Title: You Are Alive
Content Title: He Is Risen
Bible: Matthew 28:1-6
After the Sabbath, on the first day of the seventh day, at dawn, the women went to the tomb to anoint the body of Jesus.
But he was worried about how to open the stone that sealed the tomb. Then there was a great earthquake, and the angel of the Lord rolled the stone and sat on it. The angel's appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. The guards were frightened and became like the dead. Women became the first witnesses of the resurrection. As we look at how the resurrection was witnessed, I hope that all of us will have the sure faith of the resurrection.
First: Jesus' tomb was empty.
“He is not here” (v. 6) To the women who are trembling in fear, do not fear the angel, I know you are looking for Jesus who was crucified. He is not here. The only place where Jesus was lying was linen linen, which had been folded. Jesus had already risen from the dead and went first to Galilee to meet his disciples. Jesus left no grave or even a single bone on this earth. Jesus is not seeing and believing, but being transformed into life in an empty tomb. There are times when it is invisible, and that is what tells us that there is life.
Second: Jesus was resurrected according to the word.
“Jesus is risen, just as he said. Come and see where he was lying” (verse 6). The resurrection of Jesus was not an accident, but had already been fulfilled as Jesus Himself had said. Jesus predicted death and resurrection 14 times. “From that time on, Jesus Christ taught his disciples that he must go up to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised on the third day” (Matthew 16:21) . The resurrection of God is an event that shows us the transformation into a spiritual body.
Third: Look at the place where Jesus lay.
“Come and see the place where he lay” (verse 6). The place where Jesus lay means the place where Jesus, the Lord, came in human form and sacrificed himself in the place of the most painful and lowly of man. When Jesus came to this world, the first place (the place where he lay) was born from the lowest and lowest place of the lowly, the gyuyu, the feeder of animals. And the place of the final mission as a human being in the world was also the seat waiting for the disappearance of the body in the grave, the place of despair and fear the most. It was a metaphor of Jesus showing the place from despair to hope.