Sermon Tone Analysis

Empty

At the Tomb

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 Cor 5:14-

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

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

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

phil 3:2-

Paul

Philippians 3:10