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The Greatest Tomb
Some people have gone to tremendous lengths to build impressive mausoleums or tombs. What makes a tomb great and impressive?
Luke 24:5-7, 1 Peter 1:3-4
Some people have gone to tremendous lengths to build impressive mausoleums or tombs. For instance, think of the Taj Mahal or the Great Pyramids of Egypt. There’s this huge mausoleum in Moscow’s Red Square where the body of Vladimir Lenin rests. What makes a tomb great and impressive?
For us as we look at these things, we can say, well, what’s so impressive about that? There’s still a dead person inside. I would argue that the greatest tomb is the tomb of our Savior Jesus. And what makes it great, we don’t even know exactly where it exists. There’s a church built over the supposed place, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. But what makes that place great? What makes that tomb so amazing and beautiful and beloved by so many people? It’s because it’s a broken tomb. It’s empty. The death that went into that tomb is no longer inside that tomb. It was destroyed. Death was overcome with Jesus’ resurrection from the dead. What joy this brings to us is we hear the Easter message in Luke 24, we hear the angels.
The men said to them, “Why are you looking for the living among the dead? He is not here, but has been raised! Remember how he told you while he was still in Galilee that the Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again?” (Luke 24:5-7)
He is not here. He is risen. The tomb is broken. It’s empty.
And that gives you and me incredible comfort because someday we are going to be placed into our own tombs. But we have a promise from God that because of our Savior Jesus Christ, because of his victory over death itself, our tombs are going to break. They’re going to break open and there’s not going to be death found in them anymore, but there’s going to be life coming out of it. Our life. Our new life. Saint Peter talks about this in 1 Peter one, verse three. He says,
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he gave us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, into an inheritance that is undying, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you. (1 Peter 1:3-4)
What comfort and joy the message of Easter gives to you and me. Who cares about tombs? Who cares about graves? We’re not going to be staying in one for too long because God is going to raise us from the dead just as he raised his Son. As our Lord Jesus lives, so too will we. And we will be enjoying the bliss of heaven with him forever. Happy Easter, everyone. He is risen. He is risen indeed. Alleluia.
God’s peace be with you.
