1 00:00:00,300 --> 00:00:02,800 I want to invite your attention to a passage that's found in the 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:06,300 27th chapter of Matthew. And I want to begin reading 3 00:00:06,300 --> 00:00:11,000 there in verse 57. Now when the evening had come, 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:15,000 there came a rich man of Arimathea named Joseph who 5 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:18,200 himself had also become a disciple of Jesus. 6 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:21,800 This man went to pilate and asked for the body of Jesus, 7 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:24,300 then pilate commanded the body to be given to him. 8 00:00:25,100 --> 00:00:29,000 When Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen, 9 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,800 cloth and laid it in his new tomb, which he had hewn out of a 10 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:37,000 rock and he rolled a large Stone against the door of the Tomb and 11 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:39,600 departed. For a little while this morning, 12 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:43,800 I want to talk on the subject. I was simply entitled buried in 13 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:48,900 a rich man's tomb and looking at the burial of Jesus Christ. 14 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:52,600 We are face to face with some astounding truths. 15 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:57,400 Most people generally understand in are aware of the significance 16 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:00,200 of the Cross of Christ. And certainly rightfully. 17 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:05,000 So for, on the cross was the greatest gift ever given on the 18 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:08,000 cross, the greatest price paid and the greatest. 19 00:01:08,300 --> 00:01:11,600 Device ever made. But when we study about the 20 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:14,300 crossed it seems as though we want a very hurriedly get the 21 00:01:14,300 --> 00:01:19,200 chapter 28 and get to the good news of the resurrection and you 22 00:01:19,208 --> 00:01:22,700 know admittedly the resurrection of Jesus Christ is the single 23 00:01:22,700 --> 00:01:27,400 greatest Miracle the world ever knew because it is that Miracle 24 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:30,600 of the Resurrection that demonstrates his accomplished 25 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:34,000 work on the cross. That redeems us and his power 26 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:38,000 over death, that gives the obedient child of God, hope. 27 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:41,900 But between the crucifixion and the resurrection, there is a 28 00:01:41,900 --> 00:01:44,300 burial. And, at first, it might seem 29 00:01:44,300 --> 00:01:48,300 like a rather mundane act unnecessary act with little or 30 00:01:48,300 --> 00:01:52,200 no consequence, except what happens on either side. 31 00:01:52,700 --> 00:01:57,100 But really, the burial of Jesus is as spectacular, in many ways 32 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:02,300 as was his death, and as will be his resurrection. 33 00:02:02,500 --> 00:02:06,600 And so really, I'm saying this, even the burial of Jesus Christ 34 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:09,000 becomes a testimony To the Lord's. 35 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:12,300 Kingliness and a testimony to his deity. 36 00:02:12,500 --> 00:02:17,200 Even his burial is proof in fact that he is none other than all 37 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:20,600 that he claimed to be. And that is the Son of God. 38 00:02:21,100 --> 00:02:23,700 All of these things that I just mentioned to you though, in a 39 00:02:23,708 --> 00:02:27,400 general sense comes to us through the testimony of a man 40 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:31,400 by the name of Joseph of Arimathea now, just a little 41 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:33,600 background. Here, there are two key 42 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:37,400 prophecies that must be fulfilled in the burial of Jesus 43 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:39,800 Christ. Just one of which is found in 44 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:44,300 the Old Testament it's found in Isaiah chapter 53 and verse 9. 45 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:48,300 And let me just say we all know this but the entire chapter of 46 00:02:48,900 --> 00:02:54,200 53 and Isaiah is dedicated to the death of Jesus Christ. 47 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:59,200 Now remember this, the smaller, the detail, the greater the 48 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:02,800 impact it has, when it's fulfilled me, give you a little 49 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:06,400 example. The Bible says that Jesus was 50 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:10,100 taken from prison and from judgment and somebody might say 51 00:03:10,100 --> 00:03:11,200 in it. What's the big deal? 52 00:03:12,700 --> 00:03:17,500 Isaiah 53 says he was taken from prison and from judgment. 53 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,900 Now the big deal about that is it broke Roman law at the time? 54 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,600 In fact, Roman law at the time provided a two-day interval from 55 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:30,000 the time that somebody was sentenced to be executed to the 56 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,500 time that they were actually taken to a Roman cross and 57 00:03:33,500 --> 00:03:36,200 mailed there. And the reason for that, that 58 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:38,700 was Rome's way of the appeal process. 59 00:03:38,900 --> 00:03:42,400 For example, if new testimony can be brought forth in those 60 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:46,200 two days that this person was innocent, then he would not have 61 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:49,600 to be crucified. Secondarily, the two-day 62 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:52,300 interval. Provided a man to get all of his 63 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:57,100 Affairs in order so that in two days he was going to die on a 64 00:03:57,100 --> 00:04:00,300 Roman cross. But not Jesus. 65 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:04,100 He was taken from prison and from judgment. 