Good Friday is so called for a reason..

From what i heard from Pastor Young's podcast, GCC, Philadelphia.

• God is always ready to show his grace and love for us. But more often than not, we're the ones not ready to receive His grace and love for us.
• God did not buy you with gold or silver (the more valuable things in this world), but with something more precious than all things. More precious than a man's reputation or power or money. He bought you and I with the blood of Jesus Christ. (1 Peter 1:18-19)
  
• God sent His Son to die for our sins. A father would rather die, than to send his son to die. But God did not do that. He could have laid down all in the world for us, he could have laid down his own life for us. But to demonstrate His tremendous love for us, He chose to lay down what He loved the most, to sacrifice what mattered to Him the most--His Son, His most valuable possession. How great is this love that we are experiencing from God?
  
• Jesus suffered all wrong accusations, all sarcasms, ridicules, spits and slaps from people, but he beared with it all. He did not call on his legion of angels that he could have done so. He just beared with it all. Because He loved us. He became the object of sin, took all the sin in the world upon himself, upon the lamb without blemish, so that he may save us from the wrath of God because of our sins. In Gethsemane, Jesus had said that if He asked His Father, more than twelve legions of angels would be at His disposal. The power to escape this dark hour was available to Him. But Jesus would not come down--He could not come down. Love held Him to the cross.
• Following Jesus, means following the way of the cross. If we are to call ourselves Christians, will we be able to live a life of love like Jesus did? When Jesus went to the cross, He suffered, but he went to it in joy. Is there self denial in our lives? When there is something we really don't want to do, do we still do it for God? Are we sacrificing anything for Jesus? When there is a sacrifice, we need the grace. May us receive the grace of God, so that we may empty the grace for others around!