As you may know, I like to have a joke in my sermons from time to time. I recently found out that today on Easter Sunday, it is even more appropriate. It is actually a long standing tradition in some Eastern Orthodox churches for the priests to come prepared with a joke on Easter Sunday. This is not just to please the crowd, until we all meet again next year. It has theological significance; for on the first Easter morning nearly 2000 years ago, to everyone’s surprise, it was God who had the last laugh, not the power hungry politicians or know it all religious leaders and certainly not the evil one. It is God who has the last word, and as with any joke, the end does not turn out as we’d expect.