{"id":578,"date":"2010-04-02T05:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T05:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/blog\/2010\/04\/02\/holy-week-good-friday-3\/"},"modified":"2015-11-25T12:26:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T19:26:35","slug":"holy-week-good-friday-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/holy-week-good-friday-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Week: Good Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>&#8220;But He was pierced for our offenses, crushed for our sins; upon him was the chastisement that makes us whole, by his stripes we were healed. We had all gone astray like sheep, each following his own way; but the Lord laid upon Him the guilt of us all.&#8221; (Isaiah 53:5-6)<\/b><\/div>\n<p>\n3:00 PM. The blackest hour. Jesus has died. Innocent of all crime, He willingly went to the cross for one reason and one reason only&#8211;so that <i>you <\/i>might live. <b><i>You<\/i><\/b>. It&#8217;s personal. If the only sin on earth was the white lie you told last week, He would have been born and suffered and died, so that <i>you<\/i> would not have to pay the wage for that sin: death. <\/p>\n<p>Yes, this is a black day. We have crucified Christ with our sins. Let&#8217;s try to keep an awareness of Our Lord&#8217;s suffering in our hearts throughout the day, and at three o&#8217;clock, let&#8217;s pause for a moment or two of silent meditation as a remembrance of Jesus breathing his last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;But He was pierced for our offenses, crushed for our sins; upon him was the chastisement that makes us whole, by his stripes we were healed. We had all gone astray like sheep, each following his own way; but the Lord laid upon Him the guilt of us all.&#8221; (Isaiah 53:5-6) 3:00 PM. The blackest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration-spirituality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}