Good Friday is usually the Friday before Easter. It is a day of mourning the crucifixion and death of Our Lord Jesus Christ on the Cross Of Calvary.
It is a day for mourning and reflection observed by Christians all over the world. It is a Christian holiday and a very important day in a year because it celebrates the most momentum weekend in the history of the world.
Ever since the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, Christians have earmarked it as a decisive turning point of creation.
Good Friday is part of the Holy week before Easter, it is Five sundays after the Christian holiday of Palm Sunday, which conveys Christ’s Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem.
Paul considered it “of first importance” that Jesus died for our sins, was buried, and was raised to life on the third day, following what God had promised in the Scriptures (1 Corinthians 15:3).
“For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance; that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures“ (1 Corinthians 15:3-4).
On Good Friday, we remember how Jesus, the Son of God, willingly gave Himself to suffer, beaten, stripped, spat on, and died by Crucifixion as the ultimate price for our sins (1 John 1:10).
Easter comes after Good Friday, which is on the third day, Christ died. In the scriptures, Jesus rose again on the third day, meaning that death was defeated by His rising and our wounds healed and our sins redeemed.
“Dying, He destroyed our death, and rising, He restored our lives.”
It portrays victory over sin and death and pointing ahead to a future of resurrection for all who are united with Him in faith (Romans 6:5).
Why It Is Called Good Friday?
Instead of Bad Friday or Black Friday, Christians call it “Good Friday” because, in as much as the day is a sad one, it reminds us of the sacrifice made for the redemption of our sins.
It convenes the forgiveness, Grace and Mercy shown to us. And instead of condemnation, we were freed from bondage, from captivity and chains of sin.
Good Friday is dramatized to show God’s plan to save his people from sin. It shows how the wrath of sin was taken out on Jesus, the perfect sacrificial substitute, for forgiveness and salvation to be poured out to Nations.
Good Friday had to happen so we can receive the Joy of Easter and for the scripture to be fulfilled.
Without that awful day of sorrow, blood, suffering on the cross, God could not be both “Just and the Justifier” of those who trust in Jesus (Romans 3:26)
Good Friday marked the day when Wrath and Mercy met at the cross. That’s why Good Friday is so good and so dark.
At the Cross, a crown of thorns were placed on the head of Jesus, and on His left was an unrepentant thief on the Cross, and His right, the repentant thief, who believed Jesus to be the son of God and would redeem him of his sins.
While the one on the left mocked Jesus saying, “Are you not the Messiah ? Save yourself and us”. The other repentant thief, rebuked him saying, “Have you no fear of God, for you are subject to the same condemnation?“
The repentant thief went on to speak to Jesus and In his words, he said, “Jesus, remember in your paradise.”
Jesus replied him saying, “Truly I say on to you, today you will be with me in Paradise” (Luke 23:43) (NIV).
At the 7th hour, Jesus shouted in a loud voice saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani” which means, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken me?”
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And on the 9th hour, at around 3.00pm, Jesus cried out in a loud voice and said “Father, into your Hands, I commend my spirit,” and breathed His last.
