Three Days That Changed The World

Until you are willing to take your place at the foot of the

Cross- - the Christian life will never make sense to you either!"

Day Two

62. On the next day, which followed the Day of Preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees gathered together to Pilate,

63. saying, "Sir, we remember, while He was still alive, how that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise.’

64. "Therefore command that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest His disciples come by night and steal Him away, and say to the people, ‘He has risen from the dead.’ So the last deception will be worse than the first."

65. Pilate said to them, "You have a guard; go your way, make it as secure as you know how."

66. So they went and made the tomb secure, sealing the stone and setting the guard.

If day one was a day of crucifixion and death, day two was a day of living with personal tragedy.

Jesus was the hope of the world. Now he is dead and buried.

The disciples were overwhelmed with grief and loss, but added to their sorrow was that they were confused. They seemed like dupes for believing in Jesus as the Jewish Messiah.

I read recently that most people live on Saturday, Day Two. It is the no-name day between Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday. Nothing happens on Saturday. It’s the hurry up and wait day.

You’ve tried to believe but it looks like you were let down. You’ve tried to change, but it just hasn’t worked for you. Many sitting here today can relate to the Saturday between. You started out with high hopes, but it all came to nothing. It’s over now, and they tell you you’re going to have to adjust. But, after what’s happened, how can you go on?

You’re devastated. You’re disillusioned. You’re numb. Let me intrude on your thoughts long enough to tell you something…the middle ground between two points on the spectrum will not last forever. Just because you can’t see the end, don’t think it’s all over.

“Weeping endureth for the night, but joy cometh in the morning.”

Yes, Jesus lies in the tomb today, but don’t think that everything is lost. You don’t know what he is doing. The body was dead, but the executioners did not kill the Spirit of God that inhabited the body of Jesus. The Spirit of God was poised, ready to return to that body and bring it back to life.

They did not lay Jesus in that tomb without a promise of the resurrection.

Mark 8:31 And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

Hold on, my friend! You have a promise that God will make good. Something is in the works for you, if you will just hold on. You may see death, but there’s life in that tomb. Everything may look monotonously the same, but there’s an earthquake under the ground just waiting for heaven’s signal! God has angels on assignment who are about ready to show up!