Easter 2018
Easter
Outward reactions
They show us what’s inside
When we react
Our inward feelings can hide
Easter Sunday shows how we feel
About Christ and how we react
What we say and what we do
Shows how we feel and that’s a fact
John captured peoples reactions showing all emotions
Luke capture history details and the motives
Matthew shows the story laid out first to last
Mark is like a journal bulletpoints read fast
Early in the morning
Women they are mourning
Jesus died at 3
And the body they could see
It couldn’t be left out
Because the ceremony was about
Joseph of the ruling council came to wrap the body
They hurried it to burial crucified and bloody
The scripture then is silent until Sunday morn'
The women came to the tomb sad and forlorn
John shows us three reactions
And peoples actions
Reaction of growing faith and certainty
Its how God works in you and me
John had two evidences for the resurrection staring in his face
Empty tomb and stone removed Jesus’ in a new place
Connect the dots like a child in pre-K
Or like John chapter 20 will say
Most people say faith is believing something likely untrue
The Bible has a different faith to believe in for you
Faith is God-confidence and it growing higher
For it Evidence and knowledge are required
Reaction of confusion and hesitation
We bring a skewed perception of our situation
We see people reacting based on where they are
We see people react in sanctification near and far
Don’t worry jesus always keeps Himself an unavoidable
issue in your life God-man undeniable
‘If you love Me Peter feed my sheep’ He said
Peter responds I like you a lot, in the Greek its read
Peter responds again I have a string affection
It reveals his heart based on His reaction
Jesus asks do you even like me Peter
A reaction of Grief and Longing
Through Christ we are comforted when to Him we're belonging
Jesus calls Mary by her name
When He calls us from death He ‘s doing the same
Her reaction to Christ is tears
Joyfulness and fear
500 AD they said Mary was a prostitute
In reality she was only a woman destitute
She was not expecting resurrection
But her reaction shows her affection
All she wanted to do was bury Christ
She wasn't expecting Him to rise to new life
The sound of her own name gets her back on track
He calls her name and fulfills all her lack
Doctor Christenson had a student named Steve
He gave him an assignment because he believed
He did 10 pushhups for every student
Every 10 pushups got a kid a doughnut
Scott offended and didn’t want the food
But Steve still paid the price so Scott could
Steve still did the pushups for doughnuts people didn’t want
Even if students wanted to help they cant
Steve was the only kid with a perfect grade
He was the only one who the teacher would let pay
When we see Christ what’s our reaction?
How do we respond to Jesus' resurrection?