Title: The Third Day God
Text: Luke 24
Author: Dr. Ernest L. Easley
(Easter Message)
If there was ever a day full of hope, it's today: Easter Sunday! In fact, the Bible tells us what makes this day a hope-filled day is recorded in 1 Corinthians 15.3-4, "For I passed on to you as most important what I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures." In Acts 10.40 we hear Simon Peter tell us that "God raised up this man on the third day and caused him to be seen."
Write it down and never forget: everlasting hope is found in the resurrected Jesus Christ. Because Jesus is alive, hope is available to you today! No resurrection, no hope! But because of the resurrection, there is hope!
Let me ask you this: what are you putting your hope in today? We are all hopers. You ask, "Ernest, what is hope?" Hope is the belief that good things lay ahead. It is a combination of desire and expectation. It is the confidence that something wonderful is possible.i When we are hopeful, we believe the future can be better than the past and that there are things we can do to help bring about that better future. Hope empowers us.ii
In the movie, The Shawshank Redemption," the two central characters, played by Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman, have a running argument about hope. Morgan Freeman has learned to manage disappointment by giving up hope. 'Hope is a dangerous thing,' he says, 'Hope can break your heart.' To Tim Robbins, though, to quit hoping was to start dying. And the final line of the movie, as Morgan Freeman has left prison and headed for the blue waters of Mexico and the reunion with his great good friend, is 'I hope ..."iii
Halford Luccak in his book Unfinished Business, said it so well, "Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present."
If anyone ever understood the truth of that statement, it was those two f ...
Text: Luke 24
Author: Dr. Ernest L. Easley
(Easter Message)
If there was ever a day full of hope, it's today: Easter Sunday! In fact, the Bible tells us what makes this day a hope-filled day is recorded in 1 Corinthians 15.3-4, "For I passed on to you as most important what I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures." In Acts 10.40 we hear Simon Peter tell us that "God raised up this man on the third day and caused him to be seen."
Write it down and never forget: everlasting hope is found in the resurrected Jesus Christ. Because Jesus is alive, hope is available to you today! No resurrection, no hope! But because of the resurrection, there is hope!
Let me ask you this: what are you putting your hope in today? We are all hopers. You ask, "Ernest, what is hope?" Hope is the belief that good things lay ahead. It is a combination of desire and expectation. It is the confidence that something wonderful is possible.i When we are hopeful, we believe the future can be better than the past and that there are things we can do to help bring about that better future. Hope empowers us.ii
In the movie, The Shawshank Redemption," the two central characters, played by Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman, have a running argument about hope. Morgan Freeman has learned to manage disappointment by giving up hope. 'Hope is a dangerous thing,' he says, 'Hope can break your heart.' To Tim Robbins, though, to quit hoping was to start dying. And the final line of the movie, as Morgan Freeman has left prison and headed for the blue waters of Mexico and the reunion with his great good friend, is 'I hope ..."iii
Halford Luccak in his book Unfinished Business, said it so well, "Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present."
If anyone ever understood the truth of that statement, it was those two f ...
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