Good Friday, March 30, 2018 Genesis 22:1-8
Our Old Testament reading - is a familiar one; the testing of Abraham. When we New Testament believers hear this account, it reminds us of our Savior Jesus. – The Lord Will Provide –He supplies a substitute for Isaac. The ram is caught by its horns, and thus remains unblemished, the perfect sacrifice. Likewise, the Lord offered up His Son Jesus on the cross to be our substitute. He was the perfect sacrifice, unblemished by the taint of sins.
The great hymn of the Reformation, A Mighty Fortress Is Our God (LSB #656), reminds us that, though the devil is a formidable foe, one whom we are unable to overcome on our own, he has been defeated by the Word made flesh, our Savior Jesus. ‘Our victory has been won; The Kingdom ours remaineth.’
Hymn: Lamb of God, Pure and Holy (Lutheran Service Book 434:3)
Lamb of God, pure and holy,
Who on the cross didst suffer,
Ever patient and lowly,
Thyself to scorn didst offer,
All sins Thou borest for us,
Else had despair reigned o’er us;
Have mercy on us, O Jesus! O Jesus!
Almighty God, Graciously behold this Your family for whom our Lord Jesus was willing to be betrayed and delivered into the hands of sinful men to suffer death upon the cross; through the same Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. 1
1. Collect for Good Friday Lutheran Service Book © 20016 Concordia Publishing House, St, Louis
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