There are words that change everything. They put in perspective all the moments that came before and redirect all that are to come. A minister says, “I now pronounce you husband and wife.” An ultrasound technician says, “There’s the heart beating!” The judge says, “Not guilty.” The doctor says, “You are cancer free.”
There are words that change everything. They put in perspective all the moments that came before and redirect all that are to come. A minister says, “I now pronounce you husband and wife.” An ultrasound technician says, “There’s the heart beating!” The judge says, “Not guilty.” The doctor says, “You are cancer free.” The Bible says, “He is risen!””
With just a few simple words, the world is transformed in a moment. There is hope where there was despair. The tables are turned; the script is flipped. It’s a brand-new day.
One Sunday morning two thousand years ago, three frightened women heard a sentence that didn’t just change everything for them; it changed everything for everybody. This good news would topple empires. It would redraw maps. It would
change the way we mark time itself. It would alter eternity. It was the most life giving, paradigm shifting, world transforming sentence that has ever been spoken. It is the reason we are reading this session today. What was this sentence?
He has risen!
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