Good Friday

Joshua Generation Church

Good Friday

The day Jesus willingly gave His own life. Good Friday is observed as a day on which Jesus died.

if Jesus died, how is it good?

"we will see the goodness and God's sovereign plan. stay with me and follow the biblical timeline."

on this day Jesus became the ultimate sacrifice for the mankind.
the reason for this sacrifice is because of what happened in the Garden of Eden.
Adam disobeyed resulting in death and separation from God.
Rom 5:17-18 Jesus obeyed and brought eternal life.

In Christ we are new creation 2 Cor 5:17

When God created the creation in six days, He spoke the Word and it came into existence. He rested on seventh day.
when Jesus was on the cross, in all His pain and agony He made seven statements.

Each of the statement of Jesus and the creation of God on the particular day has lot of similarities.
we will look into them in another blog.

lets jump on to the sixth day.
what did God create on sixth day?
Man!! 

Six is a number of man. (6th book of bible is  name of a man, Joshua. Joshua = Jesus.

 Jesus became Man)

what is the sixth word of Jesus?
It is finished. John 19:30

what is finished? and how does it connects with the creation of man on sixth day?

remember: "In Christ we are new creation"

still the question remains!!

what is the first miracle of Jesus?
John 2 turning the water into wine.
where did the water turned into wine? in the stone waterpot.
what was the waterpot used for? Purification of Jews.
how many waterpots were there? six (number of a man)
interestingly this is in Verse 6

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
— Ezekiel 36:26

filling up the stone waterpots upto the brim (overflow) represents the water baptism.
wine= blood.
Lev 17:11 life of the flesh is in the blood.

Jesus told Nicodemus in John 3:3 Except a man is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.
John 3:5 except a man be born of water and of Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

New creation.....It is finished!
new life.... it is finished!!

"And God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made."
— Genesis 1:31-2:2

 God worked on creation for six days and He rested (ceased to create) on the seventh day

the last statement of Jesus was,

 "Father, into your hands i commend my Spirit." Luke 23:46

In Christ we are new creation and in eternal rest with God.