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Introduction
Good morning and welcome!
Isn’t it a glorious Easter Sunday morning!
As we have gathered here this cool morning, and look around the silence that is here, we are reminded of the finality of death.
This is the place where we all come to pay our respects and to lay our bodies to rest one last time.
However, on Easter Sunday, this place that is usually a place of sorrow, a place of grief, becomes a place of celebration.
And it becomes this place of celebration because it was in the cemetery where the truth of Jesus’ promise as the Messiah was realized.
It is here where it was first discovered that all Jesus had said and taught about His Resurrection was true.
It was in a place just like this where Mary and the Disciples realized that Hope had not died, but rather hope was alive and well.
And it is will be in this place this morning where we will be reminded of one of the accounts of Jesus’ resurrection.
This morning I will be reading from , and I will be sharing the first 18 verses.
John writes this about Jesus’ resurrection . . .
Scripture Focus
John
Confusion at the Tomb (vs 1-9)
Now reading this in it’s entirety 2000 years removed is just as amazing as it would have had to have been on that day.
We know from the account here in John as well as the other gospel records that Mary and the other women had went to the tomb to in order to prepare Jesus’ body for the final burial.
It was the first day of the week because they had to wait until the Sabbath was over and then they could go and make the preparations.
Preparations that would include cleaning the body and filling it with spices, oils, and flowers, so that it could be returned to the tomb, where they body would lay for about a year.
Then the family would return to the tomb, gather up the bones and put them on a shelf with the rest of the family.
So, these women were on their way to do this first step in the process of saying goodbye to Jesus.
And it would have been a somber trip.
A trip that none of them thought they would ever have to make.
A trip that none of them would have wanted to make.
After all, this was the Messiah.
This was the one that was offering them eternal hope.
This was the one who was going to save them all.
But now, this is the one who was dead, laying in a tomb.
And dead men can’t save anybody.
So, their hopes were dashed.
And our Scripture tells us that . . .
Which is of importance because this was a heavy stone that they had been debating on how to get it out of way all morning.
But low and behold, when they arrived, it had already been moved away.
The obstacle that kept them from getting to Jesus had been removed.
And this morning, If there is any obstacle in our way, that keeps us from getting to Jesus, He will remove it, if we let him.
It doesn’t matter if we are at a Sunrise Service in a Cemetery, at our Easter celebration in our churches, or in our own homes, if we cry out to Jesus, he will remove the barriers.
However, for Mary and the others, they find something very strange.
They find that Jesus is gone.
Someone had come and taken his body, so they thought.
So, in response . . .
John 20:
And immediately, their minds went to foul play, to body snatchers, to Jewish hate and spite.
They had not thought that Jesus had risen and walked away under his own power.
They thought there was foul play, and why wouldn’t they?
Have we ever seen anyone raised from the dead?
They hand’t either and at this point they didn’t comprehend what had actually happened here.
So. . .
John 20:3-
Utter confusion and utter chaos.
They didn’t know what was going on.
All they knew was that Jesus was gone and all the burial clothes and rags were still laying there.
The strange thing though was that it wasn’t all just laying around in a mess like someone had come and took a body.
Everything was laying in place, except the burial cloth which was folded up neatly separated.
Letting them know in a subtle way that this cloth was not needed anymore.
This cloth was not going to be used.
Letting them know that It was Finished.
The Job was done.
But they still didn’t grasp it.
None of them but . . .
This other disciple, we learn from the other Gospels was John.
John 20:8
John knew.
John understood.
But the rest did not and the rest really did not have much hope.
Mary Refuses to Give Up (vs 10-16)
They were still confused by everything.
They still thought that their hopes had died with Jesus.
And even after this. . .
They went back to their homes because there was no reason to be there.
No only was Jesus dead, but now in their mind, somebody had come and stolen his body.
There was not even anywhere now to go and pay respects to Jesus.
No place like this cemetery to come to and remember the good times.
However, Mary was different.
It was more than she could take . . .
John
And I believe that she looked over into the tomb because she knew in her heart that it wasn’t over.
She knew that there was more.
She knew that there was something they were all missing.
She didn’t know what it was but she just knew something.
And as she looked over into the tomb she . . .
John 20:12-13
And I don’t think she realized that she was talking to angels at this point.
Really, I believe she was so distraught that she really didn’t know who she was talking to.
But she was unwilling to just give up.
She persisted . . .
John 20:14-
Then comes Mary’s realization of what was actually going on . . .
John 20
Mary Believes, Do We? (vs 17-18)
At that moment when Jesus spoke to her, Mary realized who He was.
Mary also realized that all Jesus had promised.
All Jesus had foretold, had come true.
Their hope had not died.
Their deliverance had not passed away.
Because Jesus was not dead.
Jesus was alive.
Jesus had risen from the grave.
And Jesus was standing right in front of her.
Hope had been restored!
And she was excited and grabbed hold of Jesus . . .
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