“Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out? And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place, and it shall [...]
Continue reading about The Secret of Failure, Matthew 17:19-21, Mark 9:28, 29
We come again this morning to our text in Matthew chapter 28 verses 16 to 20. I confess to you a certain amount of frustration in my heart because I could spend weeks on this passage and pull all kinds of truth and teaching from other areas of Scripture to embellish it. But I’m going [...]
Continue reading about Making Disciples of All Nations–Part 2, Matthew 28:18b-20
I want to encourage you at this time, if you will, to take your Bible and open it to the twenty-eighth chapter of Matthew. We come to the last section of this great gospel. But I want you to understand something, this is not just the end, this is the climax. This is where Matthew [...]
Continue reading about Making Disciples of All Nations–Part 1, Matthew 28:16-18a
We have been, over the last four Sunday nights, looking at some portraits of Christ. Obviously at this particular time of year there’s a greater amount of interest in the person of Jesus Christ because it is Christmas season, after all. And although our country seems to be making a maximum effort to remove Christ [...]
Continue reading about The Authenticity of the Risen Savior, Matthew 28:11-13
“Come, see the place where the Lord lay.”—Matthew 28:6. Every circumstance connected with the life of Christ is deeply interesting to the Christian mind. Wherever we behold our Saviour, he is well worthy of our notice. “His cross, his manger, and his crown, Are big with glories yet unknown.” All his weary pilgrimage, from Bethlehem’s [...]
Let’s open our Bibles this morning to Matthew chapter 28. I want to read for you verses 11 through 15, the text of our message as we look together to God’s Word. Matthew 28 beginning at verse 11, we read: “Now when they were going, behold some of the guard came into the city and [...]
Continue reading about The Lie That Proves the Resurrection, Matthew 28:11-15
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 world has heard many important messages. The world has learned many great truths. The world has experienced many dramatic and life-changing events. But not any one of them nor all of them [...]
Continue reading about The Resurrection of Jesus Christ-Part 2, Matthew 28:8-10
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 twenty-eighth chapter of Matthew. We’re going to be looking this Lord’s day and next at the first ten verses of this great chapter in which Matthew gives His look at the [...]
Continue reading about The Resurrection of Jesus Christ-Part 1, Matthew 28:1-7
I invite you to open your Bible to Matthew chapter 27. We return to a text of Scripture which treats the amazing burial of Jesus Christ, the amazing burial of Jesus Christ. We’re looking at Matthew 27 verses 57 through 66, a section we began last Lord’s day and we’ll complete this morning. Now before [...]
Continue reading about The Amazing Burial of Jesus-Part 2, Matthew 27:62-66
As you know, for a long time now we’ve been in the gospel of Matthew and we find ourselves in the last section of chapter 27. It’s our commitment at Grace Church to just go through one book of the Bible after another. And we have had glorious years together in this gospel of Matthew. [...]
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Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom—Matthew 27:50-51. Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which be hath [...]
Continue reading about The Rent Veil, Matthew 27:50-51, Hebrews 10:19-20
“Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? That is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”—Matthew 27:46. If any one of us, lovers of the Lord Jesus Christ had been anywhere near the cross when he uttered those words, I am sure our hearts would have burst with anguish, and one thing is certain—we [...]
Continue reading about Our Lord’s Solemn Enquiry, Matthew 27:46
“And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?”—Matthew 27:46. There was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour”: this cry came out of that darkness. Expect not to see through its every [...]
Well, the world certainly has been awakened to The Passion of the Christ, hasn’t it? This film that has dominated the public discourse for the last number of months has exposed millions of people to the account of the suffering, death and even the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It’s really a remarkable phenomenon to see [...]
Continue reading about God’s Commentary on The Passion of Christ, Matthew 27:45-53
“He trusted in God; let him deliver him now; if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.”—Matthew 27:43. These words are a fulfilment of the prophecy contained in the twenty-second Psalm. Read from the seventh verse—”All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, [...]
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Introduction Matthew 27:54-56 is a brief but rich passage, “When the centurion, and they that were with him watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly, this was the Son of God. And many women were there beholding afar off, who followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto [...]
Continue reading about Responses to the Death of Christ, Matthew 27:54-56
Introduction Most people are aware of the death of Jesus Christ, but they have little understanding of its significance. Each year at Easter, many people hear about the crucifixion and resurrection. What does the death and resurrection of Christ mean? History tells us that thirty-thousand Jews were crucified by the Romans around the time of [...]
Continue reading about God’s Miraculous Commentary on the Cross, Matthew 27:45-53
Introduction Jesus clearly stated that His generation was wicked (Matt. 16:4). He said the leaders of Israel were full of wickedness (Matt. 22:18; Luke 11:39). Paul, in reference to unbelieving Christ-rejectors, said they are filled with all wickedness (Rom. 1:29). The heart of man is desperately wicked (Jer. 17:9). When given over to his own [...]
Continue reading about The Wickedness of the Crucifixion–Part 2, Matthew 27:38-44
Introduction Many years ago, scholar Frederic Farrar wrote The Life of Christ (N.Y.: A.L. Burt, 1874). In it he said this: A death by crucifixion seems to include all that pain and death can have of horrible and ghastly–dizziness, cramp, thirst, starvation, sleeplessness, traumatic fever, tetanus, shame, publicity of shame, long continuance of torment, horror [...]
Continue reading about The Wickedness of the Crucifixion–Part 1, Matthew 27:27-37
Introduction Matthew 27:22 records that Pilate asked, “What shall I do then with Jesus, who is called Christ?” That is a question everyone must answer. I would like to pose another question: Why must every person answer that question? What is it about Jesus Christ that lays such a claim on every heart? A. The [...]
Continue reading about “What Shall I Do with Jesus?”–Part 2, Matthew 27:19, 24, 26