“28 Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.” 29 A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips. 30 When He had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, He bowed his head and gave up His spirit.” – John 19:28-30 

“Into Your hands I commit my spirit; deliver me, LORD, my faithful God.”

– Psalms 31:5

“Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and He will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels?” – Matthew 26:53

“Into Your hands I commit my spirit; deliver me, LORD, my faithful God.”

– Psalms 31:5

Answer : Jesus Christ had to Fulfill /Complete a GREAT PLAN !!

A PLAN of God that was formulated before the creation of the world

1 Peter 1:18-21 “18For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, 19but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. 20He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake. 21Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God.]

Thus it was a PLAN to make for God

• His people, a people who would respond to Him and love Him,

• A people who would be cleansed from their sins,

• A people who would choose holiness and reject sin.

Thus it was a PLAN to make for God

• His people, a people who would respond to Him and love Him,

• A people who would be cleansed from their sins,

• A people who would choose holiness and reject sin.

Why was this PLAN (putting Christ on the cross) necessary ?

Why was this PLAN (putting Christ on the cross) necessary ?

What must God the Father do in order for men, women and children, to respond in love to Him ?

What must God do to cleanse people from their sin ?

Why was this PLAN (putting Christ on the cross) necessary ?

A Great PLAN which required Jesus to shed His blood, to totally give His life, so that some people would respond in love, and these people can be cleansed from their sins.

What then was the PLAN ?

The PLAN was • Revealed in Scriptures

• Repeatedly illustrated through the Sacrifices given to God’s people, Israel

• Yet not Received by just Anyone, but understood by only those whose eyes have been opened by the Spirit of God.

What then was the PLAN ?

God’s great PLAN calls for the Almighty Creator to be made small and powerless. Why ?

So that it will Solve the problem of Sin;it will Sanctify (make holy) those who

repent of their sin and embrace God.

What then was the PLAN ?

“ATONEMENT” [At-one (with) men]

Jesus took our sins and took the punishment for those sins on His person.

What then was the PLAN ?

Jesus literally TOOK our sins, as if He had committed them – that’s why He was justly punished for those sins.

“For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh,

God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh,” – Romans 8:3

The PLAN was • Revealed in Scriptures• Repeatedly illustrated through the Sacrifices given to God’s

people, Israel• Yet not Received by just Anyone, but understood by only those

whose eyes have been opened by the Spirit of God.

Through His life and on the Cross, Jesus fulfills ALL the Scriptural prophecies about who He is and what He would do.

“28 Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.” 29 A jar of wine vinegar was there …” – John 19:28-29a

The PLAN was • Revealed in Scriptures• Repeatedly illustrated through the Sacrifices given to God’s

people, Israel• Yet not Received by just Anyone, but understood by only those

whose eyes have been opened by the Spirit of God.

Through His life and on the Cross, Jesus fulfills ALL the Scriptural prophecies about who He is and what He would do.

“28 Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.” 29 A jar of wine vinegar was there …” – John 19:28-29a

Psalms 69:21 “They put gall in my food and gave me vinegar for my thirst.”

The PLAN was • Revealed in Scriptures• Repeatedly illustrated through the Sacrifices given to God’s

people, Israel• Yet not Received by just Anyone, but understood by only those

whose eyes have been opened by the Spirit of God.

Through His life and on the Cross, Jesus fulfills ALL the Scriptural prophecies about who He is and what He would do.

“All kings shall fall down before Him and all nations shall serve Him”

versus“He is despised and rejected of men.”

The PLAN was • Revealed in Scriptures

• Repeatedly illustrated through the Sacrifices given to God’s people, Israel

• Yet not Received by just Anyone, but understood by only those whose eyes have been opened by the Spirit of God.

On the Cross, Jesus completed ALL the Sacrifices that God has required of His People (Israel).

On the Cross, Jesus completed ALL the Sacrifices that God has required of His People (Israel).

1. Burnt Offering (Leviticus 1)2. Drink Offering (Exodus 29)3. Grain Offering (Leviticus 2, 23)4. Fellowship / Friendship / Peace Offering

(Leviticus 3, 23)5. Sin Offering (Leviticus 4) / Main Sin

Offering (on the Day of Atonement) (Leviticus 16)

On the Cross, Jesus completed ALL the Sacrifices that God has required of His People (Israel).

1. Burnt Offering (Leviticus 1)2. Drink Offering (Exodus 29)3. Grain Offering (Leviticus 2, 23)4. Fellowship / Friendship / Peace Offering (Leviticus 3, 23)5. Sin Offering (Leviticus 4) / Main Sin Offering (on the Day of

Atonement) (Leviticus 16)

Jesus’ obedience all the way to the cross was the burnt offering of absolute submission to the Father’s will.

On the Cross, Jesus completed ALL the Sacrifices that God has required of His People (Israel).

