Good Friday (Luke 22:1-6)
Gary McManus, 04/02/2021Part of the Holy Week series, preached at a Midweek Meeting service
Good Friday, Holy Saturday and all night until early Sunday while Jesus was in the tomb; those were the darkest moments in history.
That is a believers’ viewpoint. The light that had come to us went away for three days. Jesus was THE light (John 1:9). Good Friday is a Good Friday because God’s plan was working.
Satan does oppose the purposes of God.Satan entered Judas. As far as Luke's Gospel is concerned, that answers the question as to why Judas acted to inform the authorities.
The time was right for God's plan to be accomplished.(See Matthew 28:16)
Bible readers know what happened: trial, Pilate, Herod, the Jewish Sanhedrin, false accusers, the cries of the people for Jesus to be crucified. (Luke 23:14) Jesus was crucified. And Jesus of Nazareth died on the cross.
The death of Jesus. . .that is what Satan wanted.
Satan did not know that this was the plan of God all along. Jesus would open the doors of Satan's dungeon of the dead from the inside.
(See Hebrews 2:14)
It isn’t unlike the story of the Trojan Horse.
In Jesus' death everything was going according to God’s plan and Satan never knew it. Sin had to be paid for. Jesus was winning our freedom from Satan. (See John 14:28)
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