Why do we call it Good Friday? Because Jesus is the greatest good God could have given to mankind. 

Luke 23:32-38 "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do." 

• know not what they do - these people did not understand that this very event was for them.
• forgive - comes from the same word as grace. It's basically grace in action.
• present tense - what if every time someone mocked Jesus, He said these words. What a message of hope. 

Good Friday makes Resurrection Sunday possible. 

Friday is still good

Friday is good because I once hid in the garden, and He came looking

It’s so good because I was the crazy one building a boat for a world without rain, then He sent the flood

Friday is good because I was fatherless and nationless, and God said look up

Friday is so good because I was infertile couldn’t have a baby, then I gave birth to a nation

Friday gives me hope because I was once cast in a dry well to die, but God had already sent a caravan to pick me up

It is miraculous because I was a prostitute that committed high treason to help God’s people, and found out that my past doesn’t predetermine my future

It is good because I was thrown in the pit, but God already decided I wasn’t the lions next meal

Friday is good because God met me in self-exile, then used me to set His people free

It is so good because I once murdered a man to have his wife, and God didn’t allow my worst day to be the final word

It is really good because I once sat in a desert abandoned but not alone, I knew my God was with me

It is good because I was a timid girl from an exiled people, and God decided to make me a queen

Friday is good because even though I stared in the face of trouble day after day, I could still rejoice in the God of my salvation

Friday is good because “He himself bore our sicknesses, and He carried our pains… He was pierced because of our rebellion, crushed because of our iniquities; punishment for our peace was on Him, and we are healed by His wounds” (Isaiah 53:4a-5).

Friday is good…and is still good, because you can’t have resurrection Sunday without Good Friday.

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