My son, returning from school a few weeks ago,
as he watched the snow fall, cried out in despair,
My life is over!
You see, he had set his heart that morning on playing soccer with Daddy in the backyard after school.
And it's difficult to play soccer in the snow.
And I told him that would not happen.
And he said, cried out, cried out with a plaintive cry, My life is over!
Life is so fragile for a seven-year-old.
Sometimes, frivolous things can shake our lives, make us cry out plaintively.
Sometimes they're frivolous things, like a snowfall and a desire to play soccer.
Even for adults, sometimes they're frivolous things.
Our favorite basketball team lost last night in heartbreaking fashion.
Or your weekend plans are spoiled by sick kids.
Or all sorts of fairly mundane losses in life.
Sometimes, life feels fragile when more serious things happen.
My girlfriend broke up with me.
When you're 12, that's not so big deal, right?
When you're 36, you've been dating for five years.
That's a pretty big deal.
I was let go of my employer.
My application didn't go through.
My spouse walked out on me.
We just got the pathology report.
When these things happen, it's easy for our heart to cry out,
My life is over!
It feels like death is encroaching.
And covering over the life that we thought we would have.
The life that we thought we would live.
Something in our life has been lost, destroyed.
And indeed, at times, never to be regained.
This is death encroaching in our lives.
We read earlier from the account of the disciples.
Imagine the disciples turning home that Friday night.
What just happened?
We gave him our lives.
We left everything to follow him.
And now he's dead.
He's gone.
Our lives are over.
Death has won.
So our lives feel so suddenly fragile.
The things that are so very precious are also so very breakable.
The things that are so valuable are also so easy to lose in an instant.
And indeed, the greater the investment of our lives, of our time, of our energy, of our commitment, of our heart to something,
the greater the crisis when these things are lost.
Friends, how do you respond in those moments?
Seven-year-old cries out honestly, freely,
My life is over.
What do we do?
Shock.
Disappointment.
Devastation.
Confusion.
Anger.
A sense of betrayal.
A sense of despair.
Where does life go from here?
Friends, it's Easter morning.
God has good words for us in light of this situation.
What does the Bible have to say when all is lost?
What good does God have to say to us, especially on Easter morning?
This is what we're going to spend a few minutes exploring today.
If you want to turn with me in your pew Bibles to page 984, we're looking at Colossians chapter 3.
In Colossians chapter 3, the Apostle Paul, in writing to the church in Colossae,
is reminding them and instructing them on what it means that Jesus has risen from the dead.
And he is applying it to their lives and helping them see the difference that it makes to them.
And I hope this morning that we will see the difference that it makes for us as well.
So Colossians chapter 3, verses 1 through 4.
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above where Christ is,
seated at the right hand of God.
Set your minds on things above, not on the things that are on earth.
For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
Will you pray with me?
Lord, this morning we need your help.
Lord, we need your help to understand what your word has to say to us.
We need help, Lord, because we so easily lose sight of and misunderstand who you are and what you have done.
God, I pray this morning that as we think about Jesus risen from the dead,
that you would help us to understand what a wonderful truth, what good news that is for us today.
I pray these things in Jesus' name.
Amen.
When the worst things befall you, life is not over.
Death has not won.
In the resurrection of Jesus, in fact, Paul is saying,
your life has only just begun.
And it's in communion with, in fellowship with, in connection with,
the resurrected Jesus, in fact, that we find a true,
an unbreakable life that can withstand the greatest trials and the greatest losses of life.
This is what Paul is pointing to us in this passage.
Resurrection is the best news in the world as we face the fragility of our lives.
We're going to look at two basic things.
One, we're going to look at the beginning.
He says, since or if you have been raised with Christ,
and we're going to talk about what that means.
And then we're going to talk about then, how do we live in light of that?
What difference does it make?
The resurrected Christ is the basis of a new life.
And so we have to look first at this great passage.
Verse 1,
There are two parts of this for us that we need to unpack for us to really embrace it and for us to feel it.
The first one is the objective reality that Christ has been raised from the dead.
Right?
Paul is assuming this when he says this statement.
How do we know this is true?
Well, we've read about it.
The gospel Luke tells us that this is what happened.
The disciples showed up at the tomb.
And there was an angel saying,
Why do you seek the living among the dead?
He is not here.
He is risen just as he said.
This is the most fundamental truth claim of the Christian faith.
