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Amy Anthony

April 9, 2025

WOW John 20

Encounters with the Empty Tomb and the Risen Savior

1. The First Day 
   1. The Tomb 
      1. Mary M 
      2. The Women 
      3. Peter &John 
      4. Mary again 
      5. The Jewish Leaders
2. The Risen Savior 
   1. Mary M 
   2. The Women 
   3. Peter 
   4. The two Emmaus guys 
   5. “The 12,” who were really 10 plus others 
3. “After eight days” (a week later) 
   1. The Risen Savior 
      1. Thomas
4. Now
    
   1. The Empty Tomb, The Risen Savior, The Book of John 
      1. YOU!

Applications: 

• What stone is lying ahead of you right now? What impossible, immovable thing do you need to release your grip on and surrender to the Lord because His plan is better than yours anyway?
• Who are you, (or your spouse, or your kids, or your neighbor, or your cantankerous boss) in this story?
• Do you identify with Mary Magdalene as an outlier? Are you defining yourself by your circumstances or by who you are in Christ?
• Only God forgives sin BUT we CAN proclaim sins forgiven by sharing the gospel…when was the last time you did that with someone?
• Only God forgives sin, BUT how recent is your own confession before the Lord?
• Only God forgives sin, BUT whose sins against you are you “retaining” that you should just let go of and forgive?
• If you are a believer and you have ever struggled with doubt, it’s okay. Just don’t stay in that doubt. Stay in His word.
• If you are an unbeliever, I can’t show you the physical resurrected Jesus, but what I can give you is the undisputed historical fact of the empty tomb.

End of the Beginning (Chorus) By David Phelps 

(you can find it on YouTube-I like the choir arrangement better)

He was born of a virgin one holy night in the little town of Bethlehem.

Angels gathered 'round Him underneath the star 

singing praises to the great I AM.

He walked on the water, 

Healed the lame, 

and made the blind to see again.

And for the first time here on earth we learned that God could be a friend.

And though He never, ever did a single thing wrong, 

The angry crowd chose Him. 

And then He walked

and He died,

Three days later, 

He rose!

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David Phelps

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