What is Good Friday?

1 Peter 2:21-24

John 19:16–30 NASB95

So he then handed Him over to them to be crucified. They took Jesus, therefore, and He went out, bearing His own cross, to the place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha. There they crucified Him, and with Him two other men, one on either side, and Jesus in between. Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It was written, “JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS.” Therefore many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin and in Greek. So the chief priests of the Jews were saying to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews’; but that He said, ‘I am King of the Jews.’ ” Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.” Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His outer garments and made four parts, a part to every soldier and also the tunic; now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece. So they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, to decide whose it shall be”; this was to fulfill the Scripture: “They divided My outer garments among them, and for My clothing they cast lots.” Therefore the soldiers did these things. But standing by the cross of Jesus were His mother, and His mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus then saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then He said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour the disciple took her into his own household. After this, Jesus, knowing that all things had already been accomplished, to fulfill the Scripture, said, “I am thirsty.” A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so they put a sponge full of the sour wine upon a branch of hyssop and brought it up to His mouth. Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.

Exodus 11:21-23

John 1:29 NASB95

The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

It’s good friday or better understood as holy Friday. But let’s think about why it’s good. Why isn’t it called bad friday?

It’s called Good Friday because of John 12:24-26.

It’s called Good Friday because it is the Good News.

So what is the Good News?

Well we have to start with the bad news first.

The bad news is that we have been separated from God due to our sin. In order for us to be reconciled to Him, we need to be perfect (Matt 5:45).

Romans 3:23 NASB95

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

We know that all man has sinned. But if I were to ask it in a different way, what is man’s greatest problem? It is the fact that we are not right with God. Man’s greatest problem is His problem with God. Every problem comes from this issue.

Sin is the problem, but the problem that sin has created is that, due to our sin, our standing with God has been severed.

This is what the Good news is about. It is that God has made a way for man to be right with God.