The Resurrection Of Jesus Christ
Jesse M. Hendley
Matthew 28:1
Let us draw our attention to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ and His reappearance to His very own. Please turn in your Bibles to Matthew 28:1, where we read, "in the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn towards the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre." Now this is Sunday morning and there is a great change of dispensations here. This is a new beginning. Jesus died on Friday and rose again from the dead on Sunday morning. He doesn't call attention to the Sabbath. The Sabbath was Saturday. It is a grave mistake in Bible study and Bible teaching to call the Lord's Day the Sabbath Day or to call Sunday the Sabbath Day. The Sabbath Day was Saturday, according to the Jewish law.
Christians, however, are not under the law of the Sabbath Day. All that is past. This is the first day of the week and Christians worship on the day of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is the beginning of a new dispensation as Jesus said. This is the blood of the new covenant, not the old, but the new, and Christ our Savior rose on Sunday morning and that is why we worship on Sunday morning. Sundays ought to be very precious to us in memory of the res- urrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. So this was a new beginning, and the early church gathered in worship of Christ on Sunday. But it was the first day of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus and it was the first day of the week, sacred in the history of the church.
"And there came Mary Magdalene, (the woman of whom Jesus had cast seven demons) and the other Mary (who was unquestionably the virgin Mary's sister) and they came early to the sepulchre."
They thought He was dead, so why were they drawn there? It was their love for the person of Jesus. They could not free themselves from that love for Jesus. You can't say, "I love someone" and then suddenly stop loving ...
Jesse M. Hendley
Matthew 28:1
Let us draw our attention to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ and His reappearance to His very own. Please turn in your Bibles to Matthew 28:1, where we read, "in the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn towards the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre." Now this is Sunday morning and there is a great change of dispensations here. This is a new beginning. Jesus died on Friday and rose again from the dead on Sunday morning. He doesn't call attention to the Sabbath. The Sabbath was Saturday. It is a grave mistake in Bible study and Bible teaching to call the Lord's Day the Sabbath Day or to call Sunday the Sabbath Day. The Sabbath Day was Saturday, according to the Jewish law.
Christians, however, are not under the law of the Sabbath Day. All that is past. This is the first day of the week and Christians worship on the day of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is the beginning of a new dispensation as Jesus said. This is the blood of the new covenant, not the old, but the new, and Christ our Savior rose on Sunday morning and that is why we worship on Sunday morning. Sundays ought to be very precious to us in memory of the res- urrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. So this was a new beginning, and the early church gathered in worship of Christ on Sunday. But it was the first day of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus and it was the first day of the week, sacred in the history of the church.
"And there came Mary Magdalene, (the woman of whom Jesus had cast seven demons) and the other Mary (who was unquestionably the virgin Mary's sister) and they came early to the sepulchre."
They thought He was dead, so why were they drawn there? It was their love for the person of Jesus. They could not free themselves from that love for Jesus. You can't say, "I love someone" and then suddenly stop loving ...
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