Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Hello, welcome to your Daily Grace by Timothy Wilder what's so good about Good Friday?
[00:00:07] At first glance, Good Friday doesn't seem good at all. It's a picture of a cross. Pain and suffering and blood.
[00:00:16] So much blood it looks and feels like loss, like injustice, like the end of hope.
[00:00:23] So what's good about Good Friday?
[00:00:25] It's good because the cross wasn't an accident. It was grace on full display.
[00:00:31] Jesus didn't go to the cross to start something new with God. He went to finish everything that stood between us and Him.
[00:00:38] Jesus declared on that cross in John 19:30 it is finished. Not partially done, not dependent on us, finished. Every sin, every failure, every weight of condemnation that stood against us was carried there. 1 Peter 2:24 tells us, he himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness.
[00:01:04] 1 Peter 2:24 the cross is where sin lost its power to define you. It's where shame lost its voice. It's where the debt you could never pay was completely cancelled, not managed, not postponed, but erased. Paul says in Colossians 2:14, having canceled the record of debt that stood against us, he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.
[00:01:30] That's what makes this day good. Not because of what Jesus went through, but because of what he accomplished on the cross. God didn't demand more from you. He gave everything for you. But God demonstrates His own love for us in this while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8 Good Friday is the day grace stopped striving and started declaring, you are forgiven, you are reconciled, you are free. The cross isn't just a symbol of suffering. It's the final word on your standing with God and that's what makes it good.
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