No greater battle has ever been fought, than the battle fought that day, on Calvary. And JESUS WON!!

David is not the only talent on that stage. All men of GOD. Praise the LORD.

These gentleman are the very best vocal group. They lift you up to Jesus . My granddaughter that I raised died in 2016. She was my blessing and her death rocked my world. In 2019 her Mother died suddenly. Her death was followed by my Fathers death. The last 4yrs i have relied on the southern gospel music ministry to carry me through. These gifted singers are so amazing. Thank you!!

David Phelps’ voice is amazing! The Gaither music team is always a blessing to hear! Praise God! Thank you

Sometimes I have to get it through my thick brain.........that when JESUS said It Is Finished.........on the Cross..........He meant it! So, now I have to learn to believe it, receive it.......and Live it.........every day! That is my prayer for myself........and for you too! 😇 🙏 👑

"It is finished! And Jesus is Lord"!!! Makes alllll the difference in this world! PRAISE GOD!!!

This song gives me courage , just knowing that the King of ages fought for me 🙏🙏.

"Then I heard the King of the Ages had fought all life's battles for me, and victory is mine for the claiming, praise His name I am free!!!" My favorite line! If knowledge of that won't set you free, I don't know what will!

Amen, with tears in my eyes I am so greatfull for Him giving His live for me, thank you you Jesus what love what great love.

David at his best. Praise be to our loving God.

Love to hear Guy Penrod singing, he sounds like a roar of the lion, very powerful. God bless all this group of singers.

If that don't make you SHOUT, I don't know what will. PRAISE GOD!!!!!

Sing it David! Sing it again and again! It sets people free like me Praise God!!!!! I love all of you who sing about the Lord. You are all so gifted as well as all the musicians! I have to go now I will finish my comment later. God bless you all!✝️

Love Russ Taff’s reaction every time David belts one out!! Love it!!!!❤️

Yes Amen!!! It is finished, the battle is over! Thank you Lord for Calvary, and the following 3 days, then your triumphant resurrection on Easter Sunday morning!!!

I’m watching this in October 2020 during Lockdown, in Melbourne Australia. Praise Jesus that He has WON

What a beautiful day for the Lord to come again

He bowed His blessed head and uttered - It is finished!!!! WHAT a wonderful Saviour!

Thank you Jesus!! You are King of kings and Lord of lords!

Powerful message..believe it, recieve it..praise God, Jesus IS Lord

This Gaithers vocal group is one of the best!🙏🏻

The first time I’ve heard this song, it was sung by Wes Hampton on Easter Sunday and I was really sick in the hospital. I was bummed that I wasn’t going to be able to get to church that year, I was touched deeply that day and God’s power came over me and the Holy Spirit was just bursting through the walls of the hospital that day.

Wow!!! Thank you Father God for your great love for us!!! Bless your name! Bless also the singers especially David Phelps!!!

This song helps reassure me that even COVID-19 is finished and in submission to Jesus!!!! Lord I praise You in advance for our total deliverance... AMEN!!!!

One of the most inspirational songs. ❤️

This is the one song that touches my heart. I wish Gaither would come to the United Kingdom, I would love to see you guys perform live. Please Jesus, please let Gaither come to the UK.

Every time I hear David belt a song out like this...straight from the heart, I say it’s my favorite...until the next one!! A absolutely wonderful song, and performed perfectly by David and the other guys!! It just touches my heart in such a meaningful way!! Thank you, David, for sharing your God given talent with us!! You are blessed with your voice, and we are blessed every time we hear you sing!!

THANK YOU FOR UPLOADING THIS SONGS FOR US FOR FREE! I APPRECIATE

I love how Russ always marvels in the background when David sings his part.

REJOICE!!! THE LORD IS JUST ABOUT TO APPEAR!!! - Steve Mussman

Yes, Jesus Is LORD!! 👏👏

Amen and Amen 🙌👏 Thanks to Gaither Vocal Band for this blessed song Oh yeah.....without our Lord Jesus there will be " NO VICTORY" It is Finished and JESUS is LORD 🙌👏❤❤

“It is finished, the battle is over. It is finished and Jesus is Lord.” Enough said! 🙏🙏🇺🇸

Hands down, these 4 together, take u rt 2 heaven. Guy, Russ, David and Bill. Amazing!!! I could listen 2 them every day!

He has fought all life's battles for me😭😭🥺❤️

Wow this is powerful. It shook my soul and It brought tears to my eyes.

Thank God he has given this group the talent especially David Phelps with special voices to cheer us on this journey to heaven.

