DAY ONE - GOOD FRIDAY (1 OF 3)
by Mike Stone
Scripture: Luke 23:32-43
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Day One - Good Friday (1 of 3)
Series: Three Days That Changed the World
Mike Stone
Luke 23:32-43
Part One in the Easter series ''Three Days that Changed the World.''
Today's lesson is the first in a series of messages looking at the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus. I plan to examine 3 important days and I hope to take these 3 days and apply them to the days in which we live. They are indeed ''Three Days that Changed the World.''
Without getting into a debate about the day of the week that the Lord was crucified, I will use the traditional timeline that involves a Friday crucifixion and a Sunday resurrection. We are going to look at Good Friday, Silent Saturday, and Resurrection Sunday.
We begin by examining the death of our Lord on what is historically called Good Friday. And as much as we love Fridays, there has never been a better Friday that this one. In fact, all of human history had been driving to the event we study today in Luke 23. It's what one writer calls ''the climax of redemptive history and the focal point of our salvation.'' (John MacArthur)
Christ is condemned, cursed, and crucified between thieves. He hangs there in agony, soaked in blood and suffering under the wrath of God and the anger of man.
Yet as sobering and even as sad as this scene may appear, I beg you by the mercies of our Lord, DO NOT LOOK AWAY. For there, suspended between heaven and earth, hanging in the middle Eastern sun, beaten beyond recognition and pierced through the hands and feet is the only hope of eternity that you have.
In Luke 23 we read about the death of Jesus on the cross. And more specifically we read about his death between thieves. I heard about a farmer who was about to pass away. He asked for his banker and his lawyer. He said, ''I want to be like Jesus and die between two thieves!''
The Bible teaches there were at least 3 crosses that afternoon.
And those three crosses were as different as night and day...
One w ...
Series: Three Days That Changed the World
Mike Stone
Luke 23:32-43
Part One in the Easter series ''Three Days that Changed the World.''
Today's lesson is the first in a series of messages looking at the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus. I plan to examine 3 important days and I hope to take these 3 days and apply them to the days in which we live. They are indeed ''Three Days that Changed the World.''
Without getting into a debate about the day of the week that the Lord was crucified, I will use the traditional timeline that involves a Friday crucifixion and a Sunday resurrection. We are going to look at Good Friday, Silent Saturday, and Resurrection Sunday.
We begin by examining the death of our Lord on what is historically called Good Friday. And as much as we love Fridays, there has never been a better Friday that this one. In fact, all of human history had been driving to the event we study today in Luke 23. It's what one writer calls ''the climax of redemptive history and the focal point of our salvation.'' (John MacArthur)
Christ is condemned, cursed, and crucified between thieves. He hangs there in agony, soaked in blood and suffering under the wrath of God and the anger of man.
Yet as sobering and even as sad as this scene may appear, I beg you by the mercies of our Lord, DO NOT LOOK AWAY. For there, suspended between heaven and earth, hanging in the middle Eastern sun, beaten beyond recognition and pierced through the hands and feet is the only hope of eternity that you have.
In Luke 23 we read about the death of Jesus on the cross. And more specifically we read about his death between thieves. I heard about a farmer who was about to pass away. He asked for his banker and his lawyer. He said, ''I want to be like Jesus and die between two thieves!''
The Bible teaches there were at least 3 crosses that afternoon.
And those three crosses were as different as night and day...
One w ...
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