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 Resurrection Sunday - 2022
2 Cor 5:16-21

It may be the second quarter of the year, but is it too late for New Year’s resolutions?
Saturday morning I was once again feeling the need to eat better.
What we do one day we often feel the next.

At the time, it may feel great to overdo it – but the next day we may be kicking ourselves.

Healthy eating is like planting a crop. It brings forth a better harvest.
If we live off of fried chicken, we may find a less than desirable harvest.
But life is all about balance, right? J

Even yesterday morning I received a text message about a new health and diet supplement.
There’s always some popular diet – some current food that is getting all of the attention.

If you’re as old as I am, you remember when cottage cheese was the thing to eat for health. Seems kinda odd, now, but…

Is kale still the trendy food to eat? There’s always something new popping up.
Who knows?
I can eat it, but unless it’s cooked just right, I’m not really wild about it.

Let’s suppose a farmer has decided that since kale is such a hot item, he decides to stop growing turnips and grow kale instead.
…but, at the end of the season, he once again has a harvest of turnips. Why?

Does he wake up one morning in shock that his field is full of turnips again?

Gen 8:22 – “As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest…”

The Bible tells us, “Don't be misled--you cannot mock the justice of God. You will always harvest what you plant.” (Galatians 6:7)

Today we wake up and look at our own fields of harvest. What are we raising out of the soil of our lives?
Are you waking up to a new day of hope and promise – or is it filled with the bitter sting of the words, “You will always harvest what you plant.”

Are you carrying the mistakes of Saturday into your Resurrection Sunday?

What do you think of the Message of the Cross?

1 Cor 1:18
The Message of the Empty Tomb is a message of New Hope for you today.

The Word teaches us that before we can experience a Resurrection in our lives, we first have to have a death and burial of the old.

Resurrection Sunday is the ultimate declaration of Jesus victory for all of us.
It is the Hope of a better life starting right away.

Rev 1:18 – “I Am the living one. I died, but look--I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and the grave.”

Easter is a Message of Hope. Do you need a new hope today?

Maybe you look at your life – and at the fields you know are blooming into a harvest – and you wish you could back up and plant different seeds.

Maybe you need a miracle in your life today.

Easter is the perfect time to receive your miracle – because it was the Cross and Jesus’ resurrection that makes miracle possible.

The Bible says, “For the wages of sin is death…” (Romans 6:23)

Our wages are the harvest we receive for what we have sown in our lives.

Gal 6:8 – “Those who live only to satisfy their own sinful nature will harvest decay and death from that sinful nature.”

“As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest…”

“For the wages of sin is death…”

Where is the Hope? Where is the miracle?

“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.”

"It is finished" is the English translation of the Greek word Tetelestai, (tet-a-lest-ai) which was the last thing Jesus said before dying on the cross.
Tetelestai comes from the verb teleo, which means "to bring to an end, to complete, to accomplish."

It is a word used to indicate “the debt has been fully paid” – uiused in both business and the court systems.
But there's more here than the verb itself. Tetelestai is in the perfect tense in Greek.

That's significant because the perfect tense speaks of an action which has been completed in the past with results continuing into the present.
It's different from the past tense which looks back to an event and says, "This happened."
The perfect tense adds the idea that "This happened and it is still in effect today."

The Price has been paid. The curse has been broken.

Romans 5:8 – “God showed His great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.”

If there ever were a reason for HOPE – it is now. The Message of Easter.

If life has not gone as you had planned… Easter is a sunrise of Hope for you.

Will you accept the gift that God offers you today?

“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.”

The world teaches us to sow to ourselves – to please ourselves.

“Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.”

A farmer can look at his field and see what he has planted and cared for.

We can look at our lives and see the harvest of our own seeds we’ve planted.

If we want a better harvest, we need to plant better seeds.

We must die to the old life – the old nature – in order to experience the new.

Because of the Cross – we have a New Hope

Romans 6:6 - “We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin.”

If anyone is in Christ, they are a New Creation…

We must die to the old life – the old nature – in order to experience the new.

Col 3:3 - For you died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God.

Jesus promised: "I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying.”
Gal 2:20: My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

God is calling us to a higher place – a better life.

A life of wholeness and salvation. Of His Peace and Restoration.

There is New Life through Jesus Christ. A new harvest awaits us – with fields that flourish with life.

There is a New Hope. Your debt has been paid in full.

Jesus says, "This cup is the new covenant between God and his people--an agreement confirmed with my blood.”

The New Covenant is about God’s Love reaching out to us

It’s about God’s grace.

“The law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has made us free from the law of sin and death.”
We live in a New Testament – New Covenant world – but only if we are willing to die to the old and be born again to the new.

John 1:17 - “For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.”

God’s Grace came to us through Jesus Christ. This grace gives us hope for a better life.

Paul wrote: “I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe.”

Do you understand the Hope of Your Calling?
God has a specific mission and purpose for your life.

He will reveal it all to you if you will move forward and stop looking behind you.

If the world had the answers you seek, you would have already found them.
Stop looking back – that is not where your future lies.

Don’t be like Lot’s wife!
Jesus said, “Remember what happened to Lot's wife! If you cling to your life, you will lose it, and if you let your life go, you will save it.”

“the Hope of Your Calling”
Knowing you have a calling on your life gives you hope.
We need to recognize why we’re here on earth.

If you have a calling, you have a hope, because God says He will finish what He started.
“Christ in You – the Hope of Glory.”

Glory is God’s Goodness manifested in your life!

Wesley : “Christ dwelling and reigning in you, The hope of glory - The ground of your hope.”

Trusting in God as your Hope means taking the burden off of you – and trust in Christ IN you.
It’s not you! It’s Christ IN you!

Before there can be a resurrection, there must first be a death and burial.

Resurrection Sunday is the perfect time for you let go of the past and reach out for the new life Jesus offers you today.

2 Cor 5:16-21

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Hillside United Methodist Church
3739 US 80
Phenix City  AL  36870
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Pastor: Mike J Koger

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