The Angels' Resurrection Message

Minister:
Date: AM
Text: Luke 24:4-7
Psalters: 268, 250, 29, 129
  1. He is the living One.
    1. As early as possible Sunday morning a small group of women walk out of Jerusalem toward the burial site of Jesus.
      1. These women had ministered to Jesus taking care of His earthly needs.
      2. Their intent is to perform a last service of love for One they believed to be dead.
      3. Seeking the living One among the dead made them much perplexed.
      4. And they were “afraid.”
    2. “Why seek ye the living [One] among the dead?”
      1. Whereas He is the living One as divine, the angels spoke of His human nature now having the right to life.
      2. He is the living One because His resurrection brought our human nature into life.
      3. He is the living One because He went beyond death, beyond the power of death ever to get Him.
      4. He is the living One because He has the power to impart His glorious resurrection life to others.
  2. The only answer to their perplexity is “He ... is risen.”
    1. “He is not here,” i.e., not in the grave nor earthly.
      1. Jesus is no more in death, for He went through death and the grave into immortality.
      2. So they ought not expect Him any more the way He had been among them.
    2. “He is risen.”
      1. A change of the earthly body of the human nature to an glorious, heavenly body of His human nature.
      2. The resurrection is the swallowing up of the earthly life by and into the heavenly.
  3. The, the apostles, and all believes are to believe that His death and resurrection are all necessary.
    1. Jesus had told them that He MUST be delivered, crucified, and would rise the third day (Mark 9:31,32).
    2. The way of cross and resurrection is a divine must (7).
    3. Thus Jesus’ resurrection is the source of our joy.
      1. The resurrection is God’s “It is finished” to Jesus’ “It is finished.”
      2. His resurrection life is our life today (in regeneration and in our knowing God).
      3. And His resurrection is the promise of our body’s resurrection.