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Jesus is RISEN indeed!
Just as He said He would.
Early in the morning on the third day several different groups of people discover the amazing message, that Jesus is no longer dead and buried, BUT He is now risen from the dead- just as He foretold, just as the Scriptures said He would.
Jesus the Messiah, the Christ, the Son of God is RISEN from the grave conquering sin, death, and hell itself.
This is the best news of any kind, of any type, of any scale.
It is foundational to Christianity- without this message our faith is dead.
With such amazing, wonderful, jaw dropping news you would expect an epic response on the part of those witnessing the empty tomb.
However, there are sever different responses by different groups of people when confronted with the truth of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus.
I think for almost all of my boys at some point when they were a baby I performed the pickle test.
Usually, its when we are at a restaurant and they start to get fussy- I will take a dill pickle and stick it into there mouth and test to see what there response will be.
The look on their faces is priceless.
Some get this confused look on their face, some twist their face in shock and pull away, while some eagerly sucked the pickle dry.
We all have different responses to things, depending on our perception of the event.
One of the most important events that you have to decide how to respond to is the resurrection event.
The gospel narrative tells us that there were some who responded negatively and some who responded positively.
This morning we will examine these different responses together, and I want each one of us to walk away having answered personally this question:
How will I respond to the truth of the resurrection of Jesus?
I. Some Actively Reject the Truth of the Resurrection
A. They attempted to prevent it
Notice what they called Jesus- that “Deceive.”
The word has the idea of causing others to be mistaken, an imposter.
There is an irony in how this word is used in 2 John-
What are the chief priests and Pharisees claiming that Jesus is?
A deceiver- an imposter.
Yet who actually is the one deceiving?
The chief priests and the Pharisees themselves.
These religious leaders worried that the disciples might steal the body of Jesus away and spread lies to further “deceive” the people.
So they set up a guard and made the tomb as secure as they could make it.
They did there very best to prevent any kind of resurrection.
B. Instead they panicked
“Shake”- to shudder v. — to tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement.
“Dead men”- the text does not have the word men (it is implied) so lit.
they became as dead.
C. Finally they tried to cover it up
Again we find a striking irony here.
Why did the religious leaders place guards at the tomb in the first place.
They were afraid the disciples would come and steal the body and spread lies about his resurrection in the city.
Instead, who is the one spreading lies?
The religious leaders!
They pay a large sum of money to bribe the guards and spread the lie that the disciples came and stole him away.
And it was successful- the saying was still commonly reported until the day that Matthew wrote his gospel.
Even in our day, 2000+ years later people are still accepting lies about the resurrection- leading them to actively reject the truth that Jesus has indeed risen from the dead.
Illustration
All you have to do is go to your local shopping center and go down the “Easter” isle.
What will you find?
The Easter Bunny?
Now, is there anything wrong with the Easter bunny?
No- but this is another attempt to cover up the truth of the resurrection.
Only this time instead of spreading lies that it is false, the lie is that Easter is about bunnies, and candy, and baskets.
Again, there is nothing wrong with these things in and of themselves.
If you are planning on having an Easter egg hunt later today, please don’t let me stop you.(Don’t
go home and tell your kids Pastor Jon said we can’t have an basket with candy in it anymore) But if you are replacing Easter with them instead of the truth of the resurrection you are actively rejecting the truth that Christ is risen just as much as the Pharisees did all those years ago.
The Easter bunny is just Satan’s new cover up for the truth of the resurrection.
Application:
How about you?
Do you fall into this category.
Are you actively rejecting the truth of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ?
I pray that today you will see clearly the truth about the Lord Jesus Christ.
Jesus died on the cross for you sake.
He shed His blood for you sin.
He rose from the dead to give you life everlasting.
Will you believe in Him today?
II.
Some Cautiously Doubt the Truth of the Resurrection
A. Doubting Minds
Idle talk- A message that is simply incoherent and unintelligible.
Babbling, pure nonsense, humbug.
ἀπιστέω- disbelieve, refuse to believe.
Imperfect, active, indicative- action that occured in the past with a continuous action.
They heard the message, and kept on doubting.
They stubbornly refused to believe.
Luke magnifies the disciples doubt here, to later magnify the miracle of the resurrection.
Only the clear and unmistakable appearance of the risen Christ could have overcome such doubt and replaced it with unshakable faith.
B. Enlightened Eyes
Jesus calls them fools- mindless, dull-witted, unintelligent
And Slow of Heart to believe
These are both in the vocative in the Greek which is a term of direct address.
So instead of calling them brothers, or good sirs, he calls them fools and slow of heart.
This is to grab their attention!
Then what does Jesus do?
He begins to enlighten the eyes of their understanding.
Beginning with Moses and then the prophets- Jesus explains the Scriptures concerning his death and resurrection.
C. Burning Hearts
Burning hearts- to light on fire, to burn/continue to burn.
Used figuratively speaking of strong emotion within.
Passive verb- action done to them.
Something from outside of these two men, cause their hearts to burn.
What was it?
It was the word of God being revealed to their souls.
As Jesus taught them, and the understood what He was saying, God was confirming the truth they were hearing with what we would call conviction.
A burning of the heart.
This something only the Word of God can do.
They heard the Word of God, their hearts burned within them, their eyes were opened- then what was the next logical step?
They believed!
Illustration:
Growing up my mom used to tell me to eat my vegetables because they would make strong, and fast.
She used to say for instance eat your carrots they will make you see better.
When I was really little this worked.
I ate my carrots because I wanted my eyes to continue functioning.
However, as I grew older I started to second guess these facts.
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