The You're going to do you.

Do you do you do you do you do

do you do Scripture makes it clear that at some point in life each of us has to decide what

we're going to do with Jesus. Today on Truth for Life we'll follow Joseph of

Aramathia's transformation from a silent secret follower of Jesus to someone who

boldly and publicly honored the crucified Christ.

Alistairbegg is continuing our study in Luke, chapter 23. Here we are at the description provided by Luke of the burial of Jesus.

First of all we should notice that the burial of Jesus, the actual burial of the body of Jesus,

was by no means of foregone conclusion. And this for two main reasons. First of all, and I alluded

to this this morning, because in Roman law, crucifixion of a criminal was not the end of the humiliation, because Biryo was not the right of the condemned.

Secondly, it wasn't a foregone conclusion because if you look at the

passage properly you realize that nobody was around to make this request on

Jesus behalf. Who was going to actually ask for the body of Jesus? His friends were gone and then

suddenly and silently out of the shadows. It merges one Esther, whom you will remember came to the kingdom for just this moment in time.

And so it is that here arrives on the stage of history, this individual whose secrecy

had up to this point been destroying his discipleship, but now he has determined that he's going to step forward generously

and boldly and here we find him. Now there was a man named Joseph, a member of the council, a good and upright man, a man from the Judean town of Arimuthia.

What do we know? We know that he is from Arimuthia, this Judean town.

We know from Matthew's record that he is rich. Matthew actually says in57, that he was a rich man. We know here that he was a member of the

council, that is the Sanhedron, the people who had been responsible for going to pilot

and pressing for the death of Jesus.

Actually, Mark tells us in Mark 15 that he was not simply a member of the council,

...