Responding to Jesus: Who Will Roll Away the Stone

Jesus' first followers faced His
grave with fear and without hope.
Like most people, they could not
apprehend a sense of victory in
the face of man's greatest enemy
– death itself.
Like us, these sorrowful disciples had
forgotten Jesus' promise: He would give up His
life but rise again on the third day.
The gospel is God's glad proclamation that He
has defeated sin -- and its death -- through the
work of Christ. All who repent and trust in Christ
are promised a share in Jesus' eternal victory!
Christ's death on the cross purchased our
forgiveness, and His resurrection is the receipt
for His purchase of His own.
Disciples are meant to live in the hope of His
resurrection and ours: we are God's forgiven,
blood-bought people, assured of rising, never to
die again, just as Jesus rose and lives today.
I hope to see you here this Sunday as we
begin our look at Mark 16. See you here!