Can you imagine someone telling you that your assignment is to prevent tomorrow's

sunrise? It's ridiculous, right? No one can do that. Today on Truth for Life,

Alistair Bag uses a similar illustration to describe an equally impossible

assignment that was given to the guards after Jesus crucifixion, focusing on the

closing verses in chapter 27 of Matthew's Gospel.

Here at the end of Matthew's Gospel, we're introduced to a group of soldiers

who were given an impossible assignment, an impossible assignment, like it

enlists someone this morning and say, what I want you to do is to get up early

tomorrow morning and simply by shouting, stop, I want you to prevent the sun from

rising in the sky, an impossible assignment. In fact, a ridiculous assignment,

an equally ridiculous and equally impossible is the assignment that we

discovered here in Matthew 27 that is given to these soldiers. Did these

Pharisees and scribes really believe that they could contain this Christ and

the story of this Christ as a result of their futile plans? Jesus had already

said to His disciples, we are going up to Jerusalem and He did and the son of

man will be betrayed and He was to the chief priests and teachers of the law

exactly. They will condemn Him to death and they did and they will turn Him over to

the Gentiles which they did who will mock Him and spit on Him,

flog Him and kill Him which they did and three days later He will rise again and

the Pharisees were bright enough to realize that so far everything had happened

just as Jesus said it would and so they assign this platoon of men to an

impossible task. I want you to notice with me if you would three scenes, the first

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