{"id":753,"date":"2010-04-02T07:22:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T11:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortispress.com\/blog\/?p=753"},"modified":"2016-03-25T04:43:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T11:43:31","slug":"sundays-comin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=753","title":{"rendered":"Sunday&#8217;s Comin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15013.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1709\" \/><\/a>Never understood why they call it Good Friday.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure that, watching the events of that day, Jesus&#8217; friends didn&#8217;t call it good. Nothing good about the sinless Son of God being betrayed, arrested, accused, denied, condemned, beaten, mocked and crucified.<\/p>\n<p>But then Jesus&#8217; friends didn&#8217;t know about Sunday. They had forgotten his words about the grain of wheat that had to die before it could bear fruit (John 12:24), and his clear promise that, if his temple was destroyed, in three days he would raise it up (John 2:19).<\/p>\n<p>I suppose theologians would say it&#8217;s Good Friday because, on it, Jesus died for our sins. I&#8217;ll buy that, but there&#8217;s more. I say it&#8217;s Good Friday because it sets up Easter.<\/p>\n<p>Put succinctly, Jesus&#8217; disciples needed to know the same thing we need to know when faced with death and dying (see John 11 and I Corinthians 15).<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s comin&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never understood why they call it Good Friday. I&#8217;m pretty sure that, watching the events of that day, Jesus&#8217; friends didn&#8217;t call it good. Nothing good about the sinless Son of God being betrayed, arrested, accused, denied, condemned, beaten, mocked and crucified. But then Jesus&#8217; friends didn&#8217;t know about Sunday. They had forgotten his words [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1710,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions\/1710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}