Painful Friday

We’ve looked at the multiple difficulties and pains that Jesus endured in his time on the earth.

Now we come to the last and most painful of these, four horrific events in His process of securing eternal salvation for all who believe.

First is the obvious and excreting pain of the crucifixion, following the earlier physical suffering of being beaten, whipped and forced to walk to His execution.

This unimaginably painful execution, was long and totally unjust, but was from God’s point of view, such an important a part of our redemption.

Second is the horrible reality of Jesus actually becoming sin for us, becoming all the ugliness of all the transgressions of all the people from Adam to the last one. An infinite and repulsive reality.

Third is the most painful aspect: the breaking, the ripping of the relationships of the Trinity, destroying the perfect peace, grace, love and intimacy of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This was painful not only for Jesus, but for the Father and Holy Spirit also. As the curtain before the Holy place in the temple was ripped, so was the unity, the oneness, the closeness and perfect balance of the three, bringing deep, searing pain to each of the Trinity.

And fourth, as Jesus was left alone, cut off from the others, the Father poured out all of His infinite wrath against all the sin ever committed by every person onto Jesus, crushing Him beneath the weight of an infinite punishment. That certainly hurt the heart of the Father as well as devastating Jesus. But both endured because they desired the salvation of all their enemies.