Today is Good Friday, the commemoration of the day in which our Savior willingly gave His life that all who would believe in Him would be saved from the bondage of sin and hell. Amen! It's a sad day in that the Creator was executed by His own creation, but it's so joyful because of the victory that was won. This was the plan from the beginning, if it weren't it wouldn't say in Genesis 3:15b He shall bruise your head and, and you shall bruise His heal.
God said this to Satan after he lied and coerced Adam and Eve to eat from the tree of knowledge. (Not that they didn't have a choice, they just chose to sin like we all do)
Jesus took the sin of all the world on His head and took our punishment. He was beaten, spit upon, mocked, cursed, whipped until His insides were exposed, He had a crown twisted from thorns put upon his head, and was forced to carry His own cross (the very method of His execution) as far as He could before being hung upon it. We teased Him as He hung there dieing, gasping for breath. I say we in reference to the human race not that we were physically there. I can imagine that the devil was there also, gloating over Him, thinking that he had defeated God once and for all only to find that his own fate had been sealed.
Yes, this is truly a Good Friday, the best of them all.
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