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SERIES: |
Good Friday Messages |
MESSAGE: |
Good Friday Service 2017 |
SPEAKER: |
Skip Heitzig |
SCRIPTURE: |
Acts 10:26-43 |
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MESSAGE SUMMARY
What's so good about Good Friday? It is the day we remember Christ's death on the cross. In this message, Skip Heitzig teaches that Good Friday points to a good Person, a good plan, and a good purpose. We learn that Jesus' death on the cross was the perfect substitution that saved us from our sins.
DETAILED NOTES
- Introduction
- The events of Good Friday
- After the Passover, Jesus was arrested and underwent six separate trials
- Finally, Pilate gave Him over to crucifixion (see Luke 23:23)
- He was scourged and crucified, hanging on the cross for hours before He finally died
- It's what Good Friday points to that makes it so good
- God is so perfect and we are so imperfect that Jesus was the only solution to dealing with our sin
- We know that we are sinners by nature and by nurture
- The death of Jesus was necessary to placate the wrath of God on humanity
- Jesus dying on the cross was not the end
- The term Good Friday comes from a time when good meant sacred, holy, or righteous
- Good Friday points to a good Person
- Jesus is the personification of all that is good (see John 1:46)
- No one is good except for God (see Matthew 19:16-17; Mark 10:17-18; Luke 18:18-19)
- This means Jesus is God
- It also means we as people are not good
- Jesus is the good Man because He is the God-man
- Even the Roman centurion acknowledged that Jesus was a good Man (see Luke 23:47)
- Jesus healed people who were oppressed by the Devil (see John 10:10)
- The Devil wants to take from you; Jesus wants to give to you
- Satan wants to rip you off; Jesus wants to bless you abundantly
- Good Friday points to a good plan
- God's plan was to substitute Jesus—the only good Person—for all of us bad people
- Jesus was the only perfect Person who could die an atoning death
- The plan of substitution
- We can be justified because Jesus stood in our place (see 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Peter 3:18)
- God decided to treat Jesus like we deserve to be treated so that He could treat us like Jesus deserves to be treated (see Isaiah 53:4-5)
- Christianity is a bloody religion
- It is all about sacrifice
- Abraham foreshadowed it when he almost sacrificed his son Isaac (see Genesis 22:1-18)
- No remission for sins without the shedding of blood (see Hebrews 9:22)
- The lamb sacrifice pictured it
- The psalms poeticized it (see Psalm 22:1, 6)
- The prophets predicted it
- All of the Bible points to the crucifixion
- The Old Testament looks toward it
- The New Testament looks back at it
- Between 20 and 40 percent of the gospel accounts are devoted to the suffering of Jesus on the cross
- Gospels: the presentation of the sacrifice on the cross
- Acts: the reaction of people to the sacrifice on the cross
- Epistles: the implications of the cross
- Revelation: the culmination of the cross (see Revelation 13:8)
- Good Friday points to a good purpose
- Remission of sins
- Remission = forgiveness
- God's purpose is forgiveness
- On the cross, Jesus cried for forgiveness for those who crucified Him (see Luke 23:34)
- This is not a natural thing for a person to do
- Imprecatory psalms
- Psalms in which the author calls down the judgment of God on someone
- The honest feeling of the author (see Psalm 58:6)
- Jesus knew forgiveness is mankind's greatest need
- Jesus' death was not the end of the story; it is the theme of the story
- Closing
- When we take Communion, we should look at our Savior through the lenses of the elements
- Looking back to the cross (see Luke 22:19)
- Looking to the present—intimacy with the Lord
- Looking to the future (see 1 Corinthians 11:25)
- Remember the great hope of the church
- Jesus Christ is coming back
- When we take Communion, Satan gets scared
- There will be an end to his reign
- Jesus will set up His earthly kingdom
Cross references: Genesis 22:1-18; Psalm 22:1, 6; 58:6; Isaiah 53:4-5; Matthew 19:16-17; Mark 10:17-18; Luke 18:18-19; 22:19; 23:23, 34, 47; John 1:46; 10:10; 1 Corinthians 11:25; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 9:22; 1 Peter 3:18; Revelation 13:8
Topic: Good Friday
Keywords: Good Friday, Passover, crucifixion, cross, scourge, sin, death, wrath of God, good, substitution, remission, sacrifice, forgiveness, imprecatory psalms, Communion