Living Hope

Hope collapses fast when it’s built on what can change. Money shrinks, plans unravel, people disappoint, and emotions swing. In A Living Hope, Tyler Lynde opens 1 Peter 1:3–9 to name a different kind of confidence: a living hope rooted in the Father’s mercy and anchored in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. This is not vague optimism or denial; it is a confident expectation based on God’s promises, not our mood, status, or circumstances.

Tyler traces the source and motive of living hope—God the Father and his great mercy—and explains the miracle of new birth. Before Christ, we were spiritually dead and unable to bridge the gap to a holy God. But God, rich in mercy, makes us alive with Christ. This is regeneration, the Holy Spirit imparting spiritual life to a dead heart and creating a new capacity to trust Jesus. Living hope is not self-improvement; it is rescue, restoration, and right standing with God through the new covenant.

He then slows down on the name of “our Lord Jesus Christ,” unfolding how Jesus is Lord (the Sovereign with the right to rule our lives), Jesus (the Savior who saves from sin), and Christ (God’s anointed, exalted to the highest place). From the cross to the empty tomb, Tyler shows why the resurrection is the Father’s public “Amen” to Jesus’ “It is finished”—the sacrifice accepted and the victory secured. Because Jesus lives, we can live now in newness of life and forever in the age to come.

This living hope also reframes suffering and the future. Trials refine faith like fire refines gold, producing joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory. The Holy Spirit walks with believers, helping us persevere. Peter’s promise of an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading points us ahead: whether we pass into God’s presence or welcome the return of Christ, death is swallowed up in victory.

Tyler speaks tenderly to those who have drifted, reminding us that the Father welcomes prodigals home. The message closes with a clear invitation to trust or return to Christ and with communion as a tangible reminder that we proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

If you need durable hope for what you’re facing, watch and share this message. What do you need living hope for right now?

