2013.08.25 He is Risen!
Luke 24: 1- 12
Welcome…..
It´s wonderful to see you all here this morning….. As most of you know… We
teach through the Bible verse by verse…. We have been walking with Jesus
through the Gospel of Luke…. What a privilege….
It seems like
yesterday that we read Luke 1:1 and began our walk through History as we studied
the life of Jesus…… Thanks to the Word of God….. we were there when the long
promised coming of the Messiah was announced…. We were there with Jesus as he
stood up in the Synagogue in his home town of Nazareth to read from the
Scriptures…. Luke 4: 17- 29…
Jesus read
from Isaiah chapter 61…. It was prophesy about the Messiah……. A prophesy about
Himself…… He said…… I am the Messiah and I have come…… This was Jesus´
announcement and the official beginning of His Ministry…….
Let´s turn to
Isaiah 1…
Isaiah 61: 1-3 NKJV
61 “The Spirit of the Lord God is
upon Me,
Because the Lord has anointed Me
To preach good tidings to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives,
And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,
And the day of vengeance of our God;
To comfort all who mourn,
3 To console those who mourn in Zion,
To give them beauty for ashes,
The oil of joy for mourning,
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
That they may be called trees of righteousness,
The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.”
Because the Lord has anointed Me
To preach good tidings to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives,
And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,
And the day of vengeance of our God;
To comfort all who mourn,
3 To console those who mourn in Zion,
To give them beauty for ashes,
The oil of joy for mourning,
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
That they may be called trees of righteousness,
The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.”
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1 Der
Geist des Herrn, des Herrschers, ist auf mir, weil der Herr mich gesalbt hat,
den Armen frohe Botschaft zu verkünden; er hat mich gesandt, zu verbinden, die
zerbrochenen Herzens sind, den Gefangenen Befreiung zu verkünden und Öffnung
des Kerkers den Gebundenen,
2 um
zu verkündigen das angenehme Jahr1 des Herrn und den Tag der Rache unseres
Gottes, und um zu trösten alle Trauernden;
3 um
den Trauernden von Zion zu verleihen, daß ihnen Kopfschmuck statt Asche gegeben
werde, Freudenöl statt Trauer und Feierkleider statt eines betrübten Geistes,
daß sie genannt werden »Bäume2 der Gerechtigkeit«, eine »Pflanzung des Herrn«
zu seinem Ruhm.
What Good News…..
forgiveness….. deliverance from sin….. It´s in there…… look at verse 2….
To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord….. and the day of vengeance of our
God…. The Message of Good news is only good news for those who turn from their
sin and rebellion and repent of their sins……. Those who come to Him in
repentance are the only ones who find these promises fulfilled…. Verse 2…. Comfort
for all who mourn…. Verse 3…. Oil of Joy for mourning…. Wonderful news….. if we
repent….. we find forgiveness and comfort and joy….
As we look at
the event in Luke 4….. Jesus formally announces His Ministry…. In the crowd we
find many fans of Jesus there…… friends and neighbors…. Even some family…. Some
realize that He is rebuking their unbelief and they become His enemies and try
to Kill him for the first time…. Let´s read a little piece of the text… Luke 4:
28…
Luke 4: 28-30 NKJV
28 So all those in the synagogue, when
they heard these things, were filled with wrath, 29 and rose up and thrust Him
out of the city; and they led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city
was built, that they might throw Him down over the cliff. 30 Then passing
through the midst of them, He went His way.
Luke 4:
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28 Da wurden alle
in der Synagoge voll Zorn, als sie dies hörten.
29 Und sie
standen auf und stießen ihn zur Stadt hinaus und führten ihn an den Rand des
Berges, auf dem ihre Stadt gebaut war, um ihn hinabzustürzen.
30 Er aber ging
mitten durch sie hindurch und zog weiter.
One minute a
fan of Jesus…. And the next…… let´s kill him…. There is no middle ground when
it comes to Jesus…..
No matter what you think…… You cannot remain a
fan of Jesus….. We either repent of our sin and pride and rebellion…. Or we
turn away from the truth that we are sinners who desperately need a Savior……
When we refuse to repent…. We experience a hardening of our hearts and we
suppress the truth in our own hearts and minds….. That what we learn in Romans
1….. We stand on the truth….. because we do not want God to rule our lives….
