Can you imagine the Jewish leaders on the other hand are just having a great time thinking Jesus is dead and buried and captive to a tomb?

Little do they know that all of their efforts would only increase his influence and only validate his

resurrection. It is finished.

Jesus cried from the cross and then drew his last breath.

A short time later, his body was lying in a tomb, his followers were scattered, his

enemy seemed victorious, but in three days he rose again and that changed everything.

Today on Grace to you, John MacArthur

shows you how Christ's followers reacted

to the resurrection and what your response should be.

Take a fresh look at the events at Calvary and make sure you understand what history's great turning point means for you.

Stay here now as John looks at Matthew 28 and puts you on the scene of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Today in our study of God's word we come to Matthew's text on the resurrection.

I'll ask you to open your Bible to the 28th chapter of Matthew.

This is the great cornerstone of the Christian faith.

Everything that we are and have and ever hope to be all

that we believe in is predicated on the reality of the resurrection. There would be

no Christianity if there were no resurrection.

Conversely, because there is a resurrection, all elements of our faith are affirmed as true in every sense. The resurrection then is the

cornerstone of our faith. Now let me note for you that each of the four gospel writers presents the resurrection

and each of them presents it in a unique way picking out certain elements of the event of

the resurrection to enforce certain spiritual

truth from the mind of the spirit to the heart of the reader.

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