The Good News
Easter at Fall Line

(1 Corinthians 15:14) And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.

(John 20:1-18) Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. 2 So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”

3 So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. 4 Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. 6 Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, 7 as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus’ head. The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen. 8 Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. 9 (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.) 10 Then the disciples went back to where they were staying.

11 Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb 12 and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot. 13 They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?” “They have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I don’t know where they have put him.” 14 At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus. 15 He asked her, “Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?” Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.”

16 Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”). 17 Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” 18 Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them that he had said these things to her.

1. You can know Jesus and him. 

(Mark 8:31-32) He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again. 32 He spoke plainly about this … 

(Matthew 27:62-63) The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate. 63 “Sir,” they said, “we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’ 64 So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day. 

✓ Jesus died for your

(Romans 5:8) But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

✓ Jesus is the way to God

(John 14:6) Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

✓ You must be

(John 3:3 NLT) Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, unless you are born again, you cannot see the Kingdom of God.”

(John 3:7) So don’t be surprised when I say, ‘You must be born again.’

2. You can be Jesus and not him. 

(John 20:14) At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.

✓ If you don’t look through the eyes of you will miss Jesus time.

3. You can Jesus in a way.

(John 20:16 ) Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”).

(Revelation 3:20)“Look! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in …

✓ Powerful things happen when you place your in Jesus 

(2 Corinthians 5:17) Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 

(Colossians 2:13b-14 ESV) … God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.

(Psalm 103:12 NLT) He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west.

(1 Corinthians 2:9) “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.”