Today we celebrate the most critical/important event in all of human history. In a few moments I’m going to read, hopefully with you, from Mark chapter 16, the first 7 verses that describe this event. It’s miraculously powerful, surprisingly scary for those who experienced it and includes an angel that only adds to the intrigue.
Two words in this passage really spoke to me and maybe they will to you too. I believe they are important to someone who is listening here today-on this campus or online elsewhere. Someone, who needs hope. Someone who may think the love of Jesus is for everyone else but not for them. This is why we need to go back to the garden tomb in Mark 16.
You see Easter was not easy the first time around. In fact, for some it was sad b/c they thought Jesus was still dead but then when people began to hear he was alive-it got scary. Not in the typical “ghost in the graveyard” kind of scary but rather a uh-oh, remember what we did? Remember we let him down-what if Jesus is mad at me? By now you should be in the book of Mark the 16th chapter, so let’s begin…
