"They got the lions, only in Kenya."

Today is the day we (as a whole planet, or so I believe) have set for representing the day Jesus died for us. Good Friday.

Good Friday means, here comes Easter, glorious Easter. But Let's not look towards Easter without first really remembering today, what Jesus did- and everything He did leading up to- today.

I don't have time to go into detail (as Jim Britt did flawlessly on Sunday), but there are so many keypoints to remember about this day.

God crushed His own Son. He is the One who killed Jesus. Jesus offered Himself up as the perfect sacrifice (He led a perfect life here on earth), for God the Father to pour out every painful drop of His wrath.

Sure, Jesus was dealing with incredible earthly pain and suffering. He was fully human as well, therefore, He can completely relate to us - He can probably relate even closer to human than us just because of how close he was to death and that He knew it.

But really, the most dreadful suffering was from the Father's wrath. All of our sins had been bottled up into the cup of wrath that was fully blasted onto Jesus, "today", at Calvary.

That is the reason He sweat drops of blood. We all know Jesus loves us undoubtedly, and yes He knew He was dying for us during that time, but Who He was really thinking about and fearing, was His own Father.

We say (like how I said earlier), Jesus can relate to us....well, I wish somehow we could relate to Him- knowing what He really went through, but we have faith and trust instead of learning or seeing firsthand. I don't believe anyone could handle what He went through for God's glory and for us.

It was a drink only He could swallow. Out of all eternity, every person ever, no one would amount up, no one would offer himself, no one could even attempt to barely succeed.

Jesus was the only One who could perform this horrid journey. And He actually did it.


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At the cross we see Your mercy
Pouring forth in streams of blood
At the cross we see compassion
Flowing like a crimson flood
At the cross we see our Savior
And the beauty of His love
At the cross

At the cross we find forgiveness
Making foul sinners clean
At the cross we find Your power
Setting captive prisoners free
At the cross we find our Savior
Who secured our victory
At the cross