The Lord spoke this song to me today when I asked Him, Lord how long will my enemy continue to hunt me down? Every December I ask Him to end the battle before the new year. This time He said, It is Finished. The battle is finally over. Praise His name Forevermore. 🙌

One of the great songs. To be in that crowd that night.

It’s finished indeed. Thank you Jesus for winning the battle for us all. God bless the band

I am in tears 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭

I just stand in awe of this group. God has blessed all of us for Bill Gaithers talents. And to think Bill chose Gloria for his soul mate. She is just as talented. This was such a great rendition of this song. Thank you God.

Praise without ceasing! Jesus is Lord. Thank you for singing and we appreciate your gift of Heavenly voices and God is smiling to all of the believers!! Let us all come home to our King and proclaim the VICTORY today! HAPPY EASTER TO ALL THE SINGERS !

IT IS FINISHED! And it's almost OVER!!! Amen!

It is finished the battle is over indeed, one of my favorite songs by this group, may God richly bless all the singers.

I am Seventh Day Advintist I love this song Praise d Lord.I bong from phillipines

One Day, God says "It Is Finished!! The pandemic is over!" I thank Lord for all he has done to us and all the things he has gave me, God Bless everyone🤗

Wow-David amazing amazing amazing

Yesss Amen!! It is finished..!! JESUS is Lord!! Thank you GVB for your beautiful singing.. am blessed!!

I just adore watching Russ Taff when David Sings. He just seems to become so excited that he dances around and stamps his feet. Brilliant reaction. As for David's wonderful voice and passion........................phew!!!!

Wow! What a powerful and beautiful song, done perfectly by the GVB.❤

David is one of the best His voice just adds so much to the song.

Praise Yah for His wonderful Victory! Halleluyah, Amen! It is finished and He's Lord 🙏🙏🙏

I love this song so much. Oh yes it is finished. I love the intro by Bill ! It's such a heavely message . Wow . Goosebumps

So it is finished - Glory be to God..what a powerful statement of Jesus on that old rugged cross for His chosen ones.

Everyday is a battle with bad against good.I find when I leave my battles to our loving Father.He fights them and victory accurds.Thank you Lord for your great love.for us all.Gods blessings to the singers and to all of you.🙏✝️❤️

Truly enjoy this music I listen to it before going to bed and it brings Jesus closer to my soul keep up the great work

What a great performance. You could feel the passion when David sang. This man is truly blessed of God with that voice

There is such anointing on this song, the lyrics and the entire performance that it leaves me trembling with awe at its beauty and depth! Thank you so much to all involved for this outstanding performance! 🇨🇭

Phelps really is a joy to listen to praise God

The Gaither Vocal Band brings out the best in David Phelps. 💕💕💕

I love the Gaithers' music This is how I grew as a baby Christian

IT IS FINISHED! WOW, in my 26 years as a born again Christian I've never heard this song. How powerful! Before Jesus died He said, "It is finished." PERIOD. So many people think they can lose their salvation and I argue that my Jesus DID NOT die in vain! Thank You sweet Jesus for saving my soul. I pray for the lost out there that they will come to know Jesus as their personal Savior. Amen

Months later I can not stop listening to this many times a day. Lovely, lovely. It is finished. Does something to me.

My favorite version of this song

Amen! It is finished. What a glorious day that will be. Holy Spirit lead me in the way I should live my life. In the name of the Father Son and The Holy Spirit. Amen. ,

