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If the Thief Can Make It, You can too!

It is Good Friday! It's Good because today is the day that Jesus will be lead to die. I can see your face in my head as you read that line. Like how can that possibly be good? The easiest answer is, without His death there is no eternal life. To those who actually lived this day it was anything but Good. But we know the outcome, we know how the story ends. This day started out like any other day back then. The meat of the story doesn't really begin until sundown with Passover. Now I'm not going to do an indepth rundown of the story. You can read it here  though. We know that Jesus was betrayed, and crucified. He dies and is buried. And today there will be many services preaching the 7 last words and drilling home to us the agony that He went through for us. It is very sobering when you think about it. However, there is a story-line during this night that many people gloss over and it is truly the backbone of what salvation is. Its the story of the thief on the