GRADUATION DAY (6 OF 6)
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:35-58
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Title: Graduation Day (6 of 6)
Series: From Here to Eternity
Author: James Merritt
Text: I Corinthians 15:35-58
Introduction
1. In my experience I have discovered there are only two kinds of people that go to school: people who like going to school and people who don't. You can't find anybody on the fence. Whether you like to go to school or you don't, there is one thing that both types of students have in common. The one day in school they will never forget is graduation day. Graduation day is special to every high school student, but for those who go on to higher education - to college and to graduate school each graduation day honestly brings more meaning, more joy, more excitement. For those who attain the highest academic degrees that last graduation day is especially meaningful. [Show photo of Pastor getting PhD with Teresa on screen]
2. This is a picture of my last graduation. I received my doctor of philosophy degree from The Southern Seminary and there was this joy and exhilaration of knowing no more required reading, no more papers, no more final exams, and in terms of my formal education and going to school it was over. Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty I was free at last!
3. There is another graduation day that awaits all of us and for some of us it will be the greatest graduation day of all. It will mean for us no more death, no more disease, no more sin, no more sorrow and no more suffering. For others, it will be a day of dread and disappointment, discouragement and defeat that no mind can even conceive. I am talking about that time when we are all physically raised from the dead.
4. I believe deep down the resurrection is a hope within every person. For the Jesus follower, the Bible not only speaks about the hope of the resurrection, but it leaves no doubt about the fact of the resurrection. We have been in a series we have been calling "From Here to Eternity" and taking a panoramic view of what is ahead of ...
Series: From Here to Eternity
Author: James Merritt
Text: I Corinthians 15:35-58
Introduction
1. In my experience I have discovered there are only two kinds of people that go to school: people who like going to school and people who don't. You can't find anybody on the fence. Whether you like to go to school or you don't, there is one thing that both types of students have in common. The one day in school they will never forget is graduation day. Graduation day is special to every high school student, but for those who go on to higher education - to college and to graduate school each graduation day honestly brings more meaning, more joy, more excitement. For those who attain the highest academic degrees that last graduation day is especially meaningful. [Show photo of Pastor getting PhD with Teresa on screen]
2. This is a picture of my last graduation. I received my doctor of philosophy degree from The Southern Seminary and there was this joy and exhilaration of knowing no more required reading, no more papers, no more final exams, and in terms of my formal education and going to school it was over. Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty I was free at last!
3. There is another graduation day that awaits all of us and for some of us it will be the greatest graduation day of all. It will mean for us no more death, no more disease, no more sin, no more sorrow and no more suffering. For others, it will be a day of dread and disappointment, discouragement and defeat that no mind can even conceive. I am talking about that time when we are all physically raised from the dead.
4. I believe deep down the resurrection is a hope within every person. For the Jesus follower, the Bible not only speaks about the hope of the resurrection, but it leaves no doubt about the fact of the resurrection. We have been in a series we have been calling "From Here to Eternity" and taking a panoramic view of what is ahead of ...
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