Its hard to find significance Its hard to

It’s hard to find significance.

It’s hard to find significance. It’s even harder when significance is taken away.

LUKE 8: 1 -3 Jesus traveled about…proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve were with him and also some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases: Mary (called Magdalene) from whom seven demons had come out… These women were helping to support them out of their own means.

JOHN 20: 1, 11 -18 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.

JOHN 20: 1, 11 -18 Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been. . . They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying? ” “They have taken my Lord away, ” she said, “and I don’t know where they have put him. ”

JOHN 20: 1, 11 -18 At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus. 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. ”

JOHN 20: 1, 11 -18 Jesus said to her, “Mary. ”

JOHN 20: 1, 11 -18 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. ’”

ONE THING TO KNOW Death is the only road to resurrection.

ONE THING TO KNOW Death is the only road to resurrection. “If we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. ” Romans 6: 5

HOW TO HAVE COURAGEOUS FAITH? 1. Let Go.

HOW TO HAVE COURAGEOUS FAITH? 1. Let Go. “Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. ” Matthew 10: 39

PHILIPPIANS 3: 8 -9 I consider everything a loss in comparison with the superior value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. I have lost everything for him, but what I lost I think of as sewer trash, so that I might gain Christ and be found in him.

HOW TO HAVE COURAGEOUS FAITH? 2. Live Found.

HOW TO HAVE COURAGEOUS FAITH? 2. Live Found. Now you are no longer a slave [to fear] but God’s own child. And since you are his child, God has made you his heir. Galatians 4: 7

HOW TO HAVE COURAGEOUS FAITH? 2. Live Found. For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2: 10

HOW TO HAVE COURAGEOUS FAITH? 3. Listen Up.

HOW TO HAVE COURAGEOUS FAITH? 3. Listen Up. I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead. Philippians 3: 10 -11

HOW TO HAVE COURAGEOUS FAITH? 3. Listen Up. And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. Romans 8: 28