What we can learn from Mary Magdalene at the Empty Tomb

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Goal:

To fully receive the promise of LIFE offered by Jesus.

1–12 ”Book of Signs”	13–21 ”Book of Glory”

13 A meal with the disciples

14–17 New Teaching
from Jesus
to the disciples

18–20 Arrest
Trials
Crucifixion
Resurrection

21 A meal with the disciples

The resurrection of Jesus was not simply coming back to life, but the start of a new kind of humanity (and reality)
This “new kind of human” has already begun in us.
We need to live out this new identity.

Climax: “These are written so that you may believe
that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God,
and that by believing you may have life in his name” v.31

Show the story: Link to John 20
- Underlined where I think it shows their emotion
- Statements of belief are in red
Mary
- Mary is the first to find the tomb empty and the first to see Jesus risen from the dead.
- She also is the one whom John portrays as missing Jesus the most (weeping, not giving up)
- Some have suggested that Mary is like a new Eve, but reversing her role in the fall
  - She is the first to see the New Creation
- Why? I think quite simply that God rewards those who diligently seek him
  - John is very clearly showing her is the one who feels Jesus’ loss the most
Witness of women
- One of the arguments for the authenticity of the account that some atheists have said make them believe in Christianity was that you would never ever make up a story in the Roman world with women as your main witnesses.

Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgement:

then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born from above.’
The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”