Why is Good Friday good?

Shane Vander Hart explores why we celebrate the death of Christ as good by looking at the last seven statements He made while on the cross.

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Good Friday is such an odd name commemorating the brutal execution of an innocent person at the behest of a blood-thirsty crowd and completed on a cruel, rugged Roman cross. Yet, the death of Jesus Christ IS good.

Why is it good?

I want to explore the last seven phrases Christ said on the cross to answer that question.

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