Easter = God Cares
John 20:1-27
The 1st person He came to was Mary Magdalene.
JOHN 20:11 (NLT)
Mary was standing outside the tomb crying, and as she wept, she stooped and looked in.
JOHN 20:14 (NLT)
She turned to leave and saw someone standing there. It was Jesus, but she didn’t recognize him.
JOHN 20:15-16 (NLT)
“Dear woman, why are you crying?” Jesus asked her. “Who are you looking for?” She thought he was the gardener. “Sir,” she said, “if you have taken him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will go and get him.” “Mary!” Jesus said. She turned to him and cried out, “Teacher!”
JOHN 20:18 (NLT)
Mary Magdalene found the disciples and told them, “I have seen the Lord!” Then she gave them his message.
JOHN 20:19 (NLT)
That Sunday evening the disciples were meeting behind locked doors because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Suddenly, Jesus was standing there among them! "Peace be with you," he said.
They were afraid...so they were making terrible decisions.
1. They weren’t obeying Jesus...He told them to go to Galilee.
2. They were staying in a city where the leaders of the city had just killed their leader...
3. And they apparently were thinking a locked door would stop a bunch of soldiers from arresting them. They were panicked...they were afraid...
JOHN 20:19-21 (NLT)
Suddenly, Jesus was standing there among them! "Peace be with you," he said. As he spoke, he showed them the wounds in his hands and his side. They were filled with joy when they saw the Lord! Again he said, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I am sending you."
JOHN 20:21 (NLT)
Again he said, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I am sending you."
EPHESIANS 2:10 (NIV)
For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
JOHN 20:24-25 (NLT)
One of the disciples, Thomas (nicknamed the Twin), was not with the others when Jesus came. They told him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he replied, "I won't believe it unless I see the nail wounds in his hands, put my fingers into them, and place my hand into the wound in his side."
JOHN 11:16 (NLT)
Thomas, nicknamed the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, "Let's go, too—and die with Jesus."
JOHN 20:27-28 (NIV)
Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe." Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my God!"
JOHN 20:29 (NLT)
Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."