Last week we
witnessed the cross….. Jesus was crucified for our sins……..
It is the
cross that changes everything for us….. If we repent and believe….. Jesus paid
for our sins…. For my sins……. As we saw last week…
God the
Father accepted His sacrifice….. The wall of partician…. The barrier between us
and a Holy God was opened again…..
God rips open
the Holy of Holies because Jesus Christ has made a way for us ….. The cross is
our atonement…... Our forgiveness…… The torn curtain is access to the Mercy
seat…. Access to the Father…. Remember it was God´s plan all along….. God is by
nature a saving God……..
By Jesus
death the New Covenant is realized….. It had been in effect…. people had been
saved before that…. but the official ratification and activation of that New
Covenant didn’t happen until Jesus died on the cross….. and then God split the
curtain and threw open the way to His presence…...
Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes
away the sins of the world….
Jesus opened the way to the Father once for all by his sacrifice on the
cross…….. How wonderful…. God is there at the cross in judgment
against sin….. but…... That’s not all…..
He also ripped the curtain(veil) into the Holy of Holies…. This is Good
news…..
Let´s pick up
our text where we left off last week….. This morning the Father puts His
miraculous exclamation point on Jesus loving sacrifice……. The Resurrection!
He is
Risen….. He is Risen indeed!
Luke 24 verse 1….
Luke 24: 1- 12 NKJV
1 Now on the first day
of the week, very early in the morning, they, and certain other women
with them,[a] came to the tomb bringing the spices which
they had prepared. 2 But they found the stone rolled away from
the tomb. 3 Then they went in and did not find the body of the
Lord Jesus. 4 And it happened, as they were greatly[b]
perplexed about this, that behold, two men stood by them in shining garments. 5 Then,
as they were afraid and bowed their faces to the earth, they said to
them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? 6 He is not
here, but is risen! Remember how He spoke to you when He was still in Galilee, 7 saying,
‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be
crucified, and the third day rise again.’”
8 And
they remembered His words. 9 Then they returned from the tomb
and told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. 10 It
was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women
with them, who told these things to the apostles. 11 And their
words seemed to them like idle tales, and they did not believe them. 12 But
Peter arose and ran to the tomb; and stooping down, he saw the linen cloths
lying[c]
by themselves; and he departed, marveling to himself at what had happened.
Luke 24: 1-
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1 Am
ersten Tag der Woche aber kamen sie am frühen Morgen zum Grab und brachten die
wohlriechenden Gewürze, die sie bereitet hatten und noch etliche mit ihnen.
2 Sie fanden aber
den Stein von dem Grab weggewälzt.
3 Und als sie
hineingingen, fanden sie den Leib des Herrn Jesus nicht.
4 Und es geschah,
als sie deswegen ganz ratlos waren, siehe, da standen zwei Männer in
strahlenden Gewändern bei ihnen.
5 Da sie nun
erschraken und das Angesicht zur Erde neigten, sprachen diese zu ihnen: Was
sucht ihr den Lebenden bei den Toten?
6 Er ist nicht
hier, sondern er ist auferstanden! Denkt daran, wie er zu euch redete, als er
noch in Galiläa war,
7 und sagte: »Der
Sohn des Menschen muß in die Hände sündiger Menschen ausgeliefert und
gekreuzigt werden und am dritten Tag auferstehen«.
8 Da erinnerten
sie sich an seine Worte,
9 und sie kehrten
vom Grab zurück und verkündigten das alles den Elfen und allen übrigen.
10 Es waren aber
Maria Magdalena und Johanna und Maria, die Mutter des Jakobus, die dies den
Aposteln sagten, sie und die übrigen mit ihnen.
11 Und ihre Worte
kamen ihnen vor wie ein Märchen, und sie glaubten ihnen nicht.
12 Petrus aber
stand auf und lief zum Grab, bückte sich und sah nur die leinenen Tücher
daliegen; und er ging nach Hause, voll Staunen über das, was geschehen war.
The
resurrection of the Lord Jesus is the central truth of Christianity…. In fact,
without the resurrection of Jesus Christ, there is no Christianity…… The death
and resurrection of the Lord Jesus is not a bad ending to the story…… It is the
story… The story of redemption…. The purpose of His life…….
