24 Life-Changing Lessons from Matthew 28: Applying Matthew 28 to Your Daily Life

You can believe the tomb is empty and still live as though it were sealed. The facts are settled in your head. Christ rose, death lost its hold, the grave gave Him back.

Then the week begins with its fear, its tiredness, and its long obedience that nobody applauds, and the resurrection sits on a shelf somewhere, true but far away.

That distance between what we believe and how we live is where these lessons from Matthew 28 do their work. The last chapter of Matthew was written for people who were shaking.

If you have ever obeyed God while still afraid, or worshipped Him with questions you could not answer, the risen Christ has something to say to you here.

Brief Summary of Matthew 28

Matthew 28 opens at first light on the first day of the week. Mary Magdalene and the other Mary come to the tomb. An angel rolls back the stone and announces that Jesus is risen, while the guards collapse in terror. The women run to tell the disciples and meet Jesus Himself on the road.

The chief priests then pay those same soldiers to spread a story that the body was stolen. The chapter closes on a mountain in Galilee, where the risen Christ claims all authority and sends His disciples to make disciples of all nations, promising to be with them always.

The chapter presses one question on every reader: what will you do with a risen Christ?

Lesson 1: Keep Coming to Jesus When There Is Nothing Left to Come For (Matthew 28:1)

Matthew 28:1: “In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.” (KJV)

You may know what it is to serve God at a graveside. Nothing is happening. No answer comes. The thing you hoped for is buried, and you keep showing up out of love rather than expectation.

That is where these two women were. As far as they knew, Jesus was dead and would stay dead. They were not walking to the tomb believing He would rise; Matthew says they came to see the sepulchre. Their devotion had outlived the funeral, and it brought them to the ground where hope had already been abandoned.

God met them there. Not because their theology was strong, but because love kept their feet moving toward a sealed grave in the dark. And the ones who came to a tomb with nothing left to gain were the first to see the glory of God.

Devotion that keeps showing up when there is nothing to be gained is rarer, and dearer to God, than devotion that shows up when the blessings are flowing.

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Lesson 2: God Opened the Tomb for the Witnesses, Not for Jesus (Matthew 28:2)

Matthew 28:2: “And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.” (KJV)

Notice the order of events. The angel arrives, moves the stone, and sits down on it. When he speaks, his words are “He is not here: for he is risen” (Matthew 28:6), which suggests the tomb stood empty before the stone was ever touched.

If the scene runs that way, and many readers understand it so, the stone came away for the sake of the people who needed to look inside and see He was gone. It was moved for the witnesses, and not for the Lord.

Then the angel sat on it. He took the very stone the priests had sealed to hold Christ in, and made it a seat. What Rome secured, heaven turned into furniture, and the whole scene carries the ease of a work already finished.

Much of what we fear about the powers arrayed against Christ looks like that stone. Heavy, sealed, guarded, final. It held Him for exactly as long as He permitted it to.

There are stones in your life that you are still straining to move, convinced your future is trapped behind them. Christ is not trapped behind anything. Sometimes God rolls a stone away, not to let Him out, but to let you see that He was never held.

Lesson 3: The Same Glory That Flattens One Heart Comforts Another (Matthew 28:4-5)

Matthew 28:4-5: “And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men. And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.” (KJV)

Two groups stood in the same light on the same morning. The soldiers, trained and armed, shook until they were like corpses. The women, who carried no weapons and held no standing, were told to stop being afraid.

Nothing about the glory changed between verse four and verse five. What changed was who was standing in it. The angel marks the difference with one word: “Fear not ye.” The women had come seeking Jesus. The guards had come to keep Him buried.

God’s presence works on the human heart the same way still. To the one who wants Him, His nearness is comfort. To the one resisting Him, His nearness is exposure. The glory does not adjust itself to the man; the man is revealed by the glory.

