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God, today we gather to celebrate the resurrection of Your Son, our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
We open the Scriptures now to learn more of this, the greatest event in history.
Open our eyes to the wonder of the resurrection.
Open our ears to hear this glorious good news.
Open our hearts to receive the risen Christ as our God and King.
We pray it for His glory, Amen.
Turn in your Bible with me to .
Once you have found it, please stand for the reading of God’s Holy Word.
We all have things we could live without.
Things like: taxes and root canals.
But at the end of the day those things are just uncomfortable and inconvenient.
But, what if you could live without despair?
What if you could live without fear?
What if you could live without doubt?
Today, I want to show you in God’s Word that because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, you can in fact live without despair.
You can live without fear.
You can live without doubt.
Jesus was crucified on a Friday morning.
Very early that Sunday morning Mary Magdalene went to His tomb to finish preparing His body for burial.
But when she got there the stone was rolled away from the opening of the tomb.
The Lord’s body was gone.
She ran and told the disciples.
Peter and John ran to the tomb to see for themselves.
And they found it just as Mary had said.
Stone rolled away.
Jesus’ body gone.
And verse 9 says, they didn’t yet understand that Jesus had risen form the dead.
As we’re going to see, even those who were closest to Jesus were feeling despair, fear, and doubt.
But that changed when they realized Jesus had risen from the dead.
If you’re living with despair, fear, or doubt, I hope that that will end today as you come to believe and know that Jesus is indeed alive.
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You can live without despair.
(Vv 11-18)
I’m not saying you can live your life without any sadness or sorrow.
But I am saying you can live your life without the kind of deep sorrow that makes you feel hope is lost.
That’s despair.
And that’s what Mary Magdalene and the other disciples felt early Sunday morning.
Mary was weeping because Jesus was dead.
She was weeping because His body was missing.
But it’s more than just that.
You have to understand that for those first followers of Jesus all their hopes were wrapped up in Him.
Now that He was dead they felt that hope was lost.
Did you catch that?
We were hoping.
Jesus’ missing body just compounded the deep grief Mary was already feeling.
This is more than just sorrow.
This is despair.
But watch what happens as Mary turns to leave the empty tomb.
Jesus speaks to her. “Why are you crying?
Who are you looking for?”
But Mary didn’t recognize Jesus.
Why would she?
She thought He was dead.
But then, He spoke her name.
“Mary.”
Can’t you just see it.
She turns to Him, “It’s You! It’s really You!”
And she reaches out to embrace Him.
She doesn’t want to let Him go.
And Jesus has to tell her not to hold on to Him.
He then tells her to go tell the other disciples.
And that’s exactly what she does.
The despair she had moments ago was now gone forever.
Because Jesus was alive!
Hope was renewed!
Parents, imagine getting a phone call that one of your children has been in a car accident.
What’s your first question?
“Is she okay?” Right?
As long as she is okay, I can deal with anything else.
If she is safe I can handle any other issues.
There may be some loss.
There may be some pain.
But if she is okay I can deal with all of that.
Listen!
There is going to be loss in life.
There is going to be pain and difficulty in life.
But as long as Jesus is alive there is no reason to despair.
I can deal with the loss as long as Jesus is alive.
I can deal with the pain as long as Jesus is alive.
If Jesus is alive my hope and my future and eternally secure.
I have no reason to despair.
Sure you’re going to have grief in life.
But because Jesus is alive, the believer’s grief is never a hopeless grief.
It’s sorrow but it isn’t despair.
It’s only when your hope is wrapped up in something other than Jesus that you have reason to despair.
But for those who believe, as long as Jesus is alive, hope is alive!
Because Jesus is alive you can live without despair.
Oh, but that’s not all.
Because Jesus is alive you can live without despair.
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You can live without fear.
(Vv 19-23)
Obviously I’m not talking about living without the fear of God.
I’m not saying if you believe in Jesus you won’t be afraid of spiders anymore.
What I am saying is that because Jesus is alive those who believe in Him can live without fear for their lives, their future, or their well-being.
Mary had told them Jesus had risen, but they didn’t believe her.
The same day that Jesus rose from the dead, that evening, the disciples were together in a room, with the door locked.
In verse 19 we are told the door was locked for fear of the Jews.
Those who had followed Jesus were afraid the Jewish religious leaders who had crucified Jesus might come after them as well.
They were afraid for their lives.
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