Monday Apr 01, 2024

Good Friday: God is Still Good • Friday Service

Good Friday is a day that is etched in the absolute, you know, one of the foundational elements of our Christian faith and it's a day with deep sorrow, yet profound hope, because it commemorates the crucifixion of our Lord and Savior, the eternal sacrificial lamb, Jesus Christ. It's a day that appeared to mark a victory of darknes, and I want to I want to point this out, because right now we're in a very dark time in our nation and in our world. It's a very dark time, but remember, there was another dark time, far more dark than today and that was when Jesus Christ himself, fully God and fully man, was crucified on the cross.

Isaiah 53:5 (NKJV) - "But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised
for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed."

Mark 15:37-39 (NKJV) - "And Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and breathed His last.
Then the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. So when the centurion,
who stood opposite Him, saw that He cried out like this and breathed His last, he said,
“Truly this Man was the Son of God!”

1 Corinthians 15:55-57 (NKJV) - “O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?”
The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us
the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."

John 19:30 (NKJV) - "So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing
His head, He gave up His spirit."

Romans 5:8 (NKJV) - "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners,
Christ died for us."

Joel 2:28-32 (NKJV) - “And it shall come to pass afterward That I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your old men shall dream dreams,Your young men shall see visions.
And also on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days. “And I will show
wonders in the heavens and in the earth: Blood and fire and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness,
And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord. And it shall come to pass
That whoever calls on the name of the Lord Shall be saved.For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be
deliverance, as the Lord has said, Among the remnant whom the Lord calls."