{"id":2228,"date":"2026-04-03T18:32:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/?p=2228"},"modified":"2026-04-03T18:37:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:37:24","slug":"elementor-2228","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/elementor-2228\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Friday: It is finished."},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2228\" class=\"elementor elementor-2228\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-eb1139a e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"eb1139a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ba0c25e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ba0c25e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>John 19:30 reads, <em>\u201cWhen Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, \u2018It is finished,\u2019 and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p>Let the following commentary on the verse above by the Prince of Preachers, Charles Spurgeon, bring us a renewed gratitude for what Good Friday represents in the life of a believer:<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Hear it, Christians. Hear this shout of triumph as it rings today with all the freshness and force which it had years ago! Hear it from the sacred Word and from the Savior\u2019s lips, and may the Spirit of God open your ears that you may understand what you hear!<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Dear friends, once more, take comfort from this finality, for the redemption of Christ\u2019s church is perfected. There is not another penny to be paid for her full release. There is no mortgage upon Christ\u2019s inheritance. Those whom he bought with blood are forever clear of all charges\u2014paid for to the utmost. \u201cIt is finished\u201d\u2014finished forever. All those overwhelming debts, which would have sunk us to the lowest hell, have been discharged by the cross. And they who believe in Christ may appear with boldness even before the throne of God itself. \u201cIt is finished.\u201d Your sins have received their death blow; the robe of your righteousness has received its last thread. It is done\u2014complete, perfect. It needs no addition; it can never suffer any diminution.<\/p><p>This is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world that we celebrate today!<\/p><p>Happy Good Friday!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 19:30 reads, \u201cWhen Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, \u2018It is finished,\u2019 and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.\u201d Let the following commentary on the verse above by the Prince of Preachers, Charles Spurgeon, bring us a renewed gratitude for what Good Friday represents in the life of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ministry"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/friday-600x300.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/friday-600x300.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Kent Husted","author_link":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/author\/khusted\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}