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Intro
Welcome as we celebrate Easter or Resurrection Day.
It is the greatest day in the history of the universe!
Reasons I love Easter
Easter reminds me that God is faithful.
God said he would send a Savior and he has.
Easter reminds me that death isn’t the end
Easter reminds me that God is powerful.
Last week we dropped the mother of all bombs - the largest non-nuclear bomb to ever be dropped.
We are capable of incredible power.
Only God has the power to raise the dead.
I am reminded of those that I will see again.
Easter reminds me that God is love.
God sent his Son in the most incredible act of love ever.
Get this, God’s love wasn’t motivated by what he saw in us, but by what is in him.
Easter guarantees eternity.
No matter how hard or troubled our lives might be, Easter reminds us there will be a time when Jesus will raise us out of the brokenness and sinfulness of this world and be with us in paradise.
Easter guarantees security.
No matter how messed up our lives get, Easter reminds us that there is one who is risen and reigning.
He will see us home.
Easter guarantees delivery
Transition
If you have a Bible will you open it to
I’d like to take you back in time this morning to witness a scene from the greatest day in history, April 5, 33.
It’s early in the morning.
A woman named Mary Magdalene had come while it was still dark and found that Jesus’ body was no longer in the tomb.
Peter and John raced to investigate but now they are gone.
She cries alone.
Magdalene is not her last name, she is from the town of Magdala.
Before she came to Jesus her life was a demon-possessed wreck.
Jesus changed all that and gave her freedom and purpose.
But now, he is crucified.
Hope died.
His body isn’t ever here to finish the proper burial procedure.
She stands alone, sobbing.
Mary - her life was jacked before Jesus.
Now hope is gone.
Exposition
Have you ever hurt so bad that you didn’t even know the next step to take?
It can come for a number of reasons but loss seems to be the most devastating.
Oh sure, I understand the theology of it all - they aren’t really there but that doesn’t stop the pain.
There stands Mary, sobbing.
She’s not going anywhere.
She doesn’t know that something “universe-altering” has happened.
I wonder how often lives are lived in the tragedy of suffering without really knowing the resurrection has happened.
Jesus has already won!
How many lives are spent mourning when they could have the foundation of the resurrection to anchor their lives.
John 20
In her devastation, she bends down and looks into the place where Jesus’ body had been laid.
John 20:
She stoops to look in
Gentle reproof
Gentle reproof
Mary looks into the tomb and sees two angels.
Can you imagine?
One sitting at the foot of the place where Jesus’ body had been laid.
The other at the head.
One of the angels asks a question.
But, its more than a question, its a gentle reproof.
Why are you crying?
He’s not looking for information.
Notice Mary still refers to Jesus as “my Lord.”
All of her hopes and dreams were placed in his hands - now his crucified, nail-pierced hands.
But her love and devotion is so strong that she still refers to him as Lord.
For
Then the oddest thing happens - she turns around.
Why would she turn around?
I’ve read about loads of situations is Scripture where people speak to angels.
Typically, they assume that they’re dead meat or they fall to the ground.
Why turn around?
The text doesn’t say.
Do you think it’s because the angels see the King of the universe and their faces hit the dirt?
I wonder...
Mary turns around and assumes shes talking to the gardener!
Honestly, this isn’t an inconsequential detail.
OT References
Who was the first gardener is the Bible?
Adam.
At the beginning of creation, Adam was to care for the garden but he failed and was sent into the wilderness.
But now the greater Adam is here.
He triumphed in the wilderness so you and I could live in the garden.
Now Mary is speaking to the true gardener who is beginning his great work of making all things new.
Don’t separate your Old Testament from the New Testament.
Everything in the OT was building to this moment.
Every picture pointed to this!
Think about it:
The righteous man Abel was murdered by his brother Cain and Scripture tells us that his blood called out from the ground for justice.
Jesus is the greater Abel who’s blood cries out for forgiveness.
God provided Noah with an ark to bring him through the ocean of God’s wrath.
Now Jesus is the ark who will bring his family to safety through God’s judgment.
Isaac was laid on an altar but was spared when God provided a ram.
Jesus is the Lamb who takes away the sin of the world.
Joseph was mistreated by his family and wrongfully accused but rose to stand at the right hand of Pharaoh.
Jesus was mistreated by his family as well and wrongfully accused but now he has ascended to the right-hand of God the Father!
David was the unlikely young man who fought the mighty giant Goliath and saved his people.
Jesus is also the unlikely Savior who fought the mighty giants called, Satan and sin, and saved his people.
DON’T MISS THIS ALL OF HISTORY LED TO THIS MOMENT!!!
And there is something else that you’ll miss in this scene if you’re not careful.
How many remember the movie “Raiders of the Lost Ark”?
They were looking for the Ark of the Covenant.
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