Many who do not believe in Jesus of Nazareth as the promised Messiah of the Old Testament Christian Bible and the Torah, believe that this cry, “It is finished!” of Jesus as He hung on the cross and as He gave up His Spirit, to be a cry of defeat. This cannot be farther from the truth. The truth is that to those who believe, the Spirit of GOD has revealed that it was The Cry of Eternal Victory. Paul shares this same perspective and says if it is otherwise, then Christians are the most miserable people with the Corinthian Church (1 Cor. 15) and should be pitied.

Many say that the cross is where Jesus faced His demise. Those of us who believe understand that the cross is representative of the power of GOD’s WORD. The cross, to those who believe in Jesus as LORD and Savior, is the manifestation of the confidence we can have in what GOD has said in His WORD.

Christians proclaim Jesus to be our LORD and Savior; however, many us do not fully understand what we are saying by this proclamation. In our continuing series study, Who Is Jesus, Really? the Spirit of GOD provides a clear understanding of what these titles mean and what they require of us as followers of Christ. Do our lives represent Jesus as our LORD and Savior? Let’s see what GOD’s WORD has to say regarding the answer to that.

In His seventh (7th) and final I AM statement, “I AM the True Vine,” Jesus again declares His deity. He then begins to explain His relationship to GOD, GOD’s relationship to Him, GOD’s relationship to people and Jesus’s relationship to people. People who are fruitful as well as people who are unfruitful. Fruitful in evidencing faith in Jesus as Savior and LORD.