The Cross on which our Savior died is at the epicenter of human history.  It defines everything that goes before it and determines everything that comes after it.  One of the seven sayings or utterances of our Lord from the cross was “It is finished.”  This cry was not the wobbling, woeful words of an abused victim but the triumphant trump of a valiant Victor.  “It is finished” is not the rant of a tragic resignation but the regalia of treasured redemption.  These powerful and poignant words of Jesus announce not only the “finish of the start” but the “start of the finish.”