Welcome to Gospel in Life. Many religious teachers sought to live as good examples. Only

Jesus explicitly stated that his purpose was to die. Today on Gospel in Life, Tim Keller

is teaching through Mark's account of Jesus' final days and ultimate death on the cross

and how that can change us from the inside out.

The scriptures found in Mark 16 verses 1 through 8. When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene

married the mother of James and Salome, bought spices so that they might go to a noit

Jesus' body. Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on

their way to the tomb and they asked each other, who will roll away the stone from the entrance

of the tomb. But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had

been rolled away. As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe

sitting on the right side and they were alarmed.

"'Don't be alarmed,' he said. You are looking for Jesus, the Nazarene, who was crucified.

He has risen. He is not here. See the place where they laid him. But go, tell his disciples

and Peter, he is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told

you. Trambling and bewildered, the women went out and fled from the tomb. They said nothing

to anyone because they were afraid. This is the Word of the Lord."

All four of the gospels, Matthew, Mark, and John, all tell us that the women followers

of Jesus on Easter Sunday morning found the tomb empty and heard a message from the angel,

actually got a message from Jesus through an angel. And of those four accounts, it's not

surprising to find that Mark is the shortest. He's always the shortest at the most economical.

But in these two wonderful verses, verse 6 and 7, inside the message, you've got the

entirety of the life-changing message of the resurrection of Easter. It's a life-changing

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