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The death and resurrection of Jesus had an immediate and long lasting effect on his disciples.
Consider first his death.
He was a popular religious leader with a growing number of followers at the time of his death.
His ministry had just made a break through as he had left his normal area of influence in Galilee and had come to the Jerusalem area.
His miracle of raising Lazarus from the dead had increased his popularity so much that he was perceived to be a threat to the Jewish leaders
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45 Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him.
46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
47 Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin.
“What are we accomplishing?” they asked.
“Here is this man performing many signs.
48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our temple and our nation.”
49 Then one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, spoke up, “You know nothing at all! 50 You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”
The reception he received on Palm Sunday only increased their fear that he had come to cause a political uprising.
Therefore, they pressed to have him arrested and executed before (in their minds) it was too late.
On Good Friday they were successful.
Jesus had predicted that if their enemies treated him badly, they would not hesitate to go after his followers.
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24 “The student is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his master.
25 It is enough for students to be like their teachers, and servants like their masters.
If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household!
26 “So do not be afraid of them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known.
27 What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the roofs.
28 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul.
Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny?
Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care.
30 And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
31 So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
32 “Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven.
33 But whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my Father in heaven.
34 “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth.
I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
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In the days following Jesus’ death, the disciples met in fear behind locked doors uncertain of what the future would hold.
Would they be attacked or would they disperse in fear and keep silent about all that they had seen and heard?
They may even have wondered what the future of Jesus’ teachings would be.
Application: Compare to the Civil Rights Movement on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
There wasn’t an apology from White America for killing a leader of peace.
The government responded to the Negro riots by enlisting blacks into the Army and shipping them to Vietnam.
Those who didn’t go were harassed by the police and the courts.
Those who survived that became victims of the CIA and FBI.
The CIA allowed drugs to flourish in the ghettos.
The FBI used traitors and gangs to start “dirty wars” in black communities.
There was no freedom under Richard Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover.
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King’s assassination created a void in black leadership.
Five years earlier, we lost Medgar Evers.
Three years earlier, we lost Malcolm X.
The ones who lived were in jail, in hiding or exiled.
A lost hope was replaced with widespread dope.
Drugs killed off a generation of potential leaders.
It criminalized the young militant wanting change.
In 1966, Huey Newton took his college education and helped found the Black Panther Party.
In 1989, he was shot dead in an apparent, “drug deal gone bad”.
Earlier it was alleged, he suffered through a debilitating, heroin addiction.
Nonetheless, he was a sworn foe of California law enforcement.
King’s death brought forth the 1968 Voting Rights Act.
It guaranteed EVERYONE the right to vote.
An investigation into the “long, hot summer” riots of 1967-1968 blamed the upheavals on the one culprit; white racism.
The Kerner Commission said that white racism against African Americans along with crime, unemployment, inadequate housing, police brutality led to the riots.
America didn’t offer freedom for killing Dr. King.
They just killed and imprisoned more.
Black Panthers found themselves assassinated in police raids like Fred Hampton and Mark Clark.
They found themselves battling in state courts on drummed up charges.
To avoid the harassment, a few such as Eldridge Cleaver emigrated to Cuba.
Stokley Carmichael fled to Guyana.
The choices were to be assimilated in white culture, incarcerated in America’s prisons or assassinated in their nieghborhoods.
There was to be no black militancy or revolution.
In rare occurrences, a few achieved some success in politics.
In 1970, Carl Stokes and Charles Evers won mayoral elections in their respective cities of Cleveland (Ohio) and Fayette (Miss).
Shirley Chisolm became the first woman, let alone black woman, elected to Congress.
Two years later, she embarked on a courageous run for the presidency.
She challenged GOP (Grand Old Party) incumbent, Richard Nixon and Democratic candidate, George McGovern.
Chisolm’s ran on the Freedom Party ballot.
She got annhilated in the polls, but earned points for making the attempt.
Some mid-level, black leaders emerged.
Medgar’s brother, Charles Ever won the mayor post in Fayette, Miss.
Andrew Young won the mayor job in Atlanta, Georgia (1983).
Rev. Jesse Jackson founded Operation PUSH and his Rainbow Coalition.
He ran ran for president in 1984.
Representative, Alan Keyes and Rev. Al Sharpton also grabbed the African American leadership helm.
Mrylie Evers-Williams, the widow of Medgar Evers, obtained NAACP’s (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) director seat.
Coretta Scott King, widow of Dr. King, continued with her late husband’s Poor Peoples’ Campaign.
She raised monies for a Civil Rights Memorial.
The memorial honored the victims who died during the Movement’s era.
The victories, though few, were significant.
They led to the eventual political and social shift in 2008.
Four decades after King’s assassination, Barack Obama became America’s president and Commander-in-Chief.
While the disciples were still in shock and fearfully wondering about their own future, they received news that Jesus had risen from the dead just as he said.
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9 When they came back from the tomb, they told all these things to the Eleven and to all the others.
10 It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who told this to the apostles.
11 But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense.
12 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.
They then witnessed his resurrection firsthand.
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