So when the thought of God drawing near unsettles you, that unsettledness is worth listening to. Is it the reverence of someone who loves Him, or the dread of someone who has been avoiding Him?

Lesson 4: Jesus Kept His Word at the Hardest Place He Ever Gave It (Matthew 28:6)

Matthew 28:6: “He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.” (KJV)

How do you know a promise will hold?

The angel answers that question with three words: as he said. The proof he offers is an empty grave that matches something Jesus had already promised. Jesus told His disciples plainly that He would be killed and raised the third day (Matthew 16:21; 17:23). They did not believe it, did not prepare for it, and buried Him properly before going home to grieve. He rose exactly on schedule anyway.

His word did not depend on their faith in it. That deserves a moment of thought, because most of us assume that God’s promises hold only when we manage to believe them well enough. The women’s unbelief did not delay the resurrection by an hour.

If Christ kept His word about rising from the dead, the hardest promise anyone has ever made, then His smaller promises to you are not in danger. The word that held at a grave will hold at your kitchen table.

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Lesson 5: Christ Invites You to Come and Look (Matthew 28:6)

Matthew 28:6: “…Come, see the place where the Lord lay.” (KJV)

Does God expect you to believe without ever examining anything?

The angel’s answer is an invitation. Before anyone is asked to preach the resurrection, they are asked to inspect the grave. Come. See. Stand in the place where the body was laid and look at the emptiness of it. The first response God asks of these women is an honest look at the evidence, and He asks for it before He asks for a word of testimony from them.

Faith in Scripture is trust in a God who has acted in history, in daylight, in places you could walk to and stones you could touch. The angel is not afraid of what the women will find when they look, because the tomb tells the same story he does.

Your questions do not have to be smuggled past God. Bring them into the chapter and let it answer you, because the risen Christ has never been afraid of an honest look.

Lesson 6: God Hands His Greatest News to the People Others Overlook (Matthew 28:7)

Matthew 28:7: “And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.” (KJV)

The first people commissioned to announce the resurrection were two women. In that culture, that was a striking choice. Josephus, writing in the same century, records that the testimony of women was not to be admitted in a Jewish court (Antiquities 4.8.15). Their word carried no legal weight.

Heaven gave them the message anyway. There was no training period, no waiting for the apostles to arrive and take charge of the announcement. The angel says go and tell, and the greatest news in the world leaves the tomb in the mouths of two people a court would not have heard.

God’s choice of messenger has never depended on the world’s ranking of the messenger. Paul says God chooses the weak things and the despised things, so that no one boasts before Him (1 Corinthians 1:27-29). Matthew 28 is that truth standing at a grave in the half-light.

The person you have written off as unqualified to carry God’s message may be the very one He has already sent. And if you are the one you have written off, God has a long history of disagreeing with that verdict.

Lesson 7: Christ Is Already Ahead of You on the Road He Sends You Down (Matthew 28:7)

Matthew 28:7: “…behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him…” (KJV)

You have probably faced an obedience that felt like walking into an empty room. God asks for a step, and everything about it feels like you are going first, alone, into something unknown.

Read the angel’s words again. Before a single disciple packed a bag for Galilee, Jesus was already on the road there. He goes before them, so the road to Galilee runs toward a Christ who arrived there first.

Most teaching on this chapter reads the commission as we go, and the going does belong to us. But it starts with Him. Long before you were told to move, He had moved, and the place you dread walking into is a place He has already entered.

This does not promise that the road will be easy. It promises that the road will not be empty.

So what has God asked of you that you have been treating as a step into nothing, when He is already standing at the other end of it?

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Lesson 8: You Can Obey God While You Are Still Afraid (Matthew 28:8)

Matthew 28:8: “And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.” (KJV)

You do not have to feel brave before you can obey God. Fear and joy are not supposed to fit in the same heart at the same time, yet Matthew puts them both there, and then tells us the women ran.

They ran before the fear had passed, leaving the tomb behind while their emotions were still in disorder. They ran trembling, and the trembling disqualified nothing.

