Good Friday is probably the saddest day of the Christian calendar year for most Christians. It is sad for obvious reasons.
And yet it is also the most necessary. He died on a Roman Cross for you and me so that we might not perish eternally, but have everlasting life.
The night Jesus was crucified, two thieves were crucified with Him. These 2 thieves had a very enlightening conversation. It was the last conversation Jesus had with any human being before he died. Not much is mentioned in the Gospels about this conversation.
But Luke takes sometime to tell the story of how one of the thieves seemingly has an epiphany while they are mocking Jesus. And now this thief begins to rebuke the other thief!
The repentant thief then says to Jesus "Please, remember me when you come into your Kingdom." He had a change of heart; an apparent conversion.
I used to think this was a shallow "confession. "
But after further investigation of Luke 23 verses 39-43, I no longer see it like this.
Take a ride with me to the very place where Jesus and these two thieves meet their untimely deaths together, and where two of the three enter the courts of Paradise that very same day!
It may be Friday
But Easter Sunday is comin'!
Thanks again for listening!
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