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Then, now and until

"I have glorified thee on earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do."  John 17:4  Authorized King James Version [AKJV].

"When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said,  It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.  John 19:30 [AKJV].

Note: all passages reference are from the Authorized King James Version

In John 17:4 it is written that "I have finished the work" but the crucifixion wasn't completed until John 19:30.  To me, God, the Lord Jesus Christ shows His omniscience.  He, Jesus being the incarnation of the only true God knows the future from the past as He lives in our now.  All I have is the memory of the past, the trials of the present, and the hope of the future.  So then, when I read passages as Ephesians 1:3 although I'm in the present, after believing the gospel 1 Corinthians 15:1-4, God now sees me in my future, in Him.  "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" Hebrews 11:1.  God is as I was in my past, God is as I am now,  God is as I will be in my future, in Him.  That understanding I believe can also be seen in Exodus 3:14 and again in John 8:58.

So in the now I do with conviction say as Paul did; "For I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day." 2 Timothy 1:12b.

The gospel that is for this dispensation of the grace of God is "Moreover brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;  By which also ye are saved, unless ye have believed in vain.  For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scripture."  1 Corinthians 15:1-4.          

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