The weekend message for the beloved Children of God - The Joyful Celebration of Holy Weekend !

The weekend message for the beloved Children of God - The Joyful Celebration of Holy Weekend !

The events of our Lord's last weekend before His death. The chief festivals of Holy Week are Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Great Vigil (Holy Saturday). Holy Week, together with Easter, is the most sacred part of the believers calendar the celebration of the death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. Think about His suffering and brutal death on the cross to atone for the sins of the believers. The Joyful Celebration of Jesus! There are a variety of services of worship, all aimed at allowing worshippers to experience some sense of the pain, humiliation, and ending in the journey to the cross. Good Friday service is a series of Scripture readings, a short homily, and a time of meditation and prayer. Scripture reading and service at some churches are on the Seven Last Words of Jesus as recorded in the Gospels. Read them: "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" (Luke 23:32-38). "Today shalt thou be with me in paradise" (Luke 23:39-43). "Woman, behold thy son ! . . . behold thy mother" (John 19:25-27). "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"( Mark 15:33-34). "I thirst" (John 19:28-29). "It is finished!" (John 19:30). "Father, into thy hands I commend my Spirit " (Luke 23:46). Last night, I went at Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church they had a service that was Awesome on the Seven Last Words. Now, let us get some understanding of the seventh day of the week, the day Jesus rested in the tomb, Saturday. This is a day of quiet meditation as believers contemplate the darkness of a world without a future and without hope apart from God and his grace. Ask youself are you commit to God's will or are you faithful and commit to your own will? This is Holy Weekend, not your weekend, darkness is walking on the earth today. Let us not walk by darkness in the next 48 hours before sunrise on Sunday, choose today whom you will serve darkness or the light of the world? Read Joshua 24:15, And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. His body remained in the grave throughout Saturday, but He is not died, it's a time to give back unto Him. Lord, we Praise Your Holy Name today and forevermore. Read 1 John 1:6-7, If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. The great God should be represented to this dark world, as pure and perfect light. We are called out of darkness into the marvellous light. As he is in the light; according to the light which he has given, who is light itself, is in us, and dwells within us today and forevermore. Darkness came over all the land for three hours when Jesus died, an earthquake occurred. The great veil in the temple which separated the holy place from the most holy place was torn in two.Thank You Lord for all that you have done for us, for we are of the light, the veil was torn for your children. Saturday has traditionally been a time of reflection and waiting, the time of weeping that lasts for the night while awaiting the joy that comes in the morning. Let us make a joyful noise unto the Lord. Read Psalm 30:4-6, Sing unto the Lord , O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved. According to the New Testament, Jesus gave the Passover meal a new meaning, as he prepared himself and his disciples for his death in the upper room during the Last Supper. He identified the bread as His body and the cup of wine as His blood, soon to be sacrificed for the believers. Understand this meal is commemorate Jesus' death and resurrection. A great crowd followed Jesus to the place where He was crucified. Among them were the Jewish leaders who had demanded His death. Luke mentions the women, who followed Jesus, to the cross. In John 19:25, Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. And the one disciple John, read John 19:26-27, When Jesus saw His mother and the disciple He loved standing there, He said to His mother, "Woman, here is your son." Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home. They were the last to leave the cross, His disciples also followed, but from a distance. The death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus fulfilled prophecy and bought man’s freedom from slavery to sin. By means of His , Jesus removed any doubt that He had really died. By means of His resurrection, Jesus death proved He had power over death. Heavenly Father, we love you. Hosannah! We worship You, We Adore Your Holy Name. We Worship You In Spirit and In Truth. For the Redeemer Lives ! For it is written in Psalm 18:46, The Lord liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted. Thank you Lord for your word. Amen !

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