Come, Rejoice and Go
Introduction
- A well known chapter
- Including the Great Comission
- Three words:
- v6 - Come
- v9 - Rejoice
- v10 - Go
- Quote from Charles Coulson
- Better words in this passage
Come
- Words from the angel
- An invitation to say the place where the Lord lay
- "Come"
- Through the words of Scripture we are invited to 'come'
- The resurrection
- Do you believe in a bodily, physical resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ?
- If not, there is no hope
- An invitation from the angel
- Peter and John ran to the tomb
- They believe
- Mary Magdalene sees the risen Jesus Christ
- We are invited into the empty tomb - come and see
- Quote from John Blanchard
- An invitation to come and see
- What did the early witnesses see?
- They saw angels
- Not grave robbers but angels
- Emperor Claudius - Capital punishment for grave robbers
- The angels appeared like young men - Mark
- The angel rolls away the stone (v2) - the supernatural power of God
- They saw the grave clothes
- Yet they did not yet understand that Jesus must rise from the dead
- John believed
- Jesus did not stagger around in grave clothes as with Lazarus
- Lazarus had to die a second death - not with Jesus
- They are a symbol that He is the risen Christ
- They saw a physical body
- They held Him by the feet
- He ate breakfast - Luke
- They saw His scars - John 20
- Come and see
- A non-Christian - see the Lord Jesus Christ
- A Christian - be refreshed in your vision
- Christ is risen from the dead
- Not a memorial - Christ is with us
Rejoice
- An order to the words
- Come - then when we know He is alive, 'rejoice'!
- Rejoice
- Jesus could have rebuked them
- The disciples abandoned Jesus
- Remind them of their failures
- Instead He says rejoice
- We rejoice because there is peace with God
- "Peace be with you"
- We are able to know God
- There is forgiveness and acceptance
- Real rejoicing is found in Jesus Christ
- Not the so-called happiness of the world
- Rejoice in the forgiveness of sins
- The denial of Peter
- The restoration of Peter
- Hosea - Jesus will forgive us
- Rejoice in fellowship with Jesus
- Jesus met them
- Jesus meets us
- They worshiped Him
- Our place is on our knees, on our face
- Quote from John the Baptist and Shakespeare's Othello
- Do we rejoice in Jesus Christ?
- Rom 5, Phil 4
- Quote from Jonathan Edwards
- Job rejoiced in God
- Do you rejoice in God - not in things?
Go
- v10, v7, v19
- Go and tell
- Come, Rejoice and then Go!
- You cannot keep this message to yourself - go and tell others
- Quote on selfishness
- The apostles were encouraged
- We know the apostles were slow to take the gospel to the Gentiles
- They constantly needed the help of the Holy Spirit
- They were given encouragements
- We need the help of the Holy Spirit
- Do we believe in the Holy Spirit?
- Do we ask for His help?
- The encouragement of the risen Lord Jesus Christ
- They will see Me (v10)
- 'Lo I will be with you until the end of the age' (v20)
- Jesus has promised never to leave us nor forsake us
- One day we will see Christ and be with Him
- Epitaph of Solomon Peas
- Go and tell
- Not just about words
- How we live and conduct ourselves
- We have a gospel to proclaim
Closing Remarks