The church
has always understood that…… In fact, the church understood it right from the
day of the resurrection on…… Ever since that time……the church has chosen to
meet on Sunday….. the first day of the week….. the day that Jesus rose from the
dead…… Every Sunday we celebrate the most important event in human history…..
Jesus´ resurrection from the dead…..
Resurrection
is the divine stamp of approval of the work that He did on the cross……. Without
the resurrection, the cross means nothing…..
When God
raised Jesus from the dead…. He was confirming the fact that He had indeed bore
our sins in His own body on the cross…...
Jesus satisfied
the justice of God with His sin bearing…... Without the resurrection, the cross
is meaningless……
The resurrection is everything…... He
is Risen….. That´s the Good News….
The
purpose of the gospel is not just that we might experience the forgiveness of
sin….. The purpose of the gospel is that we having been forgiven of our sin………
could enter in to eternal life and fellowship with God forever….. in perfect
holiness and perfect joy in glorified physical resurrected bodies…... Bodily resurrection is essential to
Christianity…...
Listen to the
importance of the resurrection in the language of the Apostle Paul in 1
Corinthians chapter 15…. V 14….
1 Corinthians 15: 14-20 NKJV
14 And
if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty and your faith is
also empty. 15 Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God,
because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom He did not
raise up—if in fact the dead do not rise. 16 For if the
dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen. 17 And if Christ is
not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins! 18 Then
also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19 If
in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.
20 But
now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of
those who have fallen asleep.
1 Corinthians 15:
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14 Wenn aber
Christus nicht auferstanden ist, so ist unsere Verkündigung vergeblich, und
vergeblich auch euer Glaube!
15 Wir werden
aber auch als falsche Zeugen Gottes erfunden, weil wir von Gott bezeugt haben,
daß er Christus auferweckt hat, während er ihn doch nicht auferweckt hat, wenn
wirklich Tote nicht auferweckt werden!
16 Denn wenn Tote
nicht auferweckt werden, so ist auch Christus nicht auferweckt worden.
17 Ist aber
Christus nicht auferweckt worden, so ist euer Glaube nichtig, so seid ihr noch
in euren Sünden;
18 dann sind auch
die in Christus Entschlafenen verloren.
19 Wenn wir nur
in diesem Leben auf Christus hoffen, so sind wir die elendesten unter allen
Menschen!
20 Nun aber ist
Christus aus den Toten auferweckt; er ist der Erstling der Entschlafenen
geworden.
If Christ is
not raised from the dead in bodily form, then all gospel preaching is useless….There
is no Christianity without the resurrection….. None….. If Jesus is not risen
from the dead…. our preaching is
useless, your faith is useless…..
But Christ
has been raised, verse 20… and is the firstfruits of those who are asleep…...
If Jesus isn’t raised, there is no New Testament to be believed….. There is no
preaching about Christ to be believed….. Your faith is worthless….. But He has
been raised from the dead….. And this is the Good News…… Because He lives….. you will also live…..
We give a lot
of time to the cross and rightly we should….. Jesus died in our place…. but it
is the resurrection that vindicates the cross….
All four
gospels record the resurrection….. The book of Acts records the history of the
preaching of the resurrection….. as the apostles and the prophets go out and
proclaim the Good News… that He arose from the dead in physical form and so will
everyone who put their trust in Him…. Then the epistles give us the explanation
and the implications of the resurrection.... Paul and the others show us what it means…..
How do we
understand the resurrection….. and how do we apply that great reality to our
lives…. This book records for us what
happened…. And it shows us what we need to do about it….
Prior to the resurrection,
Jesus says it’s going to happen…... Then it happens….. Then it’s preached……. Then
it’s explained and applied….. and finally we see the fulfilling of everything in
the book of Revelation…..
All of the
Gospel accounts give us the testimony of
the women who had seen the risen Christ with their own eyes…. And
they all note the unbelief of the Apostles…... The emptiness of the tomb, the
testimony of the angels, the witness of the women, and the temporary unbelief
of the Apostles, these are the four core evidences for a real resurrection…….
First… the empty of the tomb…… Let’s look at our
text….. Luke 24…v1…
Luke 24: 1- 3 NKJV
1 Now on the first day of the week,
very early in the morning, they, and certain other women with them,[a] came to
the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared. 2 But they found the
stone rolled away from the tomb. 3 Then they went in and did not find the body
of the Lord Jesus.
