GOOD FRIDAY

OH WHAT A DAY THIS WAS. IT IS PERFECT TIMING. DAY SIX

Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsame until He was arrested about sun up. Judas had betrayed him and the other disciples fell asleep on Him. After His arrest, they all ran away. (I always like to remember that all this happened BEFORE THEY WERE BORN AGAIN.)

BUT THIS DAY BELONGS TO JESUS AND TO JESUS ALONE. NO ONE COULD DIE ON THAT TREE EXCEPT HIM. IT WAS DETERMINED YEARS AND YEARS AGO AT THE TIME OF ADAM'S SIN. It was in another Garden, the Garden of Eden, that we can look back on this day and understand just a tiny bit of the love of the Creator for His Creation.But it is the patience and the longsuffering that blows me away.

God had carefully planned the Redemption of His Creation and there was no one on no thing that could stop it from happening.

Isa 14:26-27
26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
27 For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
(KJV)

We all know that Jesus was crucified on the Cross on Golgotha. He was nailed on the Cross at 9:00 in the morning, and the sun refused to shine from 12:00 Noon until 3:00. Some say that God had to turn away from His Son because of the sin on the Son but I don't believe that for a minute. Why would God turn His back on the very PLAN that He had been thousands of years bringing to fruition? When Jesus cried out, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?", it was not God that turned his back, but it was the sin that blocked Jesus' eyes from seeing His Father's Face during that horrible time of taking on Himself the sin of the world. I believe that hardest thing Jesus did was in being seperated from His Father for the first time in His Life. Jesus took on Himself every aspect of the Human Condition, spiritually, mentally and physically. He bore our grief, and our sorrows, our sickness, and our diseases. And He did it for the LOVE HE HAD FOR HIS FATHER. If you ever get a revelation of that it will never ever leave your understanding of just what happened that day. (Is 53:3-5)

JESUS DIED IN OUR PLACE....AND OUR SINS DIED THERE WITH HIM.

Jesus was taken down from the Cross and laid in a tomb. What happened next is truly the most exciting story ever told. Jesus' body was in the tomb,(Not even decaying) but His spirit/soul went into the very depths of Hell itself. Listen to Peter's sermon on the Day of Pentecost as he quotes from one of King David's Psalms.

Acts 2:27
27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
(KJV)

How could God not leave Jesus's soul in Hell if it never went there? Of course it did. And this is where the battle between Jesus and Satan took place. It will be a very very long three days and nights. Satan was convinced he could win...he must have thought to himself, "I have the Master's Son, and look at all the sin on HIM. He will never get out of here." But little did he understand that the sin that was on Jesus was none of His.......just the sin of fallen man.....every single one....every man, woman, boy, and girl who would ever take a breath.

If Satan had a clue as to what was about to happen, he would never have crucified the LORD of Glory.

1 Cor 2:8
8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
(KJV)

REMEMBER.....THIS IS THE ULTIMATE PLAN OF GOD.


2 Cor 5:19
19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them;

THIS IS THE SIXTH DAY OF HOLY WEEK.....GOOD FRIDAY...THANKS TO A GOOD GOD.