What did Jesus mean when He said: It is finished?

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Was it in the style of that popular youtube vid WIHRBLJ? Did He abolish institutional religion? And sacrifice? Or did He mean something else?
 
Jesus was referring to the work he was sent to do in his life. He had taught those whom he was supposed to. He had healed those whom he was supposed to. He had laid down his life as he was supposed to.
 
It was also that he had fulfilled all the scriptures and prophesys of the old testament prophets which came from God and was pure truth…
 
He came to do the work the Father sent him to do, and then he laid down his life as the perfect sacrifice for the salvation of mankind. He demanded his spriit to the Father and sits at the right hand of the Father from whence he will come to judge the living and the dead.
 
kdganey1991 said:
Was it in the style of that popular youtube vid WIHRBLJ? Did He abolish institutional religion? And sacrifice? Or did He mean something else?
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No he didn’t mean to abolish institutional religion and sacrifice. He was part of an institutional religion. When we celebrate Mass it is the continuation of that final sacrifice that he made for us.
 
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Was it in the style of that popular youtube vid WIHRBLJ? Did He abolish institutional religion? And sacrifice? Or did He mean something else?
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Good questions kdganey1991, keep coming back and asking questions. You will see how much sense and beauty Catholicism makes and has the more you learn about it.
 
11 Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, 13 and since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool. 14 For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.

Yes Jesus did come to do away with the ritual sacrifices that were offered to take away sin. His sacrifice was a once and for all sacrifice. No other sacrifices can take away sin.
 
kagan 1991 said:
Was it in the style of that popular youtube video WIHRBLJ? Did He abolish institutional religion? And sacrifice? Or did He mean something else?
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It was the end of the old covenant ,the law of Moses as the only way to God {not possible] and the beginning of the new Covenant paid for with his death on the cross ,the Lamb of God who takes away the sin’s of the world. Jesus told His apostles at the last supper of a new law ,to love one another as He loved them. We are to live as Jesus lived and died not just for ourselves but for each other. Jesus gives us the true meaning as to how to live out the Law that was given to Moses. No He did not abolish religion or sacrifice,He in started a new Church and a new way to sacrifice,serve one another fallow His ways,in what we say and do.
Pick up your cross each day and fallow Him.
Bob
 
and exactly what new sacrifice did he start, he was the sacrifice, no need for more sacrifices. Pick up your cross and follow me, means to follow his teachings and not deny him to others. If we need to sacrifice (personally) to follow his teachings, then we need to.
 
kdganey1991 said:
Was it in the style of that popular youtube vid WIHRBLJ? Did He abolish institutional religion? And sacrifice? Or did He mean something else?
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It is finished…means Christ work of salvation is finished…but it does not mean our work is done…we still have to pick up our cross.

Matt 7 21 says, not anyone who calls me Lord Lord will make it to heaven…but he who does the will of the Father.

And we have to apply Christ sacrifice in us…catholiceducation.org/articles/apologetics/ap0091.html

n the one hand, as an Evangelical Protestant, I had firm convictions about the finished work of Jesus Christ; that He accomplished our redemption on the cross. Those convictions I still hold fast to. Every Christian, every Catholic must. The work of our redemption is accomplished. It is finished. But the application of that redemptive work of Christ by the Holy Spirit is another matter, one that I did not really come to grips with because it involves suffering which nobody wants to come to grips with — either suffering in this life or suffering afterwards to expiate or to repay or to provide restitution for the effects of sin.

But that distinction is going to be crucial from the beginning of our time today until the end — that Christ has accomplished our redemption. It’s over and done with. He has finished it. But then He sends the Holy Spirit to apply it, and the application of redemption is just as essential. We don’t have a binary deity, the Father and the Son We have a trinitery deity, a family — a Father, a Son and a Holy Spirit. Jesus said, “I come to baptize with fire and spirit.” And so, when the Spirit comes at Pentecost, tongues of fire appear, and whenever the Holy Spirit appears, there is Holy Fire. When we are taken up into the Spirit, there we are consumed with a passionate, burning love, the furnace of Christ’s heart, the reality of the Holy Spirit, the fiery love of God.

That is not because Christ’s work is not enough. It’s rather the application of the work of Jesus Christ.

The essence of Christianity is Christ reproducing His life, His suffering, His death and then His resurrection in glory in us. That is the essence of Christianity.

Christ has paid once and for all for our sin. His death is the ultimate satisfaction and price for our redemption, but His life and His death must be lived out in us. T**hat’s why we need to pick up our cross, and we need to imitate Christ. Did you catch that? We don’t suffer because Christ’s sufferings weren’t enough. We suffer because Christ’s life must be reproduced in us. It is finished. It is accomplished, but now it must be applied. **The work of the third person of the Holy Spirit is New Testament history, is personal history.
 
kdganey1991 said:
Was it in the style of that popular youtube vid WIHRBLJ? Did He abolish institutional religion? And sacrifice? Or did He mean something else?
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It means that the work of salvation is complete. The price of sin is paid. Therefore when you are baptized, which Paul is the circumcision not made by hands, you are placed into the death of Christ by the Holy Spirit and raised into the resurrected life of Christ. In this life you must participate by doing works in keeping with repentance, chiefly among these are faith hope and charity/love. These virtues do not make you saved but show you are, and God rewards us for them because we run the race as one striving to win and not merely as one who is punching at the air.

This is called sanctification. The end of this is salvation, that is you go to Heaven.

But Christ’s affirmation that it is finished means that when the Priest says your sins are forgiven, they actually are. Christ gave the authority to forgive sins to His Church and as such when He offered the perfect sacrifice He validated the office of the keys (the power to forgive sins) so that when the preist forgives you in the name of Christ you are forgiven because of His finished work on your behalf.

God Bless
 
28o After this, aware that everything was now finished, in order that the scripture might be fulfilled,* Jesus said, “I thirst.”p 29There was a vessel filled with common wine.* So they put a sponge soaked in wine on a sprig of hyssop and put it up to his mouth. 30* When Jesus had taken the wine, he said, “It is finished.”q And bowing his head, he handed over the spirit.
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  1. Notices that everything was now finished.
  2. hyssop raised overhead
  3. Drinks wine → says “It is finished.” The two are tied together! I think it is incorrect to disconnect “It is finished.” from the wine.
Jesus drinking from the cup of suffering - the last cup of the new passover (last supper) and the new covenant.

Hyssop was used to place the blood of the lamb on the door posts in Exodus 12 (the 1st passover).
 
When Jesus ate the Passover meal He did not take the last cup of wine (a bitter wine). When He took the viniger Jesus, the Passover Lamb, was the final sacrifice of the Passover Meal.
 
Eternal Father, I offer you the Body and Blood, Soul and divinity, of your dearly beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins, and for those of the whole world. For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.

The application of Christ’s death, finished work, of the real presence in the holy Mass.
 
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