Luke 24: 1-
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1 Aber am
ersten Tag der Woche sehr früh kamen sie zum Grab und trugen bei sich die
wohlriechenden Öle, die sie bereitet hatten.
2 Sie fanden aber
den Stein weggewälzt von dem Grab
3 und gingen
hinein und fanden den Leib des Herrn Jesus nicht.
They went
in….
These women
are identified in verse 10…. Mary Magdalene… Joanna… Mary the mother of James….
and the other women….. Mark 16:1 names one of them Salome… probably six or more
women….. They were there at the cross,
remember? Standing there watching Jesus while He was dying in silence… If you
go back in to Luke chapter 23 they are also there when Jesus is buried, verse
55…...
They saw the
death of Christ…. They saw Him die…… They were there when He was buried…… They were
the ones who witnessed everything that happened to jesus…..
They went
home and prepared spices and came back
on Sunday when the Sabbath was over….. to anoint the body of Jesus…..
It is now
dawn on Sunday morning, an early dawn….. They found the stone rolled away from
the tomb….. When they entered they didn’t
find the body of the Lord Jesus…...
Jesus did
exactly what He said He would do, He would rise again on the third day…..
Now to put
the story together…. it appears that
Mary Magdalene and one other Mary, Mary the mother of Joseph and James and the
wife of Cleopas, they start out together according to the other gospel records…..
They start out together but Mary gets
there first…..
According to
John 20, she arrives while it’s still very dark…. Mary Magdalene gets to the tomb…. she sees the stone is rolled away….. She decides
that somebody has stolen the body of Jesus….. She doesn’t go in the tomb….. She
doesn’t go and look for the other women…. She turns and heads back to tell the
disciples… to Peter and John, to tell them that somebody
has stolen the body of Jesus…...
She had forgotten
what Jesus had said about rising from the dead…… Perhaps it was her grief and
sorrow…. She didn´t even think of it….. Resurrection? It was not in their
mids…. They didn´t think of it as an explanation…. none of the women did, she
didn’t, the apostles didn't, no one did…..
Peter and
John listen to her message and decide they’ve got to go and check it out….. So
they head toward the tomb…... Well probably before Mary ever got to them….. the
other women finally arrived at the
tomb….. and that’s where we see the story here…… The other women have arrived…...
They are a
little more patient to try to discern what’s gone on here and so Luke says they
entered the tomb…... They didn’t find the body of the Lord Jesus…… What they
did find was the grave clothes lying in perfect place…. as we learn later from Peter and John….
They have no
idea of what has happened…... Matthew tells us what has happened…… “In the dark
of night,” Matthew 28:2 to 4 says….. an
angel came down from heaven simultaneous to the angel coming down there was a
very severe earthquake that shook the ground….. And the soldiers saw the
angels…. felt the earthquake…. saw the dazzling blazing angel roll the stone
away and sit on it….. And then they fainted in a semi-coma out of sheer terror
and shock…... But they remembered what they had seen up to that moment…..”
When they
finally woke up…. the angel was no longer there…. But since the stone was rolled away……. They must have looked in to
check……
And
immediately they headed for the Jewish leaders…… And when they got to the
Jewish leaders they told them what had happened…..
We were there…..
We had the place guarded…. We had it secured…. Suddenly there was a powerful
earthquake….. Then down out of the sky comes a dazzling, blazing angel who
pushes the stone away and sits on it…. And we checked the tomb, and there’s no
body there….
The Jewish
leaders say…... You can’t tell anybody that…….. You have to lie and say the disciples stole
the body…... And we’re going to pay you, here’s some money to lie….. Now why do
you invent a lie? To cover up the truth….. Say his disciples stole the body…..
They knew no
one could steal the body…. not with the Roman guards there….
The tomb was
empty….. Impossible…..but it was empty….
And the
soldiers were guarding the grave…..They knew they had a resurrection….. They
knew there was no other explanation….. They knew the soldiers had checked the
tomb….. Jesus wasn’t there…...
All four
gospel writers make it clear the tomb is empty…. and there is no explanation for
that…. except the resurrection…... The Second line of strong evidence is the
testimony from the angels, verses 4 to 7…..
