Aaron Carlberg - March 29, 2015
Triduum: Saturday
The focus of Good Friday is when we focus on the day our sins get paid for by Jesus dying our death for us on a cross, Easter Sunday is our joyous hope and celebration that comes together into loud celebration…but there is no holiday day for Saturday…Would it be called “quiet day” “patience day” Often you don't hear a message about a Saturday…there is only one church father who ever really wrote one, but we don't even know who it was…what he says about Saturday is recorded in the book "The Liturgy of the Hours" 1600 years ago: "Something strange is happening - there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world began. God has died in the flesh and hell trembles with fear."
From Series: "Triduum"
At Element we have been taking a 10 week journey towards Easter; we have called this our Lent-like passage through a time of sober and thoughtful reflection of what is going on in our lives as God’s Spirit shines His light into the deepest parts of our hearts. This started by walking through the 7 churches listed in Revelation chapters 2 & 3 (you can listen to these message online at www.ourelement.org). We, on our build towards Easter and Resurrection, now move into looking at the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of Jesus’ death and resurrection. John Ortberg asks in his book, Who Is This Man, “How did Friday end as Friday? Why did Jesus die? How did this man (meek and mild, blesser of little children, friend of sinners) end up being executed as an enemy of the state?” Friday ends with 3 crosses erected outside of Jerusalem. Two of these crosses have thieves nailed to them, while one is already empty, yet it has a sign over it that reads: Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews. It’s in Aramaic, Latin, and Greek.