Why Good Friday Is Good

Good Friday feels heavy because the cross is brutal, but it is holy because Jesus chooses it and turns it into victory. We walk through why “It is finished” means our debt is paid in full and how to respond with trust, freedom, and love. 
• why we call Good Friday good even when it looks like defeat 
• Isaiah 53 and the unsanitized reality of suffering and sacrifice 
• why crucifixion is designed to shame and why Jesus endures it 
• the meaning of “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” 
• Jesus taking sin on himself and what that means for our guilt 
• “It is finished” and tetelestai meaning paid in full 
• Colossians 2 and the canceling of our legal debt 
• how to receive grace, remember the cross, and respond with love 
And guys, if you don't have a relationship with Christ, now would be a great time to get right. 
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Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:13

So you can see and live eternally so you can see. Yeah, it up for me.

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All our sands till his precious hand. He died for me.

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Have you washed clean till he made us carry that cross, took that paint, pay for our sins, for that shiny once was lost. But now you see everything God turned out to be death could today is Good Friday.

Why We Call It Good

The Brutality Of The Cross

Forsaken: What Jesus Carried

It Is Finished Paid In Full

Receive Remember Respond To Grace

Prayer And Invitation To Christ

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A day that feels heavy yet holy. A day marked with suffering, sacrifice, and a love so deep it changes everything. You ever wondered why we call this day good? Well, today, guys, we're going to answer just that. So let's begin by turning your Bibles to Isaiah 53, verse 5. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. Good Friday is not sanitized. It's not public poetry, it's not symbolic, it's brutal reality. Jesus didn't just die. He was pierced. He was crushed. He was mocked, and he was abandoned. If you look in the book of Luke, chapter twenty three, verse thirty-three, it says, when they became, or when they came to a place called the skull, they crucified him there. If you look at things, crucifixion was designed to be slow, humiliating, and public. Roman crucifixion was no joke, guys. It was meant to send a message to the condemned. And yet this is what Christ chose. Crucifixion. Imagine this. Imagine a young man drafted into a war. He has a young family. Well, his best friend, who doesn't have a young family, offers to go in his place. He goes in his place and dies in battle. Years later, the family never forgets every freedom they enjoy, they carry the weight of the sacrifice. Guys, that's just a small glimpse, a small picture, a small symbolic story of what Christ did for us. Except this just this wasn't just for one family, it was for the whole family of God, the whole kingdom. You see, on the cross, Jesus speaks words that shake us. If you look at Matthew chapter 27, verse 46, it says, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? But you got to remember something. This is not weakness. This is the depth of what he actually carried. For the first time, Jesus experienced the separation that sin creates. The sin of the world, past, present, future, placed all on his shoulders. In 2 Corinthians chapter 5, verse 21, it says, God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. You see, he didn't just carry sin, he became sin on our behalf. Imagine standing in a courtroom. You're guilty beyond all defense. Like you've done some terrible things. You've murdered some people, you've you've whatever. The evidence is just stacked on you. The sentence that you're gonna receive, you know, is just. You see, that is the cross. Not justice denied, but justice fulfilled. Mercy and grace granted, extended. And these are the words that changed everything in John nineteen, verse thirty. When he had received the drink, Jesus said, It is finished. With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. Let me say that again. It is finished. You see, in Greek the word tetalestal tetalesti. T E T E L E S T A I. Let's just say tetalesti. It means paid in full. Not I am finished, but the work itself is finished. Every sin is accounted for, every debt paid, every barrier between us and God removed. So you ask why Friday is good. Because what looked like defeat was actual victory. What everybody perceived as defeat becomes victory. Turn your Bibles to Colossians chapter two, verses fourteen and fifteen. Having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross. You see, the cross wasn't just suffering, it was a divine exchange. Our sin for his righteousness, our shame for his grace, our debt for his life, our debt mark paid. Our debt mark paid. You see, back in those times, when a debt was fully paid, they would stamp the receipt with one word, tetelesti. So, guys, imagine carrying a lifetime of debt, mistakes, regrets, failures, pure pain, just a whole lifetime. And then someone comes along and stamps your record paid in full. Guys, that's Good Friday. Guys, Good Friday is not just history, it's an actual invitation. In Romans chapter five, verse eight, it says, but God demonstrates his own love for us in this. While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Not when we get it together, not when we make it right, not when we deserved it, but while we were still sinners. So what are we supposed to do with it? What are we supposed to do with this? We have to receive it. You don't earn grace, you accept it. We have to remember it. We have to let the cross shape how we see our worth, how you see your worth. We have to let the cross shape that. And then we have to respond to it. We have to live a life that reflects, that shines, that radiates that same kind of love. So guys, I want you to take a moment today. I want you to picture the cross. I want you to take a moment. I want you to hear the words. It is finished. So guys, whatever you've been carrying, whatever guilt, whatever shame, whatever fear, which is false evidence appearing real, whatever pain, just remember, he already carried it. He already carried it. And because of that, Friday is good. Dear Heavenly Father, dear Christ, thank you, Lord, for the cross. Thank you for taking what we deserved. And thank you for giving us what we could never earn. Lord, help us to never take you for granted. Never to take this sacrifice lightly, Lord. Teach us to live in freedom. The freedom that is already paid for. The freedom that was already purchased by your blood, Lord. And as we remember today, Good Friday, Lord, prepare our hearts for hope. Because we know if we hold on to pain ends. Amen and hallelujah. And guys, if you don't have a relationship with Christ, now would be a great time to get right.

SPEAKER_03 13:39

So you can see. And live eternally so you can see.

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