Is that Jesus in real space time history,
His actual literal physical body was dead and was brought again to life.
And that not only did he rise to that new life,
But then he walked out of the tomb after God had rolled the stone away.
And he appeared to many people while he lived on this earth in physical bodies where people could touch him and see him and hear him and eat with him.
And then he ascended into heaven.
Not as a spirit, but as a body.
A real resurrected body.
And Christians claim that this makes all the difference.
Because if he had simply died and gone to his grave like every other human being,
Then all the things that we often like to think about Jesus,
He was a great teacher.
He was a moral example.
He built a vision of a better society and a better world.
All of those things could still be true.
But Christianity says something actually quite different about Jesus.
It says that Jesus was raised from the dead.
And therefore,
His death had a power.
Unlike any other life.
Unlike any other person.
Because when,
The Bible says when he died,
He died in our place.
He died for our sin.
He took the penalty,
The death,
That we deserve for our rejection and rebellion against the Lord of life and the creator of all things.
The Bible claims that Jesus' death made a difference by dying in our place.
But if he had simply stayed in the grave,
He would have died like any other man.
By his rising from the dead,
He proved that he was able to die not for himself,
But for us.
And that the judgment that he took upon himself by dying,
Was not for his own sin,
But for the sin of others.
And by rising to new life,
He is now a living Savior.
Did you see what Paul says about him?
Christ is now seated at the right hand of God in heaven.
Like a general having returned from his victorious campaign,
He has now sat down,
Because the enemies of sin and death have been conquered.
Not merely by his death,
But especially by his resurrection from the dead.
And he is not only a conquering king,
But he is a living Savior.
He is a real person who we can talk to in prayer,
Who intercedes with us before the heavenly,
Who is able to help us in our weakness and in our trials.
He is a real person,
Alive to whom we can relate.
Death could not hold him.
The power of sin was broken.
And he is able now to give us new life.
This is the claim.
Christianity affirmed that because Jesus is risen from the dead,
Death is no longer the end.
Now, I want to spend a few minutes,
Because I am sure there are a few of you,
Maybe many of you,
Who are thinking,
This sounds a little fantastical.
This sounds a little bit like the sci-fi movie that I saw last week.
This sounds like a great story.
But I just don't think it could really be true.
And throughout history,
There have been all sorts of arguments about how this has happened.
Maybe Jesus didn't really die.
Maybe he just passed out.
Maybe the disciples hallucinated when they claimed that he saw him after he raised from the dead.
Maybe the apostles,
So wishing that he was still alive,
Created a whole myth about his resurrection,
Knowing that it wasn't true.
But hopefully believing that that idea would somehow carry on and do good in the world.
Now,
Though these things have all been posited and explored throughout the history of humanity since Jesus' death,
None of these actually stand up to good, historical, rigorous exploration.
I was a history major in college.
Historical evidence is not the same thing as scientific evidence.
We cannot put to test Jesus rising from the dead again.
There's no test tube.
There's no repeatable hypothesis to be tested.
But as a history major,
There are good reasons to believe.
There are lots of good reasons to believe that,
In fact,
Jesus rising from the dead,
And the account of those who saw him and met him,
Are as credible as all sorts of things that you believe about Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great,
And all sorts of other historical people of the past.
Friends,
I'm not going to bore you.
I'll be honest with you.
I'm not going to bore you with all the arguments this morning.
If this is something you are interested in,
There are good resources.
There's a great debate out there.
You can see it,
I believe,
Online.
It's become a book,
too.
Gary Habermas and Anthony Flew.
Did Jesus rise from the dead?
It's a debate between an atheist who said it didn't,
And a Christian who said,
No,
I think it did.
I recommend it to you.
William Lane Craig,
Knowing the Truth About the Resurrection,
Our Response to the Empty Tomb,
Another Great Philosophical Approach to This.
There are books downstairs.
Friends,
If you're interested,
Come to Christianity Explored next week.
Come after church next week,
And talk,
And ask your questions about whether this could be true or not.
Because,
You know what?
I get it.
It sounds crazy.
Because it's not natural for someone to rise from the dead.
Right?
It doesn't happen very often.
In fact,
It has happened only a few times in history,
I would wager to say.
But friends,
What I want you to see is that,
The Bible never claimed it to be natural.
It is supernatural.
It is a work of God.
