Good Friday 2022
Links to the scriptures and hymns used during this service are provided below. Click on the hymn title to be taken to a page with sheet music.
Order of Service
Call to Worship: Psalm 22:23-24
Invocation
Old Testament Reading: Isaiah 53:1-5
Epistle Reading: Romans 5:6-11
Heidelberg Catechism Questions 12-18
Q. 12 According to God’s righteous judgment we deserve punishment both now and in eternity: how then can we escape this punishment and return to God’s favor?
A. God requires that his justice be satisfied. Therefore, the claims of this justice must be paid in full, either by ourselves or by another.
Q. 13 Can we make this payment ourselves?
A. Certainly not. Actually, we increase our debt every day.
Q. 14 Can another creature—any at all—pay this debt for us?
A. No. To begin with, God will not punish any other creature for what a human is guilty of. Furthermore, no mere creature can bear the weight of God’s eternal wrath against sin and deliver others from it.
Q. 15 What kind of mediator and deliverer should we look for then?
A. One who is a true and righteous human, yet more powerful than all creatures, that is, one who is also true God.
Q. 16 Why must the mediator be a true and righteous human?
A. God’s justice demands that human nature, which has sinned, must pay for sin; but a sinful human could never pay for others.
Q. 17 Why must the mediator also be true God?
A. So that the mediator, by the power of his divinity, might bear the weight of God’s wrath in his humanity and earn for us and restore to us righteousness and life.
Q. 18 Then who is this mediator—true God and at the same time a true and righteous human?
A. Our Lord Jesus Christ, who was given to us to completely deliver us and make us right with God.
Silent Confession of Sin
Prayer
Message
Jesus Prays in Gethsemane: Matthew 26:36-46
Jesus Is Betrayed and Arrested: Matthew 26:47-56
Jesus’ Trial before the Jews: Matthew 26:57-68
#247 O Sacred Head, Now Wounded
Peter’s Denies Jesus: Matthew 26:69-75
#248 Ah, Holy Jesus, How Hast Thou Offended
Jesus’ Trial before the Romans Matthew 27:1-2, 11-31
#254 Alas! and Did My Savior Bleed
Jesus is Crucified Matthew 27:32-44
#257 Stricken, Smitten, and Afflicted
The Death and Burial Matthew 27:45-56
#262 O Come and Mourn with Me Awhile
Jesus’ Burial Matthew 27:57-61