Part 2| “When You Know There’s a Resurrection Coming”
The empty grave changes everything. The empty grave empowers transformation. The empty grave means your life does not have to stay the same. And that’s good news, because, one way or another, your life will never be the way it is right now. You can embrace that or you can fear it. The choice is yours. The simple fact that you cannot stay where you are is a fact of life we try to avoid until its inevitable reality catches us off guard. Then we are asking, “What happened to the good ole’ days?” or “Why is life suddenly so complicated?” Embrace the perspective God wants you to have. Change with the enablement that comes from God. You can move forward into the purposes He has planned for you. Let’s move!
From Genesis 22
📖 Hebrews 11:17-19 (ESV) By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son, 18 of whom it was said, “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” 19 He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.
PROBLEM: You can gather to the resurrection but live like it’s a .
When you know there’s a resurrection coming:
1. You can the of life.
📖 Genesis 22:1-2 (ESV) After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” 2 He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”
Whatever has you is really just a .
📖 Judges 3:1-:2 (ESV) These are the nations that the LORD left in the land to test those Israelites who had not experienced the wars of Canaan. 2 He did this to teach warfare to generations of Israelites who had no experience in battle.
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When you know there’s a resurrection coming:
2. You can your .
📖 Genesis 22:2 (ESV) He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”
📖 Luke 17:26-30 (ESV) Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. 27 They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, 29 but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all— 30 so will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed.
Your is usually tied to whatever you you can’t .
📖 Genesis 22:3-4 (ESV) So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. 4 On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar.
📖 Genesis 22:5 (ESV) And Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; the lad and I will go yonder and worship, and we will come back to you.”
📖 Genesis 22:6 (ESV) And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. And he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went both of them together.
📖 Genesis 22:10 (ESV) Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.
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📖 Genesis 22:11-14 (ESV) But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” 12 He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.” 13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
When you know there’s a resurrection coming:
3. You are with and .
📖 Galatians 22:14 (ESV) So Abraham called the name of that place, “The Lord will provide”; as it is said to this day, “On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided.”
📖 Galatians 22:8 (ESV) Abraham said, “God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.”
📖 Galatians 22:13 (ESV) And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram…
📖 John 8:56 (ESV) “Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad.”
📖 John 1:29 (ESV) The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!“
📖 Romans 8:32 (ESV) Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else?
No matter the we can our and find in the of the .
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