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Transcript

Prayer And Opening Focus

Worldly Hope Versus Living Hope

Jesus As Lord Savior Christ

Mercy And Our Before Christ Story

New Birth Through Resurrection Power

The Cross Tomb And Risen Jesus

Future Inheritance And Heaven Promise

Jesus Returns And Death Defeated

Invitation To Believe Or Return

Prayer For Salvation And Renewal

Communion And Closing Blessing

Tyler Lynde 0:02

Let's look at 1 Peter chapter 1 verses 3 through 9. I wonder if you can guess what we're going to talk about this morning. Yes, the title of today's message is A Living Hope. A Living Hope. So let's look at 1 Peter chapter 1 verses 3 through 9. And this is where we're going to gather our uh important information from the scriptures that we're going to dissect together. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the uh tested genuineness of your faith, more precious than gold, that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, obtaining the outcoming of your faith, the salvation of your souls. Let us pray together. Father, we thank you for what you've already accomplished in this morning. You woke us up this morning. You caused there to be breath in our lungs. You gave us the ability to gather together in this place as one family, one body, as a part of the larger body of Christ. Lord, you allowed us to enjoy a rich time of praising and worshiping you with all of our hearts, our souls, and our minds. And Lord, now as we begin to open your word together, we ask that you would cause your word to come alive on the inside of us, that it would not just be something that we read and forget or that we get excited about in the moment, and then later on it fades away. Father, we ask that this word would be an enduring word for us, that it would produce the type of crop that you desire for it to produce in each and every one of our lives. And we give you glory for it in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. So when you hear the word hope in this life, in this world, most of the time, what are you thinking of? You're thinking of a wish. Like, I hope that it doesn't rain on Easter. Or I hope that it's warm on Easter. Or I hope that, you know, on and on. I hope that I pass the test. I hope that whatever. I hope that I'm, I hope that I grow taller. I hope that I grow smaller. I hope, I hope, I hope. Right? So that's the world's kind of hope. And honestly, there's another kind of a little bit more negative side to hope in this world, and that is hope that is based on things that are temporal. So hope that's based on money or based on uh status or based on power or fame or any other things that we could name that people base their hope on, right? As long as there's a certain amount of money in our checking account, we have hope. But if that if those dollars begin to shrink and things begin to change in that aspect of our lives, then it begins to cause us to lose hope, right? Now, the Bible kind of hope is different than the hope of this world. Aren't you glad for that? In our Bible passage today, in this beautiful sort of doxology, the Holy Spirit uses Peter to spell out for us what living hope is, what it looks like, and how it, how to apply it to our lives, past, present, and future. So let me give you a definition for living hope. And this is by no means an exhaustive definition. This is just one that we can work with today. So living hope is a confident expectation, a confident expectation of God's blessing based on his promises. How many of you have proved out in your life that God is true and faithful to his word and to his promises? And that is what our living hope is based upon. It's based upon the fact that God speaks, he speaks blessing, he speaks promise, and he fulfills that which he speaks, right? One of the reasons that we're here today is because he blessed us with a new covenant in Jesus Christ. And we're going to talk about some of the elements of that as we move through this sermon this morning. And because of that new covenant, we have right standing with God because of Jesus Christ. So we have confident expectation. Unlike the empty, dead hope of this world, this living hope is energizing. It's alive, it's active in the soul of every true believer in Jesus. Are you experiencing living hope here this morning? Amen. If you aren't yet, I believe that you will by the time that you leave these doors this morning. It is an undying and permanent hope that is not based upon circumstances or situations. It's not based upon how you feel or you don't feel. This is a hope that's based on him, not on us. And that's a hope that we can count on. So where does this hope come from? It says in our passage that Father God is the source of our living hope. Remember what it says: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. The passage starts with turning our attention to the God who is worthy of all blessing and glory and honor and power and praise and dominion. I could go on and on. He alone is the one who loved us enough to give us his son. And we could quote it together this morning. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him will not perish, but have everlasting life. How great the Father's love is for us. Amen. And that is why we're here today, and that is what gives us the ability to experience living hope. Now notice that in this passage, one of the few places that the full name of Jesus is listed. And I just want to quickly point to the three parts of it. So the first one is Lord. Lord means that Jesus is the sovereign one with the exclusive right to rule in hearts and lives. Is he the Lord of your life this morning? Okay, um, we're gonna decide on that as we move along because that was not very strong. The second thing, he is also Jesus. Jesus is the savior who saves his people from their sins. Is he your savior this morning? Amen. Wow, okay, savior, yes. Lord, we're working on. All right. And the third one, the third one is he is Christ. He is God's anointed one, the Messiah sent from heaven to restore mankind to God, and he has been exalted to heaven's highest place. That is it. Do you believe this morning that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God? Amen. So we know that God, in all of his love for us, is the source of living hope. And what was God's motive for doing this? It's mercy. The motive of our living hope, that God, God's motive for our living hope is mercy. It says, according to his great mercy. How many of you know mercy is not something that we deserve? In fact, mercy is giving us the opposite of what we deserve. And all of us deserve, if we were to get the just reward for the sins that we've committed, all of us deserve to die and to be separated from God forever. But how many of you know his mercy