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Hey there, sprouts. Today is Friday, April 2, 2021. Today is also Good Friday, the day that we commemorate the crucifixion and death of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now all week we have been talking about the events that took place during the final day of Jesus' earthly life.

Of course, in the Jewish understanding, the day began at sunset.

So first we had the Last Supper where Jesus instituted the Eucharist

and washed the feet of his disciples. Then, later that

night, the agony in the garden, the arrest, and the trial before the high priest. Next, we talked

about the events of the early morning, which is when Jesus was brought to Pilate and later on

when he stood before Herod, and finally when he was condemned

to be crucified. Yesterday we talked about the crucifixion and the way of the cross, and today

we will talk about the death of our Lord Jesus Christ. We believe that the death of Jesus

took place around 3 p.m. in the afternoon. Now, there were some followers of Christ

standing at the foot of the cross. We know that the beloved disciple, the disciple John, who wrote

the gospel John, that although he ran away, he seems to have returned during the moment of crucifixion,

and he stood there with Jesus' mother.

And they were weeping, but they were with Christ.

And we have some of the words that Christ spoke while he hung on the cross and died.

And we're going to talk about these words and what they mean for us

even now today. So the first words that Christ spoke, he said, my God, my God, why have you

forsaken me? Now those words are kind of hard to hear, to hear the anguish that Christ felt.

But what you might not realize is that those words are the first words of a psalm, of a much

longer psalm. And Christ would have grown up praying and reading the Psalms. He probably had them

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