(Good Friday is the day to celebrate because, we were set free
from the bondage)
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Experience the Power
of cross
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Cross was shame, punishment earlier
before Jesus Christ birth but for us it is d
power of God. Why?
It is due to Good Friday (Sacrifice
of Jesus in the Cross)
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Jews still not accepting Jesus as their messiah because they can't imagine their messiah in
d cross hanging. Greeks
are not accepting Jesus. As philosophers, they are not accepting a savior because He can't be killed is their philosophy.
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Power cross to be experienced every day
Christ Crucified Is God’s Power and Wisdom (1 Corinthians 1:18)
Christ
Crucified Is God’s Power and Wisdom,
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For
the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing,but to
us who are being saved it is the power of God.
18 For
the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to
us who are being saved it is the power of God.
7 symbols of the cross before and after Jesus Christ @ the Cross.
1.
Symbol of death – (Jesus
converted it into the symbol of life)
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One among the two thieves - death converted to eternal life.
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Also mediate on (Rom 2:1-2 ,
john3:16)
(Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man,
whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou
condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
Romans-2:1
But
we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.
Romans-2:2
For
God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John-3:16)
2. Symbol of punishment- Jesus turned into symbol of forgiveness
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At
the cross Jesus said, “Heavenly Father forgive them they don't know what they are doing”.
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Please meditate Isaiah 53: 5-8
(But he
was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the
chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Isaiah-53:5
All we like sheep
have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way; and the LORD hath
laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah-53:6
He was oppressed,
and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to
the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not
his mouth.
Isaiah-53:7
He was taken from
prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut
off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he
stricken.
Isaiah-53:8)
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Experience the
power of forgiveness.come
out of guilty
3. Symbol of separation turned
into Power of bringing the reconciliation
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Jesus was separated from the heavenly father for a while. To bring us
close to eternity. We should capitalize it by obeying Him.
Romans: 5:10-11,
For if,
while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the
death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved
through his life! 11 Not only is this so, but we also boast in God
through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received
reconciliation.
4.
Symbol of suffering turned to power to bringing healing.
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No words can describe
the suffering Jesus
went through (terrible suffering and no one can describe. It is the worst ever
execution in this world and no human can understand the pain. head to toes felt
the pain, till the last drop of blood dropped at the cross.
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Isaiah 53 2-5
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2. He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
4 Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
5. Symbol
of hostility/ hatred was converted into peace and oneness
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Please meditate, Eph 2:14-16
For he is our
peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
Ephesians-2:14
Having abolished
in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in
himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
Ephesians-2:15
And that he might
reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the[jb1] enmity thereby:
Ephesians-2:16)
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Good Friday will
not be good if we carry hatred
6.
Symbol of disgrace converted to abounding Grace
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Rom 5:15
But not as the
offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be
dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man,
Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
7.
Symbol of rejection was converted to treasured possession.
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He went through a terrible rejection but still He has
went through all these for a
divine plan.
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1peter 2:4-5
To whom coming, as
unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
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1
Peter-2:4
Ye also, as lively
stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up
spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
1
Peter-2:5
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