A Sermon for the Burial Service of Our Lord 04/02/21

Jesus’ funeral is hardly like the funeral of a king. Heads of state and religious leaders and crowds of people would honor any real king at his passing. Important people would eulogize him.  Yet at the funeral of the most influential human who ever lived, no one said anything. Not Peter, not James nor John, whom he lived and worked with for years, said a word in testimony of this great man.  Not even one of the dozens of blind, deaf and lame healed by Jesus, publicly shared how he changed their lives. And surely it had to be that way, because Jesus himself predicted that it would be. So why didn’t our heavenly Father empower anyone to speak out at his beloved son’s funeral? We have the answer here today.  We are the answer here today. It was not God’s will that any single person sum up the life of Christ at His funeral, because every single person is called to make such a response; from that first Good Friday, till today, and forever forward.