THE SIXTH WORD FROM THE CROSS (14 OF 19)
Scripture: John 19:30
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The Sixth Word from the Cross (14 of 19)
Series: Cross Examination
Wyman Richardson
John 19:30
John 19
30 When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, ''It is finished,'' and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
In 1970, Alexander Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Near the end of his speech, Solzhenitsyn made a most remarkable statement: ''One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world.'' In his speech, he was calling on writers and artists to speak truth and to speak it against a world full of lies. We should not despair, Solzhenitsyn argued, because truth is weightier than falsehood. Thus, his statement.
It is the kind of statement that stays with you: ''One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world.''
I think there is great wisdom there. One single word that is true has more substance, more weight, than an entire world of falsehood. There is great power in a single word of truth.
The sixth word from the cross is a single word. It is a single word of truth, and it outweighs the whole world. That word, in the Greek of the New Testament, is this: tetelestai. Most of our English translations translate it as, ''It is finished.''
Tetelestai.
It is finished.
One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world.
An ocean of ink has been spilt trying to explain this one word of truth.
For instance, the great Southern Baptist Greek scholar A.T. Robertson calls it ''a cry of victory in the hour of defeat.'' The Dutch New Testament scholar Herman Ridderbos said that ''this cry indicated for [Jesus] not only the end of the road that he had to travel but also the completed work of salvation that he had accomplished for his own as the new foundation laid once for all for the life of the world.'' The Australian commentator Francis Moloney says the sixth word means that ''the task given to him by the Father...has now been consummately brought to a conclusion.'' And the American Baptist John MacArthur says it me ...
Series: Cross Examination
Wyman Richardson
John 19:30
John 19
30 When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, ''It is finished,'' and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
In 1970, Alexander Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Near the end of his speech, Solzhenitsyn made a most remarkable statement: ''One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world.'' In his speech, he was calling on writers and artists to speak truth and to speak it against a world full of lies. We should not despair, Solzhenitsyn argued, because truth is weightier than falsehood. Thus, his statement.
It is the kind of statement that stays with you: ''One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world.''
I think there is great wisdom there. One single word that is true has more substance, more weight, than an entire world of falsehood. There is great power in a single word of truth.
The sixth word from the cross is a single word. It is a single word of truth, and it outweighs the whole world. That word, in the Greek of the New Testament, is this: tetelestai. Most of our English translations translate it as, ''It is finished.''
Tetelestai.
It is finished.
One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world.
An ocean of ink has been spilt trying to explain this one word of truth.
For instance, the great Southern Baptist Greek scholar A.T. Robertson calls it ''a cry of victory in the hour of defeat.'' The Dutch New Testament scholar Herman Ridderbos said that ''this cry indicated for [Jesus] not only the end of the road that he had to travel but also the completed work of salvation that he had accomplished for his own as the new foundation laid once for all for the life of the world.'' The Australian commentator Francis Moloney says the sixth word means that ''the task given to him by the Father...has now been consummately brought to a conclusion.'' And the American Baptist John MacArthur says it me ...
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