Good morning everyone and welcome back to another mornings with the masters where we devote

ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning you guys. Good morning and indeed we are

picking up with day two of our living hope, a countdown to Easter devotion on the Bible app.

There's a link to that in the description if you guys want to fall along with us and as always

I'm going to read the scripture then tours. Come pick up the divot. Let's do it. The scripture is

Luke chapter 23 verses 50 through 56 and they say this. Now there was a good and righteous man named

Joseph. He was a member of the Jewish high council but he had not agreed with the decision in

actions of the other religious leaders. He was from a town of Arimathea in Judea and he was waiting

for the kingdom of God to come. He went to pilot and asked for Jesus' body. Then he took the body

down from the cross and wrapped it in a long sheet of linen cloth and laid it in a new tomb that

had been carved out of a rock. This was done late on Friday afternoon the day of preparation

as the Sabbath was about to begin and as his body was being taken away the the women from Galilee

followed and sold the tomb where his body was placed. Then they went home and prepared spices

and ointments to anoint his body but by the time they were finished the Sabbath had begun

so they rested as required by the law. The devotional is titled Take Heart and it says this.

The Bible doesn't tell us much about the time between Jesus' death and resurrection but we do

know it took place during the Passover celebration a week long holiday that commemorated when God

freed the Israelites from slavery. During the celebration Jews would share a meal with each other

and sacrifice perfect lambs at the temple before preparing to rest on the Sabbath.

It was the day before the Sabbath that Jesus' body was sealed inside the tomb. Imagine being a

disciple of Jesus while this happened. Not only has one of your closest friends just been wrongly

killed but you aren't allowed to properly grieve his death until the day of rest is over.

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