A Risen Saviour // Who is Jesus, Part 4

<p>Imagine that you’d watched Jesus die that horrible death on the cross.  And then, on the third day you go to His tomb and discover that it’s empty.  What would you think? How would you react?</p> <p> </p> <h3><span style="color: #ff9900;"><strong>An Empty Tomb</strong></span></h3> <p>Well I’m excited. This is the last week in a four week series that I’ve called "Who is Jesus?" And over these last few weeks we have just been looking at little snapshots of who Jesus is from the different gospels. From Mark and John and Matthew and Luke. And today of course we are going to talk about the empty tomb.</p> <p>And maybe you have been having a long week end because its Easter but two thousand years ago it wasn’t some long weekend they were celebrating in Jerusalem it was a brutal crucifixion. A burial and then something that nobody would have expected.</p> <p>Imagine you have a friend or relative that has just died, tragically killed. You have watched them die. You go to the funeral. You’ve seen them buried and you get what you think is closure. Closure is one thing but the mourning process goes on. And then three days later you go down to the grave to leave some flowers, to reflect on the life that was so tragically taken, and the grave’s been dug up. The coffin is up on the ground, the lid’s off and it's empty. What would you feel? What would you do?</p> <p>A friend of mine was interviewing Barry McGuire for a radio program in New Zealand recently. Now Barry McGuire is a well known rock protest singer from the sixties. And over a period of 10 years or so he lost more than 20 of his closest friends to drug overdoses and sexually transmitted diseases. Now these were TV and movie stars and politicians who committed suicide. They were personalities of such promise and yet they turned out not to be what they promised.</p> <p>Marilyn Monroe, Michael Hutchins of INXS. These were fallen stars. See people have placed their hope in these stars and then they failed to deliver. And Jesus must have looked the same. He had rock s