The Tomb Is Empty
The tomb is empty.
It was God’s will that he be crucified to pay the penalty for our transgressions and iniquities. They lowered him from the cross on which he died, wrapped him in burial robes, and threw him in a tomb in time to participate in the Passover. Night turned to day, day to night, night to day. Some of his followers came dejected to dress him for burial in a manner more befitting a man of his stature than the common criminal he was treated as so few days before. He was not there. The stone had rolled away.
“But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.” - 1 Corinthians 15:20-22
Christ’s resurrection was a key necessity in our salvation. Had he died and not risen, he could not justify his claim to hold the power over life and death. We would still be in our sins, for he would not be the perfect sacrifice he said he was, and that the prophets beforehand prophesied would come. For it is through Christ’s death and resurrection that our old natures are put to death and we are raised to new life in him. Through his death we have confidence as those whom God has called that we are justified in his sight. In his resurrection we are brought back to life from the death we died with Adam.
Having therefore died with Him to sin, let us live for Him in service and to His glory. Because the tomb is empty.
