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Wesley Methodist Church Singapore
Easter Sunrise service
Text Matt 28: 1-10
Easter morning is a good morning!
At the empty tomb a good spell (gospel) reversed the curse which was invoked at garden of Eden when man sinned, and was cursed to die.
Jesus died and was buried.
In the tomb he lay dead unable to observe passover or Sabbath rituals and laws.
In rising on the third day, Jesus broke the power of sin and death.
Our identity is with Christ
Dead with Christ = dead to the law
the law can not touch us.
We are set free
Free to live freely, forever
Free to die happily
free from the fear of death.
Proof that Jesus rose from the dead
1) Empty Tomb: despite posted guards
2) Female eye witnesses: counter intuitive
Made up story would have quoted male eye witnessess
Female testmony was not accepted in court
Yet the gospel writers record it was women who forst saw the empty tomb.
3) Seen in Galilee.
subsequently Jesus was sen by more than 500 people.
Many of the eye witnesses suffered martyrdom and yet refused to recant.
Thrown singing to hungry lions
Jesus now sits at the right hand of God
Fully human yet fully devine
He is one of us
He gives us hope
The reality of the resurrection shows us the certainlty of eternal life
Jesus has gone ahead to show us the way.
Psalm 23;6
And I shall dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
"Forever" means for "ever"
No end
Eternal
A powerful word
a powerful promise
a powerful God
a powerful Saviour.
A witness is someone who knw the trut and tells it to someone else.
Have you experienced Jesus?
GO TELL!
EASTER IS HERE
Sunday 31 March 2013
Wesley Methodist Church Singapore
Easter 11 am Sanctuary service
Text John 20: 1-12, 10-18.
Sermon pattern
A vignette
Things going seemingly well
Then fall apart: darkness, hopelessness, pain, death
Stuck in the agony and throes of Good Friday?
There is reason for hope
Easter is here
Mary
Life was a living hell
controlled by demons
Jesus released the demons
brought her back to life
Life was full of hope
THEN Mary watched her saviour die
Early in the morning she brought spices to honour his body
She found the tomb open
She found the tomb empty
She sennsed the pain and death
For her it must have seemed like Good Friday all over again
A young couple that Rev Kow knows get married.
She concieves.
She is happy.
Husband is happy.
Mother in law is happy.
Rev Kow is happy.
Then at 3 months miscarriage
Hopes dashed.
Sense of hopelessness.
She gets pregnant again.
She is happy.
Husband is happy.
Mother in law is happy.
Rev Kow is happy.
Then at 8 months a stillbirth
Hopes dashed.
Sense of hopelessness.
Pain as the stillborn infant is cremated.
Future promises bleak.
Hopes dashed
Pain & death
Good Friday all over again.
Han:
industrious, well respected
On the way to the top
Loved God
Served in Church
Life seemed to be going well.
Then out of the blue: TERMINATED
Repeatedly job search unsucessful.
Wants to end it all but mother succumbs to a stroke
Learns to live a day at a time
Pain, Hoplessness
Good Friday all over again
Barbara & David
Her pulse rate suddenly shoots up
Paramedic called, ambulance comes
Hospitalised.
Husband retuns home to rest and prepare sermon
But darkness and fatigue overwhelm him
He has to prepare Easter sermon but its Good Friday all over again.
She responds
"Rabbonai, Master," for there is recognition
Hoplessness turns to Hope
Despair turns to Joy.
Easter is here.
That young couple fnally conieve again and carry to term with a healthy baby
Easter has come
The present joy outshines the past pain.
Easter is here.
Han's soul will not decay
God allows new employment\ Better pay
Better working conditions
more time for church and family.
Easter is here.
With Godly counsel from friends
David drew strength from the Risen Christ
and eventually preached one of his finest sermons.
Easter is here.
Take home message
Perhaps you are in a "Good Friday" situation?
Betrayal, Sorrow, Pain, Death?
Dreams and hopes dying?
Take courage for Jesus is with yu
and Easter will come.
Glurge:
Jeremy and the empty egg
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