In this episode, Bryce goes into detail about the purpose and meaning of Good Friday.
Chapter 1: What is Good Friday and why is it called that?
I'm Bryce, and in today's episode, by the title of this podcast, you know, it's coming out a few days early, but I wanted this podcast to be the summary of this Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Easter thing. So the title of today's podcast is, Why is it called Good Friday? Okay. Why is it called Good Friday? I'm going to highlight three stories from the Bible that I believe exemplify the gospel.
And they all happen to be from the Old Testament, which is, I think it's going to be so amazing. So if you guys have your Bibles, we're going to be flipping to three different stories in the Bible. And before we get into these, I do want to preface something really quick. And That is the title, Good Friday. Why do Christians call the day that Jesus Christ was crucified Good Friday?
I mean, in my opinion, that's not even that good of a day. That's a pretty dark day. I mean, if you read the Gospels, if you look through history, non-Christian historians, I mean, they would tell you that that was a pretty dang bad day. I mean, a dude had all the flesh of his back ripped off. His face was beaten so bad he didn't even look like a human being.
He was stripped naked in front of people. He was accused of saying and doing things that he didn't even do. And then he carries a couple hundred pound wooden cross up a hill and gets nailed to it, pinned to it by nails in his body weight, sagging through the nails, ripping holes deeper and deeper and thicker and wider into his skin. And people call that Good Friday. Why do they call it Good Friday?
Chapter 2: Why do Christians view Good Friday as a 'good' day?
Well, it obviously wasn't a good day for Jesus in the physical. The reason we call it Good Friday is it's a good day for you and me. Good Friday is called Good Friday because it's the day that you and I had a chance to be set free from the things that keep us bound and separated from God, our sin.
The reason it's called Good Friday is because for the first time in any pinpoint of history, any human being can accept this free gift called friendship with the God of the universe that offers them a clean slate from the sins and rebellion that they've done against God. That's why it's called Good Friday.
I mean, it was God's will that Jesus Christ would be crushed and crucified and beaten and die for the sins of the world. Like, I mean, if you were to be real with yourself, it's not good. Like to say that Jesus was having a good day. I mean, the Bible is very clear in Hebrews 12 that it was the joy that was set before Jesus that he endured the cross. Meaning there was pain. There was agony.
There was suffering. And the thing that held him up against the cross wasn't, oh man, I'm having a good day. The thing that held Jesus on the cross was the fact that he was thinking about you and me. So when we celebrate Good Friday, and we celebrate Resurrection Sunday, and we celebrate Palm Sunday, we have to understand that the goodness aspect of the crucifixion of Christ
is for us that's why we call it good friday now the first story i want us to talk about is a story in the old testament about our friend abraham abraham seemed to be the father of many nations and when you read the story in genesis 22 and 23 about this guy named abraham you see god had told abraham that he would be the father of many nations through a son that he would have with this lady named sarah which was his wife now sarah in that time period she was barren she couldn't have kids
So in the natural, what happens is Abraham goes, oh, shoot, well, I'm not going to be able to have a kid. He begins to doubt God. And so he does what was culturally appropriate at the time. If your wife couldn't have kids, you slept with the servant lady. So he slept with a servant lady named Hagar and had a kid named Ishmael, and God went silent for 15 years.
Because Abraham doubted God's promise that he would have a son with his wife, Sarah, who naturally couldn't have kids, but through the strength and the power and the miracles of the spirit of God could, he just doubted. 15 years go by. Then God comes back and says, no, you're going to have a son with Sarah. It's going to be Isaac. Isaac.
And when Sarah's like freaking 90 years old, she has this son named Isaac. So God's a promise keeper. And I want to pause here for a second. I love how God is still a keeper of his promises, even when we screw up and turn our back on him. How many times has God spoken something to me and Bryce has gone, no, that can't happen because I'm looking at it from the natural lens.
I'm looking at it from a natural perspective. But what we don't understand is that God conquers the natural. We're believing in a supernatural God, an infinite, all-powerful God to do something in the natural. How many times have I said no, yet God doesn't go, oh, promise revoked. And that happens all the time in today's society.
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Chapter 3: What stories from the Old Testament are relevant to Good Friday?
