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we believe in the resurrection
the resurrection of hope
a faith of love
the resurrection of christ
today
it’s easter sunday
scripture says that while we were still
sinners christ died for us without good
friday
we don’t have resurrection sunday and
without sunday we have no chance at
eternity with god his crucifixion paved
the way for our redemption
what jesus did on the cross on good
friday that made all the
difference now here’s
max locator kayla montgomery was a
sturdy runner
a steady runner whip-thin and determined
she was one of the fastest runners in
the country had you watched her run you
would have been impressed
but here is what you never would have
imagined
kayla ran with no feeling in her legs
a victim of multiple sclerosis her ms
would react to the body heat and leave
kayla numb
from the waist down
still she wanted to run
as she told her coach i want to run and
i want to run fast and boy did she ever
at one time she was ranked 21st in the
nation one of the fastest high school
runners in the country
running was doable
stopping
now that was another story
she would always cross the finish line
with no ability to
decelerate for this
she depended entirely
upon her coach
she ran straight into his arms
she didn’t slow down
he didn’t move it was no small collision
when he was finally able to halt her
forward progress he would lift her five
foot one inch frame and carry her to a
safe spot
give her water and ice and gradually her
body temperature would return to normal
and the feeling in her legs
would return
they had an agreement
she did the running
and he did the catching
that was his pledge to her
and that is god’s pledge
to us
the finish line is drawing near
and no matter how well you run this race
you’re not going to run it forever and
you’re going to need some help
your strength expires at the finish line
you’re going to need someone to catch
you
and jesus christ has promised
to be that someone he will not abandon
you in your final moments
this is his promise and this is the
message of the cross
listen to this description of what jesus
said as he hung on the cross
on good friday afternoon
later
knowing that everything had now been
finished and so that scripture would be
fulfilled
jesus said
i am thirsty
a jar of wine vinegar was there so they
soaked a sponge in it put the sponge on
a stalk of the hyssop plant and lifted
it to jesus’s lips
when he had received the drink
jesus said
it is finished
with that he bowed his head
and gave up his spirit
it is finished
jesus used a business term in this
declaration the word
indicates a finalized transaction on the
cross
jesus finished the work
he paid for you he bought you he
redeemed you he paid for your sins and
mine here’s why
he is preparing for us an eternal home
that is absolutely perfect
you see heaven is a perfect place for
perfect people and you and i are not
perfect
but jesus was and jesus is
and on the cross
christ
exchanged places with us
he has paid for you
it is finished
have you received this wonderful gift of
grace
if not
then for heaven’s sake
do so
god loves you so much
and he wants to
release the flow of heaven’s grace
over your life
flushing out all the dregs of sin and
shame you see nothing
nothing separates you
from the love of god
last year we took our family to the
beach
rosie grandchild number one
had never seen the ocean she was three
and a half years old and we all wondered
how she would respond at the site
and when she saw the waves
when she heard the roar of the water
she watched and she listened
and finally she turned and she asked the
question
when does it turn off
oh it doesn’t sweetie
it never does
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and neither does god’s love
some people ask
surely god’s grace will dry up and stop
flowing right
wrong
surely we will exhaust his goodness
won’t we
no
we never will
at some point we’ll write too many
checks on his mercy and love correct
incorrect
here’s what the bible says
he doesn’t treat us as our sins deserve
nor pay us back in full
for our wrongs
as high as heaven is over the earth
so strong is his love
to those who fear him
and as far as sunrise is from sunset he
has separated us from our sins as
parents feel for their children god
feels
for those
who fear him
receive this great love of god
receive this great gift of god
he has paid for you
he has finished the work
keep running the race
and
as you run be assured
a friend is waiting for you
on the other side of the finish line and
when you cross it
he’ll be there
he’ll be there
and he’ll extend his arms as wide as he
extended them
as he hung on the cross
and he will catch you
and when he catches you
he may very well say
again
what he said then
it is finished
it was early on sunday morning and the
sky was still dark those in fact are the
exact words john the beloved disciple
wrote about that first easter sunday
morning you see mary magdalene visited
the tomb darkened by the shadows of a
silent saturday
the only thing she expected to find
was cold
dead
lifeless
lonely body
little did she know
dawn was breaking and hope
was rising
here’s priscilla
shire john chapter 20 says that it was
early in the morning
even while it was still dark
that mary of magdala made her way to the
garden tomb
picture her arriving at the tomb of the
one whom had changed her entire life
jesus had met mary at a time when her
life was in complete disrepair not only
was she oppressed but she was
marginalized in a socio-economic time
period where women were not valued at
all
but she lacked joy she lacked peace she
lacked freedom she lacked fullness until
jesus came
and then everything changed
she had followed him ever since with a
new light in her eyes and new hope in
her future and not only did she follow
him closely but she supported him his
ministry in every single way that she
possibly could and she had been there by
his side
during the trials
she had been there while they had
