Great and Holy Friday

Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations

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🗓️ 22 April 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Hank Hanegraaff, president of the Christian Research Institute and host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast, reflects on the meaning of Great and Holy Friday of Eastern Orthodox Holy Week. On this day, the Church is brought face to face with the fatal torment of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. As the chill of death crept through His body, our Lord cried out, “My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me?” These shocking, devastating words harken back to the words of Psalm 22. “I am poured out like water, all my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax; it has melted away within Me. My strength is dried up, My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth….a band of evil men have encircled Me; they have pierced My hands and My feet. I can count all my bones. People stare, they gloat over Me. They divide my garments among them and they cast lots for my clothing.” Christ’s emptying is our filling. As we emerge from a worldwide pandemic, a time of suffering, despair and death, we are reminded to think back to God’s past faithfulness in Christ—we are assured that He is faithful in the midst of our present circumstances. And that we will be, in the words of King David, “delivered and not disappointed.” The cry of Christ from the cross forever highlights the stark contrast between emotional despair and absolute trust in God’s eternal faithfulness. Today, we remember the Passion of the Christ upon the cross—the Lamb of God who takes away of the sin of the world.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Hank Hennigraph, president of the Christian Research Institute and host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast with another Hank Unplug Short.
0:22.3	Today, the short entails Holy Friday.
0:28.2	Holy Friday, the day in which a united church is brought face to face with the fatal torment of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
0:42.3	As the chill of death crept through his body, our Lord cried out,
0:50.3	Eloai, Eloai, Lama Subbaktini.
0:54.6	My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
1:01.4	These very words of our Lord will they hearken back to the opening words of Psalm 22.
1:10.4	I am poured out like water.
1:14.9	All my bones are out of joint.
1:18.9	My heart has turned to wax.
1:23.0	It has melted away within me.
1:27.2	My strength is dried up.
1:30.6	My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.
1:36.4	A band of evil men have encircled me.
1:39.2	They have pierced my hands in my feet.
1:52.6	I can count all my bones. People stare. They, they gloat over me. They divide my garments among them, and they cast lots from my clothing. By uttering the first words of this Psalm, the Lord of Glory, was drawing his and
2:08.9	vicariously our attention to the entirety of the psalmist prayer. Ilo, Eloai, no doubt a cry from the cross to God the
2:22.0	Father and God the Holy Spirit. Affirmation of the unbreakable union between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, a union that you and I may enter into as well.
2:40.6	His conosis is our theosis, his emptying is our filling.
2:48.5	Well, as I record this Hank unplugged, it occurs to me that at this very moment we are emerging from a worldwide pandemic, from a time of suffering and agony, a time of death, disease, even a time of despair.
3:05.6	And yet, like Jesus Christ, who... even a time of despair.
3:13.9	And yet like Jesus Christ who suffered the ultimate agony,
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