Wed Feb 4

Listen up, little ones

Listen for the words body and risen.

Reading

Luke 23:55-24:12—He Is Not Here. He Has Risen!

Keys for kids

• Jesus died on the cross and was placed in a tomb.
• When women went to honor his body, the tomb was empty.
• Jesus has risen from the grave and is alive!

Questions

1. What did the women expect to find at the tomb?
2. What did they find instead?
3. What difference does it make that Jesus is risen?

Notes

(See Saturday for authors. )

Again, remember that even though we read the historical account of Jesus rising from the dead in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Jesus himself tells us that it is written in the Old Testament Scriptures that this would happen (see Luke 24:46).

We are likely familiar with this historical account. Yet we should always be amazed when we read about it. This is a miracle of the highest order—a man is murdered unjustly by the Romans at the request of the Jewish leaders and buried in a tomb, and then he is no longer in the tomb when his followers check on the third day. Instead, two angels testify that “he is not here, but he has risen!”

As Hughes notes, as we consider the state of the Galilean women, we must not let our knowledge of the glorious revelation that awaited them dull us to the dark sackcloth covering these women’s souls. They were depressed, exhausted, mourning, with no hope whatsoever—and according to Mark, fretting over how they would get into the tomb (16:3). They did not expect anything except more sorrow. If you take flowers to the cemetery, do you expect to see an empty grave? And if you did see one, would it occur to you that the deceased had risen from the dead? Of course not!

Let us be amazed with these women. Though they did not yet fully understand, they immediately told the apostles about these things. Let us, too, proclaim, He is risen indeed!

Swedish Method questions

Praise

Psalm 16d, 65c

Prayer

1. Rejoice in prayer that Jesus is risen indeed!
2. Pray for change in you from last Lord’s Day’s sermons.
3. Pray for a member of our church, for your family, and for a non-Christian friend/family member.