It Is Finished

John 19:28-30 (ESV Strong's)

28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), “I thirst.” 29 A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth. 30 When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

The power and dominion of death was overcome by Jesus on the cross. In this way He overcame the world. This is the work He came to do and He finished that work. When we follow in His footsteps, we will arrive at our own cross. If we lay down our lives voluntarily for Him, the same resurrection power to the life of God will be ours. We will overcome the world to sit with Christ Jesus as sons of God. 

The sour wine symbolizes the punishment of death poured out from the cup of the wrath of God for the sins of our flesh. He became our sin and experienced death in our place. Now we can rise in His resurrected life by entering the body of Christ. He has made a way and is the way to God, for He is God.