Ten Tweets on "Why the Empty Tomb?" (Luke 24:1-12)

Here's the Easter message in 10 tweets.

The traditional location of the empty tomb.

1/ Luke’s gospel uniquely explores why the tomb is empty. 

2/ Why is the tomb empty? Why didn’t Jesus meet them there? The angels tell us. It’s the place for the dead, not the living.

3/ Why are the women (his most devoted and courageous disciples) at the tomb? Because they didn’t believe Jesus.

4/ The Easter story begins at an empty tomb because his most loyal followers failed to believe Jesus. 

5/ At the core of sin is the failure to believe God. 

6/ Adam & Eve would never have eaten the fruit if they believed God when he told them it would kill them.

7/ Saving faith is not only believing in God; saving faith is believing God. 

8/ The angels are in the wrong place because God pursues us into all the wrong places we go to find life.

9/ The women abandon the tomb because that’s what you do with such incredibly good news!

10/ Peter doesn’t believe the women but he runs to the tomb. He's the patron saint of skeptics.

Easter Weekend - "Why an Empty Tomb?" (Luke 24:1-12)

Why an empty tomb? The answer seems obvious. Jesus is risen. But that's not really an answer. Yes, Jesus is risen, but he's not waiting for the disciples to arrive at the tomb. Everyone who goes to the tomb finds it empty. 

Luke’s gospel uniquely explores why the tomb is empty by including words spoken by the angels that are not included in the other gospels. The answer raises other penetrating questions. The answers to these questions offer hope to saints who sin, to skeptics who search, and to lapsed Christians who long to come back to God.

Come, worship with us this Easter, and explore the questions and answers raised by the empty tomb.