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Luke 24:1-12
! Introduction
Do you remember the song, “There’s a hole in the bucket?”
Henry - there’s a hole in the bucket
Lisa - well fix it!
Henry - How shall I fix it?
Lisa - With straw!
Henry - The straw is too long.
Lisa - Well cut it!
Henry - With what shall I cut it?
Lisa - With the axe!
Henry - Well, the axe is too dull.
Lisa - Well sharpen it!
Henry - With what shall I sharpen it?
Lisa - With the stone!
Henry - The stone is too dry.
Lisa - Well wet it!
Henry - With what shall I wet it?
Lisa -With water!
Henry - With what shall I get it?
Lisa - With the bucket!
Henry - There’s a hole in the bucket.
It all goes back to the hole in the bucket???
- read the Easter story
- pastor of REMC.
- 27 years ago, I hadn’t sensed God calling me
- become a Christian at a crusade when I was nine years old
- parents taught me what it means to follow Christ.
- they heard the gospel
- Paul had not obeyed the call of the Holy Spirit
- Holy Spirit - day of Pentecost
- if Jesus had not ascended
- if Jesus had not been raised from the dead.
- this week, -- my life a direct connection to the resurrection of Jesus.
- It all goes back to the resurrection.
- Luke 24:1-12.
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I. Doubts About The Resurrection
- how do we know that Jesus rose?
- If what I did this week goes back to the resurrection,
- if the resurrection is not true,
- Doubt has always been a part of it.
- Thomas Jefferson, - could not accept the miraculous - edited his own special version of the Bible - closing words - "There laid they Jesus and rolled a great stone at the mouth of the sepulchre and departed."
- the women,
- did not come to the tomb hoping to see Jesus alive
- wondering who would roll away the stone
- the stone rolled away and the body of Jesus missing,
- they wondered
- angels appeared to them - a rebuke to them
- they should have known, but they had doubted.
- went back to the eleven
- Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary and some others
-had remembered the words of Jesus - had come to belief?
- told the disciples - the tomb was empty, - an angel had appeared - reminded them of the prophecies
- response of the disciples?
-11 - “…they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense.”
- words seemed as silly talk
- Peter, however,
- ran to look for himself.
- does not say that he believed,
- “went away wondering to himself what had happened.”
- Doubt is a great part of the story and has always been for many people.
- all kinds of explanations.
- women went to the wrong tomb.
- Jesus never died,
- disciples stole the body.
- Jewish leaders stole the body.
- from the imagination of over-zealous disciples
- spiritualised the resurrection
- Doubt has always been a part of the resurrection - not only among detractors, but also among the first witnesses and among those who have heard since.
- Are we among those who doubt, those who struggle with belief or who believe?
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II.
Evidence For The Resurrection
- three evidences which speak to these doubts
- the empty tomb, ~*~*~*~*~*verifiable
- the presence of the angels ~*~*~*~*~*subjective
- the prophetic words of Jesus.
~*~*~*~*~*verifiable
- help us make the decision to believe.
!! A. The Empty Tomb
- empty tomb is a big deal in this passage.
- women came upon the tomb,
- first indication - the stone was rolled away.
- second indication – they did not find the body of Jesus.
- the tomb was empty
- Peter
- “the strips of linen lying by themselves.”
- two witnesses - the group of women and Peter –
- law required two or three witnesses
- body of Jesus was not there.
The tomb was empty.
- presented as evidence.
- dispels a lot of the doubt filled explanations.
- the disciples went to the wrong tomb.
- Because there were two.
- disciples stole the body.
- would not have gone to see where Jesus was
- empty tomb points to the resurrection
- best explanation is the resurrection.
- also indicates the nature of His resurrection.
- spiritualise the resurrection.
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