Somewhere along the way many believers absorb the idea that fear must be gone before obedience can begin. Scripture keeps showing the opposite. “Fear not” is an invitation to move toward God with the fear still in you, because what He has said is truer than what you feel.

Obedience with shaking hands is still obedience, and God has never despised it. The women were not brave women. They were frightened women who ran anyway, and that running carried the first news of the resurrection into the world.

Lesson 9: Jesus Meets You on the Way, Not at the Place You Are Waiting (Matthew 28:9)

Matthew 28:9: “And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him.” (KJV)

The women stayed at the tomb and saw an angel. They went in obedience and met the Lord Himself.

Look at where the encounter happens. Jesus meets them as they went, on the road, in the middle of the errand He had given them. He did not appear while they were still standing at the sepulchre working out how they felt about the news. The meeting came in the going.

Scripture returns to this pattern often. The Jordan parted when the priests’ feet touched the water, not while they stood on the bank debating whether it would (Joshua 3:15-16). What God had promised waited inside the step.

If you have been waiting for a fresh sense of Christ’s nearness before you obey what He has already made clear, you may be waiting in the wrong place. Go and do the last thing He told you, and meet Him on that road.

Lesson 10: The Risen Christ Is Not a Ghost, and He Is Worth Falling Down For (Matthew 28:9)

Matthew 28:9: “…And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him.” (KJV)

They took hold of feet. Real feet, solid enough to grip, belonging to a body that had been dead and buried and was now standing in the road. Whatever else the resurrection is, Matthew puts a body into the reader’s hands. The tomb released a Man, and the women had the evidence of Him under their fingers.

And having touched Him, the women did not ask Him a single question. They worshipped. Their first instinct was the ground, and Jesus received it from them without a word of correction, which tells you something about who He knew Himself to be. Only God may be worshipped, and the risen Christ accepted worship as His due.

The Christ you will pray to this week is risen in body, alive, and near enough to be held. He is worthy of your face on the floor, and worship remains the one response that fits Him.

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Lesson 11: Jesus Called Them Brethren Before They Ever Apologised (Matthew 28:10)

Matthew 28:10: “Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.” (KJV)

Who exactly are “my brethren” here?

They are the men who swore they would die with Him and then ran into the dark when the soldiers came (Matthew 26:56). Peter had denied Him with cursing. Not one of them had stood at the cross to the end except John. They had sent no apology, made no repair, offered no explanation.

And Jesus, risen and vindicated and holding all authority in heaven and earth, calls them His brothers. He could have said “go tell those men.” He reached instead for the warmest word available and handed it to people who had earned the coldest one. Grace spoke first, and it spoke in family language.

That tells you something about how God restores. The relationship was mended from His side before the disciples had done anything at all to mend it, which is exactly how every one of us is brought back.

So if you have run, the way home is shorter than shame tells you. Christ has already chosen what to call you. Are you answering to the name He is using, or to the one your failure gave you?

Lesson 12: Evidence Alone Will Never Give a Man Faith (Matthew 28:11-12)

Matthew 28:11-12: “Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into the city, and shewed unto the chief priests all the things that were done. And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers.” (KJV)

Read that first sentence again, because it is one of the most sobering in Matthew’s Gospel. The chief priests received a firsthand report of the resurrection from the men they had posted to prevent it. Hostile witnesses, with every reason to deny what they had seen, told them everything that had happened. The priests called a meeting and reached for their money.

The problem was never a shortage of proof. They held the best evidence available to anyone in Jerusalem that morning, and it moved them nowhere. Jesus had already said that people who refuse Moses and the prophets would not be persuaded even if one rose from the dead (Luke 16:31), and here we watch that sentence come true in real time.

Unbelief is usually a matter of the will more than the mind. It is a heart that has already decided what it wants to be true, and it will pay well to keep believing it. Evidence can win an argument, but only God can raise a dead heart, which is why our unbelieving friends need our prayers even more than our reasoning.