And that doesn't make it less real.
It makes it more.
And if you're wondering about it,
Explore it.
God has brought you here this morning,
And I pray that you would hear the summons,
To actually find out what you think about it.
Actually examine the evidence.
Actually look at the textual variance,
And look at the way that history was told.
Look at the situation and the context.
Take a challenge from me,
To pick this up and pursue it.
Because,
If he didn't die,
And rise from the dead,
As the Bible says,
Then Paul says,
Those of us who are Christians,
Who worship Jesus,
Yeah, we're just,
Believe in something.
You know,
We might as well believe that,
I won't even,
I'm not even going there.
We might as well believe that Martians,
Are going to bring,
You know,
Papayas to our country,
Or something like that.
You know,
We might as well believe something,
Just completely ridiculous.
If he didn't rise from the dead,
What we believe,
Is just foolishness.
And we are men,
Most to be pitied.
But the Bible claims that if it is true,
If it was factually true,
Then it changes everything.
And friends,
It changes everything about how we live,
And how we die,
How we face the greatest losses,
And the greatest trials of life.
It makes all the difference.
So Paul starts with this,
Objective reality,
Christ has been raised from the dead,
But look again,
Verse 1,
Right?
It's not just that this thing happened 2,000 years ago,
But verse 1 says what?
If you have been raised with Christ,
So suddenly this objective historical reality,
Paul's saying,
Has become real for you.
Now,
We need to make sure we get our English grammar right.
If is the first word,
It's a perfectly good reading of the word,
But if can be used in different ways.
If might be introducing an uncertainty.
Well,
If this had happened for you,
But instead,
Here it's more of a logical if.
It's creating the basis of an argument.
A better word in English might be since.
Paul is talking to believers,
Who have professed their faith,
In this risen Jesus.
And so he says,
Since you,
Have been raised with Christ.
What in the world does that mean?
I mean,
Seriously.
He died 2,000 years ago.
Even if he did rise from the grave.
What does it mean?
That I have been raised with Christ?
This doesn't make any sense at all, does it?
Well, let's explore it.
Because it points to the very central reality.
That Christians,
By placing their faith in Jesus,
Enter into a very real union with him.
A spiritual reality where we are joined with Christ.
And we are joined with Christ in both his death and his resurrection.
Because in that is where we find, in fact,
Our salvation,
Our hope,
Our restoration to a relationship with God.
We have died with Christ.
What does this mean?
When Christ died on the cross,
He died for our sins.
When we died with Christ,
We died to our sin.
What is sin?
Sin is our rejection of God.
Our independent spirit.
Our desire to be self-centered,
Rather than God-centered in the world.
Our loveless pursuit of our own agenda,
Rather than a loving pursuit of God.
And loving him and his creation and his world.
Sin is an egocentric worldview.
And an egocentric life that says,
No God, I don't want you.
I want to be God in my life.
And what Paul is saying here is that
When we are joined with Christ,
Dying with him,
We are dying to that old way.
We are dying to ourself.
We are dying to our selfishness.
We are dying to the right to say,
This is my life,
And I'm going to do with it what I want,
And I'm going to determine what is right and wrong.
We are dying to a life that is apart from God,
And in rejection of God.
But it also is dying to death itself.
Because all that sin and all that rejection
Brings us spiritual death.
And when we die with Christ
To our sin and to our old way,
We die to death itself.
When we place our faith that what Jesus did
Makes a difference for me,
Now,
Not only have I died with Christ
To sin and to the old way,
Right?
You see it in verse 3,
For you have died,
Right?
Not only have we died,
But now we have been raised with Christ
To a new life.
Where once self reigns,
Now God reigns in our hearts
And in our lives.
Where once egocentric life
Made things about me,
Now suddenly my life is lived for him.
And for his world,
And for his creation.
Where once,
I stood apart from God,
Rejected him,
And stood under his condemnation.
Now I am free from the guilt of that.
Freed from the shame
Of my brokenness and my imperfection.
Freed from my destructive patterns
To find life on my own.
And freed to seek after life.
In Christ.
With Christ.
That I never could have otherwise.
Everything changes
When we place our faith in Christ.
When we say,
Yes, Jesus,
I'm a sinner.
I can't save myself.
I will throw myself on you
And your mercy.
I will believe that your life
And death and resurrection
Are able to save me from my sin.
When we place our faith in Jesus.
