Remebering Good Friday

"By this time it was noon, and darkness fell across the whole land until three o’clock. The light from the sun was gone. And suddenly, the curtain in the sanctuary of the Temple was torn down the middle. Then Jesus shouted, “Father, I entrust my spirit into your hands!”* And with those words He breathed His last. When the Roman officer* overseeing the execution saw what had happened, he worshiped God and said, “Surely this man was innocent." Luke 23:44-47


It is the sixth hour which was high noon. For three hours, darkness envelops the land. The sun stops shining as though the world of nature cannot bear to look at what is happening. An old age is closing, but a new one is about to begin for me and you. The temple curtain, which shrouds the Most Holy Place, is torn in two.

Jesus summons a last cry. It is a prayer of commitment to God before falling asleep. He dies with His Father’s name on His lips, even the Roman centurion in charge of the execution is greatly moved. Like Pilate and the criminal, he declares that Jesus was an innocent man. There has been a flagrant miscarriage of justice done they realized after Jesus dies that He was a innocent an righteous man. Many people leave the scene, deeply ashamed of themselves for their part in wanting Him crucified. Many who praised and followed Him one day, sided with the opposition on another and shouted in agreement for His murder. But Jesus with great love for us all, died for them too.

Crucifixion is perhaps the most humiliating and painful form of execution ever devised, yet Jesus offered no resistance and manifested no resentment. He even prayed for those responsible for His death. His prayer did not automatically secure personal forgiveness for His enemies, but it did hold back the wrath of God for nearly forty years, thus giving the nation time to repent.

He was Himself both the priest and the sacrifice, our souls were forfeited, and His must go to redeem the forfeiture. The price must be paid into the hands of God, the one offended by our sin, Jesus has undertaken all our iniquity, to make full satisfaction for our debt to God. Now by these words He offered up the sacrifice, He laid down His life for ours, took death and laid His hand upon the head of it, surrendered to it, He then made the deposit with His body, and gave the final payment with His blood, and into the hands of the Father, He said accept of my life and soul instead of the lives and the souls of the sinners I die for." Thank God For JESUS CHRIST! Today and everyday we remember GOOD FRIDAY.

If you don't know Christ as Savior, today is a good day to give your life to Him. He paid your debt off too. John 3:16 God So Loved the world that He gave His only Son that whoever believes in Him shall have eternal life.