Good Friday: Psalm 22
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Good Friday: Psalm 22

Here is another important passage in the Old Testament that sets the stage for Good Friday. This is the lamenting suffering in the presence of God. We can think that God does not understand our suffering or that he is absent in our dark times. However, our Lord takes the words of the Psalmist upon his lips. We will be considering Pilate declaring Christ the man on Friday night. This Psalm is a call for us to consider what our Lord endured. We remember this Psalm and Isaiah 53 end with the assurance of life. Let us go in the assurance that Our Lord has done it.

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Standing Over the Door (LD 19; Exodus 12:7-20)
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Standing Over the Door (LD 19; Exodus 12:7-20)

The Lord’s Supper, like Passover, is a visible sign of Christ’s sacrifice, symbolizing believers’ participation in his suffering and death. It is not a re-sacrifice but a nourishment in Christ’s one-time sacrifice. Christ, as the Passover lamb symbolizes, protects his redeemed people, and the sacraments hold out his grace and power and they do not hold out a different grace or a different power.  They represent the one true Gospel.

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