Friday is good because Sunday is coming

By His stripes we are healed.

Isaiah 53:3-6 NKJV
[3] He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. [4] Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. [5] But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. [6] All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

https://bible.com/bible/114/isa.53.3-6.NKJV

Good Friday is all about the price Jesus paid on the cross for the sin of the world. It is the day that the Church recognizes and commemorates as the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ. Easter Sunday commemorates His resurrection from the dead, but good Friday is just as important in the resurrection celebration that we partake of every spring. Without the events that took place on Good Friday, there would be no redemption. If it had just been Christ crucified, with no resurrection, there would be no redemption or salvation. His resurrection; being raised from the dead, is the proof that God has redeemed mankind from the grip of sin and death and raised us to new life; eternal life through Christ. As John wrote in the gospel that bears his name;

John 3:16 NKJV
[16] For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

https://bible.com/bible/114/jhn.3.16.NKJV

John 3:16 is referred to as “the Gospel in a nutshell.”

Hundreds of years before Jesus Christ came into this world to die for the  sins of the world (Galatians 4:4&5) as the propitiation; the atoning sacrifice for the sin of the world, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, the Prophet Isaiah foretold of this event. The four Gospels present the fulfillment of all that the Law and the Prophets had spoken of and pointed to. From the Garden of Eden to the Garden of Gethsemane, the Bible predicts and fulfills all that God had promised when Adam transgressed, partaking of the forbidden fruit and setting in motion God’s plan of redemption.

The day that we call Easter is the day when all of the prophesies that pointed to the coming Messiah, culminated in the arrest, crucifixion, death, burial and resurrection of Christ. This is the Day that history was split in half, dividing time as B.C. and A.C.

The four Gospels and the rest of the New Testament God has given to us as a written testimony. His word is the living power and proof within us, as we read, meditate and pray. The coming of the Holy Spirit illuminates within us and testifies to the truth of the Gospel and the reality and presence of the resurrection in the lives of those who have received Christ as their Lord and Savior and have been born again of the Spirit. All of this had to happen, so that we might become the children of God.

This is why we call it “Good Friday.”