I really like the man in the blue coat singing ❤

It Is Finished
The Story Behind the Song
by Gloria Gaither Bill and I love to hear great orators as much as we love great literature. It has been our privilege to hear, in person or through the media, many great speakers. ­We’ll never forget the milestone moment in our nation’s history, for example, when Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the now famous “I Have a Dream” speech. To teach English students the principle of communication, we used the eulogy delivered by Senator Mike Mansfield, of Montana, after Kennedy was assassinated, “And she took a ring and placed it on his finger. . . .” And who could forget ten thousand voices at the Praise Gathering for Believers in Indianapolis affirming in one great voice the truth Tony Campolo had drilled into our very souls: “It’s Friday . . . but Sunday’s coming!” Because we had learned to recognize and appreciate such moments, Bill and I knew that it was a timeless honor to sing at the same service in which nationally known radio orator B. R. Lakin was to deliver a sermon on Jesus’ last words from the cross: “It is finished!” It was hard to forget the way Dr. Lakin ended his message. And the drops of blood from His precious hands seeped into the sand below the old rugged cross and said to the sand, “It is finished.” The grains of sand whispered their message to the blades of grass, “It is finished!” A little bird swooped down and plucked a blade of grass and flew to the top of the pine tree and carried the message to the uppermost branch, “It is finished!” The pine standing like a sentinel raised its branches to the sky and repeated to the forests around and the clouds above, “It is finished!” The heavens echoed the wondrous liberating news, “It is finished!” until the winds blew across the sea and the waves lapping on the shore repeated the message to the farthest oceans, “It is finished!” Bill and I were overwhelmed with the beauty and grandeur of this picture. Afterward, I ­wasn’t surprised that Bill said, ­“We’ve got to write a song about that, honey. ‘It Is Finished’-what a great title!” Even then my mind was exploding, stretching, asking, searching. What was finished? I ­couldn’t escape the question. How could I ever hope to comprehend the scope of redemption and capture it in a song? For a year I struggled. Bill kept saying, “Honey, we need to write that song.” I said, “Yes, we must. But I’m not ready. I ­can’t distill this truth into four verses and a chorus. Let me live with it a while longer.” I read and reread the crucifixion story. Insight by insight I made the truths my own. The drink from the Messiah’s cup on the Passover night in the Upper Room; the prayer Jesus prayed for His friends there and for us here. The betrayal by Judas, the denial by Peter. The inquisition, trial, and execution. The amazing last words of Jesus. I considered the implications of the troubling of the forces of nature: the earthquakes, the unnatural darkness, the strange storm. And I worked to comprehend how these chaotic eruptions in the natural realm were used to issue new proclamations in the spiritual realm: a torn barrier to the Holy of Holies, an opening of access to the mercy seat and the awesome presence of God, a redefining of the terms royalty, priesthood, sacrifice, intermediary. At that time our nation was involved in the long and seemingly pointless Vietnam War. When “the conflict” was finally ended, a generation of America’s young had been riddled. This was the only war I had known well. I was born after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and I barely remembered the Korean War. Vietnam was my generation’s war-the first war to pull the nation apart rather than unite it. It left both those who served in it and those who refused to serve confused and bewildered and at odds with one another. It was an ambiguous war. I well remember the night Bill and I sat and wept in our living room as we watched on television the return home of prisoners of war from Vietnam. Some fell to the ground and kissed American soil. Others threw themselves into the arms of waiting parents, wives, and sweethearts who had lived in the fear that these soldiers would never come back. Some hugged their two-, three-, and four-year-old children whom they had never seen. The relief on the faces-the tears, the joy, the hope, the pain-was almost too much to bear. About that same time Bill and I picked up a major news magazine that carried the story of another American soldier. This man had wandered out of the forest on some secluded island in the South Pacific. He was carrying a rusty weapon and was dressed in what remained of a tattered American uniform. He was suspicious and frightened as authorities took him into custody. The article explained that this was a World War II soldier who had been lost from his company and left behind. No one had ever told him that the Allies had won the war, that he was free to go home, that victory had been declared long ago. All those years he had remained at war in his mind, fighting a battle that had already been won. The song Bill wanted us to write was falling into place for me. War-the cross of Jesus was about war, a war of cosmic proportions, the war of the ages. This was a war with a clear objective: freedom for every soul since Eden. It was a war fought on earth where mankind could see it, and a war fought in the unseen world, from the heavens to the very pit of hell. What was finished? I’d asked the question for a year. Bill had the music; now the words would come. I saw the crack in the earth-caused by the quake that shook Golgotha-as a cosmic split in the universe, a line that divided all history and all time into bc and ad. I began to write: There’s a line that’s been drawn through the ages; On that line stands an old rugged cross. On that cross a battle is raging For the gain of man’s soul or its loss. The sides and powers of the conflict were clearly defined. If there ever was a holy war, a righteous cause, this was it. And each of us had major stakes in this war’s outcome. On one side march the forces of evil, All the demons and devils of hell; On the other the angels of glory, And they meet on Golgotha’s hill. There were disturbances of nature-much more than a simple storm or earthquake. This earthquake shook the very foundations of the firmament and reverberated into eternity. The earth shakes with the force of the conflict; The sun refuses to shine, For there hangs God’s Son in the balance, And then through the darkness He cries- It is finished! The battle is over. It is finished! There’ll be no more war. It is finished! The end of the conflict. It is finished! And Jesus is Lord. A defeated enemy is impotent. Every battle-weary soldier must be told: the war is over! I thought of that poor, bedraggled man peering suspiciously out from the dark forest, afraid to come out into the sunlight, guarding his little island. I saw myself, and I suddenly realized that this is a picture of us all. Because of Jesus, Satan has no power over us unless he can keep us from hearing the news of the victory, unless he can convince us that the war has never been won. Of all the declarations of freedom-the Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights-none has been written so eloquently or at such great cost in bloodshed as the one spoken in three words from an old rugged cross: It is finished! Every isolated soldier of life’s battle must hear it. Yet in my heart the battle was raging; Not all prisoners of war have come home. These were battlefields of my own making; I ­didn’t know that the war had been won. Then I heard that the King of the Ages Had fought all my battles for me. And the victory was mine for the claiming, And now, praise His name, I am free! It is finished! Bill sat down at the piano, played his tune, and sang through the words on the yellow tablet in front of him. Tears ran down our faces as we embraced anew the truth that had set us free. We were coming to know at a sweeter, deeper level what was meant by the words the blade of grass whispered to the bird that day on Golgotha: It is finished!

