When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.”
John 19:30a
On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: ‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ”
Then they remembered his words.
Luke 24:1-8
Jesus had paid the paid for each of us in full. A horrible death on the cross, laid in the tomb for three days, just as He said, and He rose from the dead, conquering sin and death, just as He had said, the huge disc-shaped stone was rolled away.
Yet in the hearts and minds of the disciples who had lived with Jesus, Immanuel, God with us, who had seen the miracles, heard His words, seen what real Love is, claiming to believe Him when things were going well, but now had fled from Him.
When they came back from the tomb, they told all these things to the Eleven and to all the others. It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who told this to the apostles.
But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense.
Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. Bending over, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he went away, wondering to himself what had happened.
Luke 24:9-12
Their faith had been stolen from them momentarily, their natural minds not being able to move past His death and burial and was still locked up in tombs of their own, their stones not yest rolled back-until they saw Him in His resurrected body.
In each of us, the stone must be rolled away from our hearts by faith in the finished work of Jesus on the Cross, and His resurrection..."for it is by faith you have been saved, not of yourselves, but it's a gift of God, lest any man should boast.
Sin, shame, pain, sickness, anger, unforgiveness, vain and empty thoughts, dysfunction, every dark thing, death has been crucified for us when we walk in the newness of abundant life that has been provided for us all.
Today beloved, see Jesus for who He really is, in all His resurrected glory, in all His magnificence and majesty.
He is risen indeed!
John 19:30a
On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: ‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ”
Then they remembered his words.
Luke 24:1-8
Jesus had paid the paid for each of us in full. A horrible death on the cross, laid in the tomb for three days, just as He said, and He rose from the dead, conquering sin and death, just as He had said, the huge disc-shaped stone was rolled away.
Yet in the hearts and minds of the disciples who had lived with Jesus, Immanuel, God with us, who had seen the miracles, heard His words, seen what real Love is, claiming to believe Him when things were going well, but now had fled from Him.
When they came back from the tomb, they told all these things to the Eleven and to all the others. It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who told this to the apostles.
But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense.
Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. Bending over, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he went away, wondering to himself what had happened.
Luke 24:9-12
Their faith had been stolen from them momentarily, their natural minds not being able to move past His death and burial and was still locked up in tombs of their own, their stones not yest rolled back-until they saw Him in His resurrected body.
In each of us, the stone must be rolled away from our hearts by faith in the finished work of Jesus on the Cross, and His resurrection..."for it is by faith you have been saved, not of yourselves, but it's a gift of God, lest any man should boast.
Sin, shame, pain, sickness, anger, unforgiveness, vain and empty thoughts, dysfunction, every dark thing, death has been crucified for us when we walk in the newness of abundant life that has been provided for us all.
Today beloved, see Jesus for who He really is, in all His resurrected glory, in all His magnificence and majesty.
He is risen indeed!
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