Adam Shows Up at Jesus’ Tomb (Most People Miss This)

The morning Jesus rose from the dead, Mary Magdalene looked him right in the face and thought he was the gardener. Most people read that and move on. Don't do that. Because the one word gardener is the key to unlocking the entire resurrection account, and nobody talks about it. But here's what makes this personal. At some point in your life, maybe right now, you felt like you've been hiding from God, or maybe hiding from the people you love, maybe even hiding from yourself. That feeling is older than you think. It goes all the way back to the first pages of the Bible. And 23 years ago, God used this exact story to find me at the bottom of a $200 a day heroin and cocaine addiction. Stay with me to the end, because what God showed me that night might be exactly what you need to hear today. Welcome back to Get Into the Word. My name is Robbie Gallaty. Before we get into why Mary mistook Jesus for a gardener at the tomb, we have to go all the way back to the first garden in the Bible. Genesis chapter two, verses eight and nine say this. The Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he placed the man he had formed.

The Lord God caused to grow out of the ground every tree pleasing in appearance and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden, as well as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. See, what God's doing is God creates a garden, and he places man in the middle of it, and he gives him a job. Now, most people skip over this, but what was Adam's job in the garden? Well, he was a gardener. Genesis 2.15 tells us that God placed Adam in the garden to work it and to keep it. Now, put a pin in that, because we're gonna come back to that later. The serpent then shows up, and his first question to Adam and Eve is the same question he whispers into your ear and my ear today. Did God really say? You see, if Satan can get us to question God's word, then we'll serve ourselves instead of God, and that's exactly what happened. Adam and Eve didn't want to be with God. They wanted to be God. They didn't wanna live by the word of God. They wanted to have the last word in everything, and the ripple effects of that are the devolution of humanity after that. Cain kills Abel. Noah's generation rejects God.

The people ascending the Tower of Babel follow suit. When you get to the Book of Judges, you know what it says. Everyone did what was right in their own eyes. You see, the reason you and I should listen to God's word over our own ideas, beliefs, or feelings is because God made us, and therefore, he knows what's best for you and for me. So here's the setup. Don't miss this. A man, Adam, fails in a garden. A woman named Eve is deceived. The curse enters the world. Hold all of those elements together, a man, a woman, and a garden, because that scene is about to replay in a very different way. Those three elements at the scene of the first crime are going to show up thousands of years in the future on a Sunday morning outside of Jerusalem. Same three elements, completely different outcome. Let's go to John 20, verses 14 through 16. This is Mary at the tomb. She just sees the two angels, and she comes out, and having said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she didn't know it was Jesus. Woman, Jesus said to her, why are you crying? Who is it that you're seeking? Watch this.

Supposing Jesus was the gardener. She replied, sir, if you've carried away Jesus, tell me where you've put him, and I will take him away. Jesus says, Mary, and it's at that moment she recognizes who he is, and she says, rabbi, which means teacher, can you figure out what's going on here? Mary turns around and sees Jesus standing there, but she doesn't know it's him. He asked her, what are you looking for? Who are you looking for? And she thinks he's the gardener. Has that ever puzzled anyone? A gardener, really? Well, let's go back to Genesis. What was Adam's first job in Eden? He was a gardener. Now look at the scene again. We have a woman in a garden, the scene of the first crime. Only this time, it's not Adam and Eve, it's Jesus, the second Adam, and Mary. In the first garden, the man Adam failed the woman and brought the curse into the world. In this garden, the man Jesus, you're gonna love this, finds the woman and breaks the curse. Jesus, in a sense, is the master gardener, removing all the weeds of sin and death from the soil of our hearts. Mary's mistake actually wasn't a mistake at all.