whipped him to the point where he could
not even be recognized she had been
there to witness his crucifixion and now
she is there
a lone figure in the darkness wandering
into the garden so that she can come and
pay respects to him at the tomb and
while she cannot see much because the
light of the sun has yet to arrive on
this morning what she can see
is that the gargantuan stone that had
been used to seal up the tomb that it
has been rolled away
and her mind in the moment that could
only mean one thing that robbers have
come and they have stolen the body of
her lord she races away so that she can
tell the disciples and two of them
immediately run as fast as they can
along with her back to the tomb those
two go in and corroborate that indeed
jesus’s body is not there
and long after they have gone home
john chapter 20 says that mary remains
of course she does
her heart longing again to see her lord
she is weeping a river of tears when she
looks inside and realizes that there are
two angels that have come
one is positioned at the head and the
other at the foot of the slab where
jesus’s body has once been laid and
as she looks in and sees them and they
see her they ask her woman
why are you weeping
she says i’ve come looking for jesus and
i cannot find him where is his body and
before they can even respond
something garners her attention
whether it’s russell and the foliage
behind or whether it’s just the sense of
a presence
the scripture says she turns around
and she sees someone standing there who
she supposes to be
the gardener
and she’s still weeping and she’s still
crying because even though now she has
seen two angels and now she has seen
someone that she believes to be the
gardener none of the presence of these
human beings or angelic beings can take
the place of jesus and
for any of us who have come to know
jesus christ as lord we can tell you the
same thing that it doesn’t matter who we
come in contact with no matter the
success they’ve achieved no matter how
high they have climbed up the the ladder
of success no matter how notable they
are even angelic beings cannot take the
place of the one
who has changed our lives who has
revolutionized our future
and so she looks at this one who she
supposes to be the gardener and whether
she can’t tell that it’s jesus because
she’s crying so many tears that those
tears have stung her eyes to the point
where her vision is blurred or whether
it is because supernaturally jesus has
veiled himself so that she can’t quite
make him out clearly whatever the reason
she doesn’t know that it’s him
and again this person poses the question
woman
why are you crying
and she says in so many words
just give me jesus
and then
he says her name
he says
mary
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her name
only rolled off of the lips with that
kind of love and grace and kindness of
one other person
she’s only known one person to speak her
name with that much purity and that much
affinity
and in that moment
the gospel becomes not just powerful it
becomes personal
and when she hears her name her eyes are
open and she recognizes that they sit in
the gardener after all this right here
this is jesus christ
and i can tell you because i’m a witness
to it that jesus is still
calling people’s names
one by one he calls our names and our
hearts warm not just because the
gospel’s powerful but because it’s
personal he knows me he knows you he
knows where we’ve been he knows what
we’ve done he knows our weaknesses he
knows our strengths he knows the places
in our lives where we need his mercy or
grace and like mary he doesn’t discard
us he doesn’t treat us the way others
have he doesn’t marginalize us he comes
to the disenfranchised and the people
that are lowly and the people like me
that are in need of a savior and he
speaks our name
and when our heart worms with the
conviction that only the holy spirit of
god can give we respond just like mary
our eyes are open because we realize
that he is who he says he is
and that he can still accomplish exactly
what he says he could
through the redemption of our sins
mary man her whole destiny changes at
this point because she races away
becoming the very first evangelist
telling everybody that she can of what
her eyes have seen jesus
has been raised from the dead
she’s our eyewitness
and you know how it is when you have an
eyewitness
think about it when you’re watching the
news and the reporter is giving you
information it’s one thing to hear the
information but once that reporter takes
the microphone and puts it in front of a
person who was there
a person who saw it for themselves a
person who’s not just talking because
they heard about it but because they
were in the room they experienced it all
of a sudden that story that you just had
information about well now it’s got
cement it’s got flesh
now you can believe because you’ve heard
from somebody who saw it mary is our
eyewitness she saw with her own eyes and
she heard his voice with her own ears
she communicates to us that jesus
raised from the grave raised from the
tomb and he is still alive today
and she is why
we can say with all confidence for any
of us who have placed faith in jesus
christ we can say it along with the
ancient hymn writer
because he lives
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i can face tomorrow
it was a time that their faith was being
challenged in a way that it had
never been challenged before
it was a time that it was no longer
popular
to say you were with jesus
they had snatched him from judgment hall
to judgment hall they had beat him until
he was almost unrecognizable
there was no beauty about him that we
should desire him and they had hung him
high and stretched him wide on a cross
until the sun got embarrassed and
refused to shine
the ground got nervous and began to
tremble and one writer wrote that graves
opened up all over jerusalem
the veil in the temple was rent from the
top to the bottom but you must be clear
