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Matthew 28:1-6

“If Christ had not been raised,” says Paul, “Then our preaching is in vain, and your faith is in vain.”

The caterpillar had been crawling across a Persian carpet. Crawling for what seemed to him seventy plus years.

And as he crawled all over that beautiful rug he could see only one color at a time.

He would crawl for a time over a portion that was nothing but red and then he would find his journey taking across the color yellow.

In time the color would change to purple and deep violets and vibrant greens. And he would exclaim, “What a beautiful world I am in.”

And he lived longer still and for what he called eighty years and then ninety, no more than the blink of an eye in God’s way of recording time.

And he became a cocoon and he hibernated and he was about to learn that a cocoon was part of the miracle of life.

And then another miracle took place as he came out of the cocoon as a butterfly, a monarch butterfly.

And he started to fly and he flew higher and higher and looked down at the beautiful Persian rug and for the first time he saw it in all of its magnificent glory.

For the first time in his whole life; he saw the meaning of his whole life. Saw the past and the present and the future as he had never seen them before.

And he murmured the word “eternity” and he knew in a way he had never known before what the word meant.

In short, Jesus didn’t just talk a great game, He did a great deed. He didn’t just talk about life after death, He did it.

All the triumph that was present as He entered Jerusalem would have gone down the drain without the Resurrection.

It wasn’t until the empty tomb that things went from worse to wonderful. Without it, the references to immortality are little more than a madman’s mouthings. With it, the grave becomes an open door and not a dead end street.

Feel your heart beating?

When it stops beating the message of Christ has the strength of forever in it. And what a gospel this is that promises a new life waiting, that looks at our flesh and reminds us that it is but a mortal covering for our immortal soul. “Fear not” is the call of the Masters message because the truth of eternity is there ready to come breaking through.

But dying is so final,” argue some. And I have to reply, “Final? Final to what?

To money in the bank? I agree – we can’t take it with us. To a body most often grown aging and old? I agree. Or to a body withered by sickness or maimed by accident? I agree. To cars and clothes and all things physical as we know them? I agree.

But I also agree, with great joy, the heavenly underlined words of your Jesus and mine, “I am the Resurrection and the Life.”

Powerful words. Words to heal when the hurting time of death comes to call. Words that can make cemeteries cathedrals, because when you believe that the reason there was an empty tomb was because there was a risen Lord, death remains a wrenching sadness, but no longer a bitter finality.

Christ did not come only to preach a gospel, but to be a gospel.” That’s the way A. M. Ramsey put it in his book The Resurrection of Christ.

And when Jesus rose from the dead, He was the good news shouting an affirmative answer to an age-old question asked by Job, “If a man die shall he live again?” (Job 14:14) For Paul the answer was, “For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. (Phil 1:21)

We must never forget that this life is a trip on the way to a destination. Mortality on the way to immortality. Earthly doors opening and closing and opening and closing, until one day a heavenly gate opens and we enter into a place called Forever.

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“The Christian does not say, “I will never grow sick or die. I will have everything I want and be everything I desire.” No. Echoing the Psalmist words, In God I have put my trust, the believer warns, “Watch out world, I'm a giant. I can move mountains.”

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