Have you had the experience of watching a TV show or movie, or reading a book, and throughout the whole thing you were certain you knew exactly who the bad guy was.....the perpetrator of the crime, the villain.....only to discover at the end that he was one of the good guys and the actual villain was someone you hadn't suspected at all? Things are not always what they seem, are they?
Maybe you have had the experience of looking at the calendar recently and noticing that, according to that calendar, spring has begun. But.....you looked out the window and saw some very contradictory evidence. Like snow! Things are not always what we expect, are they?
Perhaps you made a decision about something. A relationship. A job offer. A new house. A move. And it didn't turn out exactly the way you expected it would. Maybe it turned out better. Or maybe not so much. We've probably all had that kind of experience, to one degree or another. One of those times we learned a life lesson.......that things are not always what they seem.
Almost two thousand years ago, the followers of Jesus learned that lesson. They saw Jesus crucified. They thought He was dead.
But He wasn't!
"And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit." (Matthew 27:50 NIV)
That isn't the end of the story!
It's Friday. But Sunday's coming!
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