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Rock N Roll Ressurection
Contributed by Craig Smee on Nov 28, 2017 (message contributor)
Summary: A Resurrection Sunday Sermon
You don’t have any hope!
You cant even get to see an empty tomb, let alone a personal encounter.
What Rock stops you from that same hope?
What rock do you need to roll before you will grasp that Jesus’ new life means a new life for you too?
What rock is keeping you from the hope?
What rock are you desperate to roll out of the way to make things better?
GOD WANTS DOES NOT NEED
Christ does not need the rock in your life to be moved. He exists, he carries on. He is not encased in the rock of your tomblike despair.
In fact Jesus does not need you to have hope and then through his resurrection life.
But here is the awesome thing. God did not need to roll back the stone, but in your case he wants to.
YOU CANT ROLL THE ROCK TO GET HOPE
I want you this morning, check out the rock. Size it up. Know that you will never be able to remove that rock, but all you have to do, like the 2 Mary’s and Peter, is ask for that rock to be rolled out of the way.
And stand ready to see that rock rolling. Revealing that the resurrection in your life is possible. God does actually love you.
YOU CANT GET LIFE SIMPLY THROUGH HOPE
Desire the resurrection on the other side of your rock.
Hope for the joy with everything you can find in yourself.
Believe in the better life on the other side of that rock.
Believe not only that your life can be resurrected but that the resurrection of your joyless, hopeless life, can be because of the resurrection that was revealed by the removal of the rock on the day of the resurrection of Christ.
Hope and long for the encounter with the Christ.
INTRO TO VIDEO CLIP
It is easy to become disillusioned in this life. Heartaches come. Dreams remain unrealized. Hopes, sometimes, are dashed.
But because of the resurrection on the other side of that rock, In the midst of adversity, in the face of difficulty, and in the weight of challenge, there will be dancing.
Listen to the words of our God, Hear his promises of joy!
GO VIDEO CLIP
MINISTRY END
I don’t know what you brought with you into this room today. I don’t know the pain or the hurt or the circumstances that you find yourself in but I do know that the Christ we remember at Easter is able to transform your life from death to life.