It Is Finished

I greet you in Jesus precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 1st of November, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Book of Isaiah 25:8:

”He will swallow up death forever, And the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces;”

Then we go to 1 Corinthians 15:55: "O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?”

Death, where is your sting? Now where is your victory? Who's afraid of you now? No, we are not afraid of you. I want to say to you today, death is the beginning of life, life eternal. Many, many years ago on this farm, Shalom, we had a terrible tragedy. We lost my little four-year-old nephew, my brother's son, when he fell off the tractor that I was driving. Probably the darkest day of my life, but Jesus Christ never leaves us and He never forsakes us. Maybe you’re going through the same thing. I want to tell you some good news. Your loved one, as long as they know Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, is not dead. They are in Heaven and they are waiting for you and me.

About three months after that tragedy, my dear brother had a vision at night, he had a dream. He said, as clear as day, and he dreamt that his little son Alastair, blonde hair, blue eyes, was running through an emerald green field of grass, and when he called out to him, he said, "Daddy, I am in Heaven. I am with Jesus. I’m not afraid. I am very happy and I don’t want to come back to earth, but I am waiting for you in Heaven.” And my brother knows that, and his dear wife and his family and I know that too and that is the hope that we have.

So today, if you are mourning, if you are weeping for a lost one, that’s okay. You can do that, in fact you have to do that, but please never forget the fact that death has lost its sting. When Jesus Christ said, ”It is finished.” When He was hanging on the cross, He meant it. Jesus is not dead, He’s alive. Your loved one is alive, and we need to be ready. You know, if your loved one could speak to me today, they would say, "Angus, please tell my mother, tell my wife, tell my child that I’m not dead but I want to see them in Heaven one day.”

We need to run the race, we need to finish it strong, and we need to finish it with Jesus Christ holding our hand.

Have a wonderful day.
God bless you and goodbye.