Our mission to the world tells the good news of God’s salvation to all classes (the poor in verse 26 and the rich in verse 29), to all races and nations (verse 27), and to all generations (verse 30). What is this universal message? It is that salvation is something not that we attain but that he attains and gives. “He has done it!” cries David. “It is finished,” cries Jesus (John 19:30), using the Greek tetelestai, a term that has the connotation of payment. “I have paid your debt to the last penny; I have drained your cup to the last drop,” he says. There is now no condemnation left for us
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