It is Finished: Luke 22 – Good Friday. Why do we call the Friday Jesus was nailed to the cross “good?” It’s difficult to fathom the thirty-six hour period Jesus went through, but Luke 22-23 provides incredible detail of His road to the cross. Beatings, illegal trials, scourging and cruel mocking all marked the night and early morning of Jesus’ final day. Worst of all was that Jesus who knew no sin bore the sins of many and exchanged His life for the worst of sinners by enduring God’s wrath against sin. Don’t miss a powerful message from Pastor David Menard leading us to understand why Good Friday is more than just the day Jesus died on the cross!
“Then Pilate entered the Praetorium again, called Jesus, and said to Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?” Jesus answered him, “Are you speaking for yourself about this, or did others tell you this concerning Me?” Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered You to me. What have You done?” Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now My kingdom is not from here.” Pilate therefore said to Him, “Are You a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.” Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?” And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, “I find no fault in Him at all.”
John 18:33–38 NKJV https://www.blueletterbible.org/nkjv/jhn/18/33-38/s_1015033
When we fail to STAND FOR TRUTH WE DENY JESUS
JESUS IS SILENT if we come to Him with wrong motives
“For He made Him (Jesus) who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”
“In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”