Joshua 11-12, Luke 24: 1-35, Psalm 68: 1-6
Luke 24: 6 (ESV)
“He is not here, but has risen.”
When I was reading bible commentaries for Luke 24, one pastor
said the following about verse 6 - “these were some of the most important words
ever spoken by an angel to men.” We don’t have a description of the resurrection,
which many pastors have said that this fact makes the gospels more authentic
because they don’t describe what happened or try to embellish it. We just have
the two angels who tells the women that Jesus is not there, because he told
them himself that he would rise after three (3) days. I like that the bookends
of the life of Christ are angels making an announcement about him. The angels
announced his birth to the shepherds and the angels announced to the women that
he is risen. Without the resurrection of Christ, we would have a Christian
religion. This simple fact and statement from the angels helped to spawn a
brand new religion that eventually became one of the foundations of Western culture.
And because we are all sinners, two things happened. One, there have been countless
attempts from this point forward to prove the resurrection did not happen. And two,
we as sinners feel our lives are saved by Christ because the resurrection did
happen. Two sides of the same coin, always at war with each other, and where
one could not exist without the other. With the only thing separating the two
is the faith of the sinner.
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