THEME:
Good Friday and the suffering of Jesus Christ for our sins and how this act of grace should impact our lives.
KEY SCRIPTURE:
Hebrews 9:18-22
Therefore not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood. For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you.” And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tent and all the vessels used in worship. Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
The cross is proof that God brings new and beautiful things from suffering.
Suffering is God’s gateway to a deeper relationship with him.