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Good Friday 08
This morning we will be meditative before God, and we will minister to Him through prayers, and glorify Him by remembering the death He died for us.
Every time Jesus told the disciples He was about to die, they selfishly asked that Jesus would bless them.
So often Church is about us, about us having our itches scratched.
This morning is about Him, remembering Jesus sacrifice and taking time to meet with Jesus.
When we raise Jesus up, He draws us to Himself.
*Today is Good Friday – Why is it Good?*
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Opening Prayer
Almighty Father, hear our heartfelt prayer and look with mercy on this world, for which the Lord Jesus Christ was ready to be betrayed into the hands of sinners and to suffer death on the cross.
Jesus we wait on you as the women who waited on death’s hill 2000 years ago.
Lord we share in Your agony, that we may share in Your resurrection.
Jesus we pray through You, the living Lamb of God.
Bless You Holy Three in One.
Amen
\\ !! Isaiah 52 v 13 – 53 v 12
13 See, my servant will act wisely;
he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted.
14 Just as there were many who were appalled at him —
his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any man
and his form marred beyond human likeness—
15 so will he sprinkle many nations,
and kings will shut their mouths because of him.
For what they were not told, they will see,
and what they have not heard, they will understand.
53 Who has believed our message
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.
Like one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he took up our infirmities
and carried our sorrows,
yet we considered him stricken by God,
smitten by him, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to his own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;
he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before her shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away.
And who can speak of his descendants?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
for the transgression of my people he was stricken.
9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
and with the rich in his death,
though he had done no violence,
nor was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer,
and though the Lord makes his life a guilt offering,
he will see his offspring and prolong his days,
and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
11 After the suffering of his soul,
he will see the light of life and be satisfied;
by his knowledge my righteous
servant will justify many,
and he will bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,
and he will divide the spoils with the strong,
because he poured out his life unto death,
and was numbered with the transgressors.
For he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.
!! Let us Pray...
O dear Lord, what can I say to you on this holy day?
Is there any words that could come from my mouth, any thought, any sentence?
You died for me, you gave all for my sins, you not only became man for me but also suffered the must cruel death for me.
Is there any response?
I wish that I could find a fitting response, but in contemplating your Holy Passion and Death I can only confess humbly to you that the immensity of your divine love makes any response seem totally inadequate.
Let me just stand and look at you.
Your body is broken.
Your head is wounded, your hands and feet are split open by nails, your side is pierced.
Your dead body now rests in the arms of your Mother.
It is all over now.
It is finished.
It is fulfilled.
It is accomplished.
Sweet Lord, gracious Lord, generous Lord, forgiving Lord, I adore you, I praise you, I thank you.
You have made all things new through your passion and death.
Your cross has been planted in this world as the new sign of hope.
Let me always live under your cross, O Lord, and proclaim the hope of your cross unceasingly.
Amen
!! Psalm 22
1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from saving me, so far from the words of my groaning?
2 O my God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,
by night, and am not silent.
3 Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One; you are the praise of Israel.
4 In you our fathers put their trust; they trusted and you delivered them.
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