My favorite sermon was preached by a Dutch professor of theology over a hundred years ago. Just as some of the most beautiful flowers are found in the most unlikely places, this sermon given to a handful of seminary students provides the most extraordinary perspective on the morning of our Saviour’s resurrection. I discovered it a decade ago, and now make a point to read it again every Easter weekend. Its subject is the tender relationship between Mary Magdalene and Jesus, and although this text from John is often found in pulpits on Easter morning, I’ve never heard anyone give such a penetrating and sympathetic explanation of it: “Jesus saith unto her, ‘Mary.’ She turneth herself and saith unto him, ‘Rabboni;’ which is to say ‘Master.’” You can read the full sermon here. But one word of warning: it is not simple reading. Yet, as Sinclair Ferguson wrote in his original introduction to Geerhardus Vos’ small collection of sermons, “Having been taken to such mountain peaks, the vision of God we have beheld in Scripture will produce in us a new and more holy and heavenly perspective on the whole of life.”
May our kind Lord’s presence and grace be upon you this Easter morning.
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