The Women at the Grave
Minister: |
Rev. Ronald Van Overloop |
Date: |
4/21/2019 AM
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Text:
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Luke 24:1-10
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Psalters: |
298, 266, 79, 29 |
- Their sorrow.
- The women were filled with sorrow because their Teacher/Friend and their Hope had died.
- Those performing this final act of love: Mary Magdalene, Mary, Salome, Joanna, the mother of James, and also others.
- Obviously they had not witnessed the final burial of Jesus, only knowing where His body had been put.
- Two things about the thinking of these women who gather and walk together to the grave site.
- They loved Jesus so they had followed Him and ministered to His earthly needs, which led them to do this last task.
- They had forgotten or not heard what He had told them about going into Galilee (Mark 14:28).
- Also they were “much perplexed” (to be at a loss) when they realized that Jesus’ body was not in the grave.
- They were perplexed when they saw the great stone rolled away from the entrance of the sepulcher.
- They were perplexed that the Jesus’ body was gone; the grave was empty, but the grave clothes remained.
- They were perplexed by the presence of the angels: who came and went and came again; first one, then two.
- Not men, but angels (heavenly creatures) proclaim the gospel of the resurrection.
- The first presentation of the resurrection gospel was: “Why seek ye the living among the dead?” (5b).
- Further, “He is not here, but is risen” (6a).
- Then the women “remembered His words” (8).
- Jesus had said that He must die and rise again (Matt. 16:21; 17:22,23), but it laid deep in their sub-consciousness.
- Subsequently the resurrection was part of the disciples preaching.
- Do we remember that He is raised and lives in every situation of our lives?