace,

  • and it is what the Lord Jesus' redemption work achieved.

  • Now although our sins were forgiven through our faith,

  • no one can deny

  • that we still can't help but sin all the time.

  • We're living in a cycle of sinning, confessing, and sinning again.

  • We haven't escaped sin at all.

  • What does this mean?

  • It means that we still have a sinful nature,

  • and we have satanic dispositions,

  • so we can't fix the problem of continuing to sin

  • after our sins were forgiven.

  • This leaves all believers at a lossit's something very painful.

  • God's words say,

  • God is righteous and holy, so anyone who is impure cannot see Him.

  • So how could people who are always sinning and resisting God

  • be worthy of entering God's kingdom?

  • Since people haven't fully escaped sin and become purified,

  • can God's work to save mankind really be over?

  • God's salvation will be complete salvation

  • He would never give up on His work halfway.

  • That's why the Lord Jesus prophesied His return multiple times.

  • He has returned in the last days, quite a while ago, as Almighty God incarnate.

  • Almighty God has expressed truths to do the work of judgment

  • on the foundation of the Lord's work of redemption.

  • This is to cleanse mankind of our corrupt dispositions

  • so we can be freed from the shackles of sin.

  • It's to fully save us from Satan's forces

  • and ultimately bring us into God's kingdom.

  • It's not until Almighty God's judgment work of the last days has been completed

  • that God's work to save mankind will be finished.

  • Almighty God's words are very clear.

  • In the Age of Grace,

  • the Lord Jesus' redemption work was just to forgive man's sins.

  • It is Almighty God's work of judgment in the last days

  • that thoroughly cleanses and saves mankind.

  • Almighty God's words judge and expose

  • man's rebellious, anti-God nature and essence,

  • allowing us to know our own satanic disposition and corruption.

  • It shows us that we're full of satanic dispositions,

  • like arrogance, craftiness, and wickedness

  • without the slightest human likeness.

  • This is the only way for people to see the truth

  • of how deeply corrupted by Satan they are,

  • so they genuinely despise themselves and develop true remorse,

  • then repent to God.

  • Then they see how precious the truth is

  • and begin to focus on putting God's words into practice

  • and entering into truth reality.

  • This allows them to gradually get rid of their corrupt disposition

  • and begin to transform in their life disposition,

  • and ultimately become able to truly submit to and fear God,

  • and live by His words.

  • This is how people can entirely cast off Satan's forces

  • and be fully saved by God,

  • then they can be protected by God

  • and survive the great disasters in the last days,

  • and enter into the beautiful destination God has prepared for mankind.

  • This fulfills the prophecy in Revelation 21:3–6.

  • Here, God says

  • This is entirely different from what the Lord Jesus said on the cross:

  • These are different contexts, different worlds.

  • When the Lord Jesus said "It is finished" on the cross,

  • He was talking about completing His work of redemption.

  • The words "It is done" in the Book of Revelation

  • are God talking about fully completing His work to save mankind,

  • when God's tabernacle is with men, He will live among them,

  • and they will be the people of His kingdom,

  • where there will be no more tears, death, or misery.

  • This is the only hallmark of God completing His work of salvation.

  • At this point, it should be clear to everyone that

  • claiming the Lord Jesus' words on the cross meant that

  • God's work of salvation was done

  • is entirely contrary to the reality of God's work

  • and is purely a human notion.

  • It is a misinterpretation of the Lord's words that is deceptive and misleading,

  • and there's no telling how many people it has done in.

  • Those who blindly cling to this,

  • just waiting for the Lord to suddenly appear on a cloud

  • so they can be taken up into the kingdom,

  • all the while refusing to examine the many truths expressed by Almighty God,

  • will entirely miss their chance to meet the Lord.

  • And of course, they'll never escape sin and be fully saved.

  • Then a lifetime of faith will come to naught,

  • and they are bound to fall into the disasters and be eliminated by God.

  • That's all we have for today. Thank you for watching.

  • If you'd like to learn more truths or have any questions,

  • we would love to see your comments below.

  • See you next time!

Hi everyone, I'm Angelo.

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信仰求真(Sermon Series | What Did the Lord Jesus Really Mean When He Said "It Is Finished" on the Cross?)

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