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Tomb is Empty 1-2
Warren Wiersbe explains the importance of us understanding the reality of the enemies of the Lord trying to deny the resurrection.
From the very beginning, the enemies of the Lord tried to deny the historic fact of the Resurrection.
The Jewish leaders claimed that the Lord’s body had been stolen from the tomb.
This statement is absurd, for if the body was stolen by His followers, how did they do it?
The tomb was guarded by Roman soldiers and the stone sealed by an official Roman seal.
Furthermore, His disciples did not believe that He was to be raised from the dead; it was His enemies who remembered His words ().
They certainly would not have taken the body!
The last thing they wanted was anyone believing that Jesus had indeed risen from the dead.
If His friends could not steal the body, and His enemies would not, then who took it?
From the very beginning, the enemies of the Lord tried to deny the historic fact of the Resurrection.
The Jewish leaders claimed that the Lord’s body had been stolen from the tomb.
This statement is absurd, for if the body was stolen by His followers, how did they do it?
The tomb was guarded by Roman soldiers and the stone sealed by an official Roman seal.
Furthermore, His disciples did not believe that He was to be raised from the dead; it was His enemies who remembered His words (Matt.
27:62–66).
They certainly would not have taken the body!
The last thing they wanted was anyone believing that Jesus had indeed risen from the dead.
If His friends could not steal the body, and His enemies would not, then who took it?
Perhaps the disciples had “visions” of the risen Lord and interpreted them as evidences for the Resurrection.
But they did not expect to see Him, and that is not the kind of psychological preparation from which hallucinations are made.
And how could more than 500 people have the same hallucination at the same time?
(1 Cor.
15:6)
Perhaps the disciples had “visions” of the risen Lord and interpreted them as evidences for the Resurrection.
But they did not expect to see Him, and that is not the kind of psychological preparation from which hallucinations are made.
And how could more than 500 people have the same hallucination at the same time?
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“First day of the Week” is the first day after Sabbath which was Sunday.
With the resurrection came a new Sabbath, Sunday.
Instead of the last day we spend time with God, we now spend it in the beginning.
We start the week off right instead of getting the week right at the end.
Sunday becomes known as the Lord’s day,
Mary Magdalene with other women left while it was still dark and arrive while the sun is rising,
Her devotion to Jesus, living or dead, was based on her gratitude for His delivering her from bondage to Satan,
She was an observer at the Cross and now the first at the grave.
Is your commitment to Christ like Mary’s?
Is He the first you go to in the morning and last One you spend time with at night?
The Stone had been removed!
Just as Jesus had the stone removed from the tomb of Lazarus so too would His stone be removed from His tomb.
No tomb can ever hold our Lord neither can it hold us!
Mary sees the Tomb is empty and fearing grave robbers took the body of Jesus runs to the disciples.
*Other disciple= John the Apostle
Disciples see 3-10
The disciples first thought the report was nonsense, .
Eventually they got up and went to the tomb.
John out runs Peter to the tomb.
Why did they start running?
Probably their curiosity started to make their minds wonder.
John arrives at the tomb first.
John does not go in, but stoops and looks.
*(Oriental tombs have low entrances and the reason John stooped).
*Saw (blepo)- notice (take aware) the linen on the floor of the tomb.
Him seeing this must have triggered a fear of the unknown which stopped him short from going in.
Peter being the fearless impetuous person he was, went in.
Peter sees the linens lying there.
*Saw (theoreo)- observed to grasp with an understanding.
What John just noticed from the outside, Peter observed from the inside.
Peter naturally saw more than John and it was clearer to Peter than to John.
Unlike Lazarus, Jesus did not need someone to unwrap His linen.
His resurrected Body just passed through them.
Peter’s observation brought him to see the linen that was on Jesus’ head was folded up and not with the rest of the linen.
*Grave robbers would have not taken the time to fold the linen and leave the tomb in order.
*It also shows us that just as Jesus went to the Garden to pray, was buried in the Garden, and now has raised from the Garden; He restored the order between His Father and us.
HE HAD TO GO BACK TO THE ORIGINAL PLACE OF SIN TO RESTORE US!
John finally goes in and sees what Peter had saw and believes.
A LIFE THAT IS SPENT ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN IS A LIFE THAT SWAYS WITH THE CHANGING SEAS.
TO BE A REAL DISCIPLE WE MUST GO ALL THE WAY IN WITH JESUS CHRIST!
Verse 9 gives us all insight into reality: even after their long walk with Christ and His teaching they still did not understand.
*Understand- to know, comprehend the meaning with the result of knowledge.
We will not understand all the scriptures in a year, three years, or even 50 years.
There are things that will perplex you and even scare you, but overtime and the guidance of the Holy Spirit we will understand them.
They forgot what Jesus told the Pharisees and Sadducees,
We see that the disciples returned to the house.
How much more evidence did they need that Christ is alive.
After seeing the empty tomb, I would be perplexed but excited.
Woman sees Jesus First 10-18
Just as Eve ate the apple first and introduced sin into the world.
God used woman to bring forth Himself and shown Himself for the first time to a woman.
*REMEMBER THERE IS ORDER IN THE WAY CHRIST RESTORES US!!!
The disciples leave but Mary stayed.
Are you the first to leave or the last?
Mary still had not gone in.
She is heartbroken that her Lord was taken away.
Still in unbelief she stoops down and looks.
She notices but has not observed what all is happening.
She sees something that the disciples see, two angels.
Her seeing these two angels was God saying there is a New Mercy Seat.
If they had stayed they too would have seen.
But, their faith was shaken and their hope was shattered.
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*Whenever we allow our focus to go from the empty tomb back to the crucifixion are faith becomes weak and our hope becomes despair.
They ask, why is she crying?
Today, I want you to ask yourself one question.
Why are you worrying, having anxiety, fretting over things which you have no control, and stressing?
If He is risen, what’s the worry?
Mary turns after her response and sees Jesus but does not recognizes Him.
Listen to me family!
When your focus is on your worries and troubles, you lose your focus on Christ and the way to hope in Him!
Jesus reveals Himself to her by calling her name.
Jesus knows His sheep and His sheep know His voice!
Jesus will always call us out of trouble by calling our name!
Today we should rejoice like Mary, because we know He is Risen.
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