Fantastic! This is my first time to hear anything at the Sydney Opera House in Australia! It is Finished 2003

I am greatful to our God almighty that He fights on my side.

You are a blessing especially when I can't sleep

This song moved me to tears. So amazing His love for us. Praise His Holy name.

The words to this song are truly magnificent. I have often wondered how many people, even Christians have really understood what happened 2000 years ago on that Hill called Calvary. This song needs to be listened to many times by all of us. Thank you so much for this video .

I love watching Russ Taff rocking back and forth when David Phelps is singing. He is so caught up and JUST enjoyong the moment. Almost like HE is singing it himself. I get such an encouragement from Russ. He has been thru the ups and downs of life and he puts the entire enchilada out there for all of us. I have dealt with some of the trauma he has and it's so nice to have a human form as a reference to help get my own heart and soul right. I also have recently come to understand the personal relationship ofJesus Christ. Of course I envied people who had the sweet sweet sweet spirit of Jesus and couldn't understand why my life didn't reflect it. I had to claim abd believe it. Now I know who my Master Saviour Friend is and it's Jesus. My father told me years ago, you either believe it or not. Thanks Russ you are such a blessing. Since the 80s I have enjoyed your music and witness. Your girls are just lovely.

And David Phelps 😱😱😱😱😱😨THIS MAN DIFFERENT. PRAISE GOD FOR HIS MINISTRY

Russ Taff from Imperials still shining in 2022

Love you Australia!

David Phelps has the greatest singing voice God ever created! the Gaither vocal band is the Best ever. I have been listening to them for decades and never get enough. I start my day with praise and worship to Jesus with David and the vocal band songs!

Amazing 🤩 grace of love peace in us all thank you 🙏 blessings from Australia 🇦🇺

This is an amazing piece of music

Ha ha.. I love this, makes me raise my hands to the lord to thank him for fighting for me and bringing me back from such a dark place.. There is no other feeling in this whole entire world that compares with the feeling of knowing that Jesus loves me and that he died for my sins so that I may live eternally with him in Heaven.. What an amazing love, Hallelujah!!!! Thank you so much for posting..

Outstanding song outstanding sincere voices. I have followed Bill Gaither and the Homecoming singers for the last 3 decades outstanding preformance outstanding

Thank you, Bill & Gloria Gaither, your music lifts me up and fills with me with joy, I thoroughly enjoyed this and listed it in my favorites list .

This is one of the most beautiful testaments to Jesus. King of Kings;Lord of Lords. The Savior of all Eternity. My Redeemer.

There's coming a day, not long from now, Jesus is going to say.... *IT IS FINISHED*

Omg David Phelps is really talented, see the way swicthed form D to F at 5:00. May God bless you all

Easter 2022...Still here..."It is finished..."! Yes Lord...!! Love You Lord...!!

AMEN!!! Amazing song. Hallelujah!!!! The Gaither's are such a blessing. God Almighty is true and faithful always. Keep singing y'all. 👏👏👏

Thank you Bill Gaither & Vocal band , for sharing this great music with everybody 🎶 Enjoyed Listings to the music , God richly bless you all🙏 5 /1 /2020 From: Fort Worth, Texas 🇱🇷

Got chills.....it finished!!!

Praise Jesus!

Know ,in this time i can not joint with all of you.But in eternal life we will sing together to praise Lord Jesus our savior

Thanks so much for all this Gather music!! SUCH A BLESSING N I PRAY The LORD BLESSES YOU ALL.

PRAISE GOD PRAISE GOD

Thank You Jesus! I grew up in the Cathedral of Tomorrow in Ohio and I remember Maude Aimee Humbard singing this.

Swahili people we're blessed by this beautiful song

AMAZING! Hugs from Chile. 🇨🇱

The spiritual battle that we fight here on earth will be one day finished when we get to Heaven

My favorite group of the GVB. David Phelps... can't even say... just tears running down my cheeks ✝️

Jesus thank you I’m free from slave of sins. I’m thankful for the rest of my life… it is finished ✅