Midway Good Friday 07 MOST (“The bridge” in Czech language) Between Now and Eternity…

Who believes what we’ve heard and seen? Who would have thought God’s saving power would look like this? Isaiah 53:1 (Msg)

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. John 1:1-3

His purpose was for the nations to seek after God and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him—though he is not far from any one of us. Acts 17:27 (NLT)

You have spent a lot of money, but you haven’t much to show for it. You keep filling your plates, but you never get filled up. You keep drinking and drinking and drinking, but you’re always thirsty. You put on layer after layer of clothes, but you can’t get warm. Hag 1:6. (Msg)

I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. John 5:19

Your fame soon spread throughout the world because of your beauty. I dressed you in my splendor and perfected your beauty, says the Sovereign Lord. Eze 16:14 (NLT)

What are you waiting for? Return to your God! Commit yourself in love, in justice! Wait for your God, and don’t give up on him—ever! Hosea 12:6 (Msg)

The god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. 2 Co 4:4 (NLT)

He’s the one who runs the earth! He cradles the whole world in his hand! If he decided to hold his breath, every man, woman, and child would die for lack of air. Job 34:13-15 (Msg)

I’m an open book to you; even from a distance, you know what I’m thinking. Ps 139:2 (Msg)

You know when I leave and when I get back; I’m never out of your sight. Ps 139:3 (Msg)

You know everything I’m going to say before I start the first sentence. Ps 139:4 (Msg)

We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; Isaiah 53:6 (NIV)

What benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death. Romans 6:21. (NASB)

18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.” John 10:18

My God! My God! Why have you forsaken me?

Isaiah 53:3-4 3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted.

O Sacred Head Now Wounded O Sacred Head, now wounded, With grief and shame bow’d down, Now scornfully surrounded With thorns, Thine only crown. O Sacred Head, what glory, What bliss till now was Thine! Yet, though despised and gory, I joy to call Thee mine.

O Sacred Head Now Wounded What Thou, my Lord, hast suffered, Was all for sinners’ gain; Mine, mine was the transgression, But Thine the deadly pain: Lo, here I fall, my Savior! ‘Tis I deserve Thy place; Look on me with Thy favor, Vouchsafe to me Thy grace.

O Sacred Head Now Wounded What language shall I borrow To Thank Thee, dearest Friend, For this Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end? O make me Thine forever; And should I fainting be Lord, let me never, never Outlive my love Thee

For the Cross I will love you for the Cross And I will love you for the cost Man of suffering, Bringer of my peace. You came into a world of shame And paid the price we could not pay Death that brought me life, Blood that brought me home. Death that brought me life, Blood that brought me home.

For the Cross And I love you for the cross, I’m overwhelmed by the mystery, I love you for the cross, That Jesus you would do this for me. When you were broken, You were beaten, You were punished, I go free, When you were wounded and rejected, In your mercy, I am healed.

For the Cross Jesus Christ the sinner’s Friend Does this kindness know no bounds? With your precious blood you have purchased me. O, the mystery of the cross You were punished, you were crushed But that punishment has become my peace Yes, the punishment has become my peace.

Silent Scripture Reading Romans 5:6-8 6 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Forever My Love The nails in Your hands, The nails in Your feet They tell me how much You love me The thorns on Your brow, they tell me how You bore so much shame to love me And when the heavens pass away All Your scars will still remain And forever they will say how much You love me And I want to say Forever my love, forever my heart Forever my life is Yours (repeat)

Scripture Reading 1 Peter 2: When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly. 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed. 25 For you were like sheep going astray, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

OH THE WONDERFUL CROSS When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of glory died My richest gain I count but loss And pour contempt on all my pride See from His head, His hands, His feet Sorrow and love flow mingled down Did ever such love and sorrow meet Or thorns compose so rich a crown? Oh the wonderful cross, oh the wonderful cross Bids me come & die & find that I may truly live Oh the wonderful cross, oh the wonderful cross All who gather here by grace draw near And bless Your name Where the whole realm of Nature mine That were an offering far too small Love so amazing, so divine Demands my soul, my life, my all

Communion