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

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And now unleashing God's truth one verse at a time.

Here's 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 fifty-two for me here at Grace Church.

And there is 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 two thousand 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.

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