Good Morning Friends,
“On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, ‘Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: “The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.”’ Then they remembered his words.” (Luke 24:1-8)
When the women arrived at the tomb on that Sunday morning they did not find things as they expected to find them!
They came with spices. The spices were a way to show respect to someone who had died. The women were planning to use them on the body of Jesus. They expected to find His body in the tomb where it had been laid on Friday. They expected Jesus to still be dead.
Instead they found the stone rolled from in front of the tomb. That solved a problem they were concerned about. They had no idea how they were going to get into the tomb of the Jesus because of the large stone that protected its entrance. The stone being rolled away solved one problem, but it was what they didn’t find inside the tomb and what they did find that changed all their plans!
The women didn’t find the body of Jesus. It wasn’t there. It wasn’t in the tomb anymore. They had seen Jesus’ body placed in tomb. In some way and for some reason the body of Jesus was no longer there. The women didn’t understand. They wondered what it meant.
What the women did find in the tomb were two men who suddenly appeared. They had already looked into the tomb and didn’t see the men. Now, there they were right inside the tomb. And they weren’t ordinary men – their clothes gleaned like lightning. And the men spoke and what they spoke was astounding, “Jesus is alive, He has risen!”
Luke’s account is a simple one. And the other Gospel writers don’t paint a much more complicated picture. All of their accounts are simple and straight-forward. And yet, what they report in such simple terms is the most profound miracle in the history of the world – God raised Jesus from the dead.
That means that everything Jesus said about Himself was true. That means everything Jesus said about us was true. That means everything Jesus said about the future was true. Everything Jesus said was true. God proved it by raising to life again.
A simple account. A straight-forward miracle. Salvation offering – eternity ensuring – life-changing!
His, by Grace,
Steve
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