He Is Risen: Lives Transformed by the Resurrection

And the same is true for all of us who have encountered the risen Lord Jesus Christ. Experience his love, when we experience his forgiveness, when we experience his joy, when we experience his hand leading us through life, when we see him at work in us and through us and despite us, we know that our lives, like the women, like his disciples, like millions of other people throughout the world, our lives will never be the same again. [00:53:21] (33 seconds)  #EncounterRisenLord

Again, we see the grace, the love, the tenderness of our lord Jesus Christ. We've sought throughout his ministry as he cared for the sick and and healed them, as he cared for the marginalized and told them that they too were a part of the kingdom of God. And here, again, we see the same loving gracious Jesus. He doesn't even refer to them as his disciples, his followers. He says, they are his brothers. [00:50:56] (33 seconds)  #GraceAndHealing

They came to him, clasped his feet. They fell at his feet and and touched his feet, which just a few days earlier had been cold, had been lifeless. His feet would have still had the nail marks, the holes from those nails. But now they were warm. There was color in them. His feet had life. Jesus was alive. They came and clasped his feet and worshiped him. [00:48:28] (45 seconds)  #WorshipTheRisen

These faithful Jewish women who say there is only one god. When they worship Jesus, he didn't say stop worshiping me as the angels have done whenever they've appeared to people and people try to worship the angels. They say, don't worship me. Jesus does not rebuke or correct or stop Mary Magdalene and the other women from worshiping him. And they praise him and he receives that worship. [00:49:19] (36 seconds)  #JesusReceivesWorship

The women knew that Jesus wasn't referring to his biological brothers. He was referring to his disciples and he was using that word brothers in a very loving, gracious way. One of his brothers had betrayed him. Another one of his brothers had denied knowing him three times as Jesus was under trial. All of his brothers had scattered and yet Jesus calls his disciples brothers. [00:50:15] (42 seconds)  #BrothersInChrist

the disciples' lives weren't completely changed just yet. They weren't just sure if they could trust these women. And so they rushed to the tomb themselves. And when they experienced the angels, when they encountered Jesus Christ for themselves risen from the dead, their lives were never the same again either. And the same is true for all of us who have encountered the risen Lord Jesus Christ. [00:52:56] (32 seconds)  #DisciplesTransformed

They spent the Sabbath day, the Saturday, consoling one another. How can this be? We thought he was God's messiah. He thought he was we we thought he was here to save us, to deliver this country. We thought that the people would embrace him and welcome him as their king. How can this be? And when the Sabbath had ended very early on the Sunday morning, the first day of the week, as the sun was rising, [00:45:38] (36 seconds)  #SabbathToSunday

I assume that all of us have had those kinds of experiences. We find out that we've gotten a job or that we're gonna be moving to another city or another province even or another country, or perhaps it's a very sad phone call that someone, has died that that is too young, to die and and life will never be the same again. We all, I hope have those well, not the the sad news ones, but we all have had those experiences where life as we know it is changing and will never be the same again. [00:41:56] (35 seconds)  #LifeChangingNews