ON THE RESURRECTION AFTER DEATH.
EIGHTEENTH SERMON.
ON THE HOPE IN AND TRUTH OF OUR FUTURE RESURRECTION.
Subject.
We shall all rise again from the dead; this is the foundation of our hope.—Preached on Easter Sunday.
Text.
Surrexit.—Mark xvi. 6.
“He is risen.”
Introduction.
Ye holy women, said the angel, why do you spend so much time seeking Jesus amongst the dead? He has indeed suffered much; He was nailed to the cross, and at last died on it; He was buried, too, in this place; but all that is at an end. " You seek Jesus of Nazareth who was crucified,” in order to show to Him as to one deceased the last honors; but in vain do you seek Him here: “He is risen; He is not here;” you will see Him, as He Himself told you, in Galilee. “Go, tell His disciples and Peter that He goeth before you into Galilee: there you shall see Him as He told you.” My dear brethren, Christ is really risen from the dead; no true Christian has the least doubt of that. But how can that be a comfort for us? Our Head may be in glory, really living again; what better are we, the members He has left behind, if we have to rot away in the grave and remain dead forever? But, Christians, this latter is not the case. Our bodies shall indeed decay in the grave; but that we shall die forever according to the soul is not true by any means, as I now proceed to show.
