Resurrection Sunday

The Empty Tomb

"Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”

So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent over and looked inat the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus’ head. The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen. Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.) Then the disciples went back to where they were staying." John 20:1-10


Let There Be Light

In the book of Genesis, God said, “Let there be light” and there was light. The Black Shabbat was dark, today there is light. Yesterday it was all hopeless, today hope springs eternal. Yesterday there was confusion, today we see truth.

Yesterday is gone. And today is what we have, here and forever more.

Jesus is Risen

Yes, Jesus is risen. Again all the gospel writers recorded this event. As we just read in John 20, we also see the narratives of Luke, Mark and Matthew in Luke 24, Mark 16 and Matthew 28.

Finally the story of Redemption is fulfilled, just as it was prophesied. And just as it was planned out from since the very beginning (genesis) of time.

It is Done

No one, had known about it, but everything happened had to happen and now, as Jesus Himself said, while hanging on the cross, "It is finished", tetelestai in the Greek, an accounting term meaning “Paid in full.”

And it finally is, today on Resurrection Sunday.

This is the single reason, we now have Christianity in the first place. The only reason, why the ex-Pharisee Saul, converted and believed and became Paul, the foremost Christian missionary who brought the gospel to the world, costing it his very life. This is the only reason, why the original groupies of Jesus -- Peter, James, John and the other James along with many others became the first leaders who watered the first church in Jerusalem, first planted when the Holy Spirit came upon them. And like Paul, up until they gave up their own lives.

This is the only reason, why we are even here having this conversation about a man like no one else before or after Him, a man who once walked among us -- the man, who we already said, either we accept or we reject.

The most polarizing figure in history, whose very name causes people to either worship, or mock and ridicule, or blow a fuse at.

That is, once you get to know who He is or who He claim He is, either you are for Him or against Him.

No in-betweens.

Either you die for Him or you die laughing at Him.

Of course, in either way, we die.

Now except Him who did conquer death and rose again on this Resurrection Sunday, two thousand years ago. And now we get to see the picture of why Peter, Paul and Mary, and everyone else risked their own lives believing and sharing His story -- the story we ourselves either accept or reject.

It's our turn now.  (Now it is indeed perfect timing, that today is April Fools Day <scoff>).


Missed parts of this series?
Click here: Recap of Resurrection Week