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At the Tomb

Luke 24:1–6 NKJV

1 Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they, and certain other women with them, 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 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,

So the women of God arose early in the morning with crushed spices and ointment they prepared to anoint Jesus. They did this to prevent the body from stinking due to death. But to their amazement, they found the stone which occupied the opening of the tomb of which Jesus lay moved from its opening. Weird or shocking as it seems, they went in and found an empty tomb. Vexed, perplexed, astonished, head hung low, disappointed, fearful; the angel’s of the Lord appeared asking, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? He, whom you’re looking for is not here, but is risen!” The celestial beings went on to say, Don’t you remember how He spoke to you when He was still in Galilee?”

I want you to take note in where Jesus told his disciples what would happen to Him… It’s the where this conversation took place that matters.. It just so happen to take place in Galilee. If you can recall, the majority of Christ’s ministry was centered around Galilee. Galilee represents the mountainous parts of this region. What are you saying, Jesus told them of His death, burial, and resurrection in a rocky place where it means the most.

If you will allow me, let me take this passage backward:

The Angels had to bring back to mind what Christ told them about His death, burial and resurrection... . So not only were the women perplexed at not finding the body of our Lord and Saviour, but in turn, so were the Angels because Jesus had described what would happen to Him; so why are you bringing spices?

These spices represent covering the smell of death (Expound) Although a good thing in the natural, but not in the spiritual.

In order to live you can’t cover what’s dead by pride; instead expose it so you can get the help you need to live. You can’t fix what isn’t broken...

Why do we seek the living among the dead?

You are unable to find direction, comfort, joy, peace, deliverance, power to stand, power to maintain, power to sustain if you seek the living among the dead. We put so much time in other things than the things of God. We put faith in people more than we put faith in the One who can easily wipe the one you put faith in off the face of the Earth.

When you realize what you’re looking for isn’t where you thought it was, or is (EMPTY), you have no other choice but to re-evaluate why you began looking in that place to begin with.

If you’ve never experienced the abundance of life in Christ, nor have submitted to His will for your life, you will tend to search for love and or life in the wrong places; and when you think you found it, it crumbles just as quick as you found it. If you have not been made alive by the Spirit of the Living God, then you will have a tendency to lean more towards dead things rather connecting with the true life source to produce life and more abundantly. Although the women knew where Jesus was buried and forgot He would return in 3 days, yet at their arrival they found an empty tomb.

Although the women knew where Jesus was buried and forgot He would return in 3 days, yet at their arrival they found an empty tomb.

The Lord said, I will meet you where you are at the tomb right where what you’re struggling with, dealing with, habitually are caught up in, unable to help yourself. I then heard the Lord say, I will meet you at the tomb where I took on all the sins of the world, past, present, and future. Death could no longer hold me so I escaped the tomb so you can also. I left it empty the same way they found it with exception for my grave clothes. The reason I left the clothes is, I put on newness. I was clothed in righteousness with no evidence of what I went through. I emptied Myself of all the former and present things you deal and struggle with, and then raised with all power in My hand.

I heard the Lord saying, I will meet you at the tomb where I took on all the sins of the world, past, present, and future. Death could no longer hold me so I escaped the tomb so can also. I left it empty the same way they found it with exception for my grave clothes and the napkin from around my head in which I folded nicely and placed near the clothes. The reason I left the clothes is, I put on newness. I was clothed in righteousness with no evidence of what I went though.

God is saying

Before one can experience this same resurrection power as a believer, you must leave the empty tomb where you’re destined to kill your flesh and its faculties, and take on the new you.

Before one can experience this same power as a believer, you first must leave empty tomb and take on a new you.

2 Corinthians 5:14–18 NKJV

14 For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; 15 and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again. 16 Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,

2 Cor 5:14-

Jesus clearly demonstrates God’s sacrificial love by dying for all according to .

Romans 5:8 NKJV

8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Christ sufferings provided Paul with perspective on his own hardships and motivated him to proclaim the message of reconciliation. Him dying for all meant that Christ died for all people without distinction. However, not all receive the benefits of His atoning death; only those who believe the gospel, repent, and live for Christ. Christ’s death breaks the power of sin so that believer may live for the purposes of God.

Christ sufferings provided Paul with perspective

God is inviting us to the tomb where He once laid, one last time hopefully once and for all...

I need you to use you spiritual imagination… Close you eye a moment so you may focus...

Can you imagine walking in the tomb where they’re going to lay the King… (Begin naming the things that ly there with Him in the tomb...

THE THINGS HAVE AN EXPIRATION DATE>>>

Suffering Servant

Isaiah 53:1–10 The Message

1 Who believes what we’ve heard and seen? Who would have thought God’s saving power would look like this? 2 The servant grew up before God—a scrawny seedling, a scrubby plant in a parched field. There was nothing attractive about him, nothing to cause us to take a second look. 3 He was looked down on and passed over, a man who suffered, who knew pain firsthand. One look at him and people turned away. We looked down on him, thought he was scum. 4 But the fact is, it was our pains he carried— our disfigurements, all the things wrong with us. We thought he brought it on himself, that God was punishing him for his own failures. 5 But it was our sins that did that to him, that ripped and tore and crushed him—our sins! He took the punishment, and that made us whole. Through his bruises we get healed. 6 We’re all like sheep who’ve wandered off and gotten lost. We’ve all done our own thing, gone our own way. And God has piled all our sins, everything we’ve done wrong, on him, on him. 7 He was beaten, he was tortured, but he didn’t say a word. Like a lamb taken to be slaughtered and like a sheep being sheared, he took it all in silence. 8 Justice miscarried, and he was led off— and did anyone really know what was happening? He died without a thought for his own welfare, beaten bloody for the sins of my people. 9 They buried him with the wicked, threw him in a grave with a rich man, Even though he’d never hurt a soul or said one word that wasn’t true. 10 Still, it’s what God had in mind all along, to crush him with pain. The plan was that he give himself as an offering for sin so that he’d see life come from it—life, life, and more life. And God’s plan will deeply prosper through him.

Isa

It was important that we took time to view this state of Christ in the spirit visibly in order that you get this next passage of scripture.

The Power of His Resurrection

Philippians 3:2–11 NKJV

2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the mutilation! 3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh, 4 though I also might have confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he may have confidence in the flesh, I more so: 5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; 6 concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. 7 But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. 8 Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; 10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, 11 if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Philippians 3:10–11 NKJV

10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, 11 if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

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Paul

Philippians 3:10