The Good Friday Message
Good Friday – Friday, April 6, 2012
1. Crucifixion was an old way of punishment – done in public & be a deterrent
2. A brutal & humiliating way of delivering capita punishment. it is done naked, so all the crucifix we have that Christ has some cloth on His loin is because we are not men & women enough & we dare not own up to that.
3. It started by the Persians, they used a single pole, for them other form of capital punishment did not punish the person enough. He went too quick. They used this method to make sure you suffered enough before dying.
4. They also will cut the tongue of the prisoner before crucifying you as they believed that at crucifixion when the person cursed you it came to pass.
5. The Roman also adopted it, they used it for foreigners & not their own people. It is the reason why St. Paul was not crucified, but St. Peter was crucified. Paul was beheaded.
6. The Feast of Atonement was is still the most sacred feast, for the Jews, a day of fasting & prayer especially praying for for forgiveness. It lasted for 10days. 2 goats are used, one is identified as one atonement lamb & the other a scape goat. The High Priest will enter the holy of holies & on that day the name of Yaweh was mentioned. The Atonement lamb was killed his blood smeared&the scape goat was burnished into the wilderness to die to take away the sins. These are blameless goat on which they put on their sins.
7. Christ died on this Feast of Atonement to end the need for this feast. He has done atonement oce & for all. All we need is to believe in Him & tap into that great atonement.
8. What is the significance of the Good Friday feast – the Priest Prostrate at the entrance of the service & we all kneel. Prostrating means the nothingness of all of us & the Priest interceding on our behalf falls like Christ.
9. On the day Christ died is a day of fasting, penance, prayer & mourning & reconciliation. Unfortunately pride will not let us ask for forgiveness & apologies & will not even go for confession.
10. Going for Penance is acknowledging that we are weak & need God.
11. On Good Friday, the Altar is striped bare so we can see the altar as Truely is, & the Tabanacle left open. The curtain in the holy of holies was split into 2 for us to be able to encounter God. Also That that use to cover us & our sin s taken out & our sin is exposed.
12. Good Friday lets us know that we are sinners but have been saved from our sins. & good & Christ will always triumph over sin.
13. It shows us that people will betray us, but even Christ was betrayed, but beyond betrayal, there will be salvation if we depend on Christ
14. Christ tells us that we do not only live in the physical & ordinary world, but there is the mystical & spiritual world. In which Christ regins supreme.
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