Everything changes.
Fundamentally we are changed.
You are no longer
The caterpillar trapped in sin.
But you are the butterfly.
You are no longer
The ugly duckling.
But you are the beautiful swan.
You are now a new creation.
And God has given you
A new spiritual life.
You have a new relationship
With God.
Friends, did you hear
Diana's testimony earlier?
Did you listen
To how she talked about
How in her battle with anxiety
The resurrected Christ
Made a difference in her life.
She knew
Because of her faith in Christ
That she could live differently
Because of that.
It was a beautiful picture
Of what it looks like
To be raised with Christ.
All right.
So this is the first part.
Paul has said
If you've been raised with Christ
And he's saying
You who are Christians
You who claim to believe in Jesus
And that he rose from the dead
And that you have now
Been raised with him
Into this new life.
How then do you live?
This is the second point
I want to make this morning.
Is that the resurrection life
Of Jesus reshapes
Our lives.
Since we've been raised
With Christ
Then
We now have a new life
To live.
What does that look like?
Two things.
First
It reorders
What we focus on.
Do you see in verses
One and two
Look with me again.
Do you see the verbs?
If you've been raised
With Christ
Seek
The things
That are above.
Verse two
Set your minds
On things above.
These words have to do
With a focus
With our attention.
The things that we spend
Our time
Thinking on
Meditating on
The things that consume
Our thoughts
Our prayers
Our care
Our love
And devotion
They're reflected
In the things we value
The people that we listen to
And what we invest in
And Paul is saying
If you now have
A new life with Christ
Make it
The overriding focus
Of your life.
If this is all
That it's meant to be
All that Christianity
Claims it would be
Then why would you
Spend your time
Thinking about
Anything else?
Well
Let's be real
Let's think through our day
Think through our weekend
What did you think
About yesterday?
I thought about
Boiling a lot of Easter eggs
For my kids to die
I thought about
Cleaning up the house
For some people
Who are coming over
Afterwards
I thought about
How my kids are doing
And how I've been
Really distracted this week
By a number of things
And how
They just need
Some really good
Daddy time
And they haven't
Gotten it yet
And they're kind of
Hurting because of that
What else did I think about?
I thought about my work
I thought about
Oh there's some things
That I want to try
To get to next week
That I didn't get to
Does this sound familiar?
I thought about
Oh I have to go
To the grocery store
And shop
Because there are
A few things
I don't have
In order to
Be able to be ready
For tomorrow
I thought about
I've got a sermon
To write
And I've got to
Keep working on this
So I can figure out
What I've got to say
And what it is
The Lord has for us
And in the middle of it
I probably thought
Man I'm really tired
I wish I could take a nap
But I don't have time for that
These are the things
Right?
That consume our everyday thoughts
And our everyday lives
Yes?
Does this sound familiar?
Yeah?
Do you have to-do lists
Running through?
Okay
And what Paul is saying
Is now
All of these things
Which will still be true
In your life
You still have kids
You still have grocery shopping
You still have projects
You still have work
You still have relationships
But suddenly
They are reframed
And they are the context
In which we are to
Seek the things above
And set our minds
On the things above
The things of God
And the things of Christ
And the things of His kingdom
In the middle
Of those very mundane things
We are to meditate on
The faithfulness of God
How well He provides for us
How He is trustworthy
Even when we can't see
What He is doing
How His mercy to us
Is great in our weakness
And in our failure
How His grace
Is abundant to us
And can give us hope
That we are not abandoned
How His love
Is deep
And steadfast
And secure
For us
We can think of the nature
Of our salvation
How when we were still sinners
Christ died for us
When we weren't even seeking Him
He sought us out
How He has done
At the price of His very own life
How He has paid for our sin
So that we might be brought back to Him
