@47:49 to 49:44
God’s Providence in Christ’s Burial JMA: <<Luke chapter 23 gives us the next important picture… verse 54 Again… Luke, verse 54 it was the Preparation Day which was Friday and the Sabbath was about to begin. Now the women who had come with Him out of Galilea, followed, saw to the tomb and how his body was laid. They were watching as we read in Mark. Then they returned to their homes and prepared spices and perfumes. And on the Sabbath they rested according to the Commandment. So He’s in the grave on Friday. On Sabbath Saturday they rest, they will not be outdone by strangers.>>
Which <<strangers>>?
<<They will have their own expressions of love by spending the last hours of Friday mixing spices to bring back to the tomb not on the Sabbath ‘cause they couldn’t take the journey, but on Sunday the First Day. So chapter 24 begins that way, On the First Day of the week they had early gone they came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared. They rested, on the Sabbath, they were obedient to God’s Word, they honoured the Sabbath this is by the way the last absolute legitimate Sabbath. From now on we don’t worship on Saturday we worship on Sunday the Day He blessed >>
NOTHING to do with on which day of the week Jesus was buried and crucified!
@49:45 JMA:- <<So we see the action of loving saints added to the actions of indifferent soldiers all demonstrating the action of God providentially as He has his Son buried on Friday!>>
WHO denied? I want to know when JMA says when the Son of God our Passover was killed or rather gave his Life a Ransom for many?
Because that would have given a different ending to JMA’s study sermon. It would have made John MacArthur close with Matthew 27:62 ALL THE WAY TO 28:1-4 and make him NOT OMIT THESE VERSES.
Why instead closes JMA with reference only to <<the hateful Jewish leaders and their cowardly actions of denial of the Christ and his Resurrection? Why does JMA conspicuously – and so exactly –, exclude the Providence of God recorded in Matthew 27 and 28 in the actions of his faithful messenger, “the angel of the Lord explaining to the women", the circumstantial evidences of Jesus' Resurrection and the <only legitimate> DAY OF RESURRECTION the only LEGITIMATE Sabbath in the Providence of the Almighty God through Jesus Christ our Saviour?
@49:50 JMA:- <<And that brings us to the third group that played a role in this burial, the indifferent soldiers, the loving disciples and then Divine Providence in the actions of the hateful spiritual leaders. Then let’s go back to from where we started reading Scripture Matthew chapter 27. That will wrap it up.
God’s Providence in Christ’s Burial
@50:00 JMA: <<Matthew chapter 27 sixty two is the verse
KJV
62Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate, 63Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. 64Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first. 65 Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make [it] as sure as ye can. 66So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
FINIS