CHRIST’S FINISHED WORK

Another nugget from:
Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit 1
Volume 7 http://www.spurgeongems.org/ 1
CHRIST’S FINISHED WORKNO. 378
A SERMON DELIVERED ON THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 4, 1861,
BY THE REV. OCTAVIUS WINSLOW, D.D.,
AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON.
“It is finished!”
John 19:30

1. What a spring of comfort flows from it to the true Believer amid his innumerable failures, flaws and imperfections. What service do you perform, what duty do you discharge of which you can say, “It is finished”? Alas, not one. Your service is imperfect, your obedience is incomplete, your love is fluctuating—yes, upon it all are the visible marks of human defilement and defect. But here is the work which God most delights in, “finished.” “You are complete in Him.” Turn, then, your eye of faith out of yourself and off of all your own doings and deal more immediately, closely and obediently
with the finished work of Immanuel. Come away from your fickle love, from your weak faith, from your little fruitfulness, from your uneven walk, from all your shortcomings and imperfections and let your eye of faith repose where God’s eye of complacent love reposes—on the finished work of Jesus. God beholds you only in Christ—it is not upon you He looks, but on His Beloved Son and
upon you in Him, “wherein He has made us accepted in the Beloved.”
2. If Christ’s atoning work is finished, what folly and what sin to attempt to supplement it! What vast numbers aredoin g this! Away with your tears, your confessions, your duties, your charities, even your repentance and faith, if these things dare to take their place side by side with the finished work of Christ. See that you attempt to add nothing to it. In a similar strain of exhortation let me
3. Warn you of the utter worthlessness and fallacy of all grounds of faith and of all human hope that comes in conflict with the finished work of Christ. My dear Hearers, you have nothing to do in the great matter of your salvation but to accept in faith the one offering made once for all by God manifest in your nature. Cast your deadly doings at the foot of the Cross. Cease from your own works. Cease from your own righteousness. Cease from resting in your confessions, in
your tears, in your prayers, in your going to your Church or your Chapel. Oh, cease from all this and in simple faith accept— take hold of—the Divine work of the Lord Jesus Christ!,