1. Matthew 28:6-10
April 15, 2012
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12. The MacArthur New
Testament Commentary,
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and John MacArthur, Jr.,
1983-2007.

13. More Than a Carpenter
by
Josh McDowell

14. Wait on the Lord
by
Steven P. Wickstrom

16. Matthew 28:6
6 “He is not here, for He has
risen, just as He said. Come,
see the place where He was
lying.”

17. When Peter and John
entered the tomb, they
"beheld the linen wrappings
lying there, and the face-
cloth, which had been on
His head, not lying with the

18. linen wrappings, but rolled
up in a place by itself"
(John 20:6-7).

19. The burial clothes were just
as they were when Joseph
and Nicodemus laid the
body to rest, except for the
face-cloth, which was set to
one side.

20. Jesus did not have to be
unwrapped any more than
He had to have the stone
removed.

21. At one moment He was
encased in the linen, and the
next He was free, leaving
the wrappings unchanged in
their placement except for
the face-cloth.

22. The Shroud of Turin (in
northern Italy) is one of the
most studied artifacts in
human history, and one of
the most controversial.

23. In 1978 a detailed
examination was carried out
by a team of American
scientists who found no
reliable evidence of forgery,
and called the question of

24. how the image was formed
"a mystery”.

26. One wrist bears a large,
round wound, claimed to be
from piercing (the second
wrist is hidden by the
folding of the hands).

28. An upward gouge in the side
penetrated into the thoracic
cavity.

30. Proponents claim this was a
post-mortem event and
there are separate
components of red blood
cells and serum draining
from the lesion.

31. There are small punctures
around the forehead and
scalp.
There are also scores of
linear wounds on the torso
and legs.

32. Proponents claim that the
wounds are consistent with
the distinctive dumbbell
wounds of a
Roman flagrum. ‘Scorpion' is
Latin for a Roman flagrum

33. 11 Whereas my father loaded
you with a heavy yoke, I will
add to your yoke; my father
disciplined you with whips,
but I will discipline you with
scorpions. 1 Kings 12:11

36. There is evidence of swelling
of the face from severe
beatings.
There are streams of blood
down both arms.

37. Proponents claim that the
blood drippings from the
main blood flow occurred in
response to gravity at an
angle that would occur
during crucifixion.

38. There is no evidence of
either leg being fractured.
There are large puncture
wounds in the feet as if
pierced by a single spike.

40. Following is a modern photo
of the face: positive image
on the left, negative image
on the right.
The negative image has
been contrast enhanced.

43. In 1989 physicist Thomas
Phillips, theorized that the
Shroud image was formed
by neutron radiation due to
a miraculous bodily
resurrection.

44. Results of some new
experiments propose that a
corona discharge (plasma)
mechanism could have been
involved in the Turin Shroud
body image formation, but

45. it is impossible to reproduce
all the characteristics of the
image in a laboratory
because the energy source
required is too high.

46. While the women were in
the tomb, another angel
joined the first, "one at the
head, and one at the feet,
where the body of Jesus had
been lying" (John 20:12).

47. The positions of the angels
are reminiscent of the two
golden cherubim who were
on either side of the Mercy
Seat on the Ark of the
Covenant (Ex 25:18).

48. The two angels in the
garden were posted at
either end of the tomb of
Jesus, Who, by the sacrifice
He had just made of His own
life, became the true and

49. eternal Mercy Seat for sinful
mankind.

50. Matthew 28:7
7 “Go quickly and tell His
disciples that He has risen
from the dead; and behold,
He is going ahead of you
into Galilee, there you will

51. see Him; behold, I have told
you.”

52. The women's fascination
must quickly turn to
proclamation.
They did not have time to
revel in the marvelous
reality of the Good News

53. but were to go immediately
and announce it to the
cowering disciples, who
were still hiding in
Jerusalem.

54. It would seem more than
justified for the Lord to have
allowed the disciples to
suffer in fear, despair, and
agony for a week or so
before telling them the

55. Good News.
They had stubbornly
refused to believe that Jesus
would die and be raised,
although He had told them
of His death and

56. resurrection many times.
*God is not interested in
beating you up (Jesus took
your beating for you) so
don’t beat yourself up
either.