in understanding that even
even his closest disciples
wondered was he really
was he really who they thought he was
after him being
publicly villainized and ostracized and
alienated
they ran and they hid and they were
afraid and they were concerned and they
were perplexed
and they were jobless
and they were lonely and they were
uncertain
and they hid
they got dark oh not just on friday it
was a dark saturday
it was a dark sabbath it was a dark
moment of contemplation and confusion
and alienation and them going back in
their mind with memory after memory of
what jesus had said and what he had done
but the memory that they could not get
out of their head was a memory of the
fact that he died on that cross
he got stiff on that cross they took his
rigor mortis ridden body and folded his
stiff arms into a death position and
wrapped him in linen and put him in a
tomb and the thing that they knew
irrevocably without any question at all
is that jesus the master
who had once walked on water jesus who
had healed the sick and raised the dead
jesus who had turned water
into wine jesus who had stood on the
mount of transfiguration and caused the
very heavens to open up the one thing
they knew for sure is that jesus
he was gone
he was absolutely gone
his mama knew he was gone
she had stood there and watched not only
the messiah not only the lord not only
the king of glory not only watching him
die but her baby her child the one she
had raised and nurtured and nursed on
her own breath she watched
him die
and the one thing they were clear about
is that he was gone
and people began to scatter jesus had
hung himself at the crucifixion and
recognized in his own mind this is too
much for me to bear thomas and ran out
doubting and saying i just i just i just
don’t know what to think about this and
peter had cursed somebody out and denied
that he had ever known the lord and the
tension was so thick you could cut it
with a knife
now let me be clear
in our understanding in the darkness of
saturday they went back in their mind
and they had seen jesus rebuke death
before he had stopped the widow of names
and touched the body of her son just by
touching the casket and the boy sat up
and walked
he had gone in and laid and spoke to a
dead girl and said to laitha kumai and
she had gotten up
and started moving again and walking
again they had seen jesus defeat death
he had walked down to the tomb of
lazarus and stood outside the tomb and
said lazarus come forth they had seen
jesus raise other people
but now the one who raised other people
from the dead
had died himself
and they felt hopeless
like some of you might feel hopeless
right now they felt
lifeless and faithless and fearful and
nervous and upset
all saturday long
all saturday night they felt the same
way
but early sunday morning before the dew
had settled on the roses early sunday
morning before the sun had fully peaked
its eye above the mountainous terrain
surrounding jerusalem early sunday
morning when the women rose up early to
go down to dress the body and to add
some frankincense and muscle that the
stench of his death did not embarrass
the legacy of his memory early sunday
morning they got a shocker
the stone
had been rolled back
the grave was empty
the death napkin had been folded you see
there is a distinction between
this moment from any other moment that
we talked about before yes there were
people all through the old testament
that had been raised from the dead but
they all rose to die again but jesus
rose up to never die again and the
question
hurled and out of the mouth of the angel
why seek the living
amongst the dead
for he has risen
he is not here he has risen above what
everybody said about him he has risen
above what everybody doubted in him he
has risen above every scandal and every
ostracization that has been applied to
it he has risen above the expectations
of even his followers he has risen above
the powers of the roman empower he has
risen above the reach of the sanhedrin
court he has risen above the pharisees
and the sadducees he has risen above
death hell and the grave he has snatched
the sting out of death and the victory
out of the grave and he has risen with
all power in his hand
that’s what it means
to start talking about the resurrection
of the lord it is not that we don’t go
down
it is not that it does not get dark it
is not that it doesn’t get deep and
confusing and complexity it is not that
we don’t have pain and that we don’t
have fear and sometimes we must admit
that we do have doubt but what the
resurrection is all about is that god
does not need our stress to do what he
said he is going to do he is not a man
that he should lie or the son of man
that he should repent if god said he’s
going to get up he’s going to get up and
if god said you’re going to get up
you’re going to get up and if god says
you’re going to be an overcomer you’re
going to be an overcomer because he rose
from the dead with all power in his
hands and the angels began to sing and
heaven began to rejoice and the glory
began to fall because he
that was dead is alive forevermore he
lives
he lives we serve an absolutely risen
savior not a defeated foal not a villain
nailed to a tree not a scandalous
individual that’s ostracized by his
community but we are serving a risen
lord a roaring lion from the tribe of
judah the seed of abraham the bright and
morning star the lily of the valley he
got up with all power in his hair no
wonder the psalmist said weeping may
endure for a night but if you can take a
tough night i’ve got news for your joy
absolute blissful joy comes in the
morning and i just stopped by to tell
you i just stopped by to let you know i
just stopped by to declare unto you that
i just checked my watch it’s not night
anymore
church
it’s morning wipe the tears out of your
eyes and praise our god because he rose
up early
early early
sunday morning
resurrection
is yours
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