{"id":33321,"date":"2005-08-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermons\/come-see-go-tell\/"},"modified":"2005-08-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-26T00:00:00","slug":"come-see-go-tell","status":"publish","type":"sermons","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermons\/come-see-go-tell\/","title":{"rendered":"Come! See! Go! Tell!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2005\/08\/18749.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n<p>This morning you have heard the\nEaster story as it comes to us from the Gospel of Matthew, and I want to walk\nour way through it this morning as a background for what I want to share with\nyou. Matthew is very careful in setting the stage, in telling us the precise\ntime of that which occurs.<\/p>\n    <p>&#8220;Now after the\nSabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the\nother Mary went to see the sepulcher.&#8221;<\/p>\n    <p>We&#8217;re told that this occurred after\nthe Sabbath. The Jewish Sabbath began at sundown on Friday evening and\nconcluded at sundown Saturday evening. But the second time hint that we have\nhere is &#8220;as the day began to dawn.&#8221; We know that this did not happen Saturday\nnight. Rather, it happened in the early hours of the morning. <\/p>\n    <p>We read that Mary Magdalene and the\nother Mary, here left unidentified, went to see the sepulcher. But now if we\nread the other Gospels we find out that there were not just two women but there\nwere a number of women who made this trip in the early morning to see the\nsepulcher. The other Mary is specifically identified as Mary, the mother of\nJames and the wife of Clopas. And many scholars think that this Mary was a\nsister of the Virgin Mary. Now you may be very surprised to find out that you\nmight have two daughters in the same family with the same name, but that was\nnot at all unusual in those days because they also used a second name to\nidentify themselves. Anyway, we know about Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother\nof James. Luke&#8217;s Gospel also tells us about a woman by the name of Joanna, and\nthen says &#8220;and other women&#8221; went to the sepulcher in the early morning. <\/p>\n    <p>We&#8217;re told in the other Gospels\nthat they went bearing spices, because Jesus had been buried so hastily he was\nnot properly anointed. The women wanted to accomplish this task before the\nSabbath began. And so it was that they went to the sepulcher in the early\nhours.<\/p>\n    <p>&#8220;And, behold, there was a great\nearthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled\nback the stone and sat upon it.&#8221;<\/p>\n    <p>Again, if you read the other\naccounts, you discover that the ladies on the way to the tomb talked among\nthemselves. &#8220;How are we going to move the stone that covers the entrance to the\ntomb?&#8221; So apparently when they arrived, that had already been accomplished.\nThey saw that the stone had been rolled away.<\/p>\n    <p>&#8220;And the angel of the Lord sat upon\nthe stone. His appearance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow.\nAnd for fear of him, the guards trembled and became like dead men. But the\nangel said to the women, &#8216;Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who\nwas crucified. He is not here. He is risen as he said. Come, see the place\nwhere he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples that he has risen from the\ndead. And, behold, he is going before you to Galilee. There you will see him.\nLo, I have told you.'&#8221;<\/p>\n    <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-article-subhead2\">\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"subhead\">It was the\nmessage of the angel that came to the women gathered before the tomb that spoke\na word of peace and comfort. &#8220;Don&#8217;t be afraid. Fear not. Come and see the place\nwhere Jesus lay. Then go and tell his disciples that Jesus has been raised from\nthe dead.&#8221; In those verses&#8212;5, 6, and 7&#8212;I find four great imperatives of Easter,\nimperatives which I want to lay before you, to recall to your mind that of\nwhich we speak today, but also to challenge you. And those four great\nimperatives are the great verbs that we read in those three verses. The first\nis <em>come<\/em>. The second is <em>see<\/em>. The third is <em>go<\/em>. And the\nfourth is <em>tell<\/em>.<\/span>\n    <\/h2>\n    <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-article-subhead2\">We are told to &#8220;Come&#8221; and participate in Jesus&#8217;\ncostly life.