66 00:04:04,100 --> 00:04:06,200 Remember this? The smaller the detailing 67 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:10,900 prophecy the greater the impact that it has when it's accurately 68 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:14,000 fulfilled. So in Isaiah chapter 53 and 69 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:16,800 verse 9. We have this prophecy and they 70 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:21,300 made his grave with the wicked but with the rich at his death, 71 00:04:21,300 --> 00:04:26,000 because he had no Violence nor was any deceit found in his 72 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:28,500 mouth? Another translation simply says 73 00:04:28,500 --> 00:04:33,200 this, his grave was to be assigned with wicked men yet. 74 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:36,200 He was with the rich man in his death. 75 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:39,000 Now, the grave to be assigned among Wicked, man. 76 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:40,500 Keep that in the back of your mind. 77 00:04:40,500 --> 00:04:42,600 We're going to get back to that later of where that would have 78 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:45,300 been. All we know, is there are two 79 00:04:45,300 --> 00:04:47,300 key prophecies that have to be fulfilled. 80 00:04:47,300 --> 00:04:51,500 Number 1 is found in the Old Testament and number two, it's 81 00:04:51,500 --> 00:04:55,400 found by Jesus, Christ himself in Matthew, chapter, 12, and 82 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:59,200 verse 40. Now you remember they said the 83 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:04,700 Jesus give us a sign. Show us a magic trick and Jesus 84 00:05:04,700 --> 00:05:08,300 says an evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign. 85 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:12,600 And he said the only sign that I'm going to give you is the 86 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:16,300 sign of the prophet. Jonah for as Jonah was three 87 00:05:16,300 --> 00:05:19,200 days and three nights in the belly of that. 88 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:22,300 Great fish. So shall the son of man be also 89 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:25,700 Three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 90 00:05:25,700 --> 00:05:32,800 Now in order to fulfill prophecy Not only was Jesus did three 91 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:38,100 days, but he has to be buried. All three days to two 92 00:05:38,100 --> 00:05:42,500 prophecies, Isaiah 53:9, Matthew chapter 12, and verse 40. 93 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:47,000 And all of this comes to us through the testimony of Joseph 94 00:05:47,100 --> 00:05:49,500 of Arimathea. Alright, now, let's go back to 95 00:05:49,500 --> 00:05:52,600 Matthew chapter 27, let's find out what time it is. 96 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:56,800 It says they're beginning, their that in the evening was come 97 00:05:56,900 --> 00:05:59,900 that's talking about the early evening of the Jewish day and it 98 00:06:00,100 --> 00:06:05,500 began at 3 p.m. and it went until 6 p.m. incidentally. 99 00:06:05,500 --> 00:06:10,200 The Sabbath would have began at 6 p.m. and would have gone to 6 100 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:14,400 p.m. the next day. Now, what do we know about the 101 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:16,300 crucifixion? By way of time? 102 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:21,000 What we know is in Mark chapter 15, he was crucified the ninth 103 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,300 hour. We find that there was Darkness 104 00:06:23,300 --> 00:06:26,900 over all the Earth from the the third hour. 105 00:06:26,900 --> 00:06:29,700 He was crucified from the sixth hour to the ninth hour. 106 00:06:29,700 --> 00:06:33,000 There was Darkness over all the Earth and what do we know? 107 00:06:33,300 --> 00:06:39,800 We know that Jesus then said, it is finished now, Little side 108 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:43,600 note here. Don't ever think. 109 00:06:44,700 --> 00:06:51,700 That Jesus was a victim. Jesus was no man's victim. 110 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:59,200 Jesus was an ultimate Victor. He was thoroughly in control. 111 00:07:00,300 --> 00:07:02,900 Do you remember another gospel account when Jesus is hanging on 112 00:07:02,900 --> 00:07:06,200 the cross? The Bible says, and Jesus 113 00:07:06,300 --> 00:07:11,700 knowing all things to be fulfilled said what he said. 114 00:07:11,700 --> 00:07:15,800 I thirst, you know, if that means Jesus said all these 115 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:18,300 things have already been fulfilled but there's one final 116 00:07:18,300 --> 00:07:21,400 prophecy that's found that it has to be fulfilled. 117 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:25,100 And that was, they would give him sour wine or vinegar. 118 00:07:25,300 --> 00:07:28,100 They would dip that sponge. They would Take the hyssop, they 119 00:07:28,100 --> 00:07:30,600 would dip it in the vinegar. They put it to his lips. 120 00:07:31,100 --> 00:07:34,500 And then Jesus said after that, it's finished. 121 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:38,400 You know, when the Bible says that he bowed his head. 122 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:41,100 You know what's interesting about that word, bowed his head. 123 00:07:41,100 --> 00:07:45,800 This really shows the ultimate Victorious, savior that we serve 124 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:48,800 today. When the Bible says that Jesus 125 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:52,300 said it is finished, he said, father into thy hands. 126 00:07:52,300 --> 00:07:56,600 I commend my spirit. And then the Bible says and he 127 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:01,100 Hold his head. And somebody might say, well, so 128 00:08:01,100 --> 00:08:03,700 what? He bowed his head. 129 00:08:04,500 --> 00:08:09,300 The word bowed, their literally means to gently willfully. 130 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:13,700 Pillow, your head. Are you getting the picture just 131 00:08:13,700 --> 00:08:16,000 like Jesus says, no one takes my life. 132 00:08:16,500 --> 00:08:20,900 He says my life, I freely give. Jesus knew all prophecies needed 133 00:08:20,900 --> 00:08:23,000 to be fulfilled. Except one he said, I thirst 134 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:26,200 that was now fulfilled. He said, father I've done it. 135 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:32,200 It's finished into thy hands. I commend, I commend my spirit. 