04/03/2026
Good Friday is the day we remember and honor Jesus’s sacrificial death on the cross.
Jesus had been sentenced to be crucified. He willingly subjected himself to physical and emotional torture. The Roman soldiers spit on him, mocked him with a crown of thorns, and whipped and beat him brutally. He was nailed to a cross with spikes through his hands and feet and hung along with two criminals on either side.
Soldiers cursed at Jesus while he hung naked on the cross. Jesus was in excruciating pain for hours, starving, dehydrated, and slowly suffocating. The Old Testament Isaiah prophesied that his face would be so disfigured Jesus wouldn’t even look like a human being. (See Isaiah 52:14.) It’s impossible to describe the depth of anguish and pain Jesus endured as he approached the final moments of his life. Jesus looked to heaven and declared, “It is finished. Into Your hands I commit my spirit.” The earth shook and the world went dark as Jesus breathes his last breath.
Day one: nothing happened.
Day two: nothing happened.
But on the third day, when the women went to visit the tomb, the stone was not there. It had been rolled away!
Jesus was risen.
The work that our God sent Jesus to do, He completed. The perfect work for the forgiveness of our sins had been displayed by the love of God. Jesus died on the cross as the perfect sacrifice for our sins so that anyone who calls on Him could be forgiven... including you.
God didn’t just promise His love, He proved His love.
