The Finished Work of Christ - All The LORD is near Daily Devotionals for 2026

When Jesus received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!”
John 19:30

The Finished Work of Christ
God Himself has not, and cannot, have another gospel (Gal. 1:8–9). He cannot forget the work of His Son, in which He has found complete satisfaction, in which He has been fully glorified. He cannot set forth another gospel, or add something on man’s part, as though the work of Christ were imperfect, and lacked something to complete it.

Christ, as Man, sits at God’s right hand, because He has accomplished the work of salvation for all believers, having by Himself purged their sins. And when He had sat down on the right hand of the Majesty in the heavens, the work which saves us was announced to be finished. And then all teaching that requires anything else, that assumes to add something of man to complete it, denies the perfection of the work of Christ, that is to say, denies that He has completed the work of redemption.

That the Spirit of God works in the heart to produce in us the sense of our guilt before Him, and our need of the sacrifice of Christ, that we need to be born of God in order to enter into His kingdom, and further, that the Holy Spirit, who dwells in the Christian, brings forth the fruits which suit the new life in which we participate through grace, all that is true; but for the work of redemption, for the putting away of sin and cleansing us from it, for making us divine righteousness in Christ, God will have nothing else but the death of Christ. God has shown that He has accepted His death, in that He has raised up Christ from among the dead, and has set Him as Man at His right hand in the glory which He had before the world was. He will not allow man to add anything to that work; whatever it might be, it would deny, in so far, the sufficiency of the work of Christ.

J. N. Darby