The Son Has Risen Service

Hope in A Cemetery???

Matthew 28:1-10 Has been read…

Why a Cemetery?

Reminder of that Sunday morning

Our future hope of Christ return

Dead in Christ shall rise

In the Cemetery that day there was found Hope amidst several things

Hope amidst Loss & Grief Luke 24:1-7

The women and disciples were grieving

The anticipation was Christ would still be dead

“Why do you look for the living among the dead”!!!

This statement must have confused and excited them all at the same time!!!

They return and begin to tell the disciples… YET they didn't get the response they thought they would get...

Hope amidst Doubt Luke 24:11-12

The disciples had to see it for themselves

Some of us still live in doubt concerning what God has done or what He can do

Christ offers Hope of something greater than this world

But Peter got up and ran to the tomb… WHY???

Hope amidst Regret John 20:3-9

“Go tell His disciples and Peter” Mark 16:7

Peter when he heard this… he said my name?!

God wants YOU to know this same truth… He is Risen!

We all have a past and we all have regrets (cemeteries are full of them)

Christ died for sin and rose from the dead to conquer death (to heal our past and regrets)

To make atonement for our sin

His resurrection offers Hope

This Hope lets us this day declare “HE IS RISEN!”