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Luke 24:6
He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee,
✦ Understand this verseἐγείρω
egeírō · Greek · G1453
- In this verse
- risen
- What it means
- to waken (transitively or intransitively), rouse (literally, from sleep, from sitting or lying, from…
- How the King James translates it
- up33raised27risen18
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Sermon outline
Sermon title
Why seek ye the living among the dead?
Main idea
The resurrection of Jesus, which Easter celebrates, turns the tomb into a place of hope: he is alive, as he said.
Text
Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus. And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments: And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee, Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again. And they remembered his words,
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Introduction
After the crucifixion, Jesus’ followers were crushed. On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, some women went to the sepulchre, bringing the spices they had prepared for Jesus’ body. They went to care for a dead man; they found the news that changed history.
1. Faithfulness on the way to the tomb
Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus.
Luke 24:1-3 · Read the chapter →
The women went to the tomb out of love, expecting no miracle at all. They found the stone rolled away and did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. The resurrection reached first those who kept serving Jesus in the middle of their grief.
Application: Stay faithful in what God has entrusted to you, even when hope seems small.
2. He is not here, but is risen
And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments: And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee,
Luke 24:4-6 · Read the chapter →
Two men in shining garments asked the question that gives this message its title: why seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen. At the centre of Easter is not a symbol of new beginnings, but a fact: Jesus’ tomb was empty.
Application: Bring your sorrow to the living Christ, not to the memory of a hero from the past.
3. Remembering what he said
Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again. And they remembered his words,
Luke 24:7-8 · Read the chapter →
The angels told the women to remember what Jesus had said in Galilee: the Son of man must be delivered, be crucified and rise again the third day. And they remembered his words. Easter faith grows when we go back to what Jesus promised.
Application: This week, reread in the Gospels what Jesus said about the cross and the resurrection.
Conclusion
The women returned from the sepulchre and told all these things to the eleven; their words seemed as idle tales, but Peter ran to the tomb. Paul summed up the church’s hope in 1 Corinthians 15:20: now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. Because he lives, death does not have the last word for those who are in him.