Alleluia! Jesus Is Risen!

Rev. Nate Hill, pastor at St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in Winchester, TX, joins host Rev. Timothy Appel to study John 20:1-18. Mary Magdalene comes to Jesus’ tomb early in the morning on the first day of the week to find the stone taken away. She runs to tell Peter and John to announce that they cannot find where the Lord has been taken. These two disciples run to the tomb and find it in a state that cannot have been left by grave robbers, though they did not understand yet from the Scripture that Jesus must rise from the dead. When Mary remains at the tomb weeping, she is first greeted by two angels before seeing Jesus Himself. She mistakes Jesus for the gardener until He calls her by name. Jesus announces the good news to her and instructs her to tell His brothers as well. The resurrection of Jesus is the lynchpin of our Christian faith, giving us confidence for this life, taking away our fear of death, and instilling in us real hope for the life of the world to come. “The Word Made Flesh” is a series on Sharper Iron that goes through the Gospel according to St. John. The disciple whom Jesus loved wrote his Gospel account as an eyewitness to Jesus’ life and ministry. As we read the Word of God recorded by St. John, the Holy Spirit works in us so that we might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and so have life by faith in His name.