Lesson 13: The Lie They Paid For Was the Lie They Had Already Written (Matthew 28:13)

Matthew 28:13: “Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.” (KJV)

Go back one chapter. Before Jesus was even buried, these same priests came to Pilate and said, “lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away” (Matthew 27:64). That was their fear, and they voiced it while the body was still on the cross.

Now the tomb stands open, their own guards are in front of them, and they hand over money to have the soldiers say the very words they had rehearsed in advance. They did not investigate. They reached for the story they had already written and bought witnesses to tell it.

Look at how the story collapses under its own weight. “While we slept.” Sleeping men cannot testify to what happened while they were asleep. The only witnesses to the alleged theft were, by their own confession, unconscious for it. The priests, who could reason as well as anyone in Jerusalem, bought that story anyway.

A heart set against the truth does not need a good lie. It only needs one it is willing to repeat. That is why arguing someone into the kingdom so rarely works, and why prayer for a hardened heart is the stronger weapon, not the weaker one.

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Lesson 14: A Lie Can Travel for Years Without Ever Becoming True (Matthew 28:15)

Matthew 28:15: “So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.” (KJV)

You have probably watched a false account of something travel further and faster than the truth ever did, and found you could not chase it down. Matthew is honest enough to admit that it happened to the resurrection itself. When he wrote his Gospel, the stolen-body story was still circulating. The lie had outlived the event.

Watch what Matthew does with that. He records the rumour, names its price, and moves on to a mountain in Galilee where the risen Christ is speaking. He spends no energy defending the tomb, because the tomb needed no defending. It was still empty whatever the city was saying about it.

Truth does not require your protection in order to remain true. It requires your faithfulness while it is being contradicted. What might change in you this week if you stopped trying to win an argument that God has already settled at a grave?

Lesson 15: Christ Commissions the Wounded and the Reduced (Matthew 28:16)

Matthew 28:16: “Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.” (KJV)

Matthew does not write “the twelve.” He writes “the eleven,” and he lets that number stand there without a word of explanation.

One of them had betrayed Jesus and was dead. The rest carried the memory of their own running. The group that climbed that mountain was smaller than it should have been, quieter than it used to be, and painfully aware of what it had done. This is the company the risen Christ chose to meet, and He did not wait for a stronger team to assemble before He spoke.

Your church may be smaller than it was. Your own faith may be carrying a gap where something solid used to stand. Neither has ever stopped Christ from meeting a people on a mountain and giving them something enormous to do. He commissioned a reduced and grieving group of men to reach the nations, and by the end of their lives the gospel had gone further than any of them could have imagined on the day they climbed that hill.

Lesson 16: Worship and Doubt Can Sit in the Same Heart, and Christ Still Sends You (Matthew 28:17)

Matthew 28:17: “And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted.” (KJV)

Perhaps you have knelt to worship with a question still moving in the back of your mind, and wondered whether the question made the worship a lie.

Matthew records both in one breath. They worshipped Him. Some doubted. He does not tell us what they doubted or how long it lasted, and he makes no attempt to tidy the moment before he reports it. The men on that mountain were worshipping and wavering at once.

Then comes the thing almost nobody says out loud about this chapter. Jesus knew, and He gave them the Great Commission anyway. He did not resolve the doubt first, or separate the steady from the shaky, or ask who felt certain enough to be trusted with the gospel. He spoke to the whole group, doubters included.

Christ does not leave a doubting man in his doubt for its own sake; He sends him into the very mission that will prove, over years of obedience, that what he doubted was true all along. The worship of a divided heart is still worship, and the Lord who receives it is patient with what is unfinished in you.

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Lesson 17: The Mission Rests on His Authority, Not on Your Adequacy (Matthew 28:18)

Matthew 28:18: “And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.” (KJV)

Before Jesus gives a single command, He makes a claim. All power. In heaven and in earth. The claim covers every realm and every ruler, including the empire that had crucified Him three days earlier.