<\/h2>\n    <p>First the angel said, &#8220;Come.&#8221; The\nword <em>come <\/em>is a wonderfully welcoming word. It&#8217;s a word that dispels fear\nas though one might be afraid to approach. The word <em>come<\/em> is an\ninvitation: &#8220;You are welcome here.&#8221; And this was the word that was spoken first\nby the angel. &#8220;Come.&#8221;<\/p>\n    <p>It seems to me that these four\nwords actually encompass for us the whole of the Christian life and experience,\nbecause our Christian experience begins with response to the word <em>come<\/em>.\nThose of you who are gathered here today, practically all of you at some point\nin your life for the very first time heard the invitation extended to you,\n&#8220;Come. Come.&#8221; And you might have had reason, even as these women, to fear. You\nmight have said, &#8220;<em>I&#8217;m not worthy to stand before a holy God.&#8221;<\/em> And you\nwould be correct. You might have said, &#8220;<em>I&#8217;m not good enough to come<\/em>.&#8221;\nAnd that would be right. But somehow that invitation that you have heard in a\nthousand ways has spoken peace to your heart and an absence of fear, and faith\nenabled you to act on that invitation and you came. That&#8217;s the way it is with\nthe Christian life.<\/p>\n    <p>I&#8217;m thinking of a passage in which\nJesus speaks a word of invitation: &#8220;Come to me all who labor and are heavy\nladen, and I will give you rest.&#8221; What a wonderful invitation. &#8220;Come to me,&#8221;\nJesus said. Once again, Jesus was not a person who pushed people away. He was a\nperson who called everyone to himself. Notice the people assembled. All who are\nheavy laden, all who feel weighted down with the cares and the problems of\nlife, you are the ones that I&#8217;m calling to myself. <\/p>\n    <p>Jesus on another occasion said he\ndid not come to call the well but those who were needy in the sight of God.\nJesus never frightened people away. He called them to himself in a most natural\nway. Children came to him. And when they were rebuffed by the apostles, Jesus\nsaid, &#8220;Forbid them not. Let the children come to me, for they are welcome, and\nof such is the kingdom of heaven.&#8221; You see, this gracious invitation of Jesus\nis indeed the word <em>come<\/em>. Come. Come.<\/p>\n    <p>He also assured us that all who\ncome to the Father will in no wise be cast away. Think of that for a moment.\nLet that word speak peace to your heart, and assurance. All who come to the\nFather, he says, the Father will in no wise turn away. <\/p>\n    <p>I think of this so often especially\nas I work with people and seek to help them commit their lives to Jesus Christ.\nI find I have to assure them that they would be welcome. They&#8217;re not sure of\nthat. For many, God has been a fearful judge or someone from whom they have\nfled away. Perhaps they are like the prodigal son and they feel ashamed to\ncome, or they feel weighted down with unworthiness. And I am able to say, no,\nall who come are most welcomed before him, and he turns no one away.<\/p>\n    <p>But when we think of coming to\nJesus or coming to the Lord God we have to consider the fact that Jesus&#8217; own\nwords are very particular. Jesus did not seek to win disciples without laying\nbefore them the implications of discipleship. I read from the 16th chapter of\nMatthew, and this is what Jesus says. &#8220;If any man would come after me, let him\ndeny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his\nlife will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.&#8221; <\/p>\n    <p>You see, Jesus might have been\ntold, had you and I been there, that that&#8217;s not exactly the way to win friends\nand influence people. If you want to win adherents, you do not go out and tell\nthem, &#8220;<em>The first thing I want you to know is that you need to deny\nyourself.&#8221;<\/em> People don&#8217;t like that. But, you see, Jesus didn&#8217;t seek to get\nconverts and disciples by false advertising. He said, &#8220;No, if any man is going\nto come and follow, this is what it&#8217;s going to cost. You must deny yourself.\nYou must take up your cross.&#8221; And in Luke&#8217;s Gospel the word <em>every day <\/em>is\nadded. And <em>follow me<\/em>.<\/p>\n    <p>So often people in talking about\nthe cross or crosses in life equate them with problems, as though a\ndisagreeable mother-in-law might be your cross or some physical infirmity from\nwhich you suffer. Listen, people: That is a common fortune of the whole of the\nhuman race. That is not the cross. When Jesus talked about the cross, he was\ntalking about an instrument of death and annihilation. Jesus was saying, in\neffect, to us, &#8220;I want you to deny yourself; in fact, to die to yourself. Die\nto your plans, your objectives, your purposes. Die to yourself. Then come\nfollow me.