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Devotional for April 3, 2026

RECONCILED TO GOD THROUGH HIS CRUCIFIXION (GOOD FRIDAY)

SCRIPTURE READING - 📖 John 3:16-17

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.”

Additional Verses

📖 Isaiah 53:1-12; Matthew 27:1-66; 1 Corinthians 1:18-31

Today the Church all over the world observes a special event in the history of Christianity and this is the Crucifixion of the LORD Jesus Christ. As you know, Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today and forever. This therefore means if you have faith in Him, your faith should remain the same, yesterday, today and forever. It is from the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ that Baptism draws its full meaning. Baptism means dying to sin which is the nature of the devil and receiving new life in Jesus Christ. Through His death at the Cross, Jesus Christ paid the penalty of our sins which had separated us from God since the time of Adam and Eve in Genesis Chapter 3. By Jesus Christ’s Resurrection from the dead, all believers became sanctified and were given a new nature and this is righteousness. Jesus Christ, because of our sins, suffered rejection from the religious authorities who then condemned Him to death of the Cross at the hands of the Romans. As He was subjected to all kinds of abuse by the Sanhedrin Council, Pilate, Herod and the crowds in general, Jesus Christ never fought back at all. Instead, as He was hanging at the Cross in that excruciating pain, He spoke words which reconciled us to God. As the soldiers drove those six inch nails through His hands and His feet, Jesus Christ prayed for them and all of us saying, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.” (Luke 23:34). When the other robber who shared the same fate of crucifixion with Him recognized Him as LORD and asked Him to remember him when He came into His Kingdom, Jesus Christ immediately said to him, “Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.” (Luke 23:42-43). Seeing His mother in great pain standing by the Cross together with His mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleopas, and Mary Magdalene and the disciple whom He loved, Jesus Christ comforted His mother saying, “Woman, behold your son!” Then He said to the disciple, “Behold your mother!” And from that hour that disciple took her to his home. (John 19:25-27). Because Jesus Christ had not had anything to eat or drink from the time they arrested Him in the garden the previous night up to His Crucifixion, and also knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I thirst!” Now a vessel full of sour wine was sitting there; and they filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on hyssop, and put it to His mouth. (John 19:28-29). Now from the sixth hour until the ninth hour there was darkness over all the land. And about the ninth hour Jesus Christ cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” that is “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” (Matthew 27:46). According to Luke 23:44-46, this was also the moment when the veil of the temple was torn in two when there was darkness all over the face of the earth. Jesus Christ then committed Himself to His Father saying, “Father, into your hands I commit My Spirit,” (Luke 23:46). John 19:39 also says, “So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit. Matthew 27:50-56 also says, “And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His Spirit. Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split, and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; and coming out of the graves after His Resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many. So when the centurion and those with him, who were guarding Jesus, saw the earthquake and the things that had happened, they feared greatly, saying, “Truly this was the Son of God!” And many women who followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to Him, were there looking on from afar, among whom were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee’s sons.” A devout disciple of Jesus Christ who was also a member of the Jewish Sanhedrin council whose name was Joseph from Arimathea provided a burial place after requesting from Pilate. This is actually a summary of the events that took place during the Crucifixion of the LORD Jesus Christ over two thousand years ago. This happened so that we could all be converted from sin to righteousness and from darkness into His marvelous light. In this event we see the love of God for us as declared in John 3:16-17. Nations of the world will never miss celebrating the days of their countrys’independence. How much more should Christians value this special Day when Redemption, Deliverance, Healing, and Eternal Salvation were freely given to us through the life of the only begotten Son of God? This is the day of our sanctification and setting apart as a holy people of God and His holy priesthood and a chosen generation. Let us worship and adore the Son of God who so reconciled us to the Father by His death on the Cross, burial and Resurrection in glory. Alleluia!

Prayer

Thank You Father in heaven for loving us so much and for reconciling us to Yourself. Thank You for giving us Your Own righteous nature and blotting out our sinful nature through Your only begotten Son Jesus Christ. In Jesus’ mighty name we pray. Amen.