-The Broken Precedent
-John 19:31-42

"At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid."
--(John 19:41)

What those near Christ's execution didn't realize was that this death was hardly the end of the story. It certainly looked that way by human terms. Everyone knew that when a human heart stopped beating he was gone. He'd no longer talk, think or love. His soul might live somewhere; his memory would stay with those he left behind. But dead meant life was over.

This young man from Galilee was certainly dead. They'd seen Him murdered. A few friends stood close enough to watch the body dropped from the tree and carried to a grave. The next days' grief and fear must have paralyzed them. A few of them--women to be specific--pulled themselves together enough to go to the lifeless body to prepare it for proper burial.

Yet, that morning they got a hint that the story hadn't ended at all. If anything, it was now,-in an unexplainable way,-just beginning. Not just as a page to another chapter either, but to an entirely new reality. For these first witnesses and for us today, that meant hope had come to life!
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Paul writes that if Christ wasn't raised from the dead, our faith is useless. How can Christ's resurrection affect your faith today?

--Haven Today / I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE!(John 11:25)