I think this was my first Good Friday service at a church other than Jaffray, as part of my more occasional attendance at Calvary Baptist. There wasn’t a massive sermon, but I still managed to make notes?
1 Peter 1:13-25, 2:21-end
- “to this you have been called”
- we must suffer w/ this world as Christians because Christ suffered blamelessly for us
- Consider this:
- it was illegal to hold court during Sabbath…let alone during Passover
- was illegal to have trial at night
- sentence could not be given on same day
- was required to have some sort of acquittal possible
- original claim for trial was blasphemy…but was changed to treason to take it to Pilate
- Considering the above…the Sanhedrin were unjust toward Jesus, yet Jesus did not make threats, fight back, or remove their existence
- entrusted self “to the one who judges justly“
- Jesus’ death brings salvation, hope, forgiveness, redemption, etc… and healing (Pet 2:24)
- from the hurts of our past
- from our diseased desires
- when we let go of out dirt, His wounds are justified
- live on the basis of His hurt, not our own
- people are living on platform of own hurt, heaping it onto others, resulting in a hurting society
- embrace your healing, reflect it onto others; help lead others to the Healer
- Christ enables us to do just this…
Jaffray’s Friday service focused on the will of God vs. the will of man in reference to Jesus asking God if there was another way @ Gethsemane