The grave closed, they said something, but this was it. They touched him.

This is not a figment of their imagination, this is not an apparition,

this is not a spiritual resurrection.

They held him by the feet.

It was a real physical, bodily, literal resurrection. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson. As one author has pointed out in today's society, death is a subject

that is evaded, ignored, and denied by our youth-worshipping Progress-oriented society.

It's almost as if we have taken on death

as just another disease to be conquered.

Avoid and deny death.

That's the world's strategy.

What about for Christians? How should you think about death and life

after death? Consider that today as John MacArthur looks to the one who has power

over death, the one who conquered death on behalf of sinners like you and

like me, it's part of John's current study the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

And now with a lesson, here's John.

Let's open our Bibles to Matthew chapter And now with a lesson, here's John.

Let's open our Bibles to Matthew chapter 28.

As we return to Matthew's narrative

on the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The women appear at the end of verse 1, Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, Mary the wife of

Clopus or Alpheus, the mother of James the Little and Joseph. And Mark says also Salome was there. Salome was the wife

of Zebedee and the mother of James and John. And Luke says that Joanna was there, the of Kusa who was one of the stewards of

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