The three greatest words ever spoken were "IT IS FINISHED"! The debt had been paid in full and the human race had been given THE means to be redeemed.

Those who were there to witness the words spoken, I imagine, thought they were the fin...al words of a dying man on a Roman crucifix. They could not have known what was really being said by the Man Jesus. Their hearts were broken, their emotions running to every extreme, fear of reprisal from those who had brutally tortured and nailed Him to that crucifix was battling their desire to rescue Him from the evil that had seemingly prevailed that day, but they were out numbered and could only stand and watch as He hung before them suffering the most brutal, slow and painful death know to man.
But those words,...those three little words! All creation was to experience what it had been longing for since the great fall so many thousands of years earlier. When sin entered the world man was forever banned from the garden and from the fruit of tree of life. Had he been allowed to stay in that paradise and eat of that tree he would have lived eternally in sin so God in His mercy removed man from that garden and set things in motion to bring this day to fruition.
Death entered the world in a garden and this day death was defeated in a garden. The penalty for ALL mankind's sin had been paid in full by the death of this one innocent "God-Man".
He had come from heaven to earth to show His great love and took on Himself the sins of us all. He descended to the pit of hell itself and made an open show of the Devil removing the keys of death and He set those captive there free. He then made His appearance to the women who were waiting to tend to His dead body.
Because of those three little words "IT IS FINISHED" we can stand this day and shout to the world and proclaim "HE IS RISEN! HE IS RISEN INDEED!!"