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Introduction
On September 11, 2011 I was in a coffee shop in Antioch to meet with some other pastors.
The waitress told us, “One of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City just collapsed.”
I didn’t know her and she didn’t look like she was joking.
But I didn’t believe her.
I had been to the top of the World Trade Center.
They were massive buildings.
I couldn’t imagine them collapsing.
The coffee shop had a TV and a few moments later I saw it.
Then I had to accept it.
I wonder how many people who heard about it but didn’t see it had the same reaction I did?
It isn’t often that something like that happens, something so unusual, so unexpected that our first reaction is we don’t believe it.
The resurrection was an event like that.
There were three groups of people in Jerusalem when Jesus was crucified and buried.
There was a small group of Jesus’ devoted followers, perhaps 120 or so people, many of whom were in hiding, fearing those who killed Jesus would come looking for them.
There were those responsible for Jesus’s death, including Pilate, the Jewish authorities who called for Jesus’s death and the soldiers who carried it out.
Then there was everyone else.
It was Passover so there were many people in Jerusalem, most of whom knew very little, if anything about Jesus.
Let’s look at the Easter story and see how people responded to the news of the resurrection and what the right response is.
1. Mary saw and heard but didn’t believe.
Matthew 28:1-7; John 20:1-2
2. The women saw and heard and believed.
Matthew 28:8
3. John heard but didn’t believe until he saw.
John 20:1-10
4. Mary saw and heard but didn’t believe until she saw again.
John 20:11-16
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The soldiers and the authorities saw, heard and believed in vain.
Matthew 28:11-15, 1 Corinthians 15:1-8
6. Thomas heard a lot but didn’t believe until he saw.
John 20:24-29
The resurrection is what makes Jesus life and death the good news.
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