March 29, 2024 | Good Friday | Hope: Desiring a Better World – It is Fulfilled

Series Overview:

Our Easter Series will be called Hope: Desiring a Better World. All of us have deep longings and intense desires for a more perfect world. The people that lined the streets on Palm Sunday were looking for something more, something better, something different. They were hoping for a better world. We are really no different. We live in a world of disappointments, discouragements, disease, death and more. All of us have unfulfilled expectations. We know too, hope can be tender and fragile, so we seek a hope that is grounded and resilient. Then on Easter Sunday, we discover others finding “hope” among a pantheon of gods, all of them promising something bigger, something better, something more. Paul breaks in with a description of the One True God who promises the hope of a Better World. The proof of this radical, well-grounded hope is the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The resurrection promises the hope of eternal life in a perfect world of love.

Weekly Overview:

In the most remarkable moment in the history of the world, Jesus utters the words, “it is finished” and gives up His Spirit. Jesus triumphed over sin; Jesus satisfied God’s wrath against all our sin; and Jesus provided full and final forgiveness for our sins. While it was a solemn moment then and now, we can experience the grace given to us, undeserving sinners. Through Jesus, we can enter a deeply satisfying relationship with God such that there is joy, peace and righteousness (Romans 14:17).

Today’s Text | John 19:30