made a way for us to not have to do that, but to be restored into right relationship with him through Jesus Christ. That's how great our Father's love is for us. And why do we need this? Ephesians 2 clears it out very uh spells it out very clearly. And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked. This is our story, by the way. This is our testimony. Following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience, among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath like the rest of mankind. Let's just stop right there. Is that the end of the passage? What are the next two words? But God, but God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ. By grace, you have been saved. This is the good news this morning. This is the truth that we proclaim to you from the word of God, from the mouth of God Himself. You see, the reality is that all of us have a past. All of us have a category in our lives, a chapter in our books that we could call BC. What does BC stand for? Before Christ. All of us have that story. All of us have that as a part of our lives. As sinners, we had no hope beyond the grave, like I said before. We were separated from a holy God, and we had no way of bridging the gap between us. But thanks be to God, because of the redemptive work of Jesus Christ, God found a righteous basis upon which he can save ungodly sinners and still be just himself. Christ Himself has paid the penalty for our sins. Christ Jesus Himself paid the penalty for full satisfaction has been made. Our debt has been paid in full. The claims of justice have been met, and now mercy can flow out to those who obey the gospel. We can participate in the merciful plan of God by obeying the gospel of Jesus Christ. And we're going to talk about that again more as we move through this message. So, what did God save us to? He saved us to a living hope. God saved us to a living hope. He said, He has caused us to be born again to a living hope. The theological word for this is regeneration. Regeneration is new birth. We use several uh terms that you can mix together or use independently of each other, interdependently, right? You can use them to replace each other. Trying to find the right wording. So regeneration, new birth, being born again. It's when the Holy Spirit imparts spiritual life to a spiritually dead sinner. Creating a new heart and enabling them, us, to put our trust in Jesus Christ. This is the work of our Heavenly Father through Jesus by the Holy Spirit. The spiritual, holy, and heavenly birth results in us being made alive to God and restored to right relationship with Him by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, who conquered death, hell, and the grave. Help me out a little this morning. This is resurrection day. The resurrection of Jesus itself is the reason for our hope. And so many times, rightfully so, we talk about the power of the cross and the importance of the cross. And please don't mishear me this morning. That is absolutely fundamental. That is absolutely a foundational part of our salvation. But let's not forget the power of God as well. The power of God that causes a dead person, a dead man, dead in sins and trespasses, to be made alive unto God once again. The resurrection of Jesus is the reason for our living hope. He has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. We know that Jesus was brutally murdered on a cross. We know that before that, that he was lied about, that he was mocked, that he was spit upon, that his beard was ripped out, that he was beaten beyond belief, that a crown of thorns was placed on his head. We know that he was forced to carry his own cross until he couldn't carry it any longer. And then Simon the Sirene had the privilege and honor, although at the time may not have known what it was to help carry the cross of Jesus Christ. We know that Jesus himself was laid down upon the old rugged cross and those spikes were driven into his hands and his feet. We know that that cross was raised up, bridging a gap between heaven and earth. And we know that Jesus, when he was on that cross, cried out, Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they're doing. And finally, his final words, it is finished, declaring that the price had been paid, that the victory had been won, and that death no longer had a grip over those who had put their faith in Jesus Christ. This is the message of the cross of Jesus Christ. We know that after his death, that he was taken down from the cross, that he was laid in a borrowed tomb, and there was a stone that was rolled in front of the tomb to ensure that nobody could come and steal him, as uh steal him away. A garrison of soldiers was sent to guard the tomb because the religious leaders were paranoid because they had heard rumors about the fact that in three days something was going to happen, and so they did everything within their power to try to keep the body of Jesus contained within a borrowed tomb. And I want you to know, Neil and I and many others in this room have been to Israel, and I have been to the very garden tomb that they say that the body of Jesus was laid in. I walked into that tomb, I looked around it, I inspected it as best as I could, and I'm here to tell you this morning, Jesus is not there. He is alive. And we're gonna read this passage from Matthew 28. Now, after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. And behold, there was a great earthquake. For an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat on it. I love that bold move. His appearance was like lightning and his clothing white as snow. And the fear of him, for the fear of him, the guards trembled and became like dead men. But who's dead now? But the angel said to the women, Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here, for he has risen, as he said. Come see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead. And behold, he is going before you to Galilee. There you will see him. See, I have told you. So they departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy and ran to tell his disciples. And behold, Jesus met them and said, Greetings. And they came up and took hold of his feet and worshipped him. And Jesus said to them, Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee, and there they will see me. My friends, Jesus Christ of Nazareth may have been dead, and we know that he was. But how many of you know he didn't stay dead? He didn't stay dead. The same God that breathed life into Adam breathed life into the second Adam, and he rose again from the dead. And if that's not proof enough, these passages that we have, we know that he was seen by over 500 people before he ascended into heaven. The living Christ is the one who makes a living hope possible. In the resurrection, God revealed his