How He has loved us
And the great work of salvation
That He has wrought in Christ
That removes the stain of our sin
It takes away our guilt
It removes our shame
It calls us beloved
Children
Welcomed
We are to think on how
Because we are raised with Christ
We now have a life
That is indestructible
Because no matter what happens
Even if we die
The life that we have
In relationship with Christ
This new life of faith
In Christ
The life that He has given us
Death has lost its sting
There is no more fear
Of death
And friends
We get to think about this
When we are planning
Our shopping lists
And when we are worrying about
Our weekend plans
And when we are
Living out our calling
And our vocation
And our day to day work
Christ is seated
At the right hand of God
He is in heaven
Not on this earth
Which is in rebellion against Him
Paul says
We have a new orientation
And friends
I know that this sometimes
Feels like pie in the sky
It feels like
You just want to be
So heavenly minded
You are no earthly good
But friends
I will tell you what
What Paul is saying
Is that the only life
Worth living
Is really in heaven
The only life
Worth living
Now
Will be worth living
Because you have set your mind
Not on the things of this world
But on the things of God
And His kingdom
This is where true life
Is found
Which brings me to my final point
The resurrection life in Jesus
Reorients
What we look to
For our life
Verse 4
Is one of those verses
That has captivated
Frustrated
Convicted
Me
As I have lived
Look with me again
In it
When Christ
Who is your life
Appears
Then you also
Will appear with Him
In glory
Now
Some of you are
Probably good
Grammar students
Do you see
There are two verb tenses
In this
Right
What does it mean
That Jesus has been raised
From the dead
That you have been raised
With Him
It means
Something for today
And something for
The future
Right
Christ who is your life
That is today
Today
Your life
Is hidden
With
God
With Christ
In God
Is that right
Verse 3
With Christ
In God
Your life today
Is already there
You have this new life
That He has given you
And
There is a life
That will come
When He appears
You will appear with Him
In glory
Paul
Paul is reminding us
That because Jesus
Is raised from the dead
Because we
By faith
Have been joined
With Him
In that
Christ is our life
Today
And our glory
Forever
And He wants us
To see
Life and death
Differently
Than before
I don't know about you
I used to think
That my life
Was about
This 70 years
On earth
And then I would die
And then my life
Would be over
Paul challenges us
To think
About it
A little more
Carefully
See here's what's true
About my life
When
In
1986
After a
Grease
Soaked
Meal
At a Friendly's
In
Suburban
Pennsylvania
I prayed
Confessed
My sin
And God
Gave me
A new life
In Christ
In the front seat
Of a Subaru
With a youth worker
In my town
I became alive
I was given
A new life
In that moment
And now
That life
Is what I am living
Now
And that life
Is what I will be
Living for eternity
And there will be
This thing
Somewhere along the way
Which will happen
Called death
My physical death
I will actually die
But do you know what
It doesn't actually
Matter that much
Anymore
That's what Paul
Is saying
Christ is your life
Now
And your glory
To come
And that means
That I don't have
To wait
For my life
In eternity
To happen
I can have
Life
Now
With Christ
Friends
I'll tell you
What
I struggle
With this
This is one
Of the hardest
Things
For me
To realize
I wrestle
With it
To know
What does it
Really mean
What
Does it
Really look
Like
Because
Paul seems
To be saying
You have
Life
And life
In that
Has like
Capital letters
And like
Glowing
Colors
And it's
Meant to be
This weighty
Word
Beyond
Just four
Letters
In our
Alphabet
You have
Now tapped
Into the
Very life
Of God
And he
Has given
You a
Life
That is
Yours
With him
And it's
Connected
To things
Like
He is
The satisfaction
Of our
Souls
He is
The
Ultimate
One
On whom
We rely
For our
Life
We don't
Look at
The things
We do
Anymore
To give us
Life
We don't
Look at
The relationships
Anymore
To give us
Life
They're a
Part of
Our life
They're
Significant
Places
Where we're
Called to
Live out
Our life
But they're
Not the
Source
Of our
Life
Any
Longer
