SCRIPTURE: Luke (NIV) 24:1 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 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.
4 While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. 5 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?
OBSERVATION: The women were looking for Jesus. The last time they saw him, He was being crucified and then placed in the tomb. According to their understanding of the nature of the things they had witnessed, coming to the tomb made perfect sense. But according to Jesus word that He would rise from the dead on the third day, what the angle said was most logical!
Living people do not make their homes in cemeteries, and Jesus was alive!
APPLICATION: Jesus was not only alive then, HE IS STILL ALIVE! Sunday morning gatherings should not be funeral services, but resurrection celebrations! Do not expect to find a living Jesus in a dead church.
We are not gathering to hear what Jesus did 2,000 years ago, we are gathering to celebrate what He did this past week! We gather in expectation of what He will do this coming week! The best thing about our gatherings is that the One we worship is actually present! Under the anointing of the Holy Spirit, the preacher takes words written 1000s of years ago and makes them applicable to our lives today!
PRAYER: Lord, make Your presence easily recognizable as we gather as Your church. What really makes our gatherings to be Your church, is Your presence. Encourage us with the testimonies of others. Stir our hearts as we worship you. Stir our minds as we hear your word, spoken, or read, or preached. May we leave knowing that we have been in Your Presence. Amen
Pastor Leon
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