complete satisfaction with the sacrificial work of Jesus Christ. And once again, it proved that he has been given authority over death, hell, and the grave. This is the gospel. You see, the resurrection is the Father's Amen to our Lord's cry. It is finished. Our Heavenly Father, just as He had done many times before, in opening the heavens and saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I'm well pleased, He did it once more in a grand scale by raising his son from the dead, proving that the sacrifice was enough and that it was accepted and that we could be free forevermore. The reality is because Jesus lives, we can live. Because Jesus rose from the dead, we can be resurrected. Jesus, as our conquering king, did not just regain life for himself. That would have been miracle enough. That would have been amazing enough, but he was raised from the dead as a sort of first fruit of many others who would come, including those who are sitting in this room and millions of people around the globe who are together raising voices and celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ this very day. He is our conquering king, and he came to give us life and life more abundantly. Romans 6 says, we were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For we have been united, if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. How many of you have experienced the resurrection power of Jesus Christ in your life? How many of you are made alive unto God? How many of you can say, because Jesus lives, I live. Come on. Amen. Also, we can have living hope for the future. This living hope reaches back into our past and reached us when we had no way to reach Him. This living hope also reaches forward into the future. It says to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading kept in heaven for you. Not only do we get to experience the resurrection power of our God here in this earth, but there is something far greater awaiting us in the near future, God willing. And not only hope uh have we been given the gracious gift of salvation, we've also been promised a future inheritance. Look at these descriptive words so we can help kind of understand what this inheritance is like. It's imperishable. What does it mean that something's imperishable? It can never corrode, it will never crack, it can never decay. It's everlasting. It is undefiled, which means nothing can tarnish it or stain its purity. It's perfect in every way. It is unfading, it will never lose its value, glory, or beauty. This is the kind of inheritance that is waiting for us. This is the kind of inheritance that we look forward to participating in someday. Are you excited for that this morning? Amen. There's one of two ways that you as a human being can experience this great inheritance that we're talking about. The first one is to pass from this life into God's glorious heaven. We can pass from this life into God's glorious heaven. And we even have some in our body who have experienced this tearing even recently, where somebody that they've loved very deeply has passed from this life into the next. Let me tell you something about heaven. Heaven is an amazing place, heaven is wonderful. When believers pass from this life, there is no fear, there is no darkness, there is no trouble. We close our eyes for the last time in this lives, and we open our eyes on the other side, standing at the gates of heaven. And we are surrounded by the glory of God. And before we know it, we're looking into the very eyes of Jesus Christ. This is the promise of heaven that we will be with him. To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. There's no more suffering, there's no more pain, there's no more sorrow, there's no more crying, there's no more disease, there's no more sickness, there's no more fighting, there's no more hatred or anger or any of the things in this life that try to strip away our hope. It's all gone. There's only hope in heaven, there's only life in heaven, there's only joy in heaven. Do not fear heaven, my friends. The only thing that we should fear is if we're not ready for heaven. We're going to talk about that a lot more. The other way that we might experience this inheritance is to experience the triumphal return of Jesus Christ. I'm here to tell you that Jesus, before he left this planet, as he was talking to those same disciples that saw him after he was raised from the dead, he said that he was going to leave, but that one day he was going to what? He was going to return. He was going to come again. And 1 Corinthians 15 says it so beautifully. Listen to these words. Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep. In other words, we shall not all die, but we shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting? The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. It's not our inheritance, it's his inheritance that he gladly shares with us. Come on. When Jesus returns, he's going to make everything right. If you can imagine the beauty and the glory of the Garden of Eden mixed with the beauty and glory of heaven. And I want to tell you quickly, when I was about nine years old, I was a fearful child. And I was dreaming one night and I had a dream about heaven. It was as if heaven descended in front of me and it was cut in half like a sphere. And all I could pick out, all I could discern, all I could see was the brightness of that place. And it was like the brightness filled my room, but more importantly, it was like it filled my soul. And from that day on, something changed on the inside of me. I'm not saying that you have to have an experience like that in order for you to be able to believe in a stronger way. But for me as a child, I am so grateful that God gave me that ability for just a moment in time to understand how amazing his gift of grace is. You see, when Jesus returns, like I said, he's going to make everything right. Evil will be vanquished, righteousness will be restored, we will be glorified. Do you understand that we will be changed? That we will be glorified, that these old bodies will be no more, that they will be changed, that we will have, that our joints will not hurt, that our eyes will see clearly, that we will no longer have torment or terror, or that our souls will no longer be burdened by the hurt and destruction and devastation of this life. It's going to be amazing. He's going to restore his kingdom, and we're going to experience that reign and rule forever and ever and ever. This was his original intent, and this is the intent that will be. That will be. From the heart. A man shall confess with his mouth and believe in his heart that Jesus Christ is Lord and he will be saved. And so I'm just going to simply, at the close of this time together, I want to introduce a third category as