57. But in His gracious mercy
God sent the women to tell
the disciples as soon as
possible, so they would not
have to experience another
moment of misery and grief.

58. He did not rebuke them for
their lack of faith and for
their cowardice but rather
sent them messengers with
gracious words of hope and
comfort.

59. Why did God chose to reveal
the truth of the resurrection
first to those women rather
than to the disciples?

60. One commentator suggests
that it was because God
chooses the weak to
confound the strong.
Another suggests the
women were rewarded for

61. their faithful service to the
Lord in Galilee.
Another holds that, because
death came by a woman in a
Garden, so new life was first
announced to a woman in a

62. Garden.
Others propose that it was
because the deepest sorrow
deserves the deepest joy or
that supreme love deserves
supreme privilege.

63. But Scripture offers no such
explanations.
It seems obvious that the
women were the first to
hear the angelic
announcement of the

64. resurrection simply because
they were there.
Had the disciples been
there, they, too, would have
heard the Good News
directly from the angel

65. rather than indirectly
through the women.
This is analogous to the
reality that the closer a
believer stays to the Lord
and to His work, the more

66. he is going to witness and
experience the Lord's
power.
Those who are there when
the Lord's people gather for
worship and prayer, who are

67. there when His Word is
being taught, who are there
when the lost are being won
to Christ, who are there
when others are being
served in His name, who are

68. regular in their times of
private prayer— those are
the ones who will most
often experience firsthand
the work of God.

69. Matthew 28:7b
7b “He is going ahead of
you into Galilee, there you
will see Him; behold, I have
told you.” Matthew 28:7b

70. Earlier in the week Jesus had
told the eleven remaining
disciples,
"After I have been raised, I
will go before you to
Galilee" (Matt 26:32).

71. Having both Jewish and
Gentile residents, Galilee
represented the world at
large.

72. It was there that Jesus
began His ministry, in
"Galilee of the Gentiles, "
where "the people who were
sitting in darkness saw a
great light" (Matt 4:15-16).

73. It would also be in Galilee
that the disciples would
receive the Great
Commission from the Lord
to "go therefore and make
disciples of all the nations”.

74. It was not that Jesus would
first appear to the disciples
in Galilee, because He
manifested Himself to them
several times before that.

75. He appeared to Peter, to the
two disciples on the road to
Emmaus, to ten of the
disciples as they were
assembled on resurrection
evening, to all eleven

76. disciples eight days later,
and to seven of the disciples
as they were fishing in the
Sea of Galilee.

77. But Jesus' supreme
appearance to the disciples
was to be in Galilee, where
He "appeared to more than
five hundred brethren at
one time" (1 Cor 15:6) and

78. where He would
commission the eleven to
apostolic ministry.

79. Matthew 28:8-9
“And they departed quickly
from the tomb with fear and
great joy and ran to report it
to His disciples. (Matt 28:8)

80. 9 And behold, Jesus met
them and greeted them.
And they came up and took
hold of His feet and
worshiped Him.”
Matthew 28:8-9

81. As the women were on their
way to report the angel's
message to the disciples,
Jesus met them and greeted
them.

82. Greeted translates
chairete, a common
greeting that loosely
rendered means something
like “Hello" or “Good
morning."

83. It was the ordinary
salutation of the
marketplace and of
travelers who passed each
other on the road.

84. In other words the greeting
was casual and ordinary,
seemingly too mundane to
be appropriate for such a
momentous occasion.

85. Yet the glorified Christ, Who
had just finished conquering
sin and death, greeted those
faithful women with warm,
informal tenderness.

86. As the writer of Hebrews
assures us,
"We do not have a high
priest who cannot
sympathize with our
weaknesses" (Heb 4:15).

87. They now knew with
certainty that He was the
risen Messiah, the divine
Son of God, and that
adoration and praise were
the only proper responses to

88. His presence.
They did what every person,
unbeliever as well as
believer, will do one day
when He comes again,
"every knee will bow

89. and every tongue will
confess that Jesus Christ is
Lord, to the glory of God the
Father" (Phil 2:10-11).

