Friday, April 18, 2014

Good Friday to You


Romans 3:24-25 “All are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished.

Jesus paid a debt that He didn’t owe, because we owed a debt that we could not pay. Today is “Good Friday” because “Justification” has been merited for us by the Passion of Christ who offered himself on the cross as a living victim, holy and pleasing to God, and whose blood has become the instrument of atonement for the sins of all men. The penalty of our sins was paid in full by the substitutionary sacrifice of our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ on the cross at Calvary. Jesus took upon himself our sins and we take His righteousness upon ourselves by accepting the “free” gift of “Good Friday” by faith ... "saving faith". We cannot earn it. We cannot purchase it. We do not deserve it. This is the unmerited favor by the grace of God out of His love and mercy towards us. Rejoice! Jesus died for you and me. Good Friday to you!



In Christ, Brian

5 comments:

Frank E. Blasi said...

Wishing you a happy Easter, for he is risen.
God bless.

Brian Ray Todd said...

Thank you Frank. Wishing a happy Easter to you and yours also. May the reality of the gospel of Salvation fill our hearts, minds and soul with joy. Rejoice!

1 Corinthians 15:1-4 Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures.

Anonymous said...

Praise Jesus...Happy Easter... may God continue to bless you and Patty and your family.
Ed Bataille

Brian Ray Todd said...

Happy Easter Eddie and Good Friday to you. Blessings to you and yours.

Anonymous said...

The gospel of justification by faith is such a shocker, such an explosion, because it is an absolutely unconditional promise. It is not an "if-then" kind of statement, but a "because-therefore" pronouncement: Because Jesus died and rose, your sins are forgiven and you are righteous in the sight of God! It bursts in upon our little world all shut up and barricaded behind our accustomed conditional thinking as some strange comet from goodness knows where, something we can't really seem to wrap our minds around, the logic of which appears closed to us. How can it be entirely unconditional? Isn't it terribly dangerous? How can anyone say flat-out, "You are righteous for Jesus' sake? Is there not some price to be paid, something (however miniscule) to be done? After all, there can't be such a thing as a free lunch, can there?
You see, we really are sealed up in a prison of our conditional thinking. It is terribly difficult for us to get out, and even if someone batters down the door and shatters the bars, chances are we will stay in prison anyway! We seem always to want to hold out for something somehow, that little bit of something, and we do it with a passion and an anxiety that betrays its true source--the Old Adam that just does not want to lose control. (Gerhard O. Forde)

Byron