Good Friday Gifts

Jesus’ legacy, His last will and testament: “ Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you.” (John 14:27)

O sinner, you are in the most perilous situation any human being could ever be.  You are at war with God, estranged from Him.  It is a war you cannot win.  I urge you as strongly as I can to flee to the cross that you might have peace with God; that your name might be in this last will and testament.  Christ gave Himself on your behalf and took upon Himself the just wrath of the Father against you.  If you trust Jesus for this substitutionary work, you will have the unspeakable inheritance of peace with God.

O Christian, you know what it means to sin, to displease Christ, to feel a wedge in your relationship with Him.  We all go through that when we are brought under conviction.  Christ chastens us, but at no point after our redemption is He ever at war with us again.  When we are reconciled to the Father through Christ, the war is over…

“Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid…”(John 14:27)

“In the multitude of my anxieties within me, your comforts delight my soul.”  (Psalm 94:19)

“And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever.”   John 14:16

Here, the word comfort comes from two Latin words that meant “with strength”.  Thus a comforter was someone who came to strengthen you.  It wasn’t the one who came to wipe your tears after the battle; it was the one who came to give you strength for the battle…

-all notes from RC Sproul, Commentary on John 14