Good Friday Service
Isaiah 53:1-6
Who has believed our message?
To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm?
2 My servant grew up in the Lord’s presence like a tender green shoot,
like a root in dry ground.
There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance,
nothing to attract us to him.
3 He was despised and rejected—
a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief.
We turned our backs on him and looked the other way.
He was despised, and we did not care.
4 Yet it was our weaknesses he carried;
it was our sorrows[a] that weighed him down.
And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God,
a punishment for his own sins!
5 But he was pierced for our rebellion,
crushed for our sins.
He was beaten so we could be whole.
He was whipped so we could be healed.
6 All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.
We have left God’s paths to follow our own.
Yet the Lord laid on him
the sins of us all.
Hebrews 4:14-16 ERV
Jesus, the Son of God,
helps us as God’s
most important priest.
He is our great priest who has gone up into heaven.
We say that we believe in him. So we must continue to show people that we trust him. – Jesus, our great priest understands us.
He knows how weak we are. He knows that we sometimes want to do wrong things.
The Devil tried to make him do all those same kinds of wrong things.
But Jesus never did anything wrong.
So we should come near to God and we should not be afraid.
God is our King.
We can ask him to help us when we need help.
We know that he will forgive us and he will be kind to us in whatever way we need.
Good Friday 2025