1. Burnt Offering (Leviticus 1)

2. Drink Offering (Exodus 29)3. Grain Offering (Leviticus 2, 23)4. Fellowship / Friendship / Peace Offering (Leviticus 3, 23)5. Sin Offering (Leviticus 4) / Main Sin Offering (on the Day of

Atonement) (Leviticus 16)

The outpouring of the wine of His life was the drink offering our Lord Jesus offered for us out of love.

“For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time for my departure is near.” – 2 Tim 4:6

1. Burnt Offering (Leviticus 1)2. Drink Offering (Exodus 29)

3. Grain Offering (Leviticus 2, 23)4. Fellowship / Friendship / Peace Offering (Leviticus 3, 23)5. Sin Offering (Leviticus 4) / Main Sin Offering (on the Day of

Atonement) (Leviticus 16)

On the cross, as death-inflicting pain engulfed Him, Jesus seemed like the loaf of sacrificial bread burnt and transformed into a new reality. His body of death was becoming the Bread of Life.

1. Burnt Offering (Leviticus 1)2. Drink Offering (Exodus 29)3. Grain Offering (Leviticus 2, 23)

4. Fellowship / Friendship / Peace Offering (Leviticus 3, 23)

5. Sin Offering (Leviticus 4) / Main Sin Offering (on the Day of Atonement) (Leviticus 16)

Throughout His life and even in death, Jesus Himself became the ultimate peace offering, reconciling all people with God.

1. Burnt Offering (Leviticus 1)2. Drink Offering (Exodus 29)3. Grain Offering (Leviticus 2, 23)4. Fellowship / Friendship / Peace Offering (Leviticus 3, 23)

5. Sin Offering (Leviticus 4) / Main Sin Offering (on the Day of Atonement) (Leviticus 16)

Jesus became both the slaughtered lamb and the scapegoat. By taking into His heart the sin and guilt of the world, and going with that into His death, Jesus created the atonement, the supreme act of reconciliation that makes it possible for all of us to be at one with God.

1. Burnt Offering (Leviticus 1)2. Drink Offering (Exodus 29)3. Grain Offering (Leviticus 2, 23)4. Fellowship / Friendship / Peace Offering (Leviticus 3, 23)

5. Sin Offering (Leviticus 4) / Main Sin Offering (on the Day of Atonement) (Leviticus 16)

Jesus became both the slaughtered lamb and the scapegoat. By taking into His heart the sin and guilt of the world, and going with that into His death, Jesus created the atonement, the supreme act of reconciliation that makes it possible for all of us to be at one with God.

KALAH

The PLAN was • Revealed in Scriptures• Repeatedly illustrated through the Sacrifices given to God’s

people, Israel

• Yet not Received by just Anyone, but understood by only those whose eyes have been opened by the Spirit of God.

With the fulfillment of God’s great PLAN, the fullness of God’s Spirit can now be given to ALL mankind, as long as they respond to God’s mercy and invitation.

With the fulfillment of God’s great PLAN, the fullness of God’s Spirit can now be given to ALL mankind, as long as they respond to God’s mercy and invitation.

Everything that was wrong has been reversed and made right.

Garden of Eden (disobedience)

With the fulfillment of God’s great PLAN, the fullness of God’s Spirit can now be given to ALL mankind, as long as they respond to God’s mercy and invitation.

Everything that was wrong has been reversed and made right.

Garden of Eden

Garden of Gethsemane(submission)

With the fulfillment of God’s great PLAN, the fullness of God’s Spirit can now be given to ALL mankind, as long as they respond to God’s mercy and invitation.

Everything that was wrong has been reversed and made right.

Tree of Knowledge of Good & Evil

With the fulfillment of God’s great PLAN, the fullness of God’s Spirit can now be given to ALL mankind, as long as they respond to God’s mercy and invitation.

Everything that was wrong has been reversed and made right.

Tree of Knowledge of Good & Evil

Tree of Crucifixion(Gal 3:13 / Deut 21:23)

With the fulfillment of God’s great PLAN, the fullness of God’s Spirit can now be given to ALL mankind, as long as they respond to God’s mercy and invitation.

Everything that was wrong has been reversed and made right.

Adam and Eve believed the lies of satan

With the fulfillment of God’s great PLAN, the fullness of God’s Spirit can now be given to ALL mankind, as long as they respond to God’s mercy and invitation.

Everything that was wrong has been reversed and made right.

Adam and Eve believed the lies of satan

Jesus overcame the power of satan

Because, while it is finished, IT IS NOT OVER.

Sin has greatly affected the world – human race, as well as the earth.

“21that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God. 22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.” – Romans 8:21-22

“21that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God. 22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.” – Romans 8:21-22

“Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 8Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and famines. These are the beginning of birth pains.”– Mark 13:7b-8

“until the full number of the Gentiles has come in” – Romans 11:25b

Until Christ’ second coming, let us (the church) turn suffering into good.

It is finished, but it is NOT over.