Good Friday Service

Scripture and Readings

• Isaiah 52:13-53:3

• Matthew 27:27-31

• The Precious Blood
  

• Isaiah 53:4-6

• John 19:34

• Love Lustres at Calvary
  

• Isaiah 53:7-9

• Luke 23:33-38

• A Prayer for Good Friday
  

• Isaiah 53:10-12

• Matthew 27:45-46

• Excerpt from “The Death of Christ” by Charles Spurgeon

“My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” The martyrs said not that: God was with them. Confessors of old cried not so, when they came to die. They shouted in their fires, and praised God on their racks. Why this? Why doth the Saviour suffer so? Why, beloved, it was because the Father bruised him. That sunshine of God’s countenance that has cheered many a dying saint, was withdrawn from Christ; the consciousness of acceptance with God, which has made many a holy man espouse the cross with joy, was not afforded to our Redeemer, and therefore he suffered in thick darkness of mental agony…. Underneath the church are the ever lasting arms; but underneath Christ there were no arms at all, but his

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Father’s hand pressed heavily against him; the upper and the nether mill-stones of divine wrath pressed and bruised him; and not one drop of joy or consolation was afforded to him. “It pleased Jehovah to bruise him; he hath put him to grief.” This, my brethren, was the climax of the Saviour’s woe, that his Father turned away from him, and put him to grief.