It was the Bible telling you and me exactly who Jesus is. He's the one who came to redo what Adam did. Adam got wrong. But here's the thing, only someone who overcame every temptation that Adam failed at could actually reverse the curse, and that is what Jesus came to do. The only one who could repair the curse of the fall is the one who overcame temptation. Jesus did what Adam never could. Three times in the wilderness, you remember, when he's being tempted by the devil after fasting for 40 days, three times he rebukes him. He resists the devil again in the Garden of Gethsemane when he's sweating drops of blood before the cross, and then he goes to Calvary, and he pays the price of our sin. He died in our place for our sin. Every one of us today, because of that, has to make a choice, and the choice is, are you gonna choose life or death, God's word or the world, the savior or the serpent? God has set before us today life and prosperity or death and adversity. Which will you choose? Now, I'm speaking from experience. I have a doctorate degree in doing things my own way, and I'm here to tell you, it doesn't lead to peace and satisfaction. It actually led to death and destruction.

If you think your independence from God is going to lead to life, you're sadly mistaken. I wanna end where we began. In Genesis 3, if you remember, after the first couple sinned, God steps into the garden, and he asks a question to Adam, and it's a question God asked me, November 12, 2002. After Adam sinned, God asked the question, where are you, Adam, or where are you? Now, notice this. That is not a geographical question. It's not a locational question. God knows where he is physically. It's a personal one. It's an emotional one. You see, when God asks a question in the Bible, it's never for lack of information. It's always for our own realization. Adam, do you realize what you've done? How did you let this happen? How have you wandered so far from me? How did you even get here? You see, God's question to Adam is one we all must answer, and that's the question God posed to me on November 12, 2002. I'd realized up to that point that I was eating from the tree that only left me starving for more. After a car accident in 1999, I got addicted to pharmaceutical drugs. I eventually moved on to street drugs.

I was spiraling because of this out of control, was hiding in the bushes of my own shame. After leaving rehab for the second time, I'd stolen from my parents, mom and dad, $15,000. I had lost eight friends to drug and alcohol-related deaths. Six went to jail. I'd racked up a mountain of debt from bad decisions, and I was battling depression, although I didn't know it at the time. I moved back in with my parents. I was broke, I was jobless, and I was hopeless. Here's a picture of me six months before I surrendered my life to Christ. I wish I could say this was me going into jail. No, this was me at the DMV. In my room one day, God asked me, Robbie, where are you? And I finally stopped running, and I answered him, Lord, I'm right here, and I'm a broken man. God met me in my room that day, not with flaming swords of rejection that he put at the corner of the garden when Adam and Eve sinned. No, he welcomed me with open arms of redemption. And for the first time in my life, I didn't just hear the message of the gospel. I'd heard it before, but I believed it. I stopped running. I stopped reaching for the fruit that brought death, and I accepted the sacrifice of Jesus Christ

on the cross for my sins. And since that day, I've been a free man ever since. Not a perfect man, you can ask my wife, Candy, but a free man. And Jesus wants to do the same for you right now. I know what you're thinking. But Pastor Robbie, you don't know what I've done. You don't know the pain I've caused other people. You don't know the sins that I've committed. You're right, I don't, but God does. And if you think God can't forgive the sins you have committed, you don't know God. When Jesus died on the cross that day, every sin from the past, every sin in the present, every sin in the future was nailed to that tree. And that's why he cried out after his work was done. It is almost finished. Is that what he said? No, he said, it is part of the way finished. Is that what he said? No, I got it down to the five yard line. You just need to punch it in. No, he said, it is finished. You know what that word means? It's done. Signed, sealed, delivered, take it to the bank. It's all been paid for. Now today, in our time together, we've covered a lot of ground. We went from the Garden of Eden, where Adam and Eve failed,

to the garden outside of Jerusalem, where Jesus made it right, to a room in 2002, where a broken man finally stopped running. But friends, the journey doesn't end with my story. It actually. ends with yours. You're standing right now in a garden, whether you know it or not, and there are two trees on either side. One tree promises you can become your own God, you can define your truth yourself, and you can have the last word on everything. But there's another tree there, and if you look closely, you realize that tree is in the shape of a cross. And it's a tree on which our Savior died. And it offers life abundantly to anyone who turns from their sin and runs to Jesus Christ. So where are you today, friend? Where's your heart? How have you strayed from the Lord? How far have you strayed from the Lord? God is calling you. And if you listen long enough, and if you sit and watch and listen, you start to hear that Galilean accent. Stop hiding, stop running, come home to Jesus. If this video helped you see something new in God's word, would you do me a favor and share it with someone you think it will bless?

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