Mark 16:8; Mark 16:7. Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him. But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.
Does not that lent clause drop out very sweetly? Yet there is somewhat of a rebuke in it: "as he said unto you." "Did he not tell you that he would rise from the dead? Did he not say that he would meet you in Galilee?" And the day shall come, beloved, when you also shall rejoice in your Deliverer and your deliverance, and you shall not wonder so much then as you do now, for you shall see that the deliverance was what you ought to have expected: "as he said unto you." Poor seeking sinner, if you have found the Saviour, you are full of wonder; but the day will come when you will see it in another light, you will be equally grateful, but you will say "I ought to have had faith to expect this, as he said to me." It will always be so. Just as God says, so it is, - in creation, in providence, in grace; and as he has said to you, so shall it be in your spiritual experience.
Mark 16:8. And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulcher; for they trembled and were amazed: neither said they any thing to any man; for they were afraid.
There was no reason in Christ’s resurrection for anything but delight, yet these dear women were overwhelmed, silenced, struck dumb, by that which made the angels sing.
Mark 16:8; Mark 16:7. Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him. But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.
Does not that lent clause drop out very sweetly? Yet there is somewhat of a rebuke in it: "as he said unto you." "Did he not tell you that he would rise from the dead? Did he not say that he would meet you in Galilee?" And the day shall come, beloved, when you also shall rejoice in your Deliverer and your deliverance, and you shall not wonder so much then as you do now, for you shall see that the deliverance was what you ought to have expected: "as he said unto you." Poor seeking sinner, if you have found the Saviour, you are full of wonder; but the day will come when you will see it in another light, you will be equally grateful, but you will say "I ought to have had faith to expect this, as he said to me." It will always be so. Just as God says, so it is, - in creation, in providence, in grace; and as he has said to you, so shall it be in your spiritual experience.
Mark 16:8. And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulcher; for they trembled and were amazed: neither said they any thing to any man; for they were afraid.
There was no reason in Christ’s resurrection for anything but delight, yet these dear women were overwhelmed, silenced, struck dumb, by that which made the angels sing.