The following sermon is by John MacArthur, pastor, author, and Bible teacher with Grace to You.

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Here is Grace to you Bible teacher John MacArthur.

As we come to thinking about the resurrection of our Lord this morning, this would make

Resurrection Sunday number 52 for me here at Grace Church, and there's no

shortage of ways to approach the resurrection of our Lord, so I'm thrilled for another opportunity.

What is often overlooked in the glories of the cross and Good Friday and the glories of the resurrection

on Sunday is what happened in between, and that is the burial of our Lord.

You might think on the surface that the burial of our Lord was just a matter of necessity,

just an incidental.

But the fact of the matter is the burial of Jesus is as supernatural as everything else around his redemptive work on that weekend

2,000 years ago.

And the burial of Jesus is so significant that the four Gospels speak of it in detail in order to paint a picture of the fact

that even the burial of Christ is magnificently supernatural.

The reality is that from the moment Jesus' suffering ended in death, and he yielded up his

spirit to the Father, entered Paradise and the Divine Presence alive, God controlled every

detail of his burial.

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