Remember Celebrating Holy Week Is To Remember What Has ALREADY BEEN DONE, NOT SOMETHING THAT IS REPEATEDLY DONE!

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Considering this week is Holy Week for 2015, one must consider on what it means to celebrate Holy Week. Some people tell me like, "Well we are avoiding meat because the Lord had died." or some people have said, "Well the Lord is dead right now." That is utterly nonsense to believe that Jesus dies every Good Friday.

Hebrews 10:12 says, "But this man, after He had offered ONE SACRIFICE for sins for ever, sat down in the right hand of God;". The whole passage of Hebrews 10 refers to the sacrifices of sins have been complied once and for all. That is, there is only one sacrifice for sins. Hebrews 10:26 (which is misused to justify conditional security) says, "For if we sin willfully after that we have received knowledge of the truth, THERE REMAINETH NO MORE SACRICE FOR SINS," which means, you heard the Gospel, you still continue in rebellion, nothing else will help as a sacrifice for sins but Jesus.

Let us think of what is being honored during Holy Week? Charles Spurgeon said from the sermon, "Sad Fasts Changed to Glad Feasts":
The Lord of life and glory was nailed to the accursed tree. He died by the act of guilty men. We, by our sins, crucified the Son of God.
We might have expected that, in remembrance of his death, we should have been called to a long, sad, rigorous fast. Do not many men think so even today? See how they observe Good Friday, a sad, sad day to many; yet our Lord has never enjoined our keeping such a day, or bidden us to look back upon his death under such a melancholy aspect.
Instead of that, having passed out from under the old covenant into the new, and resting in our risen Lord, who once was slain, we commemorate his death by a festival most joyous. It came over the Passover, which was a feast of the Jews; but unlike that feast, which was kept by unleavened bread, this feast is brimful of joy and gladness. It is composed of bread and of wine, without a trace of bitter herbs, or anything that suggests sorrow and grief. …
The memorial of Christ’s death is a festival, not a funeral; and we are to come to the table with gladsome hearts and go away from it with praises, for "after supper they sang a hymn"[Matt 26:30, Mark 14:26].

When you think of it, Good Friday should no longer be a time for unnecessary self-affliction. Instead, Spurgeon had declared that Good Friday should be to celebrate the FINISHED SACRIFICE of Christ. There is only one sacrifice and Jesus does not die every Good Friday, every Good Friday, He is still doing His job seated at the Right Hand of the Father, then one day He will come to judge the living and the dead.

Why do I view Good Friday itself is a celebration? It is the time indeed when Christians can gather together to have deeper fellowship than usual. Although it deletes the worldly aspects of a festival, it celebrates a gratefulness for the death of Jesus on the cross, to pay for the price of sin that whosoever puts one's trust in Him shall not go to Hell but have eternal life in Heaven. It reminds men that they are sinners, Christ is the Lord and Savior and that the Christian's new life is but the grace of God. That is, I celebrate the fact that I am what I am by the grace of God (1 Corinthians 15:10).