The Resurrection Of Deliverance-2

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.”