Tetelestai

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It is finalized

There is a common thread running through those who resist the overwhelming love of God to restore every broken sinner back to Himself. It is presented in various styles, the foundation being we must do something.

Repentance is "granted" by our God, faith is His faith, (those who live by the faith of the Son of God). We stand before Him naked and blind and broken as hopeless beings in need from a Hand from above.

Tetelestai =

The perfect tense of the verb teleo which is derived from telos (a goal achieved, a consummation, a result attained) and means to bring something to a successful end, or to its intended or destined goal.

It does not mean just to complete a task but to carry it out fully, to bring it to the finish or to perfection.

The cry of the Christ is a word of finality. It is finished, it stands finished, and it always will be finished! His work of redemption is complete and nothing can be added to it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUGQNYm44hk&t=3s

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The Father chooses us as disciples, we do NOT choose Him.

"You did not choose Me, I chose..."

The draw heavenward begins in Him and ends in Him. When the cry of the Master of reconciliation "tetelestai" sounded before every dimension of heaven, earth and underworld, the mission was completed. This is not a half baked reconciliation involving our active participation as we the listener, but His work from start to finish!

The goal, (the destined goal), has a successful end, not one of intention only, but of finished perfection. His work is finished, nothing can be added to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUGQNYm44hk&t=3s

"Let no man take offense at the opening of this mystery as though it brought anything new into religion, for it has nothing new in it; it alters no point of Gospel doctrine, but only sets each article of the old Christian faith upon its true ground. Every number of destroyed sinners must, through the all-working, all-redeeming love of God, which never ceases, come at last to know that they had lost and have again such a God of love as this." ~William Law

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"It is finished!" = It is accomplished.

Tetelestai is exactly the same as the last words of Psalm 22.

The whole of Psalm 22:1-24 had been fulfilled to the letter. Indeed, all that the Scriptures have prophesied of Him has been fulfilled.

We can now read the final victorious words of Psalm 22, verses 24-31 -

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord.
All the families of the nations shall worship before Him
All the proud of the earth shall bow down
All who go down to the dust shall bow before Him.

"God has exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, that in the name of Jesus every knee shall bow in heaven, on earth, and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of the Father. -Philippians 2:9-11.

"And I heard every creature in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth, and in the sea, and all therein, saying, To Him who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb, be blessing and honour and glory and might unto the ages of the ages." Rev. 5:13