“PAPAHOOD”

It’s Good Friday today. I know that some people think the reason it’s called ‘Good Friday’ is because you get a day off work. I get a day off watching Gracie because Carrie is off work but that’s not the reason. The reason it is called ‘Good Friday’ is because it is the day Jesus was crucified and died on the cross. What can possibly be good about that, I hear you say. The disciples thought the same thing,
“Good grief! What are they doing”
“Good grief! That’s horrific”
“Good grief! How can people be so cruel”
“Good grief! They’ve killed him”
They didn’t know that he would rise from the dead on Sunday. They had forgotten what the prophet Isaiah had written about 700 years prior to this event: “He was wounded and crushed for our sins. He was beaten that we might have peace. He was whipped, and we were healed! All of us have strayed away like sheep. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the LORD laid on him the guilt and sins of us all.” (Isaiah 53:5-6)
That’s what is so Good about this “Good Friday” that’s the “Good News”, that’s “The Gospel”

The Gospel in a Nutshell

The Apostle Paul put it like this:
“Now let me remind you, dear brothers and sisters, of the Good News I preached to you before. You welcomed it then and still do now, for your faith is built on this wonderful message. And it is this Good News that saves you if you firmly believe it-unless, of course, you believed something that was never true in the first place. I passed on to you what was most important and what had also been passed on to me-that Christ died for our sins, just as the Scriptures said. He was buried, and he was raised from the dead on the third day, as the Scriptures said.”(1 Corinthians 15:1-4)

A number of years ago someone I know put a Bryan Adams song to a clip of Franco Zeffirelli’s “Jesus of Nazareth”. Have a look and may you by faith, receive this ‘Good News’ this Good Friday.