{"id":967,"date":"2010-04-02T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T06:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/?p=967"},"modified":"2010-02-20T12:28:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T11:28:33","slug":"lent-devotions-2010-friday-2-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/2010\/04\/02\/lent-devotions-2010-friday-2-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Lent Devotions 2010: Friday 2 April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>\u201cBut deliver us from evil.\u201d\u00a0 Lord&#8217;s Prayer, Seventh Petition<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What a four-word summary of what Good Friday is all about!\u00a0 It is from the cross that Jesus delivers us from our evil foes, sin, death, and the devil.\u00a0 But how did this happen?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It happened because Jesus was NOT delivered from evil.\u00a0 In the Garden of Gethsemane He fervently prayed that God would remove the cup of wrath from Him, but He concluded \u201cnot My will but yours be done<em>\u201d<\/em>.\u00a0 And God\u2019s will was that Jesus would face all the evil forces head-on in a cosmic collision.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Good Friday, some 2000 years ago, Satan and all of his evil forces threw everything they had at Jesus.\u00a0 Our sin was placed upon Him, the Father forsook Him because of my sin (and yours), and Jesus underwent the torment of hell in our place.\u00a0 His abandonment and agony were real, because evil is real and nasty.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0But when Jesus cried out \u201cIt is finished<em>\u201d<\/em>, the death knell for evil had been sounded.\u00a0 Sin had been atoned for; death had been swallowed up; and Satan had been crushed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is the wonderful truth that evil has been defeated by Jesus Christ that enables us to pray this petition of the Lord\u2019s Prayer.\u00a0 Sin, death, and the devil are no longer our masters: Jesus is, and because He has conquered them, we who are in Him have conquered them too.\u00a0 Evil is still all around us; it is real and painful, but it is defeated by Christ.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>O Virgin\u2019s Son,<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>What Thou hast won<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Is far beyond all telling,<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>How our God, detested, died,<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Hell and devil felling.\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Amen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(LSB 448 v. 6)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut deliver us from evil.\u201d\u00a0 Lord&#8217;s Prayer, Seventh Petition What a four-word summary of what Good Friday is all about!\u00a0 It is from the cross that Jesus delivers us from our evil foes, sin, death, and the devil.\u00a0 But how did this happen?\u00a0 It happened because Jesus was NOT delivered from evil.\u00a0 In the Garden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lent-devotions-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1366,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/1366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}