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You're going to Truth for Life weekend, and we have a special Easter message for you today as we celebrate Christ's resurrection.

How do we know it was real, and why does it matter?

We'll find out as Alistair Begg examines the historical evidence and universal

impact of Jesus' resurrection. We're studying chapter 20 in John's Gospel, focusing on verses 11 through 18.

We either know this by experience or by observation, that the death of a loved one is a devastating

thing, that one's psyche is immediately filled with a huge combination of emotions, fear, disappointment, a sense of loss,

pain, anger, and a prevailing emptiness, that the person who even hours before was in our

company is no longer present.

And the inevitability of tears is quite obvious.

Now, I begin in that way, because I think we take this for granted.

And therefore, when we come to the record here, it's not surprising that John records the reaction

of Mary.

In fact, immediately, it becomes clear that Easter morning has begun with darkness.

The darkness begins to dissipate, the kind of darkness that was around at five o'clock this morning, if you were up. And when you looked out, you realized

those are trees, those are not people. But if you were somewhat sleepy, you might have

considered that that was a possibility.

You just don't see things.

You might see someone that you should recognize, and then you don't recognize them.

And into that fragile darkness, Mary comes, and she's weeping.

That makes perfect sense. That's what you do. In fact, he says that she was weeping

outside the tomb, then she was stooping to look inside the tomb. And it is in that context that

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