But he said to them, “Do not be alarmed. You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here! See the place where they put Him.He said to them, “Don’t be amazed. You seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him!And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.And he saith unto them, Be not amazed: ye seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who hath been crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold, the place where they laid him!
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I want to preach a message. Write down the title today. It's called The Shout of Easter. I like that, the shout of Easter. Because it might seem insignificant that just a stone being rolled from here to there. It might seem ordinary for people to go, it's just a rock being moved. But I want to tell you today that Easter signifies something bigger than a rock going from here to there. Easter is a shout from heaven to earth that God is who he says he is and he can do what he said he would do. Oh, come on, everybody. Clap if you're grateful today that Jesus is not dead. Come on, clap if you believe that Jesus is alive. Easter is a declaration. It is a shout. And I like the word shout because I am loud and I like loud things. And I like loud arenas. And I like loud church. And I like loud people. Where are the loud people at today? They were just waiting to say something. …
He's not here. He's risen. If you believe in your heart that God raised Jesus Christ from the dead and confess Him as your Lord, you shall be saved. Let's pray. Lord, we just feel overwhelmed. It's almost as if we were there for these incredible providential moments. Thank you that Christ lives and because He lives, we live also. So, may that glorious offer of eternal life through faith in the risen Christ captivate every heart here so that no one walks away from the only Savior, the only one who gives eternal life. Open hearts even to that reality now, we pray.
"He is risen." Mark 16:6. OUR Lord always told His disciples that He would rise. They were astonished to hear that He would die at all—they did not think it possible that He could die by the terrible death which He often hinted at. Had they understood and really believed that He would rise again, they might not have been so surprised at His death. But as often as He spoke of it, their minds seemed to have been like their eyes, on some occasions—held back that they should not see! And if they perceived His meaning, it ran so contrary to all their ideas of a Kingdom for a Messiah, that they could not grasp it as a reality! Now one of the first things that strikes the reader of the Chapter before us shall furnish us with our first head of contemplation tonight— I. THE ALMOST UNIVERSAL POWER OF UNBELIEF IN THE CHURCH. This is a good instance to illustrate a general fact, for our Savior had told them in plain terms that He would rise again. Yet on the third day not one that we know of expected Him to rise! When they were informed that He had risen, by eyewitnesses—persons whom they had been accustomed to treat as deserving of all credence, persons with whom they had been long acquainted—they, everyone of them, were incredulous! They could not believe it, though it were testified to them again and again. As you read this Chapter through, you meet with first one instance and then another of this general incredulity about a thing on which all ought to have been sound believers! You find, first, the women—very tender, very loving, always accustomed to minister to Christ's necessities in the days of His flesh—now their very love leads them to an unbelieving act! If He is risen and He said He would rise, what need of grave cloths? What need of precious ointments, and spikenard, and spices in which to embalm Him? 'Twas love that said, "Embalm Him," but 'twas unbelieving love that made them think the thing was necessary to be done! All through those tender hearts, wherein so much of heavenly ardor for Christ was found, there was also found this leaven of mischief. But the men—the stronger sex, will not they, also, their hearts being full of love and having walked with Christ, having strong judgments, many of them, having noticed and weighed what He said—will not they believe? No! Peter and John, though they went to the sepulch-er, went there with heavy hearts, evidently with no expectation such as would have been excited by the belief that Christ had risen. The whole brotherhood of the disciples appear to have gone altogether over to an unbelief of the thought that Jesus Christ would rise! But there were some favored ones—there were the eleven. These were the elect out of the elect, the spiritual lifeguard, the very bodyguard of the Savior! Surely, if faith is extinct everywhere else, we shall find it in them! They were in the Garden at His Passion, some of them were on Tabor at His Transfiguration, three of them, at any rate. They were in the chamber where He raised the dead. They had seen His miracles, they had, themselves, distributed the bread which by a miraculous power He had multiplied for the feeding of the multitude. They had seen Him walk the sea—one of them had, himself, walked on the liquid wave and found it marble beneath his feet when Christ had bid him come. They had marked the tempest hushed, they had seen devils expelled, many marvelous displays of Divine Power had they, all of them, beheld! These choice ones, especially those three mighty, those chosen three, would surely believe! Yet they also were tinctured with this same evil—they had not such a faith in their Master as they should have had. And now this was but, I think, a portrait of what has been, ever since—the great mischief in the Church of God. This sin of sins— unbelief—is still at this very hour too common among the people of God. Suppose I talk to the mass of God's people, the …