He says this to eleven men, some of them still doubting, on a hill in a minor province. By every visible measure He held nothing at all. Yet the risen Christ opens His final speech by stating what belongs to Him, and every command that follows stands on that sentence rather than on the strength of the men hearing it.

The order matters more than we usually notice. He does not say, “Do your best, and I will support you.” He says the authority is already His, and therefore they may go. The power for the task was settled before the task was ever named.

When the work God has given you feels far beyond you, stop measuring the assignment against yourself and measure it against the One who gave it.

Lesson 18: Christ Told Us to Make Disciples, Not Just Converts (Matthew 28:19)

Matthew 28:19: “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” (KJV)

What did Jesus actually command here?

The heart of the commission is one instruction: make disciples. Going, baptizing, and teaching are the ways it is carried out, and the disciple is the goal. That distinction changes how a church measures its own life. A convert has agreed with something; a disciple is a person who follows.

Jesus never asked for a signature. He asked for followers, people brought into the visible family of God, taught to obey Him, learning to walk with Him across a lifetime. That work is slower than a decision and costlier than a campaign, and it is exactly what He told us to do.

Which means that sitting patiently with a new believer, answering your child’s same question for the fifth time, or meeting again with a friend who is barely growing is the commission itself, carried out at the pace real people actually change. Nobody applauds that work. Heaven counts it as the very thing Christ commanded from the mountain.

Lesson 19: Baptism Is a Command of Christ, Not a Preference (Matthew 28:19)

Matthew 28:19: “…baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” (KJV)

You will not find baptism tucked away in a corner of Scripture as an optional extra for enthusiastic believers. It sits inside the Great Commission itself, in the mouth of the risen Christ, in the last words He speaks before He promises His presence.

Scripture does not teach that the water saves. A person is justified by faith in Christ, and the thief on the cross was promised paradise without ever being baptized (Luke 23:43). Baptism has no power to wash a single sin away.

But the same Lord who saves by grace also appointed baptism as the first public step of an obedient disciple, and the New Testament church baptized new believers without long delay. It is how a believer says publicly, and with their body, that they now belong to Christ.

If you belong to Him and have never obeyed Him in this, speak with your pastor about it this month rather than leaving it as something you will get round to eventually.

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Lesson 20: One Name, Three Persons: The Trinity in Christ’s Final Command (Matthew 28:19)

Matthew 28:19: “…in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” (KJV)

Read the wording again. Jesus does not say “names.” He says name, singular, and then lists three Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. One name shared by three. He says it in the most solemn command He ever gave, on the last day the disciples would hear His voice on a mountain, in words that would afterward be spoken over every believer entering the church.

The doctrine of the Trinity stands here in the plainest possible place, in the closing sentence of the Great Commission, centuries before any council was called to defend it. Christians did not reason their way to a three-in-one God and then hunt for verses. They were baptized into that name from the beginning, because the risen Christ told them to be.

Every believer baptized in that name is claimed by the Father who chose them, the Son who bought them, and the Spirit who lives in them. You do not belong to a doctrine. You belong to God, three Persons and one name, and He has put that name on you.

Lesson 21: Teaching Aims at Obedience, Not at Information (Matthew 28:20)

Matthew 28:20: “Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you…” (KJV)

How much of what Christ commanded are you actually doing?

That is the question this phrase puts to us. Jesus does not say “teaching them all things whatsoever I have commanded you.” He says teaching them to observe all things. The target of Christian teaching, as Christ Himself defines it, is a life that keeps what He said, and not a head that can recite it.

James presses the same point: be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves (James 1:22). A person can sit under good preaching for twenty years, take careful notes, love the sermons, and still be a hearer. Most of us know considerably more of the Bible than we are currently living.

