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EASTER SONRISE GUEST!

by Marvin D. Patterson

Scripture: Luke 24:1-12


Easter Sonrise Guest!
Marvin Patterson
Luke 24:1-12


Introduction:

Thank you all for coming out on this beautiful morning to enjoy an Easter Sonrise service! The birds are praising God! The creation itself is coming back to life to commemorate His resurrection. We are not alone out here, for the Lord is here! He says that where two or three are gathered together, there am I in the midst! Thank God for our risen Savior! I love the spring time, for it shows that after a long, dead winter that there is a living Savior doing quite well this morning! We also need to move on because I can smell that Easter Breakfast cooking in there with all the eggs and bacon, and sausage, and gravy, and biscuits with butter and jelly oozing out the sides. Boy I am getting hungry!

Body:

1-The Trip to the Tomb
24 Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.
We celebrate the first day of the week because this is the day of Christ's resurrection! This would have been around 6:00 A.M. So their trip probably started around 5 to 5:30 in the morning! They have been waiting all weekend to properly care for the body of Jesus, and they had made up us spices, spikenard, ointments, and all the ingredients for a proper burial! But what they do not know is there will be no burial because the tomb is empty! Amen and glory to God! Remember this sepulcher had never had anyone in it! It was the tomb of Jospeh of Arimathea!
Listen to what Luke tells us back in Luke 23,
53 And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.
54 And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.
55 And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.
56 And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabb ...

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