EASTER SUNDAY

COMMUNION SERVICE

10:00 AM

“GOD’S RESURRECTION POWER”

by Pastor Joy Matos

SUMMARY:

On the first day of the week, a group of women arrived at a tomb expecting to tend to a corpse, only to find an empty space and a staggering mystery. When they rushed back to share the news that the living should not be sought among the dead, the response from the disciples was immediate and human: they dismissed the report as “nonsense.” This intellectual friction reminds us that the resurrection was never an easy truth to swallow; it was a radical disruption of everything the witnesses knew about the finality of death. We often live in that same “Saturday” headspace, where defeat feels like the only logical conclusion to our stories. We see the stone, we feel grief, and we assume the narrative has reached its terminal point. Yet, the event that the apostles first called “nonsense” has become the most transformative force in human history, precisely because it offers a completion to a message that appeared to end in failure.

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