Resurrection Sunday April 12th 2020 Sermon Notes:

Speaker: Apostle Dr. Lucille Baird Theme: Don’t loose hope Don’t loose hope, Hope is the confident expectation of what God has promised and what God is going to do. To have confidence and expectant joyful hope of things that God has promised for the future.

The resurrection gives you hope, beyond your fear, tears, disappointments.

We the church have a hope in Jesus Christ, who died once for all so I will praise the Lord. Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

Victory comes to those that hope the longest.

If you lose your hope you will take your life. Hope is the difference between you hanging on letting go. Jesus is the hope of all ages.

Faith means you believe it but you don’t see it.

Hope sees it happening in the future and is joyful.

1. Jesus’ resurrection was so powerful that it gave hope to His disciples
2. Jesus’ resurrection was so powerful that it gave hope to the weeping woman
3. Jesus’ resurrection was so powerful that it gave hope to His church
4. He has come back to a loss, terrified and a hopeless world

1. Jesus’ resurrection was so powerful that it gave hope to His disciples
The disciples had seen the miracles, they lived with Him, they saw him raise Lazareth, feed the 5,000, they saw all his deliverance and healings, they saw the magnificent Power of God, but when they were in the place of hopelessness they wanted to give up. They were not prepared for his death and leaving. Jesus knew his destiny, He had power to lay down His life. But when the disciples were faced with the crucifixion they were hopeless.

Fear cancels out your Faith and Hope.

Jesus could have loss hope in his disciples.

2. Jesus’ resurrection was so powerful that it gave hope to the weeping woman
Mary Magdaline, the prostitute, she had loss hope

John 20:1- 13a
Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. 2 So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”
3 So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. 4 Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. 6 Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, 7 as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus’ head. The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen. 8 Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. 9 (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.) 10 Then the disciples went back to where they were staying.
Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb 12 and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.
13 They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?”
“They have taken my Lord away,” she said,
Weep until we get the Lord back into Barbados, our Parliament, our schools, our entertainment, our culture.

John 20:13b- 18
“and I don’t know where they have put him.” 14 At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.
15 He asked her, “Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?”
Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.”
16 Jesus said to her, “Mary.”
She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”).
17 Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
18 Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them that he had said these things to her.

Mary who had been forgiven so much, stayed at the tomb, the disciples came, looked and left but Mary stayed.

Don’t stop seeking for your God, a desperate woman kept seeking her Lord.

Barbados needs to seek God, we are no longer a Christian nation, we are just church goers! Seek Jesus for this Nation. The cry of this woman pulled Jesus back from even going to His Father to present himself.

Then Jesus remembered His disciples “Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”

He gave her His first commission, God will use any vessel once you seek Him, don’t lose hope.

3. Jesus’ resurrection was so powerful that it gave hope to His church
Jesus came back to re-fire His disciples and to rehire, after the Crucifixion they went back fishing. But Jesus came back to rehire them, fill them with the Holy Spirit and establish His church. They turned the world upsided down.

These men that were in despair underwent a radical change, they had hope. Jesus looked beyond our failures and sees our future.

The church needs to raise up, God wants to make Miracles, signes and wonders a culture in the church.

The same Peter that betrayed Jesus was refired and empowered and equipped, full of fire and anointed with the Power.

4. He has come back to a loss, terrified and a hopeless world
It was not a failure it was the beginning of great things, it was not an end, the devil made a mistake he crucified him and through that was the end. But Jesus came back to a group of deserters, he came back to unsuccessful men in the minds of people, He came back to a woman who cried and wept.

Mary prayed and looked in, pray and look, whatever He promised you He will fulfill that promise. Pray and look. Stop feeling and start believing God

Samson reached a place of hopelessness, but he died victorious

Jonah was hopeless and decided to go his own way.

Moses was in a place of hopeless as he say the Israelites worshiping the calf

Elijah was in despair and hopeless when Jezebell was after him

Job was in despair, stop listening to bad news and praise God.

Get up, wash your face and praise God. His hands are still outstretched to lead us and feed us.

Joseph was in prison but he never loss hope. Accused of being a rapist but he never gave up on God. Even when he was forgotten, he never loss hope, because God had not forgotten him

David in Ziglag was hopeless they had loss their wives and daughters, but David got up and shouted to the Lord, “I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.”

The Hope of all ages is here to give you hope, He came to His disciples to empower them and He promised He would never leave them.

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