The Resurrection Of Deliverance-1

The RESURRECTION Of DELIVERANCE-I—Mark 16:1-14(:1-20)

Sunday & Wednesday the week before last, we looked at:

‘The DEATH Of DELIVERANCE’—Mk. 15:1-47

Today, we’ll delve into:

The RESURRECTION Of DELIVERANCE—Mark 16:1-14(:1-20)

Need:

People struggle with various means of so-called ‘deliverance.’

We desperately want to be freed from any difficulty in our lives.

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 never-ending damage caused by a sin-sick world, are limited to what they can see & touch. 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 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 in the resurrected Jesus....He IS our Deliverance!

But:

?How” or “Why? is true deliverance found in Jesus’ resurrection?

1—The Resurrection of Deliverance informs your...

ANTICIPATION(:1-4)

Explanation:(:1-4)

:1—“Now when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, & Salome bought spices, that they might come & anoint Him.”

“Mary the mother of James”—

Mk. 15:40, 47—“There were also women looking on from afar, among whom were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the Less & of Joses, & Salome,”.....“And Mary Magdalene & Mary the mother of Joses observed where He was laid.”

These three women are named who would be recognized by the immediate audience. “Salome” is mentioned by name only here & in Mk. 15:40.

They “bought spices” because, by Jewish law, common selling for any reason was forbidden on the Sabbath.

•Although during Passover Week, the Jews allowed the exchange of money & the purchase of animals for sacrifice, but ironically they allowed it within the temple confines....An issue to which Jesus vehemently took offense.

Mk. 11:15-17(Mat. 21:12-13; Lk. 19:45-46)—“So they[Jesus & the 12 disciples] came to Jerusalem. Then Jesus went into the temple & began to drive out those who bought & sold in the temple, & overturned the tables of the money changers & the seats of those who sold doves. And He would not allow anyone to carry wares through the temple. Then He taught, saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’””

“That they might come & anoint Him.”—

Both “Marys” & “Salome” came to Jesus’ tomb with at least one express purpose: “that they might come & anoint Him.”

•Both “Mary Magdalene” & the other “Mary”, had already observed that Jesus’ body had been properly buried in a tomb by Joseph of Arimathea & Nicodemus(Mk. 15:46-47; Jn. 19:38-42).

•These women, as well as others, were emotionally tied to Jesus’, as ministers to Him throughout His ministry among them(Mat. 27:55; Mk. 15:41; Lk. 8:1-3).

Mat. 27:55—“And many women who followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to Him, were there looking on from afar,”

Mk. 15:40-41—At Jesus’ crucifixion,—“There were also women looking on from afar,.... “who also followed Him & ministered to Him when He was in Galilee, & many other women who came up with Him to Jerusalem.”

Lk. 8:1-3—“Now it came to pass, afterward, that He went through every city & village, preaching & bringing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with Him, & certain women who had been healed of evil spirits & infirmities--Mary called Magdalene, out of whom had come seven demons, & Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod’s steward, & Susanna, & many others who provided for Him from their substance.”

:2—“Very early in the morning, on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.”

“Very early in the morning”—At dawn; During the day-break watch; Before the “sun had” fully “risen.”

By the time the women had reached the tomb, “the sun had risen.”

:3—“And they said among themselves, “Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?””

The women approached their task of anointing Jesus’ body, evidently without thinking thru the difficulty of removing “the stone” that sealed the “tomb.”

The women talked “among themselves” attempting to reach a logical solution for getting “the tomb” opened.

They realized that they needed other people to “roll the stone away.”

As they started out, the women probably did not know that on the Sabbath day, “the tomb” had been sealed & that a Roman guard had been set there....