Aim: To lay our dead hopes before the church's living Christ.
Doctrine: Dead hope is raised in our Lord Jesus Christ. Everyone struggles with some ''hopeless'' heartache, but God is able to redeem it.
Exegesis: How we move from dead hope to the living Savior: first, by bringing our souls to the empty tomb (vv. 1-4); then, by hearing the gospel of the risen Lord (vv. 5-7); finally, by speaking of the victorious Redeemer to others (vv. 8-12).
Further application: What is necessary to raise dead hope: a powerful God that conquers death (in Christ), and the exercise of faith, which unites us to Christ.
Key verses: vv. 1-2 ''Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they, and certain other women with them, came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared. But they found the stone rolled away from the tomb.''
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Rev. Mark Henninger received his Masters of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, and he has been Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Peoria, Illinois for more than 30 years.