Luke 24:4- 7 NKJV
4 And it happened, as they were
greatly perplexed about this, that behold, two men stood by them in shining
garments. 5 Then, as they were afraid and bowed their faces to the earth, they
said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? 6 He is not here, but
is risen! Remember how He spoke to you when He was still in Galilee, 7 saying,
‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be
crucified, and the third day rise again.’”
Luke 24: 4-
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4 Und es geschah,
als sie deswegen ganz ratlos waren, siehe, da standen zwei Männer in
strahlenden Gewändern bei ihnen.
5 Da sie nun
erschraken und das Angesicht zur Erde neigten, sprachen diese zu ihnen: Was
sucht ihr den Lebenden bei den Toten?
6 Er ist nicht
hier, sondern er ist auferstanden! Denkt daran, wie er zu euch redete, als er
noch in Galiläa war,
7 und sagte: »Der
Sohn des Menschen muß in die Hände sündiger Menschen ausgeliefert und
gekreuzigt werden und am dritten Tag auferstehen«.
This is very
important evidence…. . Two angels come
from God…. and declares to them that He is risen from the dead…. He is not here……
So you have
the emptiness of the tomb…. and you have the message of the angels to verify
the resurrection…… You have the evidence from the facts and the evidence from supernatural
divine revelation….. Now that brings us to the third and the fourth lines of
evidence the New Testament writers give us….. Thirdly, the witness of the
women......This is wonderful….. let´s start with verse 8……
Luke 24: 8 NKJV
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8 And they remembered His words.
8 Da erinnerten
sie sich an seine Worte,
He had told
them He would be delivered to sinful men, crucified, third day rise again….
Here in verse 8, they remembered His words…...
There were at
least three separate occasions that Jesus said this…... He told
them that He would be crucified and He would rise again
the third day……. And now it’s beginning to make sense…... The angels bring them
a revelation they can’t deny…… They’re starting to get it….. They remembered
His words…..Verse 9…
Luke 24: 9- 12 NKJV
9 Then they returned from the tomb and told
all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. 10 It was Mary Magdalene,
Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them, who told these
things to the apostles. 11 And their words seemed to them like idle tales, and
they did not believe them. 12 But Peter arose and ran to the tomb; and stooping
down, he saw the linen cloths lying by themselves; and he departed, marveling
to himself at what had happened.
Luke 24: 9-
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9 und sie kehrten
vom Grab zurück und verkündigten das alles den Elfen und allen übrigen.
10 Es waren aber
Maria Magdalena und Johanna und Maria, die Mutter des Jakobus, die dies den
Aposteln sagten, sie und die übrigen mit ihnen.
11 Und ihre Worte
kamen ihnen vor wie ein Märchen, und sie glaubten ihnen nicht.
12 Petrus aber
stand auf und lief zum Grab, bückte sich und sah nur die leinenen Tücher
daliegen; und er ging nach Hause, voll Staunen über das, was geschehen war.
The women
returned to tell the eleven and all the
others what they had seen and heard from the Angels…….. Before they even got to
the disciples…. Peter and John had already talked to Mary Magdalene….. She said
that the body of Jesus had been stolen…. Mary never looked in the tomb….. She
never saw the grave clothes….. She never saw the angel….. So they ran to the tomb to see for
themselves… Back to the other women…. Something
more happened on the way…... Matthew gives us even more of what happened that
day…. They see Jesus…
Look at
Matthew 28….. v5…
Matthew 28: 5- 10 NKJV
5 But the angel answered
and said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who
was crucified. 6 He is not here; for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the
place where the Lord lay. 7 And go quickly and tell His disciples that He is
risen from the dead, and indeed He is going before you into Galilee; there you
will see Him. Behold, I have told you.”
8 So they went out quickly from the
tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring His disciples word.
9 And as they went to tell His
disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, “Rejoice!” So they came and held Him
by the feet and worshiped Him. 10 Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid.
Go and tell My brethren to go to Galilee, and there they will see Me.”
Matthew 28: 5-
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5 Aber der Engel
sprach zu den Frauen: Fürchtet euch nicht! Ich weiß, dass ihr Jesus, den
Gekreuzigten, sucht.
6 Er ist nicht
hier; er ist auferstanden, wie er gesagt hat. Kommt her und seht die Stätte, wo
er gelegen hat;
7 und geht
eilends hin und sagt seinen Jüngern, dass er auferstanden ist von den Toten.
