The RESURRECTION Of DELIVERANCE-II—
—Mark 16:7-8(:1-20)
Previously we had examined:
‘The DEATH Of DELIVERANCE’—Mk. 15:1-47.....
And last time, we began to delve into:
The RESURRECTION Of DELIVERANCE-I—Mark 16:1-6(:1-20)
Need:
People struggle with various means of so-called ‘deliverance.’
We desperately want to be freed from any difficulty in our lives.
•HOWEVER, we would all be much BETTER served, if we could only see our difficulties thru God’s eyes. Then we could approach any personal difficulty with confidence! We would not only be able to accept & live above our own difficulties, but we would ALSO be empowered to view the world very differently. It’s descent into sin would cease to surprise us, even though we may be horrified by it!
•People without the resurrected Jesus, are left to make sense of the obvious ‘incompleteness’ of everything around them.
Their attempts to ‘make sense of’ the damage caused by a sin-sick world, are limited to what they can see & touch. And so, they live a limited & a limiting life with blinders on.
Most resort to their own means of surviving the collateral of sin-sickness.
•They try to stay busy, so they won’t be forced to consider the reality of true satisfaction & the reality of death. Because, their busy-ness ‘temporarily distracts’ & ‘seemingly delivers’ them from death, by a poorly constructed shadow of what seems to them, to be ‘life.’
*However, True deliverance comes thru the resurrected & thus ever-living Lord Jesus alone!
Mark records some of the historical events that surround the actual resurrection of Jesus Christ.
And that is because:
True ‘Deliverance’ is found only in the resurrected Jesus....He IS our Deliverance!
But:
?How” or “Why? is true deliverance found in Jesus’ resurrection?
Last week we found that:
The Resurrection of Deliverance informs your...
1. ANTICIPATION(:1-4)
2. COMPREHENSION(:5-6)
Today, we’ll discover the fact that:
3—The Resurrection of Deliverance ALSO informs your...
RESPONSE(:7-8)
Explanation:(:7-8)
:7—““But go, tell His disciples--& Peter--that He is going before you into Galilee; there you will see Him, as He said to you.”
:7a—“But go, tell His disciples--& Peter--“
After the angel informed the women that Jesus had risen from the dead, he told them to leave him & “go” to Jesus’ “disciples” in order to relay a message to them.
The women were further instructed by the angel to ensure that “Peter” in particular, heard that same message.
•“Peter” is specifically mentioned here, ‘probably’ because during the hours following Jesus arrest in the Garden of Gethesmane, & during the time when Jesus was being accused & abused at the hands of the Jewish Sanhedrin, “Peter” was outside in the courtyard of the high priest’s house.....
•And on three occasions in that courtyard, “Peter” was recognized, by others in the courtyard, as one who had been with the accused Jesus—& was even one of His disciples!
•To those accusations, “Peter” had openly denied that he knew Jesus.(Mat. 26:69-75; Mk. 14:66-72; Lk. 23:54-62; Jn. 18:15-18, 27).
•Jesus had known that “Peter” would deny Him before it actually happened, & had warned “Peter” of it(Mk. 14:29-31).
By the angel’s emphasizing that the message must surely go to “Peter”, was a way of reinstating “Peter” as a faithful disciple, so that he would not be disheartened.
:7b—“that He is going before you into Galilee; there you will see Him,...”
The message that the women were to relay to the disciples, & “Peter” in particular, was simply, that:
1)Jesus had been raised to life from the dead(:6),
-& that-
2)The risen Jesus was going “into Galilee” ahead of His disciples.
So Jesus’ disciples were also to come to “Galilee”, where they would then meet-up with “Him”, & “see” for themselves that He was indeed alive from the dead!
:7c—“...As He said to you.”(see :11--the disciple’s unbelief)—
Following the Lord’s Supper, but prior to His crucifixion, Jesus had let His disciples know that He would be struck down, & as a result, they themselves would “be made to stumble” because of Him.
•Jesus then quoted a portion of Zech. 13:7 in affirmation of His statement(Mk. 14:27).—that prophecy’s fulfillment is recorded in Mk. 14:50(Mat. 26:56).