136 00:08:32,500 --> 00:08:36,500 And he bowed his head and he died. 137 00:08:37,299 --> 00:08:42,600 We know that it's about 3:00 when Jesus finally dies, but we 138 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:46,400 find some other things in John chapter, 19, we want to talk 139 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:49,300 about some things in John chapter 19, what day was it? 140 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:54,500 Now, I know that there are varying ideas of opinion about 141 00:08:54,500 --> 00:08:57,100 the day that Jesus died. What day did? 142 00:08:57,100 --> 00:08:59,000 He die? 1 John chapter 19. 143 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:02,800 Beginning there in verse 31. It says, it was the Day of 144 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:06,300 preparation that work. Preparation comes from the Greek 145 00:09:06,300 --> 00:09:10,300 word, Paris Q&A. And it literally means this, it 146 00:09:10,300 --> 00:09:14,600 literally means the day before the Sabbath. 147 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:19,900 In fact, it was such a it was such a well-known term that 148 00:09:19,900 --> 00:09:25,200 Paris qaid day, literally became a technical term for Friday. 149 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:30,100 Now what would the next day? Be the next day would have been 150 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:32,200 the Sabbath. Let me just say this though. 151 00:09:32,300 --> 00:09:35,600 How about the per day of preparation? 152 00:09:35,900 --> 00:09:38,500 They would have understood about the day of preparation, going 153 00:09:38,500 --> 00:09:42,300 all the way back to Exodus chapter. 16 Jewish people were 154 00:09:42,300 --> 00:09:45,300 instructed to keep the Sabbath and to keep it holy. 155 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:48,900 And that meant that any preparation for the Sabbath had 156 00:09:48,900 --> 00:09:52,200 to be done on the day before you remember this too. 157 00:09:52,500 --> 00:09:56,100 That even when the Manna was delivered by God for them, they 158 00:09:56,100 --> 00:09:59,900 had to collect enough on Friday to carry them over on Saturday 159 00:10:00,100 --> 00:10:02,200 because they were not permitted to do that. 160 00:10:02,500 --> 00:10:05,200 On Saturday. So in other words, it was a very 161 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:09,300 well understood De Paris. Q a day, was a day of 162 00:10:09,300 --> 00:10:15,400 preparation for the Sabbath. It became a technical term for 163 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:18,800 Friday. Now, it wasn't just any old 164 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:22,700 run-of-the-mill Sabbath. John chapter 19 says it was a 165 00:10:22,700 --> 00:10:26,000 high day. It was a high Sabbath, and we 166 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:31,400 simply know that to be a Passover Sabbath, all that being 167 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:34,200 said, then the by Bible says the Jews. 168 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:37,400 The Jews don't want them hanging on the cross. 169 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:43,600 The juice, you know, in the gospel accounts, when the Bible 170 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:48,300 records Jews and a plural sense like that, it's not talking 171 00:10:48,300 --> 00:10:51,300 about the multiplicity of people with Jewish blood running 172 00:10:51,300 --> 00:10:54,800 through their veins, it's not talking about even those that 173 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:58,900 were proselytes to the Jewish religion when it says Jews, it 174 00:10:58,900 --> 00:11:02,000 is talking about the Hostile leaders. 175 00:11:02,100 --> 00:11:04,600 The Jewish leaders that opposed Christ. 176 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:08,800 So it's 3:00 Jesus is hanging on the cross. 177 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:13,100 He's hanging between those two thieves and all of a sudden, the 178 00:11:13,100 --> 00:11:15,800 religious leaders. They don't want their bodies 179 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:20,600 hanging on the cross and they want their legs to be broken. 180 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:23,500 One scholar said, they didn't want their bodies to remain in 181 00:11:23,500 --> 00:11:26,600 the cross to spend it in the air right outside their City. 182 00:11:26,700 --> 00:11:31,100 Just north of the temple area on this very special Passover. 183 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:34,500 Sabbath, you know, basically they were reaching back to a 184 00:11:34,500 --> 00:11:39,100 passage found in Deuteronomy chapter 21 beginning There in 185 00:11:39,100 --> 00:11:42,000 verse 22. It says if a man has committed, 186 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:46,000 a sin, deserving of death and is put to death and you hang him on 187 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,700 a tree. His body shall not remain 188 00:11:48,700 --> 00:11:53,000 overnight on the tree but you shall surely bury him that day 189 00:11:53,300 --> 00:11:56,500 so that you do not defile, the land, which the Lord your God is 190 00:11:56,500 --> 00:12:01,100 giving you as an inheritance. For he who is hanged is accursed 191 00:12:01,100 --> 00:12:04,700 of God. Now, the Jews, want the legs 192 00:12:04,700 --> 00:12:08,400 broke and now I want to ask you I keep hitting the curtain. 193 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:13,200 I got to ask you. Have you ever watched 194 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:16,600 Hollywood's depict meant of the breaking of the legs? 195 00:12:17,500 --> 00:12:19,800 I think all of us. Perhaps have seen something on 196 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:21,800 television. We've seen something by way of 197 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:25,500 Hollywood's depict meant of what it was or what it looked like 198 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:29,200 when they broke the legs of those two thieves, that were 199 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:32,600 crucified next to Jesus. I'll tell you what I've seen, 200 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:37,000 I've seen some guy come up like a soldier and he grabs a big old 201 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:38,700 Mallet. And I've all, I've walked him go 202 00:12:38,700 --> 00:12:42,400 like this and just swing like he's In for the cheap seats and 203 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:46,600 just come in sideways and break the legs on an angle and that's 204 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:49,800 it. That's not what they did. 205 00:12:51,100 --> 00:12:53,000 I'm going to apologize for this in advance. 