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1 Peter 1:3-5 A Living Hope Easter 2007
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1. Hopelessness is a Tomb
In many regards, a person without hope is a person locked in a tomb.
*A.
Story from Victor Frankl*
In "Man's Search for Meaning", Viktor Frankl recounts what happened to his friend, a fellow inmate in Auschwitz:
/"I would like to tell you something, Doctor.
I have had a strange dream.
A voice told me that I could wish for something, that I should only say what I wanted to know, and all my questions would be answered...
I wanted to know when we, when our camp, would be liberated and our sufferings come to an end."/
/"And when did you have this dream?"
I asked.
"In February, 1945," he answered.
It was then the beginning of March./
/"What did your dream voice answer?"/
/Furtively he whispered to me, "March 30."/
When my friend told me about this dream, he was still full of hope and convinced that the voice of his dream would be right.
But as the promised day drew nearer, the war news which reached our camp made it appear very unlikely that we would be free on the promised date.
· March 29, my friend suddenly became ill and ran a high temperature.
· March 30, the day his prophecy had told him that the war and suffering would be over for him, he became delirious and lost consciousness.
· March 31, he was dead.
/This shattered hope lowered his body's resistance against the latent typhus infection.
His faith in the future and his will to live had become paralyzed and his body fell victim to illness - and thus the voice of his dream was right after all" (p.
97)./
/ /
He died because he lost hope.
!!! B. Have You Been There?
You get the call, e-mail, you have the conversation …
Your dreams are crushed.
Your plans are destroyed.
Words that best describe the next moments are “hopelessness”
- Started to go into a tomb
- Saw only darkness and thick walls
- An avalanche was blocking the entrance
- There seemed to be no way out
*/ /*
!!! C. Hopelessness is Powerful
· Like a tomb
· Like a prison with a life sentence
· Like having no exit
· Like the walls of life are closing in
[TS] Hopelessness is like a tomb, it is extremely powerful.
! 2. When Have you experienced Hopelessness Like a Tomb?
1.
If you’re breathing today, you have a tomb story
2. The question isn’t /if/ you’ve experienced hopelessness
the question is /when/.
Are you in the tomb right now?
3. What Tomb Are You In?
- Disease?
- Your Marriage is like a Tomb
- Emptiness – your work, life, friends, family offer no joy
- Feel trapped by an Addiction?
o Substance addiction
o Food
o Pornography (more money spent on pornography than professional baseball, basketball and football combined)
- Death?
(the ultimate tomb)
Epicurus – If we knew death was annihilation, we would have nothing to fear (his words “it is nothing to us”).
But no one can know that for sure.
What if it isn’t?
That’s where fear and anxiety comes in.
Hamlet’s Soliloquy starts with “To be, or not to be--that is the question…” \\ Then talks about death …
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all
[TS] What Tomb are you in???
What will we do with our Hopelessness?
[TSS] If hopelessness is powerful, HOPE is even more powerful!
There is good news!
Easter means Resurrection, and that is the foundation of Hope.
There is life out of the tomb.
There is a Rescuer who came to give you HOPE.
! 3. The Story of Easter is About Hope!
1 Peter 1:3 "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!
In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,"
If there is a way out of the tomb…
If we can have hope…
…Then we will find it in connection to Jesus.
!!! A. Jesus went to the cross motivated by hope.
Hebrews 12:2 - "Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God."
!!! B. Jesus Died Motivated by Hope
In 1 Peter 1, our hope is in an inheritance kept for us in heaven.
· Inheritance = something you don’t have now, but will have someday
· In Ephesians 1, Paul says that Jesus gained an inheritance
Eph 1:18 "I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,"
· What did Jesus gain?
o He already owned the world, all of creation, all authority over heaven and Earth
o The only thing Jesus didn’t have before He suffered on the Cross that he had on Easter morning is YOU.
· We were Jesus’ living Hope
· Jesus had JOY, because His death would rescue you from your tomb.
· Jesus had HOPE in His inheritance
His suffering was not an end in itself.
He suffered /so that/ you and I could be healed.
Isaiah 53:4-5 "Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed."
You and I were Jesus’ Living Hope!
To the degree that you realize that you were His living Hope, you will make Him yours.
!!! C. Jesus Rose Again Motivated by Hope
1 Pt 1:3 “In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope */through the resurrection/* of Jesus Christ from the dead”
*/Death is the Ultimate Tomb/*
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