What's so good about 'Good Friday?'

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Whats so good about Good Friday?
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Have you ever asked yourself, Why is it called
Good Friday?
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Reading what happened on Good Friday it seems
far from good. An innocent man has just been
declared guilty in front of a baying mob, he is
dragged before two further courts who insult him,
and beat him up in a really violent manner. He is
abandoned by all of his friends who he has lived
in community with for the last 3 years and one of
his closest friends even denies him vehemently
with an expletive ridden denial. He is then
tortured further and made to carry the cross he
will be nailed to, naked, in full public view.
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But despite all the horror of that day, for us,
this is really good news.
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If you spend any time reading the newspapers,
there is very little good news. They are full of
conflict, wars and people generally being really
nasty to each other. Our lives can be like these
newspapers with a few stories about good things
we have done, but even though we appear fairly
good on the surface, underneath we can be full of
bad news hurtful and lustful thoughts, pride
envy and greed. The bible calls this sin.
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We have been separated from God because he really
cant bear to read our newspaper He is Holy,
pure and good and we are far from that. The
bible says that All have sinned and fall short
of Gods standard (Romans 3 v 23) but also
tragically, further on it says that The wages
of sin is death (Romans 6 v 23).
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As you are probably aware, God has revealed
Himself in the bible as One, but in 3 persons
(The trinity). The Father sent the son Jesus
on a rescue mission and that is why Good Friday
is so good. Jesus took our place he died the
death we should have died. The bible again says
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no
sin, so that in him we might become the
righteousness of God. (2 Corinthians 5 v 21)
This is often called The great exchange our
sin for his goodness. He took All our sin on
that first Good Friday.
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All we need to do is repent (say sorry) and
believe. We can now become followers of Jesus,
because if we truly understand what happened we
will never be the same again and we will be
accepted by God forever and not just that, but in
relationship with Him. Now I call that really
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