The Seven sayings from the Cross (Good Friday 2026)

As we reflect on that Friday, what happened on the Thursday evening and Friday morning, what happened.

I know that most of us may not be able to connect so perfectly with what happened 2,000 years ago.

This morning as I was trying to understand the weight of all of this, I asked myself, John C., how would I understand? A pastor may stand here and tell you, try to remember what Jesus did.

We use words to help us understand, but the honest fact is this, it's not easy for us to understand what happened 2,000 years ago on that Thursday night and Friday morning.

The man who bore it all.

The man who bore it all.

Jesus Christ the death of Jesus is real it's not a fable it's a real story Jesus died the holy one died for the unholy people The Holy One died for unholy people.

Jesus' death is real.

It's real.

He died.

The Holy One died for the unholy.

Never in history has a holy person died.

Never.

It has never ever occurred, ever happened.

It will never happen again.

Just once in history it happened.

Do you know that? Jesus did no sin.

1 Peter 2.22 says He did no sin.

1 John 3.5 says He had no sin.

2 Corinthians 5.21 reminds us that He knew no sin.

So a person who did no sin, who had no sin, who knew no sin, was asked to die on our behalf.

You know why? Because the wages of sin is Romans 6.23 The wages of sin is death.

I don't know if we will ever be able to understand.

Because the psalmist says, I never know.

The first song that we sang tells us, I'll never know how much it cost.