&#8221; <\/p>\n    <p>There&#8217;s the mystery of the\nChristian experience. We come. We lay down our life, and yet we find it again.\nPaul says, &#8220;I die daily.&#8221; He says, &#8220;Nevertheless, I live in Christ Jesus.&#8221;\nThere&#8217;s that strange paradox. And who can explain it but those who come to\nJesus, lay down their lives and find new life.<\/p>\n    <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-article-subhead2\">We are told to &#8220;See&#8221; and experience faith\npersonally.<\/h2>\n    <p>The second imperative is found in\nthe word <em>see.<\/em> &#8220;Come and see the place where Jesus lay.&#8221; This is an\nimperative to gain your own personal experience rather than to go forward on\nhearsay.<\/p>\n    <p>You know there are a lot of people who\nhave no personal experience with God. They know something about him, but it is\nall word of mouth. It is all by hearsay. The angel said to the women, &#8220;Come in.\nDon&#8217;t be afraid. Come right in. I want you to see the place where Jesus lay.\nHe&#8217;s not there. Investigate it for yourself. Test it out. Look at it. Come to\nan understanding on the basis of your own experience. You don&#8217;t have to take my\nword for it.&#8221; You see, this is an invitation to personal faith, no longer\nsecondhand faith.<\/p>\n    <p>It was David duPlessis who said\nprofoundly that God has no grandchildren. Your mother and father could have\nbeen devout Christians, but that says nothing whatever about you. You cannot\nenter the kingdom of heaven on the basis of a relationship to a godly parent.\nYou see, there comes a point at which you respond to the Lord God. You see for\nyourself. You enter in. It&#8217;s so important that we understand this.<\/p>\n    <p>One finds it all the way through\nthe Gospels, particularly in the writings of John. I turn to the first chapter\nof John&#8217;s Gospel, and this is what we read. Philip has told the good news to\nNathanael and he said, &#8220;I want you to come and hear a prophet from Nazareth.&#8221; <\/p>\n    <p>And in a rather cynical way,\nNathanael said, &#8220;Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?&#8221; <\/p>\n    <p>And Philip said unto him, &#8220;Come and\nsee.&#8221; Come and see. You don&#8217;t have to take my word for it. I want you to come,\nlisten yourself, make up your own mind, and conclude on the basis of the\nevidence that you discover. <\/p>\n    <p>You see, all the way through\nauthentic Christianity there is that call to personal experience. It&#8217;s not\nsimply listening to another person give a testimony. It&#8217;s not simply using the\nwords of someone else. It&#8217;s <em>come and see.<\/em> Come and look for yourself.\nInvestigate. Use your brain. Look at the evidence. One finds that everywhere.<\/p>\n    <p>I&#8217;m thinking also of a passage in\nthe fourth chapter of John&#8217;s Gospel, the interview with the woman at the well.\nAnd she is so impressed with this man that she has met at the well that she\nexcuses herself, runs back to town and says, &#8220;Come, see a man who told me all\nthat ever I did. Can this be the Christ?&#8221; You see, something&#8217;s happened to her\nand she goes back and she tells the people, &#8220;Come, come and see the man who\ntold me all that ever I did.&#8221; I think if I met a man who told me all that ever\nI did, that the last thing I would want to do is invite people to come too. But\nshe was so impressed with what he had to say that she said, &#8220;Listen! Don&#8217;t miss\nout. Don&#8217;t miss out.&#8221;<\/p>\n    <p>But I want you to hear the response\nof the people who came, because the whole village turned out on the basis of\nher testimony. Verse 41 says, &#8220;And many more believed because of his word. They\nsaid to the woman &#8216;It is no longer because of your words that we believe. For\nwe have heard for ourselves and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the\nworld.'&#8221; You see, they came first on the basis of someone else&#8217;s witness, but\nthen having come, then they discovered for themselves.<\/p>\n    <p>You know there&#8217;s a strange thing\nabout Episcopalians. I run into it everywhere, all over the world.