What's so Good about Good Friday?

When they take the Son of God and put Him to death, why is that considered good?

Because when He died that horrific tortured death on Calvary, He took the punishment due us for our rebellion against God.

It was good for us. Was it good for Him?

When He arose from the dead on Easter, He proved that what He said was true. He had been predicting these moments to His followers for a couple years and they did not believe Him.

Until He did it.

The Bible says, "… who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." (Heb 2:2).

So if Jesus came down from Glory, endured the cross, and went back to Glory, what was His net gain?

Us.
We were the joy set before Him.

We are the bride He travelled to a far land to obtain (like Jacob did, among other examples).
Granted we're not the finished product, yet, but if we cooperate with His plan, He sees something in us He wants to spend eternity with.
I'm good with that. That's good.

I want to share a cool thing with you.
If you're not a Christian, please read anyway, because it never hurts to have a little information about what those whackos around you believe.

A few people know that Psalm 22 is a description of the crucifixion of Jesus that was written hundreds of years before the event.
David saw it in a vision and it shakes him up so much that he starts out with:
My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?
Many Christians have been taught that, as He was crucified, Jesus was crying this out to His Father in heaven, because the Father could not bear to look on Jesus, our scapegoat.
That He was separated from the Father.
That Jesus was accursed (and the Father could not be in fellowship with Jesus because it would violate His holiness) because Jesus was carrying the penalty of the sins of the world.

Give me a break.

<< 1 Corinthians 12:3 >> Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed.

Jesus and the Father had this worked out since before the universe was created, and at the last minute The All-Powerful Ruler of More than the Universe flinches?
No.
If the Father and the Son (who with the Spirit are referred to as the "Godhead" in perfect unity) ever separated, I believe the universe would crumble.

As you read the gospels, particularly John's, you see that the Pharisees (some of them, like Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea, were good guys, by the way) were asking Jesus for a sign that he was the Messiah. He continually answered them that when they saw Him lifted up, that would be their sign.
Here He is, lifted up in front of them. He's surrounded by "strong bulls" (prison slang for guards), and the crowd is taunting Him. It's the scene predicted in Psalm 22 .
Then He quotes the first verse of Psalm 22.

This is called a "Remez". It's a teaching tool Jesus had used for 3 years.

When they hear this verse, they remember the rest of the Psalm.
The Pharisees had asked Jesus for a sign.
He said that they would have it when the Son of Man was lifted up.
(Remember that joke, "Here's your sign."?)
Can you imagine the look on their face when they get it?
This death on this cross by this man was predicted hundreds of years ago.
Here was their sign.
The ramifications are huge.

Do you get it?

These people did:
https://stream.org/did-god-abandon-jesus-on-the-cross/

The Left Losing Lawfare

Governess Whitmer is suing County prosecutors for something they haven't had the opportunity to do yet.

Planned Parenthood is suing the State of Michigan to get the State Supremes to overturn a law from 1931 that might become active again should Roe be overturned.
But the State Supremes have previously ruled it constitutional.

And the state attorney general Dana Nessel has stated she will not defend it in court.

An obvious waste of taxpayers dollars in an election year campaign stunt.

The FBI has had it rear handed to it in a prequel to Jan 6th findings 

And the first Jan 6th acquittal has happened.

A wonderful week to review with prominent attorney David Kallman.

Your American Heritage

And the prayer of David that we need to repeat:

Psalm 109

1 Do not keep silent, O God of my praise!

2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful Have opened against me; They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

3 They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause.

4 In return for my love they are my accusers, But I give myself to prayer.

5 Thus they have rewarded me evil for good, And hatred for my love.

6 Set a wicked man over him, And let an accuser stand at his right hand.

7 When he is judged, let him be found guilty, And let his prayer become sin.

8 Let his days be few, And let another take his office.

9 Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.

10 Let his children continually be vagabonds, and beg; Let them seek their bread also from their desolate places.

11 Let the creditor seize all that he has, And let strangers plunder his labor.

12 Let there be none to extend mercy to him, Nor let there be any to favor his fatherless children.

13 Let his posterity be cut off, And in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord, And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
15 Let them be continually before the Lord, That He may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

16 Because he did not remember to show mercy, But persecuted the poor and needy man,

That he might even slay the broken in heart.

17 As he loved cursing, so let it come to him; As he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him.

18 As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, So let it enter his body like water,

And like oil into his bones.

19 Let it be to him like the garment which covers him, And for a belt with which he girds himself continually.

20 Let this be the Lord’s reward to my accusers, And to those who speak evil against my person.

 Sound pretty brutal.

I’d hate to be on the wrong side of THAT prayer.

 

Last night I watched the movie Gaslight with Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer and Joseph Cotton.
Charles Boyer is trying to drive his wife Ingrid Bergmann insane, or at least make her look insane too have her locked up so that he can gain control of her finances and property.

Sounds like what the left is trying to do to us. This of course is where the term “Gaslighting” comes from.
Here’s a scene from the film:

Now here’s some examples:  
Here’s the President’s spokesperson Jen Psaki talking about the press (Psaki is scheduled to continue working for him in a new position at MSNBC soon):

 


Or here's a Yahoo News headline: “1st acquittal of a Jan. 6 Capitol riot defendant is reshaping other cases”
He wasn’t a riot defendant. 

Here’s a former Trump Spokesperson Stephanie Grisham who joined The View as the token conservative for a brief period of time. Here she is in an exchange with Joy Behar before she was fired.
She said what she saw.

Groucho Marx said it best when he was caught with a young lady in his room by Margaret Dumont, his older wealthy fiancée: ”Who ya gonna believe, me or your own eyes?”

We are asked that question every day. What else are you being deceived about?

How much of your opinion of Christianity is based on what movies, television and social media influencers have told you, and how much of it is based on your own personal investigation?