And where was the tomb? In a garden. In the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre. Was this an accident of geography? Nay, it was a signature of Providence. On the first day of the week, very early, the last Adam walked out of death into garden soil, and Mary - a weeping woman, another Rachel drying her eyes - supposing him to be the gardener, spake unto him. Supposing Him to be the gardener! O blessed mistake that was no mistake at all: He is the Gardener, the second and better Keeper of Eden, come to dress and to keep a redeemed creation. The first gardener lost the garden; the last Gardener carried it out of the grave.Then hear the victory proclamation on the mountain in Galilee: All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Πᾶσα ἐξουσία (pasa exousia) - all authority. In heaven AND in earth - the very earth of Genesis 1:26! And what did He do with it? He delegated it, as His Father before Him: Go ye therefore. As my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. Behold, I give unto you power over all the power of the enemy. The commission of Eden, re-issued from a resurrection garden, with the serpent's head already bruised beneath the Victor's heel.This, beloved reader, is why my confidence is sweet and not shrill. I do not strain to seize a dominion that is in doubt; I stand in a dominion that hath been sealed. The recovery is not a hope hanging by a thread; it is a deed signed in blood and probated by an empty tomb. Signs of grace follow them that believe - they cast out devils, they lay hands on the sick and the sick recover - because the authority behind the signs is not theirs on trial but His in triumph. God showeth Himself alive through the ages by the manifest of signs, wonders, and miracles; and every such sign is a memo from management that the Garden charter is back in force.
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