206 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:58,700 It's very graphic. The word broken means to shiver 207 00:12:58,700 --> 00:13:03,500 to pieces. What they really would do, they 208 00:13:03,500 --> 00:13:08,400 would take a large wooden Mallet and one Roman historian said, 209 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:12,600 they took that large Mallet and they beat the bones, they beat 210 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:16,200 the legs until the bones were disintegrated. 211 00:13:17,900 --> 00:13:23,000 I can't even fathom excruciating Agony like that I've had pain in 212 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,200 my life, we've all had physical pain in our life of some degree 213 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:29,000 of the other. I can't even fathom that they 214 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:33,200 would beat the legs until their bones were disintegrated. 215 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:36,300 Now, what was the purpose of breaking the legs? 216 00:13:36,300 --> 00:13:40,300 Well, we know that a person that died on the cross died, by way 217 00:13:40,300 --> 00:13:44,300 of Suffocation. In fact, they lived many times 218 00:13:44,300 --> 00:13:48,100 over a number of days and they would die of Suffocation because 219 00:13:48,100 --> 00:13:51,800 the only way to get air would be to pull on their hands and push 220 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:55,200 on their feet and get a big breath and then sink back down 221 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:58,300 again. Incidentally, if you want to 222 00:13:58,300 --> 00:14:01,600 know what kind of what that's like, just go out to a jungle 223 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:05,400 gym or a pull-up bar, and just grab the bar and hang hang. 224 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:07,600 All your weight. It's hard to breathe. 225 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:09,700 You have to do something to your diaphragm. 226 00:14:09,700 --> 00:14:11,600 You got to lift yourself to get a breath. 227 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:16,000 And can you imagine doing that? But it wasn't a pull-up bar. 228 00:14:16,700 --> 00:14:18,900 It was nails through your hands and through your feet. 229 00:14:20,500 --> 00:14:23,200 To expedite death. The beginning part of the 230 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:26,700 Expediting of death was the crushing of the legs. 231 00:14:27,500 --> 00:14:32,300 Now, interesting about that, when they broke the first guy's 232 00:14:32,300 --> 00:14:36,900 legs, then they broke the second guys legs, then they came to 233 00:14:36,900 --> 00:14:41,500 Jesus, and they did not break his legs because they said he 234 00:14:41,500 --> 00:14:45,100 was already dead. Now, you know this fulfilled 235 00:14:45,100 --> 00:14:48,500 prophecy and that's really the reason in Psalm 34:20 where it 236 00:14:48,500 --> 00:14:53,300 says he guards all of his bones and not one of them is broken. 237 00:14:53,300 --> 00:14:56,900 Now, I guarantee you the Romans didn't know about Psalm 34 and 238 00:14:56,900 --> 00:14:58,100 if they did, they would've cared. 239 00:14:59,100 --> 00:15:02,200 Don't you see, they're doing exactly as God. 240 00:15:02,300 --> 00:15:07,000 Orchestrated the whole thing. God is the one with the power. 241 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:10,700 Not these men and they're carrying out God's Will and 242 00:15:10,700 --> 00:15:12,500 they're fulfilling every prophecy. 243 00:15:12,500 --> 00:15:16,000 They didn't break the Lourdes legs because it was prophesied, 244 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,000 that none of his bones would be broken. 245 00:15:18,300 --> 00:15:23,600 Now, all of a sudden, though comes the thrusting of the spear 246 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:26,600 into the side. Now, interestingly, I've read 247 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:29,400 about that. You know what they called that 248 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:33,400 the Romans called that the Deathstroke now stay with me on 249 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:36,800 this. It was called the Deathstroke. 250 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:39,100 And what they would do is they would crush the legs. 251 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:42,200 Then they would take the spear and they would thrust it into 252 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:45,600 the side and they would pierce the heart Expediting death. 253 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:48,200 Okay, somebody might say in a way to go away. 254 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:52,700 If there were going to do that, why'd they crush the legs? 255 00:15:53,900 --> 00:15:57,000 If there were going to expedite death by thrusting, the spear 256 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,500 into the side calling that the Deathstroke. 257 00:15:59,700 --> 00:16:03,300 Why crushed the legs? Well, I don't really know I 258 00:16:03,300 --> 00:16:06,000 wasn't there, but I'll tell you what I've read and in the words 259 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:07,800 of my late father-in-law, this is free. 260 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:14,400 I read this, I read that a Roman historian said that when 261 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:17,800 somebody died on the cross, it was so horrible, not even a 262 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:20,200 Roman citizen could ever be crucified. 263 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:23,700 In fact, they literally shuddered to even speak of 264 00:16:23,700 --> 00:16:26,000 crucifixion and all that happened. 265 00:16:26,100 --> 00:16:29,000 It was terrible. It was gruesome, it was awful. 266 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:35,300 It was painful over a long period of time. 267 00:16:36,100 --> 00:16:39,300 One historian said, the reason for the breaking of the legs, 268 00:16:39,500 --> 00:16:42,500 they crushed the legs. To give them all the pain and 269 00:16:42,500 --> 00:16:46,700 all the agony. All at one time, and then comes 270 00:16:46,700 --> 00:16:49,900 the Deathstroke into the heart and they died. 271 00:16:50,700 --> 00:16:52,800 One historian. Said that, the reason that they 272 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:57,600 did that is if they just thrust the spear into the side and 273 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:01,200 administered the Deathstroke, that would be an act. 274 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:03,500 Out of mercy. And that was not what was 275 00:17:03,500 --> 00:17:05,500 intended. Is that true? 276 00:17:05,700 --> 00:17:08,500 No idea. But it makes sense. 