\nEpiscopalians have been told a half-truth and they&#8217;ve believed it. The\nhalf-truth is that Christian faith is personal and private. Well the half-truth\nis the Christian faith is personal. Christian faith is nothing if it is not\npersonal. But it is never private. Sometimes I hear Episcopalians say, &#8220;Oh, my faith is so precious to me.\nIt is so personal. I hold it so close to my heart I couldn&#8217;t possibly talk\nabout it.&#8221; <\/p>\n    <p>Well, listen. If you can&#8217;t talk\nabout it, you haven&#8217;t got it.<\/p>\n    <p>Something happens to people who\nmeet Jesus Christ. They know it. For a time they may be operating on the\ntestimony of somebody else, but there comes a point where they say, as the\npeople of the town of Samaria said, &#8220;We came because of what you said, but now\nwe no longer believe on your word, for we have seen him ourselves.&#8221; &#8220;Come and\nsee,&#8221; the angel said.<\/p>\n    <p>\n      <strong>We are told to &#8220;Go&#8221; and be sent\nout into the world.<\/strong>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>Then third imperative is <em>Go!<\/em>\nGo. All who come are received, welcomed warmly. But then they&#8217;re sent out\nagain. Strange movement of coming and going, always coming and going. <\/p>\n    <p>Now the temptation has always been\nfor God&#8217;s people just to want to come, just to sit at the feet of Jesus. You\nremember Peter wanted to build three tabernacles on the Mount of\nTransfiguration. Such a wonderful spiritual experience it was. He said, &#8220;I\nnever want to leave here. This is marvelous.&#8221; But I have to tell you, it is not\nthe will of God that we simply cultivate our own personal and private\nexperience of God. No, if we really come to him, we discover that there&#8217;s\nanother imperative, and that is <em>go<\/em>.<\/p>\n    <p>Jesus said to the three on the\nMount of Transfiguration, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want you to stay up here on the mountaintop.\nI want you to go down in the valley. That&#8217;s where people live. I don&#8217;t want you\nto enter a monastery. I don&#8217;t want you to pull way from the world. I want you\nto get into the world.&#8221; That&#8217;s the place where the Christian life is to be\nlived&#8212;on Main Street, in the marketplace, in the classroom, in the home, not in\nthe church. <\/p>\n    <p>Something funny happens to people\nwhen they live in churches. I remember saying to a woman in this congregation,\n&#8220;If I see you around this church any more, I will think there&#8217;s something wrong\nwith your home.&#8221; And there was. She was running away. Some people use the church\nto avoid the world. Even worse, they would seek to use the Lord to avoid the\nworld. No &#8211; if you come and see, then you go.<\/p>\n    <p>Remember, the commission is, &#8220;Go\ninto all the world and make disciples from among all nations.&#8221; That is a\nuniversal command of Jesus Christ. It&#8217;s called the Great Commission of the\nchurch. And unless you have received a personal exemption from heaven itself,\nit means you. You come. You see. And you go.<\/p>\n    <p>Now you may not be called to move\nall around the world. You don&#8217;t have to be. Consider your world. Your world is\nthe whole circle of people that you touch with your life, the whole realm of\nyour experience, your influence. It may not be as great as someone else&#8217;s.\nThat&#8217;s of no consequence. But your world is to be penetrated by your witness\nfor Jesus Christ. The workaday world, your home world, your leisure world, all\nof that is a part of what is intended to be salted with the salt of your life,\nto be seasoned with the grace of your life, to be illuminated with the light of\nyour life, to be warmed by the love of your life. That is your world, and you\nare to go out in it and penetrate it utterly with the grace of God and the life\nof God.<\/p>\n    <p>Come! See! Go!<\/p>\n    <p>\n      <strong>We are told to &#8220;Tell,&#8221; to\nbear witness, to testify<\/strong>\n      <strong>\n        <span style=\"\" class=\"\">.<\/span>\n      <\/strong>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>And finally, <em>tell.<\/em> Tell. You\ndon&#8217;t only go, you go with a message. You have something to say. I&#8217;m thinking\nof the way John put it in the first chapter of his first letter. What a\npowerful word. Listen to this:<\/p>\n    <p>&#8220;That which was from the beginning, which we have heard\n(notice the personal word <em>which we have heard) <\/em>which we have seen with\nour eyes, which we have looked upon and touched with our hands concerning the\nword of life. The life was made manifest and we have seen it and testify to it,\nand proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made\nmanifest to us. That which we have seen and heard we proclaim to you, so that\nyou may have fellowship with us and our fellowship is with the Father and with\nhis Son Jesus Christ.