Pastor Mac v.18 "What the Tomb Still Preaches!" Matthew 28:1-10

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Hello and good morning. Thank you for tuning in to another podcast of a few minutes for past. We hope God is blessing you less fun this Sunday morning. And we hope God is our favourite strength. We upon you for this new week. That is upon us. If you can't make service, don't forget it. We have to give the app that you can give your donations and fresh fruits and praise giving the right app. And um, if you can't make it to service, so don't forget about that. We always want to make sure we give opportunity to uh so season to God's ministry. And if you can't make it again, our website as well, uh give the website and on our app, uh Gibbilify. Glad to have you with another broadcast podcast of a few minutes with Pastor Mac. Um the Lord has blessed you and this uh past previous week. Uh seen you grow in Christ, move closer to Christ, and Christ's hands covering you, supplying you, and keeping you through all life's troubles. But we don't trouble in trouble. We we we travail and uh praise for God and all he's done. So this new week upon us, we don't know what may come, but we know we can stand on God's word and his promises for what he has done. This past holy week, as we led up from Palm Sunday up until now Resurrection Sunday. So happy resurrection Sunday to you. Don't be looking for God to do great things even now. So give him all your concerns, all your worries. God is still in the resurrection business. He can resurrect whatever's going back on dead, but is dead in your life right now. Let's pray, oh God. We thank you for the chance to worship you, to hear a word from you. We love what you've done, what you do this Sunday, early Sunday morning. You rose with all power in your hand. So we love you for that, oh God, and we praise you for what you're doing as now, Lord. Anything that should not be removed. Let us hear from you, let us feel you, your presence, Lord, feel this space. We love you, and we thank you for all you die. We don't have enough tongues to say if we had 10,000 of the old folks today. We wouldn't have enough to say thank you, Lord. We love you. Thank you for this Sunday, Lord. We celebrated every Sunday, but this Sunday we commemorate because it's set aside for the resurrection day. You woke up this morning. You got up this morning. You was you see. You got up with all power. You were dead, Lord, and rose from the dead with all power in your hands. We love you and we pray. Oh my Savior, my redeemer. In Jesus the Christ's name, we pray it all. Amen. Last Sunday gave you the text of Matthew 28, 1 through 10, as we had Palm Sunday last Sunday today. Resurrection will be using the Matthew version, uh the text of the story, the passion. Uh at least the resurrection part is my notes have delivered to me. Uh Matthew 28, uh, one through ten. Next Sunday we'll begin back. Acts chapter five, I believe, one through eleven. So next time we pick back up in our Acts journey for the year until another uh I don't know Pentecost yeah, we've already done Pentecost. Chapter two, Acts. I may go back and redo a uh another area of Pentecost. I see how the Holy Spirit leaves me for uh May twenty-fourth, I believe, Pentecost this year. But uh Acts five, we'll continue again next Sunday. Acts five one three and eleven. Why is that way? Sorry, guys. I want to keep on expository as I want. So as I've been trained in my so my preaching, training, that warrant to squeeze all you guys. So Matthew 28, uh Matthew reads this an amplified translation after the Sabbath, near dawn of the first day of the week. Mary of Magdalene and the other Mary went to take a look at the tomb. And behold, there was a great earthquake for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled the boulder back and set upon it. His appearance was like lightning and his garments as white as snow. Those keeping guard were so frightened at the sight of him that they were agitated and they trembled before and became like dead men. The angel said for the to the woman, Do not be alarmed and frightened, for I know that you are looking for Jesus who was crucified. He is not here, he has risen. He said he would as he said he would do. Come see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples he has risen from the dead, and behold, he is going before you to Galilee. There will you see him. Behold, I have told you. So they left the tomb hastily, after fear, uh with fear and great joy, and ran to tell the disciples. And on and as they went, behold, Jesus met them and said, Hail, which means greetings. And they went up to him, clapped his uh claps his feet, and worshipped him. And Jesus said to them, Do not be alarmed and afraid. Go and tell my brethren to go into Galilee, and there they will see me. While they were there on their way, behold, some of the guards went into the city and reported to the chief priest everything that had occurred. Word of God for the people of God, for the edifying of God. Um attack this human passage, Matt, and this resurrection Sunday. What the empty tomb still preaches. What the empty tomb still preaches. The tomb didn't speak with words, but