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180 - The Resurrection - Why That Hope Should Be Real To You. (Song 147),…
180 - The Resurrection - Why That Hope Should Be Real To You. (Song 147)
A SOURCE OF SUSTAINING COMFORT (10 mins)
Sad reality of life -
James 4:14
Uncertain times, life can end suddenly
Resurrection hope sustains us, tempers harsh reality of death
Anchor - storm
The strength of Jeh's resolve to never lie should be as strong as our faith. Let's use that as an anchor.
No need to fear death
Give up everything for their lives - not us.
Why? Not the end.
CAR
Reality of the resurrection provides us comfort and sustains all of us
Life in this world is temporary.
Focus?
1 Timothy 6:12
FIRM HOLD - baby finger
How? :18,19
Rich! (:10 - love of money)
Monopoly - nothing.
More you gain, more to lose at armeggeddon
REAL LIFE
Let nothing stop you from gaining the real life!
Good example - PAUL
2 Cor 1:8, 9
Shipwreck, beatings, threats of death
Beyond our own strength / basis - we would trust in the God who raises up the dead.
Our experiencing such difficulties puts our faith to the test
This hope has helped many to obey God's laws on blood and neutrality, even to the point of death.
Why? Truly comforted in ressurection hope
APPLY THIS?
Fake money? Cheated! / All money is fake - no REAL value
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WHY THE RESURRECTION BECAME NECESSARY
Kind - see our loved ones again!
Talk - why resurrection certainty / comforting / what we can do
Unique to Jeh
Ps 36:9 - source of life
Did Jehovah create death? No. It’s simply that when we cut ourselves off from Jehovah, when we sin, the source of life, we die.
TV unplugged
Tit 1:2
Power and motivation to resurrect
God lie? God fail?
hope ev. life - us & resurrected ones.
Resurrection is essential to the fulfilment of Jehovah's purpose
Gen 1:28
Death? Nowhere!
Death came upon man because of the schemes of Satan
Value? Hierloom/car/house - JEH - FAMILY
All time in the world... can't. Why? / Jeh wants?
HOW WE SHOW OUR FAITH IN THE RESSURECTION (6 mins)
One brother once said The final assignment for all of us. Is to endure to the end.
Rev 12:11
And they conquered him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their witnessing, and they did not love their souls even in the face of death
Soul = life
Most important = JEHOVAH
Integrity of Jehovah's servants, even in the face of death, proves that their service is based on faith and love
Proves to who?
Job 2:4
A man will give everything that he has for his life.
MAN = all!
Us to prove = Jeh most important
We render exclusive devtion to Jehovah because of his wonderful qualities expressed through the ressucretion.
It is a privilege to share in proving the deveil's accusation against Jehovah AND us is false.
What motivated Job to prove Satan wrong?
Job 14:14,15
LONG - NO stronger word in Hebrew to express that you want to do something.
The Hebrew word thus rendered is “unquestionably one of the strongest words to express the emotion of longing desires,” says one scholar.
Great comfort comes from knowing Jehovah yearns to bring faithful ones back to life.
Ressurect Job's family? not yet. Will he?
Wants to change the pain of losing someone, into joy of seeing them again
Longs to ressucrect your family members and friends. Who do you look forward to seeing again?
name = straight to mind.
Hard times? Think of them. Thinking of hugging them again, seeing them soon, laughing with them.
We must keep ourselves in God's love, patiently waiting for the certain fulfilment of Jehovah's purporse to give obidient humans everlasting life.
Let's endure with love, peace and joy - knowing that one day soon, we will see the ones we value the most in the new world's coming resurrection!
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Job’s sons and daughters were all killed in a windstorm.
13:25 - describes himself as a frightened, wind blown leads.
16:3 job described the words of Eliphaz were ‘blustery’ in 16:3.
Imagine, Job sat there, scarred and depressed and worse than the 'comforter's' words was simply hearing the wind blow - reminded him of his dead family.
How did Jehovah turn this around? Job 38:1 - Jehovah spoke to him through…. A windstorm.
He turned Job's worst memory into his greatest comfort.
Job 7:7 - Remember that my life is wind,i
That my eye will never again see happiness.a
Jehovah = remarkable = bad to good
Satan = good to bad = life takes it away - death
A young sister went to visit an older sister who was battling terminal cancer.
When leaving the older sister said “this is not goodbye, but, you better make sure you’re there in the new world when I wake up!
Keep doing all you can to stay loyal to Jehovah, if you want to see me again, ”
That's up to us to endure, noone else!
Do you want to see your loved ones again? That's up to you. ONLY WAY - Enduring to the end
We didn't come this far just to come this far
WHY RESSURECTION IS A CERTANTY (7 min)
Court? 500 witnesses!
Guarantee - STAMP
Jeh "provided a guarantee to all men" - Acts 17:31
Guarantee is the ressurection of Jesus
Eyewitnesses?
1 Co 15:6
Jesus res. - key to all...
JOHN 11:25
Jeh will use Jesus to res.
Jesus demonstrated the reality of resurrection
John 11:11
- fallen asleep
PICTURE
Feel? :34, 35
PICTURE!
John 5:28,29
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Why did Jesus cry?
It was as if, in the moment he saw the grief in Mary's eyes, his fathers life flashed before his eyes.
He remembered his fathers firm, strong hands that were always soft enough to pat him on the back and ruffle his hair when he was a child. How they were so skilled at using wood and how he taught Jesus all he knew.
He remembered his love, kindness and the attention he showed him. How he took him out in the fields, showed him the marvellous starry night where he taught Jesus about Jehovah.
He remembered how his fleshy father reminded him of his heavenly one and how he missed them both so dearly. How he saw so many of the good qualities of Jehovah in his father. How he missed seeing them both.
Looking into Mary's tearful eyes, he saw the same pain, the same longing that he feels for his fleshly and heavenly father
That's why he cried.
No wonder Jesus himself expressed confidence in the ressurection!
First century Christians had faith in this hope!
Jeh's servants - always had faith in ressurection. Us????
Worried when sleeping? No.
Easy to wake up? Yes.
Want to wake up? Yes!
Jesus removed that sin. Connection to Jehovah restored. Rescuretion possible. That’s why we can live forever
WHY THE RESURRECTION BECAME NECESSARY (7 min)
Value? Hierloom/car/house - JEH - FAMILY
All time in the world... can't. Why? / Jeh wants?
Gen 1:28
Death? Nowhere!
Death came upon man because of the schemes of Satan
Death is not the result of gods will. It’s the result of Adams sin
If you had unlimited power and love for your children and friends, how much life would you give them? Would you want them to die? Would Jehovah do anything less?
Death not natural part of life. Baby born happy, die sad.
Combat this? RESURRECTION
Resurrection is essential to the fulfilment of Jehovah's purpose
Sin = barrier to God = death
Ps 36:9 - source of life
Reconnect with the source = life = key element is
ressurection
Resurrection vindicates Jehovah as the loving, power Preserver of his servants
Talk - why resurrection certainty / comforting / what we can do
Jehovah rewards faithful ones with everlasting life!
Reconnect with source of life = life!
God made man. Man made problems