Team Talk
Wisdom by Oswald Chambers
It is Finished
I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do.
John 17:4
The death of Jesus Christ is the performance in history of the very mind of God. There is no room for
looking on Jesus Christ as a martyr; His death was not something that happened to Him which might
have been prevented. His death was the very reason why He came.
Never build your preaching of forgiveness on the fact that God is our Father and He will forgive us
because He loves us. It is untrue to Jesus Christ’s revelation of God; it makes the Cross unnecessary, and
the Redemption “much ado about nothing.” If God does forgive sin, it is because of the Death of Christ.
God could forgive men in no other way than by the death of His Son, and Jesus is exalted to be Saviour
because of His death. “We see Jesus…because of the suffering of death, crowned with glory and
honour.”
The greatest note of triumph that ever sounded in the ears of a startled universe was that sounded on
the Cross of Christ – “It is finished.” That is the last word in the Redemption of man.
Anything that belittles or obliterates the holiness of God by a false view of the love of God, is untrue to
the revelation of God given by Jesus Christ. Never allow the thought that Jesus Christ stands with us
against God out of pity and compassion; that He became a curse for us out of sympathy with us.
Jesus Christ became a curse for us by the Divine decree. Our portion of realising the terrific meaning of
the curse is conviction of sin, the gift of shame and penitence is given us; this is the great mercy of God.
Jesus Christ hates the wrong in man, and Calvary is the estimate of His hatred.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
When a man’s heart is right with God the mysterious utterances of the Bible are spirit and life to him.
Spiritual truth is discernible only to a pure heart, not to a keen intellect. It is not a question of
profundity of intellect, but of purity of heart. Bringing Sons Unto Glory, 231 L
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1 John 1:9
“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”