'Tis Finished! The Messiah Dies

429 'Tis Finished! The Messiah Dies

1. ’Tis finished! The Messiah dies,
   Cut off for sins, but not His own:
   Accomplished is the sacrifice,
   The great redeeming work is done.

2. The veil is rent in Christ alone;
   The living way to Heaven is seen;
   The middle wall is broken down,
   And all mankind may enter in.

3. The reign of sin and death is o’er,
   And all may live from sin set free;
   Satan hath lost his mortal power;
   ’Tis swallowed up in victory.
                         Charles Wesley
                         The Methodist Hymnal, 1964 edition

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Not a very popular hymn, only occurring in about 65 hymnals. As usual with a Wesley hymn, there are more verses. Cyberhymnal has them:

2. ’Tis finished! all the debt is paid;
   Justice divine is satisfied;
   The grand and full atonement made;
   God for a guilty world hath died.

4. The types and figures are fulfilled;
   Exacted is the legal pain;
   The precious promises are sealed;
   The spotless Lamb of God is slain.

6. Saved from the legal curse I am,
   My Savior hangs on yonder tree:
   See there the meek, expiring Lamb!
   ’Tis finished! He expires for me.

7. Accepted in the Well-beloved,
   And clothed in righteousness divine,
   I see the bar to heaven removed;
   And all Thy merits, Lord, are mine.

8. Death, hell, and sin are now subdued;
   All grace is now to sinners given;
   And lo, I plead the atoning blood,
   And in Thy right I claim Thy Heaven!

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