&#8221;<\/p>\n    <p>Did you get all of those verbs in\nthere? Did you see the sense terms? &#8220;That which we have heard with our ears.&#8221;\nThis isn&#8217;t secondhand, this is direct. &#8220;That which we have seen with our eyes,\nwhich our hands have touched, that we bear testimony to, that we proclaim to\nyou.&#8221; You see, they have <em>come.<\/em> They have <em>seen.<\/em> They have <em>gone\nforth.<\/em> And now they <em>tell.<\/em><\/p>\n    <p>I don&#8217;t think everybody is called\nto be a preacher of the gospel. In fact, I&#8217;m sure everyone is not called to be\na preacher of the gospel. I understand that to mean that some people are called\nof God and equipped to declare the truth of God in such a way that people can\nhear the voice of God through the preached word. I don&#8217;t think everyone is\ncalled to do that. But I am sure that everyone is called to bear witness, to\ntestify.<\/p>\n    <p>I&#8217;ve told you before that my first\nteaching experience was in a law school. All of my students were going to be\nlawyers, and I taught them logic and argumentation and how to arrange their\narguments so as to lead inevitably to conclusions. And during those days we\nspent time discussing the function of a witness in a court of law. A witness,\nyou know, is a person who tells what he or she knows from direct experience. If\nyou&#8217;ve watched <em>Perry Mason<\/em> or some other TV courtroom drama, every once\nin a while they attorney will jump up and say, &#8220;I object. The witness is\ndrawing a conclusion.&#8221;<\/p>\n    <p>As a witness, we are simply to tell\nwhat we know from our own experience. That&#8217;s why I say if you can&#8217;t tell it,\nyou haven&#8217;t heard it. If you aren&#8217;t able to speak it, you don&#8217;t know it because\nGod works at the deepest levels of our being. He changes our lives. And when he\ndoes, there&#8217;s something to talk about. We&#8217;re able to say, like that blind man,\n&#8220;Once I was blind but now I see. Once I didn&#8217;t comprehend, but now it&#8217;s plain\nto me. There was a before and an after in my life. There was a time when I\nwalked in darkness, but now I walk in light.&#8221; A Christian is able to say that.\nAnd however it happens to them, that&#8217;s not the important point. However it\nhappens to them, they know that God has done something for them.<\/p>\n    <p>I wonder about you. Do you have a\ntestimony? Do you have a witness? Are there things in your life that you can\nbear witness to, to anybody who will listen? Are you penetrating your world\nwith the truth of God and the love of God and the life of God? Is your\nunderstanding based on personal witness and experience? Or are you a\nsecond-generation Christian with no roots of your own? Have you said <em>yes<\/em>\nto the invitation to come?<\/p>\n    <p>There it is, people. I believe this\nis God&#8217;s word for us today. It&#8217;s simple, isn&#8217;t it? Four great imperatives. Now\nI want to put them together into twos.<\/p>\n    <p>\n      <em>Come and see.<\/em> Come and see.\nI bear witness. Jesus makes a difference in a person&#8217;s life. Come and see. If\nyou feel as though you&#8217;ve been walking away from the Lord God, he will receive\nyou back. Come and see. If you feel that you are unworthy, he will clothe you\nwith the cloak of righteousness so that you can stand before him. Come and see.\nDon&#8217;t go on my testimony or the witness of someone else or the weight of the\ncenturies of the church&#8217;s testimony. Come and see.<\/p>\n    <p>And then the other imperative is <em>Go\nand tell.<\/em> Go and tell. People, when you leave this place, I hope it&#8217;s just\nnot a warm slushy feeling in your heart you carry away. I hope you carry away a\nfresh hearing of the command and the great opportunity and the privilege to\nbear witness for Jesus Christ and to penetrate your world with his life.<\/p>\n    <p>That&#8217;s God&#8217;s word. Anyone, anyone\nwho has ears to hear let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the church.<\/p>\n    <p>\n      <em>\n        <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Everett L. Fullam<\/span>\n      <\/em>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>(c) Everett L. 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