Sermon for Good Friday Chief Service, AD 2026
Apr 3, 2026 • Rev. Christopher Antonetti
They cannot make up for their sin. They are afflicted and killed by God’s law. They turn back to sin constantly. They are the disobedient son who can’t quite return. They are the unfaithful wife who keeps going astray.
Therefore, God sent a different son. He sent His own son. God became man so Jesus could be the faithful and devoted son. Jesus could lead in saying, come let us return to the Lord. He truly followed His Father’s will. He pursued the knowledge of the Lord day and night, like a tree planted by streams of water. The Words of Christ are Words of refreshment, as He was refreshed by the former and latter rain of His Father.