Easter 2024
Everything New
Jon Fredricks
Today’s Scripture: Luke 24:1-12 NIV
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Luke 24:1-12 NIV
On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ” Then they remembered his words. When they came back from the tomb, they told all these things to the Eleven and to all the others. It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who told this to the apostles. But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense. Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. Bending over, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he went away, wondering to himself what had happen
John 11:25-26 NIV
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
John 7:38 NIV
Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”
2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
1) WANDER OUT FROM THE NORMAL
Luke 24:1 NIV
On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb.
2) WONDER A LITTLE
Luke 24:2-4 NIV
They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were wondering about this
Luke 24:4-5 NIV
While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. “Why do you look for the living among the dead?
Matthew 7:7-8 NIV
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
Jeremiah 29:13 NIV
You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
3) CONSIDER HIS WORDS
Luke 24:6 NIV
He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee:
John 6:63b NIV
The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life.
4) WRAP YOUR SOUL AROUND IT
Luke 24:8 NIV
Then they remembered his words
John 20:8 NIV
Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed.
John 20:27 NASB
Then He *said to Thomas, “Place your finger here, and see My hands; and take your hand and put it into My side; and do not continue in disbelief, but be a believer.”
Acts 16:31 NIV
They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.”
Romans 8:10-11 MSG
… It stands to reason, doesn’t it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he’ll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself? When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life. With his Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ’s!
