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Introduction
I heard about a little boy sitting next to his friend at church one Easter Sunday.
His friend asked, "How did you get that bruise on your arm?"
The boy replied, "I ate some Easter candy."
His friend said, "Eating Easter candy won’t give you a bruise."
The boy quipped, "It will if it’s your big brother’s candy!"
I heard another one about two brothers who were getting ready to boil some eggs to color for Easter.
"I’ll give you ten dollars if you let me break three of these on your head," said the older one.
"Promise?"
asked the younger.
"Promise!"
Gleefully, the older boy broke the first egg over his brother’s head, then another one.
The younger brother braced himself for the last egg, but nothing happened.
"Ain’t ya gonna break the third egg?" the boy asked.
His brother replied, "Nah, if I did that I’d owe ya ten dollars!"
The truth of the matter is; the world is full of empty promises.
TV advertisements tell us that we can be happy, sexy, rich, or famous, if we only purchase a certain product.
“If it sounds to good to be true, it probably is”
But, God is different!
On Easter, instead of promises full of emptiness, GOD GAVE US EMPTINESS THAT IS FULL OF PROMISE.
On Easter, instead of promises full of emptiness, GOD GAVE US EMPTINESS THAT IS FULL OF PROMISE.
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The Empty Cross
Imagine if you would, the women passing the empty crosses on their way to the tomb
The Empty Cross Represents The Promise of Forgiven Sins
states that sin came into the world through one man and death came through sin
tells us that the sting of death is sin
romans 6.
“He forgave ALL our sins”
Having forgiven us is the ancient Greek word charizomai—a verb form of the ancient Greek word charis (grace).
We are forgiven by grace.
“the record of charges against us” (“The record of DEBT” ESV)
Some take it in a legal sense - the charges against a prisoner or confession of wrong made by a prisoner
Others - in a financial sense and see it as a debit or ledger sheet that shows we are bankrupt before God
Literally, the handwriting is a certificate of indebtedness written in one’s own hand.
Taken this way, this means that there is a pronouncement that the personal note which testifies against us is canceled.
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COLOSSIANS 2.
In the Bible - Nakedness = Shame
The cross reminds us of the depths of our sin.
We don’t realize what sin is in God’s eyes.
Sin deeply offends God.
God cannot look upon sin.
Sin separates us from God!
Before a person comes to new life in Jesus, he is not a sick man who needs a doctor; he is a dead person who needs a Savior.
In Christ, sin was nailed to the cross.
It was disarmed of its power!
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The emptiness of the cross reminds us of the promise of the forgiveness of sins!
2. The Empty Cave
After Peter and John discovered the empty clothes, they returned to town.
But Mary and some of Jesus’s female followers lingered at the empty tomb.
Suddenly angels appeared to them:
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The tomb of Jesus remained empty as a symbol of life that outlasts the grave—life everlasting.
In other words, the empty cave promises forever.
He told Nicodemus
Represents: The Promise of Eternal Life
He assured the woman at the well
He announced to the crowds
The empty cave serves as a powerful reminder that Christ rose from the grave, never to die again.
He promises that if we believe in him, then we will live with him… forever!
The Empty Grave represents The Promise of Eternal Life
3. The Empty Clothes
For John, who witnessed all of this first hand, the arrival of the burial clothes represented the departure of hope.
These linens were a tangible reminder that his faith and future were wrapped in cloth and sealed behind a rock.
John didn’t know on Friday what you and I know now.
In fact, John would later confess that he and the others “still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead” ( NIV).
John and the others believed in Jesus.
They put their faith in Jesus.
All their hopes and their dreams rested in a man they believed was God in human flesh.
But then He died.
The body of Jesus was wrapped in strips of linen and laid to rest.
All of Jesus’s followers were discouraged and disillusioned.
Jesus’ death dealt a crushing blow to John’s faith.
On the first Easter Sunday, God took burial clothing—a tangible reminder of Jesus’s death, a symbol of tragedy—and made it a symbol of hope!
They ascended Golgotha bearing burial clothes—long stripes of linen cloth.
Pilate supplied permission.
Joseph supplied a tomb.
Nicodemus supplied the spices.
Then the Bible says, “Following Jewish burial custom, they wrapped Jesus’ body with the spices in long sheets of linen cloth” ( NLT).
The Empty Clothes represents the promise of His return
We no longer need grave clothes because we will
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“abolished” = to render powerless
The Empty Cross, The Empty Cave, and The Empty Clothes remind us that Sin, Death and the Grave was arrested by the Grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!
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