MAUNDY THURSDAY

The sermon for Maundy Thursday using this text from Zechariah 9:11–12: “As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit. Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; today I declare that I will restore to you double.” The Lord God promises that blood will free us from the waterless pits in our lives. On this night when our Lord Jesus Christ institutes the Holy Supper for us, He fulfills the blood of the covenant God had made with His people; a blood covenant that now continues to us today, because it is the blood of Jesus that covers a multitude of sin.

GOOD FRIDAY

God is dead. It’s a strange thought, yet a tragic reality. But it was for our good, for when God dies, so does sin, even the sin we hide and the sin that tries to define us. All sin is borne by the Son of God, so that we would be alive in Him come Easter morning. The sermon is based on this text from Zechariah 12:10. “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.”