So where is the gap between what you already know Christ commanded and what you are actually doing about it? That gap, rather than your ignorance, is usually the next place He intends to work.

Lesson 22: The Great Commission Was Not Given Only to Missionaries (Matthew 28:19-20)

Matthew 28:19-20: “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations… Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you…” (KJV)

If “Go ye” has ever landed on you as an accusation, you are not alone in that. You are not on a plane to another continent, so you assume the verse belongs to braver people, and you live with a low, constant sense of failing at something you could never quite name.

Look at who is standing on that mountain. Eleven ordinary men, some of them still doubting, receiving a command with no exemption clause attached to it and no professional class of preachers to hand it off to. The commission was given to the church, and that includes you.

Notice how it comes to them, though. It is bracketed by grace. All authority is His before anyone is asked to go, and His presence is promised after. The command binds you, and it never rests on your own strength, and Christ does not hand it over as a test you might fail.

Make disciples where He has actually placed you: in your home, your work, your street, your church. Pray for the nations, hold up those who go, and speak of Christ to the people already in front of you this week.

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Lesson 23: Every Command in This Chapter Comes With a Promise Attached (Matthew 28:5-7, 10, 19-20)

Matthew 28:5-7: “Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus… he is risen… And go quickly, and tell his disciples… behold, he goeth before you into Galilee.” (KJV)

God rarely gives an order without giving an anchor with it, and this chapter shows the pattern four times over.

“Fear not” is fastened to “he is risen.” “Go quickly, and tell” is fastened to “he goeth before you.” “Be not afraid” arrives with “go tell my brethren.” And the greatest command of all, “Go ye therefore,” is sealed with “lo, I am with you alway.” Four commands, four promises, each one tied to the other.

This is how God has spoken to His people from the beginning. He always gives His people something to stand on while they obey, so the weight of the command rests on His faithfulness rather than on their strength. The promise comes as the ground you stand on, long before it becomes a reward for standing there.

So when Scripture asks something hard of you, look for what God has fastened to it, because it is there. The command shows you what He wants. The promise shows you how it will be done.

Lesson 24: The Story Ends Where It Began: God With Us (Matthew 28:20)

Matthew 28:20: “…and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.” (KJV)

Matthew has been building toward this line for twenty-eight chapters. He opened his Gospel by telling us the child would be called Emmanuel, “which being interpreted is, God with us” (Matthew 1:23). Now the risen Christ stands on a mountain and says, “I am with you alway.”

The whole book is held between those two sentences. The teaching, the miracles, the opposition, the cross, the empty tomb, all of it sits inside one promise: that God has come to be with His people and has not left.

Consider what the disciples are not given. No detailed strategy. No timeline. No assurance that the road ahead will be safe. The last thing they receive from their Lord is a Person, and the commission closes with a Presence rather than a plan.

That is what you carry into an ordinary week. The risen Christ, who has already gone before you, who calls you His brother, and who promised in the final words of Matthew’s Gospel to be with you to the end of the world.

Key Themes in the Lessons from Matthew 28

• The resurrection as fact and as proof: the empty tomb matched the word Jesus had already given.
• Two responses to the same evidence: some worship, and some pay to explain it away.
• Grace before repair: Christ calls deserters His brethren before a word of apology is spoken.
• Fear, doubt, and obedience living together in the same heart.
• Authority and mission: the command rests on His power, not on our adequacy.
• Presence: the Gospel opens and closes on God with us.

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Conclusion

The distance between an empty tomb and an ordinary week is where most of the Christian life is lived. These lessons from Matthew 28 close that distance by showing who the risen Christ actually speaks to: women who were still afraid, men who were still doubting, a group smaller than it used to be, people with nothing to offer but their willingness to come. He met every one of them. He called them brethren, He sent them out on His authority rather than theirs, and He promised to be with them to the end of the world. That promise has not expired. Go into your week as someone who is followed by a risen Christ, do the last thing He told you, and know that He has already gone ahead of you into it.