Mk. 14:27—“Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of Me this night, for it is written: [Zech. 13:7]’I will strike the Shepherd, And the sheep will be scattered.’”
Mk. 14:50—“Then they all forsook Him & fled.”
•Immediately after Jesus’ Zechariah quote, Jesus had unequivocally—without any doubt—told His disciples that He would be killed, but also that He would be raised from the dead(Mat. 16:21; Mat. 17:22-23)!
Mat. 16:21—“From that time Jesus began to show to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, & suffer many things from the elders & chief priests & scribes, & be killed, & be raised the third day.”
Mat. 17:22-23—“Now while they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men, “& they will kill Him, & the third day He will be raised up.” And they were exceedingly sorrowful.”
The angel also REMINDED the women, that prior to Jesus’ crucifixion, burial, & resurrection, Jesus had foretold that He would not only be raised from the dead, but that following His resurrection, He would then expect His disciples to “go” to a particular Galilean mountain(Mat. 28:10, 16), where they would meet & “see” Him.
•That location had been previously appointed for them by Jesus, as their meeting place(Mk. 14:28; Mat. 26:32; Mat. 28:16).
*Thus the disciples had all heard that they were expected to meet the risen Lord Jesus in “Galilee.”
:8—So they went out quickly & fled from the tomb, for they trembled & were amazed. And they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.”
The women were so overwhelmed with the simultaneous conflictions of joy, happiness, & fear, that they physically “trembled” in the ‘ecstasy’(ekstasiv) of the moment.
They were so emotionally shocked & overcome by the angel’s presence, & the news of Jesus’ being alive from the dead, that they “quickly” “fled from the tomb”, “And they said nothing to anyone.”
“Amazed/Bewildered/Amazement”—ekstasiv—Lit. = ‘out of place’ or ‘to stand away from’—Noun Nominative Sing. Fem.—1) Any casting down of a thing from its proper place or state, displacement; 2) A throwing of the mind out of its normal state, alienation of mind, whether such as makes a lunatic or that of a man who by some sudden emotion is transported as it were out of himself, so that in this rapt condition, although he is awake, his mind is drawn off from all surrounding objects & wholly fixed on things divine that he sees nothing but the forms & images lying within, & thinks that he perceives with his bodily eyes & ears realities shown him by God.; 3) Amazement, the state of one who, either owing to the importance or the novelty of an event, is thrown into a state of blended fear & wonderment. Strong—A displacement of the mind, i.e. Bewilderment, “Ecstasy.” Used 7X.?From—ek/ex—1) Out of, from, by, away from. Strong—From, out(of place, time, or cause; literal or figurative; direct or remote); a primary preposition denoting origin(the point whence action or motion proceeds).—&—isthmi—1) To cause or make to stand, to place, put, set; 2) To stand. Strong—To stand(transitively or intransitively), used in various applications(literally or figuratively); a prolonged form of a primary staw(of the same meaning, used for it in certain tenses).?English = ‘ecstasy’.
Argumentation/Illustration:
Rom. 11:25-32—“For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come out of Zion, And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; For this is My covenant with them, When I take away their sins.” Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. For the gifts & the calling of God are irrevocable. For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience, even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy. For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all.”
Col. 4:5-6—“Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time. Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.”
Jn. 4:34-38—“Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, & to finish His work. Do you not say, ‘There are still four months & then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes & look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest! And he who reaps receives wages, & gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows & he who reaps may rejoice together. For in this the saying is true: ‘One sows & another reaps.’ “I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, & you have entered into their labors.””
•Your labors in Christ, are a vital part of the previous labors of others, even of those who are now past.
Application:
?(How)Does True Deliverance thru the resurrected & living Lord Jesus, inform YOUR RESPONSE in daily living?
?Is YOUR Deliverance secure in Christ Jesus?
CONCLUSION:
Visualization:
People struggle with various means of so-called ‘deliverance.’
YET true Deliverance is readily available, in Jesus alone!
Action:
The Resurrection of Deliverance informs your...
3—RESPONSE(:7-8)
1—ANTICIPATION(:1-4)
2—COMPREHENSION(:5-6)
Pnt# 3 only! presented 04/27/2025am to:
Salem Baptist Church
1618 Salem Rd.
Bennettsville, SC 29512