it preached with power. An empty tomb is not silent, it is still talking. Resurrection Sunday then began with a shout and didn't open with a choir, then start with a sermon. It started early while it was still quiet, while grief was still heavy, while hope felt fragile. Matthew tells us the women came to the tomb at dawn. They weren't coming to celebrate, they weren't coming to expecting a miracle, they were coming out of love, loyalty, and loss. They came expecting to visit death, but God had already dealt with death. And that's the good news for somebody under the sound of my voice today. Before you arrived with questions, before you showed up with doubt, before you walked in carrying grief or fatigue, God had already moved the stone. Resurrection morning reminds us that God does his greatest work when it looks like nothing is happening. No announcement, no warning, just power. And the most powerful preacher that morning wasn't a prophet, wasn't an angel, wasn't even the women, it was an empty tomb. Because the tomb still preaches, it preaches to broken hearts, it preaches to weary faith, it preaches to anyone who thought the story was over. So today, before we shout, before we celebrate, before we declare victory, let's listen to what the empty tomb is still saying. First, the empty tomb preaches God moves what we can. The stone was already rolled away. The woman came in with a question who will roll the stone away? But when they got there, God had already handled it. They were worried about something heaven had already moved. The stone represents impossibility, pressure, and barriers. They had no strength to move it, but God didn't need the help. He did it all by himself. Some of you are carrying stress over something. God has already decided to move. I told you last Sunday. We hold on to things that have not taken place. Because we're so concerned over looking at our physical lives, putting God in a box like He can't handle it, and He moved a stone. If God can move a stone, He can move your situation. Well, they came early expecting death, but they encountered hope. Once held pain, but now holds promise. What I thought was over, God says is just the beginning. Hope rises where God has already been working. The stone was already moved away. The woman came with a question who would roll it away? When they got there, it's already handled. Oh, my brothers and sisters, for the first time the followers of Jesus, these faithful women heard what they did not to expect what not to expect to hear. They heard that Jesus was not in a tomb, but risen to resurrection life. God has already moved. What you've already facing. He's moved the pressure. He's moved the back, whatever's standing in your way. God is already moved. And remember, if he can move a stone, he can move your situation. Well, number two, the empty tomb preaches, Jesus defeated what defeated you. He is not here, he is risen. This is a sermon, this is a sermon of the angel, not a suggestion, a declaration. The very thing that defeats everybody else, death, couldn't hold Jesus. Death had a perfect record until Jesus. The grave had never lost until now. Whatever you had bound, or whatever had you bound, sin, shame, fear, addiction, guilt, Jesus is already beat it when he got up. And I don't know who had to hear that, who needed to hear that word. You you're not fighting for victory, you're fighting from victory. John 20 and 19 says that Jesus in his resurrection body could pass through material barriers. So the stone wasn't there for Jesus to get out. It wasn't moved for Jesus to get out. It was just moved so we could see. There was a stone, there were soldiers, there was a seal. And the resurrection power didn't ask permission. Nothing that tried to stop God succeeded. If God overpowered death, he can overpower anything you're facing. He is not here, he is risen. This is the sermon of the angel. You need to remember the very thing that tried to hold Jesus bound. It's not able to hold him bound. It's got to move. Somebody says it's got to move. It's got to get out the way. Because what God has for me, it is for me. Somebody in this room right now, you've been worried concerned over something in your life, and you need to just let go and let God. You need to let God have it his way. He can fix it for you. As soon as you get sick of trying to work it out, you'll feel you'll you'll realize that he's already figured he's already worked it out. You try to figure it out, he's worked that out already. You need to just let go and let God have his way. Well, first the pre the the the tune preaches God moves what you can. And secondly, the tune preaches, Jesus defeated what defeated you. And then thirdly, lastly, empty tune preaches, you don't have to stay where you were. And tell. It came one way, but they didn't leave the same. Resurrection didn't just change Jesus' position, it changed the direction. They came grieving, but they left rejoicing because they came with fear, but they left with hope. The fear was they were stuck in the fact that they had seen Jesus killed. Seen Jesus' body taken down and placed into the tomb. That was the fear. But the joy they now have, they're left rejoicing. Because