Und siehe, er wird vor euch hingehen nach Galiläa; dort werdet ihr ihn sehen.
Siehe, ich habe es euch gesagt.
8 Und sie gingen
eilends weg vom Grab mit Furcht und großer Freude und liefen, um es seinen
Jüngern zu verkündigen.
9 Und siehe, da
begegnete ihnen Jesus und sprach: Seid gegrüßt! Und sie traten zu ihm und
umfassten seine Füße und fielen vor ihm nieder.
10 Da sprach
Jesus zu ihnen: Fürchtet euch nicht! Geht hin und verkündigt es meinen Brüdern,
dass sie nach Galiläa gehen: Dort werden sie mich sehen.
they
went out quickly with feat and….. Great Joy…..
This is
important….. These faithful women are the very first disciples to see the Risen
Lord Jesus…….
So now
they’ve seen the empty tomb….. They’ve heard the angelic divine revelation……
And they’ve seen the risen Christ…… Then Jesus said to them…. Go, take Word to
My brethren to leave for Galilee and there they shall see Me…..
So the women
as they head back to tell the others what the Angel said….. see the risen Lord Jesus….
This is a
loving testimony to Jesus´ love of the women…. this is the same little group of
a half dozen or so that saw Jesus die…. that saw Jesus buried…. They got to see
Jesus risen from the dead….. they are
the only ones who can give credible eye-witness testimony……. We saw him die…… We saw him risen fron the
dead….
They’re the
eyewitnesses of everything that happened….
Mary
Magdalene is also an eye witness to Jesus resurrection…. Even though she didn´t
see the angels that morning……
How can she
belong to the group of eyewitnesses when she didn’t go in the empty tomb and she
didn’t hear the angels say anything? She left before the angels appeared….. And she had not seen the risen
Christ…. so how can she be one of the witnesses? Turn to John 20…. this is wonderful…..
Answer: This
lady went back to the tomb….. After Peter and John go into the tomb….she
decides she has to go back…... So in John 20 verse 11 we find her standing
outside the tomb weeping…... She’s all alone….. And so, as she wept, she
stooped and looked into the tomb and she beheld two angels in white sitting
there in the tomb…… Now they’re sitting on the inside…..
John 20: 11-16 NKJV
11 But Mary stood outside by the tomb
weeping, and as she wept she stooped down and looked into the tomb. 12 And she
saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and the other at the feet,
where the body of Jesus had lain. 13 Then they said to her, “Woman, why are you
weeping?”She said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not
know where they have laid Him.”
14 Now when she had said this, she
turned around and saw Jesus standing there, and did not know that it was Jesus.
15 Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?”She,
supposing Him to be the gardener, said to Him, “Sir, if You have carried Him
away, tell me where You have laid Him, and I will take Him away.”
16 Jesus said to her, “Mary!”She
turned and said to Him, “Rabboni!” (which is to say, Teacher).
John 20:
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11 Maria
aber stand draußen vor dem Grab und weinte. Als sie nun weinte, schaute sie in
das Grab
12 und sieht zwei
Engel in weißen Gewändern sitzen, einen zu Häupten und den andern zu den Füßen,
wo sie den Leichnam Jesu hingelegt hatten.
13 Und die
sprachen zu ihr: Frau, was weinst du? Sie spricht zu ihnen: Sie haben meinen
Herrn weggenommen, und ich weiß nicht, wo sie ihn hingelegt haben.
14 Und als sie
das sagte, wandte sie sich um und sieht Jesus stehen und weiß nicht, dass es
Jesus ist.
15 Spricht Jesus
zu ihr: Frau, was weinst du? Wen suchst du? Sie meint, es sei der Gärtner, und
spricht zu ihm: Herr, hast du ihn weggetragen, so sage mir, wo du ihn hingelegt
hast; dann will ich ihn holen.
16 Spricht Jesus
zu ihr: Maria! Da wandte sie sich um und spricht zu ihm auf Hebräisch:
Rabbuni!, das heißt: Meister!
