Sermon Video: "He is not here, he is risen" Matthew 28:1-10

As the faithful women came to the tomb seeking to care for the body of Jesus on Sunday morning, they encountered a remarkable sight: An angel sitting atop the stone which had been rolled away from the entrance to the now empty tomb.  At that point, fear and confusion predominated, but thankfully the angel soon turned their sorrow to joy by proclaiming that, "He is not here, he is risen".  This was the first proclamation of the Good News, a message of hope and joy that would soon be spreading towards the ends of the earth.  For indeed Christ had risen, death could not hold him for it had no claim upon his sinless life, and in rising from the dead Jesus had forever broken the power of sin and death over humanity.  This is the turning point of history, the historical fact toward which God's prophets had pointed, and upon which the future would hinge.  What did the angel tell the women to do with this Good News?  Go and tell his disciples; share it, spread it, let it be known; and so it is for us today as well, let us share the Good News: Jesus is alive.

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