they came to a dead place and found life. Well, that's some of us that came slow and left running, they came silent and left testifying that something happens when you meet Jesus. Your dead situation changes, your predicament changes for the better. And as they went, they met Jesus. Movement creates encounters. Some of you are stuck because you're standing still, but when you move in faith, you meet Jesus in motion. I don't know about you preach, Pastor Mac. I'm doing the best I can. Rewind, press play. But when you move in faith, because some of y'all are stuck. See, when you move in faith, you meet Jesus in motion. Angel said, Come see and go tell. Worship Jesus. Then Jesus sent them. I didn't I didn't come, somebody touch your name and say, I touched somebody in the room, but you say, I didn't come just to celebrate. I came to be sent. Resurrection is never just for you, it always for somebody else. That's our problem now. We we've got the the good news, but we don't share it. We don't tell somebody, we don't help somebody, but they came one way, but they didn't leave the same. We should never leave the same way uh as we came. That's the problem. That's why some folk, uh, you want to know a quick uh observation is that uh when we leave this place, we don't gonna tell nobody else, don't nobody else come with us. Okay, I'm just uh you you gotta invite somebody, they gotta see the shine on you from your experience with Jesus. Uh resurrection didn't just change Jesus' position, it changed the direction. They came grieving, left rejoicing, running slow, I told you, they left running. Can't stay the same when you come to meet Jesus. We stuck in our places because uh we're not moving in motion. When we see the place where they laid them, we see that the Father did not forsake Jesus. When we see the place where they laid them, we see that death is conquered. When we see the place where they laid him, we see that we have a living friend in Jesus. If I the songwriter wrote, Oh, what a friend we have in Jesus. All my sins and grieves to bear, oh, what a privilege it is to carry everything to God in prayer. The tomb is empty, fear is defeated, death is embarrassed, Jesus is alive. So I just ask you this before I uh uh finish my Easter speech. If the tomb is empty, that means my hope is alive. If the tomb is empty, my faith still works. If the tomb is empty, I can get up. And since I can get up from all my struggles, since Jesus gave me the power to fix, he'll fix everything in my life. So all I got to do is give it over to him and watch him uh work it out. How do I know he'll watch him watch and work it out? Is that one Friday? We they saw him walk up Calvary's hill. Yes, they saw him nailed to an old rugged cross. They saw him hung his head in his locks of his shoulders, and he died. They saw the sun stop shining. He died, the moon dripped away in blood. He died till the earth shook like a drunk man. He died till the soldiers said this must be the Son of God. But that's not the end of the story. They took him off that cross and they saw him be put in Joseph Aramea's new tomb, and a rock put on the tomb, and a shield from the government put on the tomb. But early three days later Sunday morning he rose from the grave with all power in his hand and since he got up with all power I can now get up from my travesty. I cannot rise over my situation, I cannot put my hand beyond the trouble, 'cause I got a friend, and his name is Jesus. Sweetest name I know no other help I found, but that man con Jesus loves me so deeply, save my soul so completely, and I'll never be the same again. Won't he do it? Say yes, won't he do it? Say yes, give him glory, happy resurrection day. But in the life of a saint, in the life of a believer, it's every day because he lives. My life shows that he lives. My his glory to explore. You ask me how I know he lives, he lives within my soul. Thank you, Holy Ghost, thank you, Lord. You saved my soul, and I'm no longer the same. Invitation is extended now. If you don't know Jesus, the pardon of your sins. If you would like to get to know him better and get saved, allow him to come into your life, simply say this prayer. Jesus, I need you in my life. I believe you died and rose again on the third day. I trust you to control my life and to enhance my future. If you said that prayer, uh, it's as simple as ABC. Accept, believe, and commit. If you did that, we would love to hear from you. You may contact us through email, get praiseon at house of praisepp.org. Or you may go simply to our website, www.houseofpraisepp.org. Contact us, and someone from our discipleship team will get back with you with other information you need in order to begin this new life in Christ. We love you to life. We look forward to hearing from you. Thank you again for listening to our podcast. We hope something was said, it would be a blessing for you, be a blessing for you this week. We know that we are still in the hands of God, and we will trust him to keep and deliver us. Bless you. God bless you. Come on, we love you to life, and you can't do anything. Look forward to the next week. The Lord says we're sending. We hope you are bringing and reading the word.