Can one man pay for the sins of the world?As we celebrate the Easter season this year, the words the Lord spoke on the cross—“. . . It is finished . . .” (John 19:30)—still echo down through the ages. And they provide salvation and healing for everyone who trusts in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
“After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. . . . When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.”
—John 19:28,30
“It is finished.” Jesus spoke these words during one of the darkest hours in the history of the human race. An angry mob had just crucified the Son of God.
[Editor’s note: Faith Library Publications has published more than 200 titles with about 70 million copies in print. In 1980 one of those books, the mini book The New Birth, found its way into the hands of college student Tad Gregurich. What follows is an account of how that book helped him know Jesus as his Lord and Savior. Today Rev. Gregurich is dean of RHEMA Bible Training Center.]