Do you think Abraham for once in his mind goes, dang, this is a great day. I'm feeling so good about this. You're right, God. I need to kill the son I've been begging for for decades. Think he's thinking of a good day? You think so? I don't think so. And the next story I want to go to in chronological order would be Leviticus 16.
Chapter 4: How does the story of Abraham relate to Good Friday?
Now, some of you guys might say, oh, dang, that's a pretty boring chapter or book, book of laws. But I want to hint at something. I was a few weeks ago, we were on the road and I was in Texas and And I got the opportunity to drive up to Waco and sit down with a pastor friend, mentor of mine. And he showed me this in Leviticus and it blew my mind.
Now this one actually kind of correlates back to the gospels. You know, in the gospel of Matthew, the gospel of Matthew is the only gospel that we understand Barabbas' full name. Did you know that Barabbas' full name was Jesus Barabbas? And Barabbas actually translates to son of the father. So when Pilate is standing on a stage in front of a bunch of Jews, you got two people sitting on that stage.
You have Jesus son of the father and Jesus son of the father. Pretty crazy, right? Now remember that. Now let's go back to Leviticus 16. In Leviticus 16 on the Day of Atonement, on the Day of Atonement, they used two goats. The first goat, they would pin all the sins of the world, the sins of mankind on this goat and release it into the wilderness as the cleansing of sins.
That the sins are being released and the scapegoat would be released into the wilderness. And then the second goat would be sacrificed for the atonement of sins. Now, does this look similar? Two goats. One, released into the wilderness for the sins of mankind, and the other one, atoned, sacrificed for the sins of mankind.
When you look on this stage, Pilate, and you have Jesus, Son of the Father, and Jesus, Son of the Father, Jesus Barabbas is actually released into the wilderness. Jesus Barabbas is the personified version of you and me. Jesus Barabbas is you and me. The ultimate, ultimate exemplification of sin. It's you and me, rebellion, sin, murder, all of it combined.
And he's taken and released back to the people. And Barabbas thought that the people wanted him free, but it was the love of God that set Barabbas free. He's the scapegoat from Leviticus 16. Jesus Barabbas is the scapegoat. And as he walks off this stage, set free with all the sins of the world, I mean, you've got to understand when he's barren, I mean, he was supposed to be crucified.
I mean, this guy, Jesus Barabbas, I mean, he was a murderer. He was a thug. He was a rebel against rummies, the worst of the worst. He built the cross. He deserved the crucifixion. Not only that, some people said he was even a rapist back in that time. This guy is sin, literally, all on paper, and he gets released into the wilderness. the scapegoat, Jesus Barabbas.
And then who is it that gets sacrificed? The other one, Jesus Christ, who did absolutely nothing wrong, but wanted to die this death that Barabbas and I deserve because of love, because of Hebrews 12 too, because of the joy that he was thinking of and looking at you and me.
And when I read Leviticus 16 and I look at that scapegoat, the first goat that gets pinned and blamed for the sins and released into the wilderness, I'm like, that's me. I'm the goat that was spared. I'm Barabbas. I'm Jesus Barabbas.
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Chapter 5: What is the significance of Leviticus 16 for Good Friday?
allowing you and me to be friends with it. I'm going to pray that you just be sober. Be sober. Feel the weight. Understand the heaviness. Jesus, thank you. Thank you for dying for us. Thank you for defeating the very things that separate us from you, sin and death.
God, I just ask, would you keep us sober and aware to understand the weight and gravity of what you've done? I mean, God, every time I close my eyes to pray, every time any viewer or listener watching closes their eyes to pray, may we be able to picture your body, your face ripped apart, beaten to unrecognition.
Can we just be able to picture this love that you have so desperately and graciously shown us, God? Thank you. Let us be able to feel it and understand it. God, we love you. I want to continue to love you. We want to continue to love you. God, keep us sober. Help us feel the weight of this. God, help us feel what you felt. Help us feel the emotions you felt. Help us understand.
God, we love you, thank you, and praise you. Jesus' name. Guys, thank you so much for watching and tuning into these episodes. Guys, if you love watching and listening to these episodes, aside from following us along on Instagram, TikTok, Spotify, YouTube, I want to ask you guys, would you guys consider partnering with our ministry financially?
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