Good Friday (53)
  1. Let’s take a walk together. And as we do, I’ll tell you a mystery.
  2. Life is certainly unfair. But in Christ, at least in part, we rejoice at such a notion. Grace, that great descriptor of God’s devotion, is a word that only finds its purpose, only exists at all, because it exists as a response to guilt.
  3. So, on this Good Friday, our sinful self and all our sins rest with Jesus here in His tomb. Our transgressions are fully atoned.
  4. At Golgotha, Jesus saves us from sin by becoming sin for us. Jesus takes all our messes, all our shame, all our guilt, all our fears and insecurities and He allows them to kill Him instead of us.
  5. Jesus’ death was a direct fulfillment of the will of His Father as promised in the Scriptures.
  6. Jesus was praying a Psalm. Psalm 22 to be precise, and both the Gospels of Matthew and Mark relay the story to us of Jesus praying that Psalm on the cross at the hour of His death.
  7. Through this promise, God does not let us escape death because in and through Jesus He overcame death.
  8. This Savior’s love for His church is no small thing. He gives up His own life so that she will live.
  9. This is the first of seven words of Christ from the cross.
  10. Put to death by God's Word of Law, we are then raised to new life by God's Word of Gospel.
  11. This is the night from when all those nights receive their light. For this is the night when Christ, the Life arose from the dead.
  12. Have you ever wondered, of all the adjectives we could use to describe this day why in the world we chose the word “good?” Yeah, me too.
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