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Post by Woody Williams on Apr 29, 2009 7:07:04 GMT -5
Text for the Day -- Mark 16:9-16 ---------- Now after he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. She went out and told those who had been with him, while they were mourning and weeping. But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it.
After this he appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country. And they went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them.
Later he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were sitting at the table; and he upbraided them for their lack of faith and stubbornness, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen. And he said to them, "Go into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation. The one who believes and is baptized will be saved; but the one who does not believe will be condemned."
Devotional ---------- There was tension among the first disciples between those who experienced Jesus after the resurrection and believed, and those who did not believe their testimony and had not seen Jesus. As appearances of Jesus became more widespread in the forty days before his ascension more disciples came to experience that presence. The disciples are commissioned to become those who testify and challenge the world to believe in Jesus and experience salvation in him.
Prayer ---------- Help me to continue to believe the testimony and give myself to the Resurrected One, gracious God. Amen
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