Today is the day in which we remember our Savior’s death. We no only celebrate our Savior’s death as a memorial as if He was only a martyr from some great cause but, rather, His death is “for our sins.”
Read Matthew 26:36-68
Meditate on your Savior’s love in His betrayal and arrest and as He stands before the Jewish council. Jesus had the power the whole time to stop this gross injustice, but He did not. If you think about it, even His dying for you is an injustice. A just man dies for guilty, condemned sinners. That’s not justice, but it is love. Now there is a sense where Jesus’ death satisfies the justice of God for our sin. Think of his love in these events in every footstep and accusation.
Read Matthew 26:69-75
How have you denied Him? What do you need to confess to Him? Now watch His love pay for your betrayal in these next verses.
Read Matthew 27:11-56
Stricken, smitten and afflicted
See Him dying on the tree
Tis the Son of God rejected
Yes my soul
Tis He, Tis He
In your minds eye, see Him crucified. See His slumped over, beaten, bloody body. See your guilt in the violence. See your freedom in His love.
Come tonight at 6pm or 7:30pm to Good Friday Services to remember your King and partake in Communion.
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