Investigate the Gospel

Luke 24

5 The women were terrified and bowed with their faces to the ground. Then the men asked, “Why are you looking among the dead for someone who is alive? 6 He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead! Remember what he told you back in Galilee, 7 that the Son of Man must be betrayed into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and that he would rise again on the third day.”

8 Then they remembered that he had said this. 9 So they rushed back from the tomb to tell his eleven disciples—and everyone else—what had happened. 10 It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and several other women who told the apostles what had happened. 11 But the story sounded like nonsense to the men, so they didn’t believe it. 12 However, Peter jumped up and ran to the tomb to look. Stooping, he peered in and saw the empty linen wrappings; then he went home again, wondering what had happened.

Jesus has risen from the grave, the women have just encountered two angels telling them as much, and they run off to tell the closest followers of Jesus the Gospel. Check out verse 11. It sounded like NONSENSE to them. Yes, the Gospel does sound like nonsense at first, but when investigated (like Peter did in verse 12), the Gospel stands. It withstands every test, every doubt, every fear. It is the Gospel that has the power to save people from their sin, for Jesus has indeed paid the price for that sin, and has risen from the dead!