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John 20:
A. Reveals the Jesus.
Acts 17:30 NIV
He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.
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B. Announces the .
2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV
If anyone is in Christ, that person is a new creation: The old has gone, the new is here!
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“On the first day of the week…”
Jesus to be New Creation People
The message of Easter is that God’s new was launched when Jesus of Nazareth came out of the tomb.
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John 20:15-16 NIV
“Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.” 16 Jesus said to her, “Mary.”
Jesus meets us in our and calls us by .
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John 20:16 NIV
She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”).
John 20:17-18 NIV
“Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” 18 Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them that he had said these things to her.
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“Mary stands out as a symbol of the entire tradition of lament in the Old Testament. Mary’s tears are, as it were, the focal point of the tears of Eve, the tears of Sarah, the tears of the daughter of Jerusalem at the time of the exile, the tears in the book of Lamentations, the tears of the mother of Jesus at the foot of the cross.” –N.T. Wright on John 20
Jesus meets us in our and calls us into new .
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Now may the God of peace,
who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus,
equip you with everything good for doing his will,
and send you out as witnesses
of his new creation in the world,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Answer Key: risen; new creation; invites us; sorrow, name; weeping, life