Imagine hearing this in a soaring European cathedral in the early 1600's.
Repentance, the theme of this beautiful music from about 1630, is not upbeat and not popular today. Modern people are told to blame others for any wrong-doing they may have committed.
According to the Bible, though, it's healing and restorative to admit it when you have not done what is right. God knows it anyway, so you're not fooling him.
But of course, this is not the end of the story. The point of the gospel, the good news, is that God has provided mercy and wants to extend it to you. Is there a condition? Only one: put your faith in Jesus, the Christ. He died that first Good Friday for you and me, but he didn't stay in that grave. He rose from the dead on the first Easter.
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