247. ‘TIS FINISHED, THE MESSIAH DIES
1. ‘Tis finished! The messiah dies;
Cut off for sins, but not His own:
Accomplished is the sacrifice,
The great redeeming work is done.
2. ‘Tis finished! All the debt in paid;
Justice divine is satisfied:
The grand and full atonement made;
God for a guilty world hath died.
3. The veil is rent in Christ alone;
The living way to heaven is seen:
The middle wall is broken down;
And all mankind may enter in.
4. The types and figures are fulfilled;
Exacted is the legal pain:
The precious promises are sealed;
The spotless lamb of God is slain.
5. The reign of sin and death is o’er;
And all may live from sin set free:
Satan hath lost his mortal power;
‘Tis swallowed up in victory.
6. Saved from the legal curse I am;
My Saviour hangs on yonder tree:
See there the meek, expiring Lamb!
‘Tis finished! He expires for me.
7. Accepted in the well-beloved;
And clothed in righteousness divine:
I see the bar to heaven removed;
And all thy merits, Lord, are mine.
8. Death, hell, and sin are now subdued;
All grace is now to sinners given:
And lo, I plead the atoning blood,
And in Thy right I claim thy heaven.
1. Admit that you are a sinner. "For all [humans] have sinned, and comes short of the glory of God....[and] the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 3:23)
2. Repent now. "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out ...[for] if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness " (Acts 3:19, 1 John 1:9)
3. Believe that God loves you and Jesus died for you. "God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet Sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8)
4. Invite Jesus into your life through prayer of faith. Jesus says, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me" (Revelation 3:20)
