What's so good about Good Friday?

When John the Baptist first saw Jesus, he pointed to Him and said; "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!" (John 1:29)

God commanded the Israelites to celebrate the Passover Feast every year. They were to remember how God had freed them from Egypt, and how His judgement had "passed over them" because of the 'blood of the lamb' wiped on their doorpost (Exodus 12).
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For hundreds of years after that, the Jewish people would make a yearly pilgrimage to Jerusalem to partake in this Passover Feast. On the Sunday before the feast, they would buy a lamb without blemish from a vendor in the temple. This choosing of a lamb happened on the day we refer to as Palm Sunday... one could say it was 'Lamb Selection day.' And it was on this day that Jesus rode into Jerusalem. This is significant, as if God was saying; "here's my Lamb, will you choose him?"

This spotless, innocent Lamb, was slaughtered for our sins. And by the shedding of His blood, are we declared righteous.

This is wonderfully illustrated in the Chinese symbol for righteousness: It's made up of two symbols;
The bottom one (wo): me, self, I
The top one (yang) Lamb, (coloured red)
Lamb over me (yi) = righteousness




What's so good about Good Friday? It's the day that God reconciled us to Himself through the sacrifice of the Lamb of God.

Isa 53:5-6 But the servant was pierced because we had sinned. He was crushed because we had done what was evil. He was punished to make us whole again. His wounds have healed us. All of us are like sheep. We have wandered away from God. All of us have turned to our own way. And the LORD has placed on his servant the sins of all of us. (NIrV)