It is Finished! Step out of condemnation and into the completed work of Christ

by Eddie Snipes

The finished work of Christ is God’s gift of love to you. Because of the cross, you are no longer bound by sin, fear, or doubt. The wrath of God was poured out on sin on the cross, and now you have the gift of perfect fellowship. God’s acceptance is complete. Your forgiveness is complete. Two-thousand years ago, Jesus paid for every sin so you could have fellowship with God. According to the Bible, you have been invited into the fellowship between the Father and the Son. Yet fear and doubt robs most Christians of this fellowship.

We all struggle and have weaknesses and sin, yet according to the Bible, Jesus took that sin out of the way and no longer do we have to wallow in defeat. The sin that you ‘feel’ is driving God away from you is actually driving you toward God. While Satan is trying to persuade you to grovel in defeat, God stands at the end of your failure with a welcoming hand. Instead of defeating us, failure should be showing us our inability to become self-righteous. When our righteousness fails, Christ welcomes us into perfect fellowship by His righteousness, given to us so we can fully understand the love God has for us.

God’s love is not dependent upon your performance. God’s love is the expression of His nature, and He delights in taking sinful people and replacing human failure with His divine favor. My prayer is that this book will guide you into believing in the love of God. It’s time to wave good-bye to the weakness of sinful flesh and receive the gift of God’s favor. It’s not until we fail that we discover that righteousness can’t be obtained by human effort. It can only be a gift of God’s favor. Your failure is not a barrier to God. Once you learn to believe in the love God has for you, sin will drive you to His righteousness instead of into defeat. In Christ, it is finished. Once you learn to trust in God’s gift of grace, you’ll never view life through the old eyes of human performance again. Enjoy the fellowship you already have been given!

222 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 17, 2013

Reviews

[Herman Bowser · Rating 5 out of 5]

So glad that God is promoting grace over legalism again...I felt lonely as a grace man.now not so much 😎

[Jon · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is similar to other books I have read, in order to strengthen my personal relationship with God. However, I feel that I have learned more from authors William Landon, Andrew Farley, and Robert Farrar Capon. During the process of explaining similar concepts, Snipes complicates a few, but makes others much easier to understand. Overall, I am glad I read this book. While reading this book, I was also reading Immaculee Ilibagiza's Left to Tell (an autobiography about the Rwandan Holocaust), and the two worked very well together. If you decide to read one, I recommend the combination of the two. Happy reading.