Good Friday is the day that churches commemorate our Lord Jesus suffering and dying for our sins on the cross. To commorate this many in the Romanite Churches do a ritual called “The Stations of the Cross,” in which penitents recall every time our Lord fell, and they themsleves fall on their knee, and pray a Hail Mary and an Our Father. I am all for remembering our Savior’s suffering for of us, but to manufacture your own suffering in some penitential service not only missed the point of Jesus paying it all with His blood, it is sacrilegious and insults the Spurit of Grace, “How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace” (Hebrews 10:29). Those who add penance to Christ’s Sacrifice are trampling on His blood that sanctifies all once for all! The actions of the Roman Catholic Church spit on Christ’s all sufficent sacrifice!, “And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified,” (Hebrews 10:10-14) and “For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own, for then Christ would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, Christ has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him..” (Hebrews 9:24-28).
Christ’s sacrifice was once, on Friday, 33 A.D., for all sin for all time! The masses the Romanites do are trampling on the blood, they believe the priest has to sacrifice Jesus over and over, that His Body and Blood has to appear via Transubstantiation, and be consumed by the congregants every Sunday. Well ask if this is necessary, what is to be done for someone marooned on an island with not priest to do his transmuting magic? More importantly, Scripture refutes this wicked polluting of Christ’s sacrifice! Jesus died once on the cross for all your sins and if you believe in Him and confess Him as Lord you are saved! (Romans 10:9-10). You don’t need priests, masses, bread, and wine! Jesus poured out His blood to fill the cup of suffering once and for all! Any who add to what He did or believe they must somehow make this manifest via magical latin words every Sunday are antichrist!
What Christ did on Good Friday was enough! His suffering and death paid it all for our sins. Faith in Him transfers grace and forgiviness to our account instantly! Like a wire transfer or digital transfer on your bank app, its seconds, not a lifetime like the Catholics who would have you erroneously believe you can only transfer a little bit of grace and forgiveness in small sums every Sunday, pilgrimage, and etc! No, its an instsnt transfer, Jesus takes your debt of sin, and sends you the full amount of grace and forgiveness, “And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.” (Colossians 2:13-14).
Good Friday is only good if you believe the truth, that Jesus Christ died once for all time for our sins and that His sacrifice is all sufficient and cleanses you of all sin! So celebrate Good Friday with jubilantion because “It is Finished!” We need no toil in futile religious exercises and acts of piety. For Christ has done all that os necessary to sanctify, make right, cleanse, and save us! Amen.
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