Now all these
women are giving testimony to the same thing….. They have all seen Jesus on
this Glorious Sunday morning…. Now we have multiple eyewitnesses….. . And this is just
the beginning….. He appears to two disciples on the road to Emmaus, as we’ll
see…… Peter also saw Him separately… That night He appeared to the Eleven, except
for Thomas….. A week later He appears to the Eleven with Thomas….. He appears to
the disciples by the Sea of Tiberius in Galilee…... Then He appears to 500
brethren at one time….. Then He appears to James…. Then He appears to
the Eleven on a mountain in Galilee where He gave them the Great Commission……
Then He appears in Jerusalem at the time of His ascension….. Then He appears to
Saul on the Damascus Road…. appears to Paul again in the temple….. We have many,
many eyewitnesses of our risen LORD
Jesus Christ…..
The
unbelieving disciples…... become the most powerful evidence of the resurrection
exactly because at first they didn´t believe….. It was not something that they
would make up…. It was nonsense….. Back to Luke 24 in verse 11…..
Luke 24: 11,12 NKJV
11 And their words seemed to them like
idle tales, and they did not believe them.
12 But Peter arose and
ran to the tomb; and stooping down, he saw the linen cloths lying by
themselves; and he departed, marveling to himself at what had happened.
Luke 24: 11,12 Schlachter 2000
11 Und es
erschienen ihnen diese Worte, als wär's Geschwätz, und sie glaubten ihnen
nicht.
12 Petrus aber stand auf und lief zum Grab und
bückte sich hinein und sah nur die Leinentücher und ging davon und wunderte
sich über das, was geschehen war.
At first…. They thought the whole thing was absolute
nonsense…… And they would not believe them…..
After Peter
saw the empty tomb and the linen wrappings….He went away to his own home amazed
at what had happened…..
The disciples
didn’t want to believe the testimony of
the women….. And Peter and John came back and said, “Well it’s a bizarre deal…..
The tomb is open and the tomb is empty and the grave clothes are lying there…..
And, you know, He may be alive.” But even then…. they’re not ready to fully commit……
However,
before the day is over, He appears to all of them….. He is Risen….. Indeed!
Peter 1
Peter….. Paul Ephesians 1+2….
Communion
This morning
we are going to celebrate Communion together…… In communion we are reminded of
several important things….
1 Jesus shed
His blood and died for our sins….. Crucifixion
2 Jesus is
alive….
resurrection
3 We are
members of Him and of each other….
Restored
fellowship…
1 Cor 11: 23-32 NKJV
23 For I received from the Lord that
which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which
He was betrayed took bread; 24 and when He had given thanks, He broke it and
said, “Take, eat;[b] this is My body which is broken[c] for you; do this in
remembrance of Me.” 25 In the same manner He also took the cup after supper,
saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink
it, in remembrance of Me.”
26 For as often as you eat this bread
and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes.
27 Therefore whoever eats this bread
or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body
and blood[d] of the Lord. 28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat
of the bread and drink of the cup. 29 For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy
manner[e] eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord’s[f]
body. 30 For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep. 31
For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged. 32 But when we are
judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the
world.
1 Cor 11: 23-32 Schlachter 2000
23 Denn ich habe
von dem Herrn empfangen, was ich euch weitergegeben habe: Der Herr Jesus, in
der Nacht, da er verraten ward, nahm er das Brot,
24 dankte und
brach's und sprach:2 Das ist mein Leib, der für euch gegeben wird; das tut zu
meinem Gedächtnis.
25 Desgleichen
nahm er auch den Kelch nach dem Mahl und sprach: Dieser Kelch ist der neue
Bund3 in meinem Blut; das tut, sooft ihr daraus trinkt, zu meinem Gedächtnis.
26 Denn so oft
ihr von diesem Brot esst und aus dem Kelch trinkt, verkündigt ihr den Tod des
Herrn, bis er kommt.
27 Wer nun
unwürdig4 von dem Brot isst oder aus dem Kelch des Herrn trinkt, der wird
schuldig sein am Leib und Blut des Herrn.
28 Der Mensch
prüfe aber sich selbst, und so esse er von diesem Brot und trinke aus diesem
Kelch.
29 Denn wer so
isst und trinkt, dass er den Leib des Herrn nicht achtet, der isst und trinkt
sich selber zum Gericht.
30 Darum sind
auch viele Schwache und Kranke unter euch, und nicht wenige sind entschlafen.
31 Wenn wir uns
selber richteten, so würden wir nicht gerichtet.
32 Wenn wir aber
von dem Herrn gerichtet werden, so werden wir gezüchtigt, damit wir nicht samt
der Welt verdammt werden.
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