And all
The things
That I
Thought were
Little
Deaths
They were
Real
And they
Were
Hard
But I
Have a
Life
That's
Unbreakable
That started
A long
Time ago
I don't
Have to
Wait to
Die
For that
To
Happen
But
There is
Also a
Reality
That this
Life has
A glory
Awaiting
It that
We have
Not yet
Experienced
Sin
Though
Broken
In our
Lives
Is not
Eradicated
We continue
To live
In a
Fallen
World
Where we
Experience
All these
Little
Deaths
Day
After
Day
But
Christ
Who has
Broken
The power
Of sin
And death
Who is
Raised
From the
Dead
Will come
Again
One day
And when
He comes
He will
Establish
A perfect
Kingdom
And those
Deaths
And death
Will be
No more
And life
Will be
All
There are
Many
Lessons I
Learned
From walking
With Brandy
Through her
Four year
Battle
With cancer
And ultimately
Her dying
A little
Over a
Year ago
Perhaps
This is
The one
That is
The greatest
The life
Of a
Christian
Is secure
In Christ
Both
For today
And for
Tomorrow
Friends
I watched
Her
Live out
What it
Meant for
Christ
To be
Her
Life
Today
She
Set her
Mind on
The things
Above
As she
Faced
The hardships
Of treatment
And the
Uncertainty
Of what
Would come
Ahead
She read
The scriptures
She prayed
With brothers
And sisters
She sought
Out the
Saints
Of old
Who knew
More than
Our 20th
Century
Church
Does
About death
And dying
And how
To face
It
As believers
She would
Go to
And sing
The great
Hymns
Of the
Faith
We taught
Our kids
Up from
The grave
He arose
We'd sing
It with
Gusto
Over the
Dinner table
At night
She journaled
And talked
With Jesus
In prayer
About her
Life now
And about
Her life
To come
And she
Loved
Well
She loved
Our kids
She loved
Our church
She loved
Her family
At a time
When it
Would be
So easy
For her
To be
Selfish
Even though
The death
Of cancer
Encroached
On her
Body
She knew
That Christ
Was her
Life
And she
Lived it
And I
Got to
See it
Up close
And then
In the
End
When it
Became
Clear
There
Wouldn't
Be
Many
More
Time
When death
Finally
Seemed to
Have
The upper
Hand
It
Didn't
She
Accepted
It
She knew
That death
Was not
Her end
She knew
That glory
Was awaiting
Her
And as
Her body
Deteriorated
Her desire
To go
And be
With
Jesus
To go
And be
With him
Where there
Was no
More sickness
And no
More pain
And no
More sorrow
Death
She knew
That her
Body
Would die
But she
Knew
That she
Would go
And be
With Jesus
And that
One day
Jesus
Would raise
Her
To new
Life
And give
Her a
New body
That would
Live
Forever
And it
Made all
The difference
I saw
Her
Take hold
Of the
Indestructible
Life
And it's
Taught me
Much
Watching her
Do this
Has been an
Immense amount
Of support
From my
Kids
People ask
Me often
How are
The kids
Doing
I say
You know
What
Theology
Matters
She didn't
Just disappear
She didn't
Just get
Buried
Into a
Box
In the
Ground
She has
Gone
To be
With
Jesus
She's
Living
Today
Able
To see
Them
And we
Know one
Day
That we
Will see
Her
If we
Too are
Raised
With
Christ
It
Makes
All the
Difference
So when
Life
Seems so
Fragile
When the
Things that
Seems so
Important
Have seen
To be
Breakable
Shakeable
When we
Face the
Greatest
Loss
If you've
Been raised
With Christ
There's
Resurrection
Life
For you
Life
Now
And life
Forever
More
Your
Life
Is not
Over
No matter
How great
The trial
Or the
Crisis
Is
But your
New life
Has just
Begun
Let's
Pray
Lord
Lord I
Pray
This
Morning
Lord
That you
Would
Teach
Our
Hearts
Teach
Our
Minds
Lord
We
Confess
How
Difficult
It
Is
At
Times
To
See
The
Glory
Of
The
Risen
Christ
To
Believe
That
It's
Actually
True
To
See
It
Actually
Make
A
Difference
In
Our
Lives
Lord
We
Confess
How
Often
Our
Eyes
And
Our
Hearts
Are
Fixed
On
The
Things
Of
This
World
Lord
We
Pray
You
Would
Lift
Our
Eyes
To
Remember
The
Goodness
And
The
Wonder
And
The
Awe
And
The
Beauty
Of
Our
Lives
With
Christ
Both
Here
And
Forever
More
Lord
I
Pray
For
Those
Who
This
Morning
May
Be
Exploring
Or
Thinking
Or
Evaluating
Whether
They
Truly
Know
This
Life
In
Christ
Lord
Reveal
Yourself
To
Them
Help
Them
To
Understand
What
A
Great
Savior
And
A
Loving
God
You
Are
What
You
Have
Done
Through
Your
Death
And
Resurrection
For
Them
And
Lord
For
All
Of
Us
We
Pray
That
We
Would
Be
Encouraged
This
Morning
Encouraged
To
Fix
Our
Eyes
Lord
On
These
Things
We
Pray
These
Things
In
Jesus
Name
Amen