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Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: Matthew 28:1-10
A Journey of Confession and Repentance
The Promise of Easter
Matthew 28:1-10
I would like to take this opportunity to talk about the three promises of Easter. Each promise is marked by emptiness: the empty cross, the empty tomb, and the empty burial clothes.
Do not think for a moment that they did not have absolute knowledge that Jesus was very dead when they took Him from the cross.
In short, because the cross is empty, we have the full promise of eternal glory with God.
He had risen and the tomb was empty! Do we realize just how much promise that empty tomb gives us?
For, in the knowledge of the empty tomb we find the truth of the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the promise to every one of us that we too can be raised to eternal life.
And the promise of that empty tomb is that we can also live after we die.
Inside the tomb were the empty burial clothes, and it was in the emptiness of the burial clothes that they found they could still have the promise of personal fellowship with the Lord Jesus.