Welcome to the in-touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Good Friday, April 7th.

Today, Christians pause to reflect on the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, but the story doesn't stop there.

His resurrection follows soon.

Prepare yourself for Easter by focusing your attention on the significance of the empty tomb.

I'd like for us to look at this 24th chapter of Luke for just a moment.

I want us to look first of all at the discovery these women made at the empty tomb.

If you'll move back up in the verse 54 of chapter 23,

you'll notice and remember now that Joseph of Armathia has obtained permission to remove the body of the Lord Jesus Christ from the cross,

and he with some of his friends were able to remove that cross and then lay it down.

So by the time they had obtained his body and took it to the garden next to Calvary and prepared it, it was getting late.

If you'll notice in chapter 23 now, verse 54 says,

and that day was the preparation and the Sabbath drew on.

By the preparation, it means this was the Sabbath of the Passover week,

and all the preparation had to be made before 6 o'clock on the day in which the Lord Jesus was crucified,

so that what was happening in the barrel of his body had to be done as quickly as possible.

And I believe the implication of the Scripture is it was not finished.

Because if you'll notice in verse 55, it says,

and the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after and beheld the seplica and how his body was laid.

And what they would do was simply carve out of a stone, a hollow place, and in that hollow section,

they would carve out what would be like a stone slab just made right into the rock.

And they would make it a certain length, a length long enough to fit the body.

And of course this who had already been done beforehand, not in preparation of the body of Jesus,

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