277 00:17:11,099 --> 00:17:16,300 But you know what? They pierced the side of Jesus. 278 00:17:17,900 --> 00:17:22,200 Because it fulfilled prophecy. Zechariah 12 and 10. 279 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:27,099 They looked on him whom they had pierced. 280 00:17:28,099 --> 00:17:30,400 They crush the legs of the others. 281 00:17:31,700 --> 00:17:35,700 They took the spear and thrust it into the Lord's Side. 282 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:41,200 And the Bible says that outflowed blood and water now, 283 00:17:42,700 --> 00:17:45,000 Interesting. Why did your how did Jesus die? 284 00:17:46,300 --> 00:17:48,200 I was driving down the road one time and I don't know about you 285 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:51,400 guys but I sometimes like to tune into the religious programs 286 00:17:51,700 --> 00:17:56,100 and sometimes I do that just for material, see what's being 287 00:17:56,100 --> 00:17:58,600 preached out there and some certain things and there was a 288 00:17:58,608 --> 00:18:00,300 guy and he was pretty proud of his answer. 289 00:18:00,300 --> 00:18:04,300 He's a preacher of some affiliation and there was a 290 00:18:04,308 --> 00:18:07,500 caller that called in and they said how did Jesus died was the 291 00:18:07,500 --> 00:18:11,900 actual cause of death? When Jesus died on the cross. 292 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:17,600 And the preacher said well it's obvious, it's suffocation. 293 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:23,300 Yeah, no, it wasn't. That's not how Jesus died. 294 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:28,700 That's how people died. That's not how Jesus died. 295 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:32,500 And by the way, he died in six hours. 296 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:37,200 His life, he freely gave. Now how did he die? 297 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:40,300 Psalm 69, beginning in verse 20, listen to this. 298 00:18:41,700 --> 00:18:46,300 Reproach has broken my heart. And I am full of heaviness. 299 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:50,600 I looked for someone to take pity, but there was none. 300 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:54,200 And for comforters, but I found none. 301 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:58,000 How do we know this is talking about Jesus, because of verse 302 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:02,500 20, they also gave me golf for my food and for my thirst they 303 00:19:02,500 --> 00:19:07,500 gave me vinegar to drink. Jesus died of a broken heart. 304 00:19:07,500 --> 00:19:11,700 I read this from a physician and he wrote this about this very 305 00:19:11,700 --> 00:19:15,400 idea. He said it is true that in very, 306 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:20,500 very rare cases under extreme intense pressure and Trauma the 307 00:19:20,500 --> 00:19:24,100 heart which is a muscle could in fact, rupture and therefore 308 00:19:24,100 --> 00:19:27,200 spill its blood into the pericardium with the limpid 309 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:31,400 serum and create the blood and water that flowed out of the 310 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:35,100 side of Jesus. So What do we know? 311 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:39,000 We know he's dead. We know his legs are not broken. 312 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:43,500 We know his side was pierced and we know he had a broken heart. 313 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:48,400 All prophecies fulfilled. All right, guess what? 314 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:51,900 Somebody now has to take him down from the cross. 315 00:19:53,300 --> 00:19:57,300 And guess what? In order to count this day, 316 00:19:57,300 --> 00:20:02,500 Friday, Paris q a day as one of the days that he was buried to 317 00:20:02,500 --> 00:20:07,500 fulfill prophecy a man by the name of Joseph of Arimathea had 318 00:20:07,500 --> 00:20:12,300 three hours to get that done. Three hours to get it done. 319 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:17,700 Now, you remember, when I said that his grave was to be 320 00:20:17,700 --> 00:20:20,700 assigned among wicked men, but he would be with the rich in his 321 00:20:20,700 --> 00:20:22,800 death. I told you to hold that in the 322 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:24,700 back of your thinking in the back of your mind. 323 00:20:24,700 --> 00:20:27,300 And now we're going to talk about what did they actually do 324 00:20:27,300 --> 00:20:30,300 with people that were Wicked, Man, what? 325 00:20:30,300 --> 00:20:33,600 What about those grapes? They were actually taken to a 326 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:37,700 literal place in the valley of hinnom called gehenna. 327 00:20:37,900 --> 00:20:41,000 The city waste dump and they would take these bodies 328 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,900 interesting, isn't it? And they would throw them on 329 00:20:43,900 --> 00:20:47,200 these open Flames that burned constantly. 330 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:53,700 He was crucified between two thieves. 331 00:20:55,700 --> 00:21:00,100 His grave was to be assigned at gehenna with those wicked men 332 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:03,200 but God said it wasn't going to happen. 333 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:07,700 God said he would be with a rich man in his death. 334 00:21:09,100 --> 00:21:15,500 Incidentally, watch this. His grave was to be assigned at 335 00:21:15,500 --> 00:21:20,100 gehenna, which by the way, is a picture of a name for hell. 336 00:21:20,100 --> 00:21:24,100 The Lake of Fire? Now, watch this, Jesus dies on 337 00:21:24,100 --> 00:21:27,200 the cross. He is our Shepherd. 338 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:30,200 We follow him. Watch what Jesus does. 339 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:33,800 Watch what our leader? Did he dies on the cross, he was 340 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:37,000 buried. He sidestepped gehenna, the city 341 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,500 waste dump and guess we're going to get to do. 342 00:21:39,500 --> 00:21:43,200 If we are baptized into Jesus Christ, washed in the blood of 343 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:46,300 Jesus and live our lives Faithfully unto death. 