Easter '25 - Good Friday is Good

Teacher: Rusty Kennedy
​Series: Holidays

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Rusty's Notes

Solomon built the temple…

• God had a permanent place to reside
• Solomon’s Temple – 959 – 587 BC (372 years)
• 2nd Temple (Nehemiah) 516 – 20 BC (496 years)
• Herod’s Temple – Renovations began in 20 BC – Destroyed in 70 AD.

 

• But in 30 AD… The Spirit of God left the temple, and there was no longer a need for the Temple.
• Animal sacrifices were no longer necessary.

 

• But what led up to that day?
• Thursday… Passover meal

 
 
Preparation for the Passover
Matthew 26:17-19
17 On the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Where do you want us to make preparations for you to eat the Passover?”

• The Feast of the Unleavened Bread and the Passover are two different things.
• The “Feast” of the Unleavened Bread was an 8-day celebration that occurred simultaneously with Passover.
• Leviticus 23:5-6 - The Passover to the Lord comes in the first month, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the month. 6 The Festival of Unleavened Bread to the Lord is on the fifteenth day of the same month. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.[1]
• The word “day” or “feast” was added to the original Greek text. Nor should it be capitalized.
• The first of the unleavened bread was the time of preparation before sundown.
• The disciples prepared the Passover meal w/ lamb on Thursday before sundown.
• The Last Supper occurred in the Upper Room after sundown on Thursday.

The Chagigah sacrifice was a special sacrifice made on Friday (15th day) at 9 AM.

• This is the hour that Jesus was crucified.

 
Death Was Arrested (North Point) -
 
 
 
Why is Good Friday Good?

• Good Friday is good because the price we couldn't pay got paid, and the stain we couldn't clean got clean.
• Good Friday is good because the world was without hope, but the lamb was without blemish.
• Good Friday is good because the worst thing that could ever happen was simultaneously the best thing that would ever happen.
• Good Friday is good because on that cross, on that day, the Great Shepherd of the sheep walked through the valley of the shadow of death for us.
• Good Friday is good because even though the cross isn't pretty, it's beautiful.
• Good Friday is good because we have a king who would rather die for his enemies than kill them.
• Good Friday is good because I am not good, but he is.
• Good Friday is good, because Friday is not the end of the story.

 
Sunday is Coming (Phil Wickham)
 
LUKE 23:44-46
44 It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three, 45 because the sun’s light failed. The curtain of the sanctuary was split down the middle. 46 And Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I entrust my spirit.” Saying this, he breathed his last. [2]
 
JOHN 19:30
When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished.” Then bowing his head, he gave up his spirit.[3]
 
Because He Lives (Amen) (Matt Maher)
 
THE CLOSELY GUARDED TOMB
62 The next day, which followed the preparation day, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate 63 and said, “Sir, we remember that while this deceiver was still alive he said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’ 64 So give orders that the tomb be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come, steal him, and tell the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”
65 “You have a guard of soldiers,” Pilate told them. “Go and make it as secure as you know how.” 66 They went and secured the tomb by setting a seal on the stone and placing the guard.
 - Breaking a Roman seal would bring death.

• Matthew 12:40 – “For as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.”[4]
• Not 72 hours… but parts of 3 different days.

 
RESURRECTION MORNING
MATTHEW 28:1-8
1 After the Sabbath, as the first day of the week (Sunday) was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to view the tomb.
 - Refer to Mark 16:1
2 There was a violent earthquake, because an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and approached the tomb. He rolled back the stone and was sitting on it. 3 His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing was as white as snow. 4 The guards were so shaken by fear of him that they became like dead men.
Refer to John 20:1
5 The angel told the women, “Don’t be afraid, because I know you are looking for Jesus who was crucified. 6 He is not here. For he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. 7 Then go quickly and tell his disciples, ‘He has risen from the dead and indeed he is going ahead of you to Galilee; you will see him there.’ Listen, I have told you.”
8 So, departing quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, they ran to tell his disciples the news.[5]

• The women (minus Mary Magdalene) to the other 9.
• Mary Magdalene went to Peter & John who were running to the grave with a different message.
• End

 
1 CORINTHIANS 15:3-8
For I passed on to you as most important what I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the Twelve. 6 Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers and sisters at one time; most of them are still alive, but some have fallen asleep. 7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. 8 Last of all, as to one born at the wrong time, he also appeared to me.[6]
 
My Jesus (Anne Wilson)
 
HEBREWS 10:19-24
19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have boldness to enter the sanctuary through the blood of Jesus--20 he has inaugurated for us a new and living way through the curtain (that is, through his flesh)--21 and since we have a great high priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water. 23 Let us hold on to the confession of our hope without wavering, since he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider one another in order to provoke love and good works, 25 not neglecting to gather together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and all the more as you see the day approaching. [7]
1 CORINTHIANS 5:6-7
Don’t you know that a little leaven, leavens the whole batch of dough? 7 Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new unleavened batch, as indeed you are. For Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed.[8]

[1] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Le 23:5–6). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[2] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Lk 23:44–46.
[3] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Jn 19:30.
[4] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Mt 12:40). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[5] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Mt 27:61–28:8). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[6] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (1 Co 15:3–8). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[7] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Heb 10:19–25.
[8] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), 1 Co 5:6–7.