18/04/2025
18TH/04/2025
GOODFRIDAY SERVICE T APOSTLES ACTS IN POWER MINISTRIES
TEACHING BY APOSTLE MUSA
THEME: *GOOD FRIDAY TO A TRUE FOLLOWER OF CHRIST*
Good Friday was the day Jesus Christ was going to die for the sins of whole world, in my and your place.
To you and me, this is a very special day.
This day should be remembered more than any other day of celebration, more than heroes day, women's day, independence day.
How then can a person wake up on this day with the mindset of going to work and become busy in things and businesses of the world???
Good Friday is a day one must commemorate and share in the suffering along with the Lord our God, for He took up your and my cross yet He was innocent
*MATHEW 26:38* - Then he said to them, "My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me."
On this day, Jesus Christ felt a great sorrow.
Really if it were you going to be killed, and your husband decides to die in your place, would you wake up with happiness to go for your own businesses or would you wake up filled with tears and go to the place where he is going to be killed from??
Jesus Christ is the Husband to the church, but were is the church that He died for on this day??
*MATHEW 26:27* - Then he took the cup, gave thanks and offered it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you.
GoodFriday started from Jesus Christ allowing to drink the Cup, without this, we wouldn't even celebrate Easter.
But people are waiting to sing songs on Easter yet they deliberately failed to recognize GoodFriday, most churches stayed closed, women went to saloons to style their hair, families went to stock food but among all of them, no one took time to remember the sufferings of Christ and cry with Him.
In the days of Christ's crucifixion which woman went to plait their hair or do makeup???
It was the day the entire world gathered both the gentiles and Jews,
All Jesus' disciples and followers were in grief.
If you're a true follower of Christ, how did good Friday really find you????
*LUKE 23:1* - Then the whole assembly rose and led him off to Pilate.
*2* - And they began to accuse him, saying, "We have found this man subverting our nation. He opposes payment of taxes to Caesar and claims to be Christ, a king."
Jesus Christ was accused as a misleader, yet we were the ones stray
*LUKE 23:18* - And they all cried out at once, saying, "Away with this Man, and release to us Barabbas"--
*19* - who had been thrown into prison for a certain rebellion made in the city, and for murder.
*20* - Pilate, therefore, wishing to release Jesus, again called out to them.
*21* - But they shouted, saying, "Crucify Him, crucify Him!"
A day men preferred to receive a murderer but give off the One who knew no sin.
*22* - Then he said to them the third time, "Why, what evil has He done? I have found no reason for death in Him. I will therefore chastise Him and let Him go."
*23* - But they were insistent, demanding with loud voices that He be crucified. And the voices of these men and of the chief priests prevailed.
Even pilate a gentile Judge really found Jesus Christ to be truly innocent but he was still sent to the cross to die for you and me.
*26* - Now as they led Him away, they laid hold of a certain man, Simon a Cyrenian, who was coming from the country, and on him they laid the cross that he might bear it after Jesus.
*27* - And a great multitude of the people followed Him, and women who also mourned and lamented Him.
If multitudes followed Christ while crying, even us we are to follow Christ in tears also.
*28*- But Jesus, turning to them, said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
Good Friday is a day to cry for ourselves over the pain we caused Christ.
*31* - For if they do these things in the green wood, what will be done in the dry?"
If Christ had such a painful death, how more painful is the death a sinner shall suffer???
*34* - Then Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do." And they divided His garments and cast lots.
We were forgiven and got life because of GoodFriday not Easter Sunday.
If it were never for GoodFriday, no one would live or even get chance to be saved.
*34* - Then Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do." And they divided His garments and cast lots.
It was a day Jesus was stripped completely naked and His clothes divided for us to be clothed
*44*- Now it was about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
*45* - Then the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two.
A day when the way to Heaven opened for us to reach God the Father.
Because of Good Friday, we got freedom to come close to God.
*COLOSSIANS 2:11* - In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,
*12*- buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.
*13* - And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,
*14* - having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
Death was wiped by the power of the cross not Easter
We live because of Good Friday.
*15*- Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
Through laying bear in nakedness on the cross on this day( GoodFriday), Jesus totally set us free.
May the Lord God forgive us were we haven't been honoring GoodFriday and per taking in the cross .