Hope Revived Wk. 3

WHAT’S NEXT?

Paralyzed. Imprisoned by what we don’t understand. - Introduce mudding. Let’s go get stuck in something. // RENOVATION IS MY MUDDING.

If it were not for Christ’s resurrection from the dead, then we have nothing.

Here’s the problem. You and I, we still view death as final.

WE LEAVE THE THING STUCK IN THE MUD. WE SUBCONSCIOUSLY DECIDE IT’S BETTER NOT TO EVEN START THAN TO UNCOVER SOMETHING THAT I MIGHT HAVE TO WORK TO UNDERSTAND.

1COR15:35NIV

planting a body in the ground.

School experiments

So long as there are funerals, hope will always seem to have an end. Hope will only endure, in the mind of most, while our lungs are expanding and contracting. As soon as that last breath is taken, it seems that hope dies.

Heb11:1- Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

We will never fully understand this strange concept.

But today I want to awaken you to a line of logic that is beginning to confront me in my growth in Christ.

Death is not final. Death is a transition from life to new life.

I need you to get to the point of realizing, this is not going to be one of the things that you are going to understand.

Blind

What Paul is so desperately trying to equate to us through this passage is that what you are, we are, going to experience with this is like nothing you’ve ever experienced before.

Creator God - John 14:1-4NIV

<< Keys beginning>>

1C15:40-44

Paul is trying to launch you into a greater hope that is beyond your comprehension.

What is coming is better.

What is coming is unimaginable.

What is coming is beyond what you can think up.

Eph 3:20-21 NIV

2 Cor.5.1-5 NIV,

SO WHAT COMES NEXT?

Great question. Certainly, it’d be awesome to know what exactly was going to be coming around the next corner. Sure, we really have no idea about what exactly this is, is going to be or will become, but we’ve got to keep away from getting hung up on things we don’t understand and never fully will.

If all we end up doing is trying to figure out what might become, we will have spent a lot of time thinking and zero time doing anything.

Studying, reading, researching-

It’s time to begin the doing part of life.

1C15:19NIV- Aaron just touched on this verse with a light light touch. “If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men.”

MSG - If all we get out of Christ is a little inspiration for a few short years, we’re a pretty sorry lot. But the truth is that Christ has been raised up, the first in a long legacy of those who are going to leave the cemeteries.

CEV- 19 If our hope in Christ is good only for this life, we are worse off than anyone else.

You see our issue is that we cannot see beyond what we know.

Death in our minds is final.

We still use the word, death, to die, decease. HIs life was over. He breathed his last. We use countless phrases to insinuate a crossing from life to death, but that’s not Christian.

When we accept Christ as Savior there is only DEATH TO LIFE. There is no more Life to Death.

I can see, you’re as stuck as I was mudding on the mountain, - Lets go somewhere for the purpose of getting stuck, so we can work it out.

GET STUCK IN THE SCRIPTURE. DIG YOURSELF DOWN INTO THAT MESS SO DEEP THAT YOU HAVE TO WRESTLE YOUR WAY THROUGH IT.

AS PEOPLE WE WILL ALSO SEE DEATH AS FINAL, BECAUSE NO ONE HAS NEVER COME BACK AND TOLD US THE THING THAT HAPPENS THE MOMENT YOUR EARTHLY BODY STOPS WORKING.

BUT CHRIST, PAUL AND MANY OTHERS ARE???

Death in our minds is final.5 see that what I experience isn’t final. I confess, every decision has been in that regard. I’ve lived my life as if this was all there was, but I’m beginning to see there is so much more.