Good Friday is the day we mark the cruel and painful death of Jesus on the cross! So what’s “good” about Good Friday.
Well here are few things:
1. Upon Him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with His stripes we are healed. — Isaiah 53:5
2. God shows His love for us in this, that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. — Romans 5:8
3. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses according to the riches of His grace – Ephesians 1:7
4. God made (us) alive together with him, having forgiven all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross — Colossians 2:13
5. This is my blood of the covenant, poured out for the forgiveness of sins. — Matthew 26:28
6. We have now been justified by his blood. — Romans 5:9
7. For our sake He made Him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. — 2 Corinthians 5:21
8. He has now reconciled (you) in His body of flesh by His death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before Him. — Colossians 1:22
9. How much more will the blood of Christ…purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God. — Hebrew 9:14
10. He gave Himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, — Galatians 1:4
11. For while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son. — Romans 5:10
12. Christ also suffered once for sin, the righteous for the unrighteous, that He might bring us to God — 1 Peter 3:18
13. We have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus — Hebrews 10:19
14. To Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by His blood, and made us a kingdom, priests to His God and Father. — Revelation 1:5-6
15. He Himself bore our sins in His body on a tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness – 1 Peter 2:24
16. He died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep, we might live with Him. — 1 Thessalonians 5:10
