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Good News for a Weeping World
by John Lares
Text: John 20:10–18
Topic: How to find comfort
Big Idea: Knowing Jesus is alive relieves all our sorrows.
Keywords: Christ, indwelling; Christ, resurrection of; Comfort; Death, fear of; Death, mourning for; Easter; Grieving; Resurrection; Sorrow; Tears
Introduction
- If we believe it is wrong to show emotion, we hide our tears.
- Why do people weep?
The risen Christ is the answer to our tears over life
- The first appearance of the resurrected Christ was to one who was weeping.
- Who was Mary Magdalene?
- When Jesus died, Mary thought everything was lost.
- Jesus appeared, telling her of an entirely new relationship that was now possible.
- Jesus’ resurrection shows that evil will not ultimately win.
- Illustration: Lares was told that to get ahead financially, he would need to be dishonest.
- We weep because the world is not better.
The risen Christ is the answer to our tears over death.
- Illustration: People going through great crisis find comfort in the presence of a living Savior.
- Death saddens and terrifies us.
- Illustration: Death seems to be a taboo subject in our society, the one thing we don’t want to talk about.
- Jesus provides the proof that this earth is not all there is.
- In Christ, the journey through life gets brighter, not darker.
Conclusion
- After the resurrection, all Christ’s followers had a new kind of relationship with him.
- Having an indwelling Christ is to experience the resurrection power of Jesus.
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