Finished Work at Calvary

Many people use the phrase “finished works of Christ on the cross” and have built many false teachings around this.  For a response to many of these false teachings, see http://spiritbodysoul.com/finished-work/.  However, let us look at the true origins of the teaching of the finished work of Calvary. This was first taught by William Durham around the time of the Azusa Street revival at the beginning of last century. See for example http://www.revival-library.org/pensketches/am_pentecostals/durham.html.
“William Durham… began a preaching mission at the Upper Room Mission in Los Angeles but, despite his brilliant oratory and pulpit presence, the congregation ejected him over sanctification teaching of the “Finished Work.” This teaching repudiated the holiness doctrine of sanctification as a second work of grace and instead declared that everything a believer would ever need was included in the finished work of Christ on the cross. This repudiation of the Holiness doctrine of sanctification as a “second work of grace,” argued that the “finished work” of Christ on Calvary becomes available to the believer at the time of justification. The benefits of Calvary are therefore appropriated for sanctification over the entire period of the Christian’s life, rather than at a single subsequent moment, as was believed by most Pentecostals in Durham’s day. ”

For more about sanctifiction see https://word.spiritbodysoul.com/sanctification-holiness and https://word.spiritbodysoul.com/sanctification-process. For more about what happened on the cross see https://word.spiritbodysoul.com/on-cross.