Why Good Friday
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🗓️ 3 April 2026
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| 0:00.0 | This is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent his son as an atoning |
| 0:07.6 | sacrifice for our sins. |
| 0:10.3 | 1 John 4.10. |
| 0:13.3 | Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. |
| 0:16.7 | Why Good Friday was written by Alison Keita and read by Rochelle Troub. |
| 0:22.6 | 1 John chapter 4 verses 7 through 12. |
| 0:27.6 | Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. |
| 0:33.6 | Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. |
| 0:43.3 | This is how God showed His love among us. |
| 0:46.3 | He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him. |
| 0:52.3 | This is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us |
| 0:58.3 | and sent his son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins dear friends since God so |
| 1:05.9 | loved us we also ought to love one another no one has ever seen God but if to love one another. No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made |
| 1:18.4 | complete in us. |
| 1:22.9 | Why Good Friday, written by Alison Keita. |
| 1:28.9 | What's so good about Good Friday? What's so good about Good Friday, written by Alison Keita. What's so good about Good Friday? |
| 1:32.2 | Why isn't the day called Bad or Sad Friday? |
| 1:36.3 | After all, it's meant to be a day of sorrowful reflection, not a day of celebration. |
| 1:43.4 | Sometimes this day takes other names, such as Holy Friday. |
| 1:48.1 | In Germany, it's called Karitag, or Sorrowful Friday. |
| 1:53.5 | So where did we get the tradition of calling it good? |
| 1:57.7 | Some believe it may have originated from the older tradition of calling it God's Friday. |
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