90. Matthew 28:10
Then Jesus said to them,
"Do not be afraid; go and
take word to My brethren to
leave for Galilee, and there
they shall see Me." (28:10)

91. Despite the disciples' lack of
faith, their cowardice, and
their defection, the Lord
graciously spoke of them as
His brethren.

92. When they arrived in
Galilee, they would see Him
again, and there they would
experience a great
convocation and
commissioning by the Lord.

93. The basic truth of the
resurrection under-girds a
number of other truths.

94. First, it gives evidence that
the Word of God is totally
true and reliable.
Jesus rose from the dead
precisely when and in the
way He had predicted.

95. There are 60 messianic
prophecies in the OT with
270 ramifications that were
all fulfilled in one Person –
Jesus Christ!

96. All 60 of those prophecies
were made at least 400
years before Jesus fulfilled
them.
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97. What are the chances that
one person’s life could fulfill
only 8 out of 60 predictions
that were made hundreds of
years before it happened?
1 in 10 to the 17th power!

98. If you covered the state of
Texas two feet deep in silver
dollars and you marked one
silver dollar and asked a
blindfolded person to walk
as long as they desired to

99. walk but they could only
stoop down and pick up one
silver dollar, the chances
they would pick up the one
you marked are:
1 in 10 to the 17th power!

100. That is for if only 8 of the 60
prophecies came true.
If 48 of the predictions came
true, the odds of a man’s life
fulfilling those by chance are
1 in 10 to the 157th power!!

101. The first messianic prophecy
in the Bible is in Genesis 3:15
15 And I will put enmity
between you and the
woman,

102. And between your seed and
her seed;
He shall bruise you on the
head,
And you shall bruise Him on
the heel.” Genesis 3:15

103. None other but Jesus could
be referred to as the “seed”
of a woman Who came into
the world to destroy the
works of the Devil (bruise
his head).

104. In Micah 5:2 God predicted
that the Messiah would be
born in Bethlehem, a town
with a population of less
than 1,000 people.

105. Five OT verses require that
the Messiah come while the
Temple of Jerusalem was
still standing. The Temple
was destroyed in A.D. 70 &
has not been rebuilt yet.

106. The Messiah was to be
betrayed by a friend for 30
pieces of silver that would
later be cast onto the
Temple floor.

107. Psalm 22 predicted in 1,012
B.C. that the Messiah would
be crucified by the piercing
of His hands and feet and
that was 500 years before
crucifixion was invented!

108. Second, the resurrection
means that Jesus Christ is
the Son of God, as He
claimed to be, and that He
has power over life and
death.

109. Who would die for a lie?
Of the 11 disciples:
Bartholomew, Peter,
Andrew, Philip, James and
Simon the Zealot were all
crucified.

110. James, the son of Zebedee,
and Matthew were killed by
the sword.
Thaddaeus was killed by
arrows.
Thomas – killed by a spear.

112. John, the disciple whom
Jesus loved, the only
disciple who did not
abandon Jesus during the
crucifixion – died of natural
causes.

113. Third, the resurrection
proves that salvation is
complete, that on the cross
Christ conquered sin, death,
and Hell and rose victorious.

114. Fourth, the resurrection
proves that the church has
been established.
Jesus had declared, "I will
build My church; and the
gates of Hades shall not

115. overpower it" (Matt 16:18).
"The gates of Hades" was a
Jewish colloquialism that
represented death.
Jesus’ resurrection proved
that death itself could not

116. prevent Him from
establishing His church.

117. Fifth, the resurrection
proves that judgment is
coming.
Jesus declared that the
heavenly Father "has given
all judgment to the Son"

118. (John 5:22), and since the
Son is now risen and alive,
His judgment is certain.

119. Sixth, the resurrection of
Christ proves that Heaven is
waiting.
Jesus promised, "In My
house are many dwelling
places; if it were not so, I

120. Would have told you; for I
go to prepare a place for
you" (John 14:2).
Because Christ is alive by
the resurrection, we have
the assurance that He is

121. now preparing a heavenly
dwelling for us.

122. Jesus knows what it feels
like to be told that there is
no room for you in the inn
so He is not going to let that
happen to those who trust
in Him for eternal life.