Make It As Sure As You Can.

The Lord Jesus Christ was wonderful in His resurrection. When His body was laid in the grave, Pilate gave orders at the request of the Pharisees to seal the sepulchre. “Make it as sure as ye can” (Matthew 27:65), and they did! Nature made it as sure as she could, for a large stone was before the sepulchre, but “up from the grave He arose,” the angel of the Lord rolled the stone away and sat upon it! The Roman government made it as sure as it could and placed its seal upon the grave; but “up from the grave He arose” and now He carries the keys of death and hell. The world, the flesh, and the devil conspired to keep Him in the grave, but “up from the grave He arose” that “death might be swallowed up in victory.”