Easter Sunday Sermon | Understanding the Resurrection of Christ | John | Part 33

Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner continues the series on the Gospel of John. John 20:8-10. John 20 draws our attention to understanding the resurrection. One reason it was so difficult for the Israelites to understand the resurrection was God’s people never saw a slain animal rise from the dead. The women that were at the cross of Jesus and ran to the tomb, were satisfied with the crucifixion, with the idea that the Lord Jesus Christ had been stricken for their sins. They had a level of understanding of the words, “It is finished”, and embraced that idea. However, they didn’t understand the resurrection.In becoming a child of the King, we have to continually study how to cast off the old and embrace that which is new.Mary Magdalene didn’t understand the resurrection but she refers to Jesus as “Lord” and longs to be with Him. She loved Christ and understood He was directly related to her own spiritual life.The disciples didn’t understand the scripture that said He must rise from the dead. They didn’t understand the breadth of His resurrection and what it meant for them.As we contemplate and meditate on the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, there is much more than His simply dying. Christ was raised from the dead by the Father, just as with us.In a spiritual sense, the redeemed are made new, in unity with the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.