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“I Have Seen the Lord!”
Shortest sermon on record, and also the most powerful.
With these five words, Mary takes her place as the first Apostle of God.
Not Peter, the rock on whom the church is built.
Not James the first disciple called.
Not John, the “Disciple whom Jesus loved.”
But Mary.
A woman.
A woman who the Gospel of Luke tells us was first introduced to Jesus when he healed her of some unexplained illness people thought was caused by demons.
Seven demons, to be precise.
She’s a formerly disturbed person, and a woman.
Not at all reliable.
Mary is not the person you’d expect Jesus to choose.
How often this is the case.
The Samaritan woman who he met at the well was not the ideal emissary.
Neither were the men he chose to be his closest companions.
But these people, imperfect as they were, spoke with boldness about the Jesus they knew, while the supposedly respectable people wouldn’t even admit in public that they knew Jesus.
Jesus does not look the way Mary imagines.
We don’t know what he looked like before his death, or after his resurrection.
Maybe he didn’t look different at all.
Maybe Mary’s belief that he is dead is disguise enough.
Or maybe her eyes are so blurred from weeping that she can’t see him clearly.
Whatever the case, when she meets Jesus - the very one she’s come to mourn - she does not see him for who he is.
How many times have we encountered Jesus and not known, because we did not expect to see Christ among us?
An Unexpected Jesus sends an Unexpected Messenger to let the world know they’ll find him in Unexpected Places
[Find 2 people @ each church to share how they encountered God in an unexpected way.]
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