344 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:47,800 Guess what? We're going to get to do. 345 00:21:47,900 --> 00:21:52,300 We're going to get to do what Jesus did sidestep gehenna, and 346 00:21:52,300 --> 00:21:58,200 go to the paradise of God. None of that. 347 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:03,600 Is an accident. So who's going to care for the 348 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:06,700 body? Who's going to do that? 349 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:09,300 The disciples know, they all fled. 350 00:22:10,300 --> 00:22:13,600 They didn't have a clue. Even John doesn't seem to be 351 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:17,900 around right now. The women, they didn't have the 352 00:22:17,900 --> 00:22:20,500 resources to bury Jesus. All those precious women will 353 00:22:20,500 --> 00:22:23,700 get to them at the very end, but they didn't have any resources 354 00:22:23,700 --> 00:22:28,100 to bury Jesus and also, they're From Galilee it is No Grave 355 00:22:28,100 --> 00:22:33,400 nearby in Jerusalem. Incidentally, going back to 356 00:22:33,408 --> 00:22:36,200 Matthew 27 and 57 where it says there came a rich man. 357 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:38,800 Joseph of Arimathea, and Luke 23 and 51. 358 00:22:38,900 --> 00:22:46,200 It says Arimathea was a city of the Jews or Judea Galilee was 359 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:48,700 the city of the Gentiles. Don't you remember in Acts 360 00:22:48,700 --> 00:22:51,700 chapter 2, remember the disciples and Acts chapter 2, 361 00:22:51,700 --> 00:22:55,400 the apostles and X2, they're speaking in tongues, as the 362 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:57,800 spirit, gave them utterance, what did they say? 363 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:02,700 Wait a minute aren't all these who speak galilaeans. 364 00:23:04,100 --> 00:23:06,400 They didn't have a grave nearby. Couldn't have been any of them, 365 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:09,000 but look at the Brilliance of God. 366 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:15,700 All of a sudden, it was the man that they least expected. it was 367 00:23:15,700 --> 00:23:20,700 a man of Arimathea city of the Jews. 368 00:23:21,100 --> 00:23:23,400 A rich man. Just happened to have a grave 369 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:25,500 nearby. Listen to this. 370 00:23:25,500 --> 00:23:29,600 What else do we know about him in Mark 1543, he was a Sanhedrin 371 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:35,300 member and he waited for the kingdom of God and Luke 23 and 372 00:23:35,300 --> 00:23:37,700 fifty. It says he was a good man, it 373 00:23:37,700 --> 00:23:42,100 says he was a just man. The next verse says he did not 374 00:23:42,100 --> 00:23:48,300 consent to condemn Jesus. Matthew 27 and 57 And it said he 375 00:23:48,300 --> 00:23:54,300 was a disciple of Jesus in John 19 and 38, it says he was a 376 00:23:54,300 --> 00:23:58,200 secret disciple for fear of the Jews. 377 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:01,600 Now, you know, he had a lot to lose. 378 00:24:02,500 --> 00:24:05,200 You know what, I think about those that were in fear of the 379 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:07,300 Jews, I think about John chapter 9. 380 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:12,500 And I think about the time, when Jesus healed, a man, that was 381 00:24:12,500 --> 00:24:17,000 born, blind been blind, all of his life and he's there and he's 382 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:20,200 a beggar now and people are walking on by and the disciples. 383 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:23,900 They want to know why, and they say they said what, why is he 384 00:24:23,900 --> 00:24:27,000 born blind? He said that they asked Jesus is 385 00:24:27,300 --> 00:24:31,800 that he send his parents in? Jesus teaches a little sermon on 386 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:33,100 that. Babying, that its name, it's 387 00:24:33,100 --> 00:24:35,500 nobody's fault. But in the end it's going to 388 00:24:35,500 --> 00:24:37,500 glorify. God is going to magnify God In 389 00:24:37,500 --> 00:24:42,100 The End. Okay, a little bit later though. 390 00:24:42,100 --> 00:24:45,300 When the Pharisees were questioning this man and then 391 00:24:45,300 --> 00:24:49,700 they went to his parents, they asked his parents three 392 00:24:49,700 --> 00:24:52,600 questions. They said, is this your son? 393 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:56,300 Was he born blind? And how is it that? 394 00:24:56,300 --> 00:24:58,300 Now he can see, you know what they said. 395 00:24:58,700 --> 00:25:00,800 Yeah, that's our son. Yes, he was born blind. 396 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:03,200 And as to how it can see you ask him, he's of age. 397 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:07,000 And then it says and this they said for fear of the Jews, why? 398 00:25:07,500 --> 00:25:09,100 Because it already had been established. 399 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,300 Wished that if anyone would confess that Jesus was the 400 00:25:12,300 --> 00:25:14,900 Christ, they would be cast out of the synagogue. 401 00:25:17,100 --> 00:25:21,000 That's why Joseph of Arimathea at the time was a secret 402 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:25,600 disciple of Jesus. He would have lost his Sanhedrin 403 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:28,400 rights, it would have been the a the end of all of his wealth. 404 00:25:28,700 --> 00:25:30,400 No one would do business with him. 405 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:34,000 He would lose social status. His family would be alienated 406 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,800 and ostracized, it would be the end of everything. 407 00:25:39,500 --> 00:25:43,300 Now, get this. This secret disciple has to act 408 00:25:43,300 --> 00:25:48,000 quickly, you know, what it says. I love this and he summoned the 409 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:52,200 courage. You know, there's nothing wrong 410 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:56,000 with fear. The only thing wrong with fear 411 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:00,300 is when you let fear win. In fact, there would be no such 412 00:26:00,300 --> 00:26:03,800 thing as courage if there were no such thing as fear. 413 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:07,800 He was a secret disciple for fear of the Jews. 414 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,700 But what did he do? He summoned the courage. 