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A journey from death to life
Mary Magdalene and the risen Lord
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!!! Announcements
!!! Prayer of Adoration and Confession
!!! Doxology Hymn no 245: /“You have O Lord, most glorious” (Tune 621 – 2 verses)/
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Call to worship
!!!!!! Bible Verse
Praise the LORD, all you nations; extol Him, all you peoples.
For great is His love toward us, and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever.
Praise the LORD.
(Psalm 117)
!!!!!! Blessing
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.
(Galatians 1:3-4)
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The Lord’s Prayer
!!! Hymn no 66: “/The glorious gates of righteousness” Tune 385 – 8 verses)/
!!! Children’s Address
!!! Hymn: /“As the deer pants” (Screen)/
!!! Scripture Reading: /Psalm 116:1-19/
!!! Declaration of pardoning
The one whom God raised from the dead did not see decay.
Therefore, my brothers, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you.
Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses.
(Acts 13:37-39)
!!! Hymn: /“There is a Redeemer” (Screen)/
!!! Offering and Dedication
While the offering is taken up, remaining seated, we sing:
!!! Home no 365: /“We give You but your own”/
!!! Prayer for others
!!! Scripture Reading /Mark 16:1-11/
!!! Sermon /“A journey from death to life”/
!!!!!! Introduction
We find comfort in knowing a good doctor.
We call them family doctors.
They know everything about us; and we trust them with our secrets.
We trust them with our health.
Once we get to know the doctor, we love going back.
Our doctor becomes some sort of anchoring point.
He is the one who might receive a telephone call in the middle of the night.
We do that see them as friends.
And when the doctor retires or moves away, or when we move away, we go through the agony of finding a new one.
!!!!!! 8 Mary Magdalene – living in a dark world
Was she dumb and deaf?
Was she blind?
Was she recognizable by her bodily deformity?
Did she suffer from mental illness?
Did the evil spirits cause her to rant and rave, leaving her with mental disorders?
Were there times that she had uncontrolled fits – maybe in public?
Did she behave in an antisocial manner?
We don’t read about the husband of this Mary, which means that he could have divorced her because or the state she was in.
We don’t know, but these things were common to those riddled by evil spirits.
8 Mary, the woman from Magdalene, had seven evil spirits.
She lived in a dark world.
She lived on the edge.
But Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who grew up in Nazareth, not too far away from Magdala in Galilee, was sent by his Father to destroy the power Satan and the evil spirits under his control.
8 He preached that the Kingdom of God has come.
There was the day in Magdala on which He preached.
The sermon was about the Kingdom of God.
\\ After this, Jesus traveled about from one town and village to another, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God.
The evil spirits were no mach for Him.
They submitted and were cast out of those who suffered.
They even admitted that Jesus came to destroy them.
8 And Jesus healed Mary.
She is named with some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases.
From her seven demons had come out (Luke 8:1-2).
!!!!!! 8 The new Mary – living under the wings of Life
8 Her life changed.
She met new friends: Joanna, the wife of Chuza – Chuza was the person in charge of the finances of Herod; and Susanna, another woman cured and healed by Christ.
8 Together they formed a group who would support the Messiah with their possessions.
They were apparently from high social standing, well-off or very industrious.
The Twelve, the Apostles also benefited from this service of love.
8 These women were disciples of Jesus, and followed Him wherever they could.
Their lives changed and more and more did they learn about the Kingdom and about God.
As they looked back, the existence in darkness, possessed by the evil spirits, faded on the horizon.
The days shone brighter and brighter.
But every now and then, as they were listening to the teachings of their Redeemer, they heard about an immanent catastrophe.
We read in Luke 9:22, only a chapter after we meet Mary for the first time:
And he [Jesus] said, “The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.”
(Luke 9:22)
8 As the light shone brighter for them each day, the shadow of the cross gradually rose up over the group as they followed the One who healed them.
He would eventually die the cruel death on the cross.
His death would be the result of the fact that every person is in some way responsible for the cross of Jesus.
!!!!!! 8 Mary Magdalene – under the cross
When Jesus was arrested that night in Gethsemane, all his friends left Him.
One betrayed Him, the other denied Him.
The women were not allowed anywhere near Him.
8 When He carried the cross through the streets of Jerusalem on the way to Golgotha, his followers looked on from afar.
As the plan of God’s redemption was unfolding, there was nothing they could do to prevent it from happening.
Overcome by fear and disappointment, they just looked on.
Hear the words of Matthew 27:55
Many women were there, watching from a distance.
They had followed Jesus from Galilee to care for his needs.
\\ Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee’s sons.
(Matthew 27:55-56)
They were there when Jesus was buried.
Joseph of Arimathea, the rich man who also had become a disciple of Jesus, took the body of Jesus and put it in a grave and sealed the entrance with a heavy stone.
And we read:
Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, \\ and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock.
He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away.
Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb.
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