Friday, April 2, 2010

A Day of Remembrance: Good Friday

Praise the Lord!!! It is Good Friday!!! The Lord is worthy of all the honor and the glory. Let us give thanks onto the Lord for all He has done for us. And what he did 2000 years ago on Calvary. For the past couple years, we have made it a point on this day to remember what Jesus did for us by watching "The Passion of the Christ." I recommend watching this movie because it gives us a good visual description of what Christ went through for us.
Also please take the time out to remember all the sins that He wiped away with His precious blood for you. He took away all your iniquities and forgave you of all the offenses you did against God. Remember how he saved you from sin and death and brought you life everlasting. Between the hours of noon and 3pm today, which was the time Christ was on the cross and died, please pray for your love ones that don't know the sacrifice that was made today for them. Ask the Lord that they would come to a place of repentance, so that they might be able to experience His love and mercy.
I would like to leave you with a sermon that Peter preached to the people after he and John healed the lame man at the temple called Beautiful. This is in Acts 3:13-26

13 The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let Him go. 14 But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, 15 and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses. 16 And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
17 “Yet now, brethren, I know that you did it in ignorance, as did also your rulers. 18 But those things which God foretold by the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled. 19 Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, 20 and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before, 21 whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began. 22 For Moses truly said to the fathers, ‘The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall hear in all things, whatever He says to you. 23 And it shall be that every soul who will not hear that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.’ 24 Yes, and all the prophets, from Samuel and those who follow, as many as have spoken, have also foretold these days. 25 You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’ 26 To you first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.”

May the Lord's face shine upon this glorious day! Here is a video of clips from "The Passion of the Christ" with the song by Hiilsong United called Lead Me To The Cross. God Bless you all.

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