415 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:15,500 He summoned the courage to go get the body of Jesus. 416 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:18,700 Okay, it has to happen before 6 p.m. 417 00:26:18,700 --> 00:26:22,600 So it's going to happen before Friday is over. 418 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,700 Now, maybe you're sitting there and maybe you're saying, wait a 419 00:26:25,708 --> 00:26:29,900 minute, I'm doing the math, I'm doing the math and it's not 420 00:26:29,900 --> 00:26:34,700 coming out. You said, three days and three 421 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:40,600 nights and it doesn't fit if Jesus was crucified on Friday 422 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:44,200 and it says, three days. Three nights, it doesn't seem 423 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:47,200 fit to me. It doesn't work well, the 424 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:51,400 question is this, when we say three days and three nights, are 425 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,800 we talking about three 24-hour periods? 426 00:26:54,900 --> 00:27:00,300 The answer to that question is No, in fact, the phrase days and 427 00:27:00,300 --> 00:27:05,100 nights was a Jewish colloquial term that meant any part of the 428 00:27:05,100 --> 00:27:07,500 day. In fact, let me just illustrate 429 00:27:07,500 --> 00:27:08,500 it like this. Let's do the math. 430 00:27:08,500 --> 00:27:10,100 Here we go. Friday. 431 00:27:10,100 --> 00:27:13,000 Friday night. Saturday, Saturday night, 432 00:27:13,500 --> 00:27:16,700 Sunday, Sunday night, that doesn't work. 433 00:27:17,500 --> 00:27:20,200 It has him resurrected on Monday that can't work. 434 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:22,700 So let's do what people do sometimes. 435 00:27:22,700 --> 00:27:24,500 They just was just back it up to Thursday. 436 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:29,800 Watch this Thursday, Thursday night Friday, Friday night, 437 00:27:30,300 --> 00:27:33,400 Saturday, Saturday night that won't work. 438 00:27:33,500 --> 00:27:36,000 It has him resurrected on the fourth day. 439 00:27:36,100 --> 00:27:37,800 There's two things that have to happen. 440 00:27:37,900 --> 00:27:41,600 It has to be the first day of the week or Sunday and it it has 441 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:47,100 to be the third day. Now, in Luke chapter 24, we find 442 00:27:47,100 --> 00:27:50,100 it was the third day. Do you remember those disciples? 443 00:27:51,500 --> 00:27:54,300 They're walking along from Jerusalem, to the little village 444 00:27:54,300 --> 00:27:57,400 of Emmaus about seven miles or so. 445 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:01,600 And Jesus appears before them and Jesus says, what manner of 446 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:06,100 communication are you, speaking of and are sad and they went on 447 00:28:06,100 --> 00:28:09,000 and said, oh, surely you are stranger from these parts and 448 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:10,600 don't know the things that have happened. 449 00:28:10,900 --> 00:28:15,100 I love what Jesus says, Jesus is what things and he allows them 450 00:28:15,100 --> 00:28:17,700 to unburden their aching Hearts. Remember that. 451 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:22,000 Do you remember what they said? We thought he was going to 452 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:29,500 redeem Israel and then they said and today is what the third day. 453 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,500 What do we find earlier in that chapter chapter 24? 454 00:28:33,500 --> 00:28:35,800 It says it was the first day of the week. 455 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:38,700 So it was Sunday and it's the third day. 456 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:43,900 It's not talking about three 24-hour periods. 457 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,900 Matthew 16:24. He would be killed and raised 458 00:28:46,900 --> 00:28:49,600 the third day in chapter 17 and 23. 459 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,300 They shall kill him. And the third day, he shall be 460 00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:56,800 raised so three days and three nights simply referred to a part 461 00:28:56,800 --> 00:29:00,300 of a day and not three 24-hour periods. 462 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:05,400 Furthermore, The talmud which is a Jewish commentary on tradition 463 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:10,900 and scripture says a day and night, makes one Ona and any 464 00:29:10,900 --> 00:29:15,200 part of an Ona is as the whole. Let me give you a little example 465 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:17,600 where you been Frank? The three days. 466 00:29:18,300 --> 00:29:22,200 Will you been? I've been in Columbia, Missouri. 467 00:29:23,700 --> 00:29:27,000 That's where I've been three. 24-hour periods. 468 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,400 Not necessarily. You see, I got on a plane and I 469 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,300 flew there and I arrived about 3 o'clock on a Friday afternoon. 470 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,500 I stayed all night. I got up on Saturday morning and 471 00:29:37,500 --> 00:29:41,000 I stayed all day and all night. I got up on Sunday morning. 472 00:29:41,900 --> 00:29:44,100 I went over to congregation there that have Rice Road 473 00:29:44,100 --> 00:29:45,800 congregation. You know what I worship with 474 00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:49,900 those good folks there and then I got on a plane and I flew home 475 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,500 where you been for three days. I've been in Columbia, Missouri 476 00:29:53,300 --> 00:29:57,400 3, 24 hour period snow a part of all of those days. 477 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,500 Do you see the point in order to fulfill prophecy? 478 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:05,400 Joseph of Arimathea has to act quickly and get Jesus buried 479 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:09,700 before. It is 6 p.m. to count Friday as 480 00:30:09,700 --> 00:30:16,500 one of the three days. All right in summary so far. 481 00:30:17,900 --> 00:30:20,100 The Lord got the juice to get their part done. 482 00:30:21,100 --> 00:30:24,700 Pilot did his thing. We now have a rich man that just 483 00:30:24,700 --> 00:30:26,500 so happens to have a grave nearby. 