“Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot. They asked her, ‘Woman, why are you crying?’ ‘They have taken my Lord away,’ she said, ‘and I don’t know where they have put him.’

At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus. He asked her, ‘Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?’ Thinking he was the gardener, she said, ‘Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.’

Jesus said to her, ‘Mary.’ She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, ‘Rabboni!’ (which means ‘Teacher’). Jesus said, ‘Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’

Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: ‘I have seen the Lord!’ And she told them that he had said these things to her.” (John 20:11-18, NIV)

Three Listening Lessons From The Garden

Three Listening Lessons From The Garden 1.Seek Him

Three Listening Lessons From The Garden 1.Seek Him Important Truth: Spiritual Hearing begins with a seeking heart.

Three Listening Lessons From The Garden 1.Seek Him “Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near.” (Isaiah 55:6, NKJV)

Three Listening Lessons From The Garden 1.Seek Him “And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.” (Jeremiah 29:13, NKJV)

Three Listening Lessons From The Garden “Then the fire of the Lord fell and burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stones and the soil, and also licked up the water in the trench.” (1 Kings 18:38, NIV)

Three Listening Lessons From The Garden I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. (Ro 12:1, NKJV)

Three Listening Lessons From The Garden 2.Wait for Him

Three Listening Lessons From The Garden 2.Wait for Him Important Truth: God is not on man’s schedule.

Three Listening Lessons From The Garden 2.Wait for Him Wait on the L ORD ; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the L ORD ! (Ps 27:14, NKJV)

Two Keys to Waiting

1.Serve the Lord

Two Keys to Waiting 1.Serve the Lord 2.Be of Good Courage

Three Listening Lessons From The Garden 3.Listen for His Voice

Three Listening Lessons From The Garden 3.Listen for His Voice “To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.” (Jn 10:3, NKJV)

Three Listening Lessons From The Garden 3.Listen for His Voice ‘Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ (John 20:17, NIV)

Two Implications of Hearing God’s Voice

Two Implications of Hearing God’s Voice 1. Go

Two Implications of Hearing God’s Voice 2. Tell

Two Implications of Hearing God’s Voice 2. Tell “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life.

Two Implications of Hearing God’s Voice 2. Tell The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us.

Two Implications of Hearing God’s Voice 2. Tell We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.” (1 John 1:1-3, NIV)