“And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.” (Luke 24:11)
Our Savior had told His followers at different times that He would be killed and that He would rise from the grave. They listened, but they seemingly never heard Him. Now, it is resurrection morning, the women had been to the tomb and discovered it to be empty. They encountered the two angelic beings who talked to them saying, “Remember how He spoke to you when He was yet in Galilee, saying, ‘the Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.’ And they remembered His words. Then the women went to the eleven and told them what they had seen and heard.” (Luke 24:6-9)
When we tell the old story today there will be those who will cast it off as an idle tale, unbelievable or a myth. We are not to change it in an attempt to make it acceptable. There will always be those who refuse to believe. Tell it again and again. Repeat it over and over. The Gospel, the death, burial and resurrection of Christ, is the only hope for sinful mankind. It is your only hope.
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