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THE WORLD'S SADDEST DAY (2 OF 3)

by Donald Cantrell

Scripture: Matthew 27:57-66
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The World's Saddest Day (2 of 3)
Series: Three Days That Changed the World
Donald Cantrell
Matthew 27: 57 - 66


I - The Body of Christ and His Lovely Seekers (57 - 60 and Jn. 19: 39)

II - The Body of Christ and His Loyal Spectators (61)

III - The Body of Christ and His Leary Speculators (62 - 64)

IV - The Body of Christ and His Limited Securers (65 - 66)

V - The Body of Christ and His Languishing Sorrower's (Lk. 23: 54 - 56)

This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, which should be preached second in this series, if you buy the entire series. I will preach this sermon one week before Easter.

Theme: ''The Day that the Lord was buried''

The Saddest Days of Year

''Sunday morning my head is bad, but it's worth it for the time that I had. But I got to get my rest ... 'Cause Monday's a mess,'' croons RandB legend Fats Domino in his 1957 tune ''Blue Monday,'' about the dreary doldrums of the work week.

And the singer may have been on to something: According to British psychologist Cliff Arnall, Monday is the bleakest day of the week.

But what happens when you take a Monday smack-dab in the middle of winter, after the holidays?

You may have just stumbled upon the most depressing day of the year.

Arnall has dubbed the third Monday in January ''Blue Monday,'' based on his theory that factors like the weather, post-holiday debt, and low motivational levels make it the gloomiest date on the calendar.

But if you can make it past Blue Monday (which falls on January 20 in 2020) in one piece, you may want to beware of these other potentially gloomy periods that pop up throughout the year.

One of the saddest days in the bible was when Adam and Eve sinned, then God killed an animal to cloth them, and after placing a curse upon Adam, Eve, and Satan, the first couple was escorted out of the Garden of Eden never to enter in again. It had to be a bad day, when the first couple realized what they had done. They had paradise, b ...

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