484 00:30:27,900 --> 00:30:32,200 But now, Jesus has to be prepared and on the scene comes 485 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:36,900 Nicodemus. This is amazing to me and John 486 00:30:36,900 --> 00:30:42,800 chapter 19 and verse 39. When Nicodemus shows up to 487 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:49,000 prepare the body, he came with a hundred pounds of all of those 488 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:53,000 fragrant spices. Now, incidentally, the reason 489 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:57,600 for that, as when Lazarus died member, when Martha said, it's 490 00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:01,700 the, it's been four days for behold, he decays, he's already 491 00:31:02,100 --> 00:31:06,700 stinketh. The King James says, The reason 492 00:31:06,700 --> 00:31:10,300 for that, they didn't in ball. When somebody died, they 493 00:31:10,300 --> 00:31:11,900 prepared the body and buried them. 494 00:31:13,100 --> 00:31:15,200 It was time to prepare the body, they didn't embalm. 495 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,400 They took the fragrant spices and that had to happen. 496 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:22,900 Now watch this when Nicodemus brought 100 pounds. 497 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:28,000 I think there's a reason why the Bible says how many pounds that 498 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:32,100 were brought and how many pounds were used to prepare the body of 499 00:31:32,100 --> 00:31:34,500 Jesus. You know, why you and I read. 500 00:31:34,700 --> 00:31:39,600 Did you know the only time they used 100 pounds when they 501 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:43,900 prepared a body? The only time is when they 502 00:31:43,900 --> 00:31:51,400 buried a king Crucified like a common Criminal. 503 00:31:52,900 --> 00:31:55,400 Grave to be assigned among Wicked, man, but he would be 504 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:57,600 with the rich in his death sidestep gehenna. 505 00:31:59,300 --> 00:32:05,300 Buried like the king that he is. And went to the paradise of God. 506 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:12,500 Now really, who's got the power? Who's really in control? 507 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:17,200 Who's in control of everything that's happening. 508 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:23,300 There's one more thing though that we have to notice and that 509 00:32:23,300 --> 00:32:26,100 is who was going to give the eyewitness testimony to the 510 00:32:26,100 --> 00:32:30,000 resurrection. Now, if it was one of the 511 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:33,700 disciples, it could have perpetuated the lie. 512 00:32:33,700 --> 00:32:35,900 I actually have a sermon called the lie that proves the 513 00:32:35,900 --> 00:32:41,100 resurrection, okay? And we know about the LIE, look 514 00:32:41,100 --> 00:32:45,200 how brilliant God was. He didn't have one of those 515 00:32:45,300 --> 00:32:48,900 disciples being or Die. The apostles being the first 516 00:32:48,900 --> 00:32:53,000 hand eyewitness testimony, he had these precious courageous 517 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,100 women that just couldn't stay away. 518 00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:00,300 They had to go back. And they gave eyewitness 519 00:33:00,300 --> 00:33:04,000 testimony to the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 520 00:33:05,300 --> 00:33:07,600 You know, I've wondered what it must have been for them for the 521 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:10,800 rest of their life. When they finally realize that 522 00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:13,200 it was Jesus, they fell down at his feet and they grabbed this 523 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:17,000 feet and they worshipped him. I wonder how it must have been 524 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:18,600 for them for the rest of their life. 525 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:22,100 Maybe they would have folks come up to them and say, tell us how 526 00:33:22,100 --> 00:33:24,600 it was. What was it? 527 00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:28,200 Like when you first saw the Lord the resurrected Christ for the 528 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:31,800 rest of their life, these courageous women. 529 00:33:33,300 --> 00:33:39,100 Folks my point in all of this is that God was thoroughly in 530 00:33:39,100 --> 00:33:44,300 control of it all. My point in closing is this 531 00:33:45,500 --> 00:33:49,100 understand that God is Sovereign over everything. 532 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:54,700 God is always in control. Even in our lives. 533 00:33:54,900 --> 00:33:58,500 He's always in control and make no mistake about it. 534 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:03,800 Nothing will ever happen in life that God does not, at least 535 00:34:04,100 --> 00:34:07,400 allow. I didn't say God makes bad 536 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,100 things happen to people. I did not say that I'm a say it 537 00:34:09,100 --> 00:34:12,000 again, but nothing happens in life. 538 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,900 That God does not at least allow. 539 00:34:17,100 --> 00:34:21,199 He Sovereign over everything. Now, look at all the stuff that 540 00:34:21,199 --> 00:34:23,100 has to happen. Look at all the prophecies that 541 00:34:23,100 --> 00:34:27,199 have to be fulfilled. Here's my point, if God can take 542 00:34:27,199 --> 00:34:30,600 care of all of that and get all those moving parts and all those 543 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:34,500 men in the direction that has to be to fulfill all those 544 00:34:34,500 --> 00:34:38,500 prophecies. Don't you think he can take care 545 00:34:38,500 --> 00:34:43,400 of your little stuff? Don't you think he can take care 546 00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:49,800 of our little stuff? He's always in control. 547 00:34:50,699 --> 00:34:56,600 But here's the point. To trust God, it's not a matter 548 00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:58,900 of bending God's will toward yours. 549 00:34:59,900 --> 00:35:02,600 It's a matter of bending your will toward his. 550 00:35:04,100 --> 00:35:06,200 It's a matter of putting your life. 551 00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:12,600 In God's hands in both Time and Eternity, that's what it's 552 00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:16,500 about. He's sovereign. 553 00:35:17,700 --> 00:35:21,500 Over everything. Buried in a rich man's tomb. 554 00:35:21,500 --> 00:35:23,800 The burial of Jesus Christ.