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Chapter 40 |
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Carelessness about sealing or watching the grave would have left room for uncertainty as to the fact of resurrection. But now we can say, without a shadow of doubt, “He is risen.” His enemies helped to make the testimony infallible and invincible. Thus the empty tomb declares the resurrection of Christ. Death could not hold Him.
The empty tomb proclaims another precious truth to the Christians. Jesus rose, and so shall all who sleep in Him rise. “For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him” (1Thess. 4:14).
The angel called the attention of the women to words which Jesus had spoken during His lifetime. They reminded them that He had said He would rise again. The women remembered the words now. It seems strange to us that the disciples should have forgotten the promises of Jesus about His resurrection. If only they had remembered these words they would have been spared their sorrow when they saw Him led to His cross. All the uncomforted sorrow of the disciples during those dark days and nights came from not remembering what Jesus had said to them.
Often it is because we forget what Christ has said to us in His Word that we are in sorrow and in darkness. He has revealed to us the infinite love of His Father; if only we remembered this loved we should not be overwhelmed by the strange things of providence which appear to us to be evil and destructive. He has told us that death for a believer is only going to his Father’s house; if only we remembered this word, we should not dread to die, nor should we grieve immoderately when our loved ones go from us.
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