Hey everybody, Daniel Fusco here.
Welcome to today's Two Minute Message.
Today is called Good Friday,
one of the strangest names in history.
I mean, why do we call it Good Friday
when it's the day that Jesus was crucified?
Literally, Jesus was stripped down naked,
beaten to a pulp, and he was hung on a cross,
a public display of humiliation in that culture,
and we call it Good Friday.
Why do we call it that?
Well, because in the greatest tragedy in all of history,
God's most amazing work was at play.
See, Jesus didn't die because he deserved it.
Jesus died because God loves you and me
and everyone he ever created so much.
It was the only way to bring us back to God.
And that's why we call it Good Friday.
But we didn't know that it was Good Friday
when it happened.
The people who saw it, it was not good at all.
But then, after Friday comes Sunday,
Resurrection Sunday, where they went to the empty tomb
and Jesus wasn't there.
He was alive.
By the way, the Lord did not die on Good Friday.
Good Friday is a hoax.
The Lord died on a Wednesday,
which is the other reason we have
his service on Wednesday night.
On Wednesday nights, we gather together
and we spend time in the Word of God
and then on the first, and honor his death,
and then on the first of the week,
we honor his resurrection.