well. You may be here this morning and you know all of these things, and you've even experienced living hope in your life, but you're going through a season and a time where you've been running from God, something happened that disappointed you, or you just made a decision. I don't want to do this anymore. And you started going in a different direction. I'm here to tell you that the mercy of God, just as it was available for the prodigal son, when he recognized, he came to his senses, he recognized that things were better in his father's house, and he returned home, waiting to beg forgiveness. He ran to him, put his robe on his back, put his ring on his finger, said, Let's kill the fatted calf. Let's rejoice together. Let's celebrate. For my son who was dead lives again. So if you're here this morning and you've been walking on the fence and you recognize that you want to live in this hope that we're talking about, I want to encourage you, return to Jesus today. Return to him today. I just ask that everybody close your eyes this morning because, and the reason for that is just because I want this to between you be between you and God. I don't want anything else to influence you. Like I said, these three categories. That he did come to this earth, that he did live a perfect life, that he was tempted in every way just as we are, yet without sin, that he did show us who God was and tell us who God was, that he did take upon himself the sins of the world and the shame and the guilt, and that he was crucified on the cross of Calvary, and that he was buried in a tomb, and that on the third day he did rise again from the dead. If you recognize here, maybe for the first time this morning, that that is the Jesus that you need in your life, and that you're ready to give up your own way of trying to figure this out. I'm not going to embarrass you, I'm not going to call you down front, but I am going to ask that you just raise your hand in your seat where you are. That you here this morning. Thank you. Is there anybody else here this morning? Just raise your hand where you are. There's no embarrassment. In fact, everybody in this room is ready to celebrate with you. Because we've all walked down this road before. And we are so grateful for the loving kindness of our God. Anyone else this morning, just raise your hand up. Raise your hand. I just want to acknowledge, I want to pray with you. Okay. If you're in that second category of person, you recognize today that this world and the pull of this world or the hurt that you've experienced, whatever the case is. By the way, I'm not trying to say that things haven't been difficult. We've all gone through very hard places. I'm just feeling specifically that there's somebody here that hypocrisy has caused you to doubt the truth about Jesus. I'm here to tell you this morning. God loves you and He's perfect in every way. And you can trust Him. I'm sorry that people have disappointed you. That should not have happened. But I'm here to tell you that God is perfect in every way. Don't miss out on the inheritance that God promises those who believe because of somebody else's unfaithfulness. Let it be between you and God alone. So if that's you this morning, you recognize I'm not as close to Jesus as I need to be this morning. I'm not living with hope the way that God intended for me to live. And I'm ready to return to the God of my salvation. Would you also just raise your hand with all the eyes closed in the room? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Others, thank you. Thank you, Lord. I thank you, Lord, for what you're doing in this room this morning. I also want to speak to those who are watching online. This is a moment for you as well. Encourage you to take this seriously. God may be moving in your hotel room right now, wherever you are. Don't resist him. Receive, receive, and embrace him this morning. So I'm gonna just pray a prayer and then I'll pray for believers at the end. And I'll ask us to stand at the end in just a minute. So this is I'm just gonna pray a few words, and the words themselves, like I've said before, are not magical or mysterious. The words themselves are just simply an acknowledgement of need. And so you can pray just from your heart, your words to God's ears. I'm gonna pray just a simple prayer that you can follow along with if you're not sure exactly how to pray this morning. Prayer isn't what saves us, but it is a beginning point of showing faith in God. So just pray this prayer in whatever way you choose to. God in heaven, I acknowledge that I'm a sinner. I have disobeyed you in the way that I've lived my life, and I am truly sorry for that. I ask that you would forgive me and cleanse me and wash me so that I could be made clean and be made new today. I believe in Jesus Christ. I believe that he is the savior of the world, and I ask that he would be my savior and my Lord here this day. I accept him into my life. Holy Spirit, I ask that you would fill me completely so that I can be transformed and changed and to become more like Jesus every day for the rest of my life. Thank you for your mercy, thank you for your love in Jesus' name. Now for those who are returning to the Lord today, just pray a prayer. You know that you know how to do this. You've done it before. Just engage your heart with his heart. Father, I pray that you would help those who are returning to the God of their salvation today, Lord. Help them to see you as a merciful, loving God who wraps his arms around them and welcomes them home. Father, I pray that from this day on they would experience living hope in Jesus' name. Now for the rest of us here this morning, if you need an increase in the way that you put your your your faith and your hope in a living Savior that produces living hope in your lives that causes you to rejoice in the midst of trouble and trial and tribulation. If that's you this morning, would you join me by standing and let's pray together for each other? Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Yes, thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Just just reach out to receive from him. There's nothing I have to offer you, but he has everything to offer you. So Father, we ask in Jesus' name this day that you would once again pour out your spirit upon us, Lord God, that we would be restored to that living hope that we already know that you've provided for us, that we would experience in our day-to-day lives what it means to believe in you, to trust that you have given, that you've won the victory and that you've given it to us as an inheritance. Help us, Lord God, to live out the rest of the days of our lives, rejoicing, filled with joy, singing, dancing, praising you, filled with hope, expressing this joy to others that don't know you yet. Father, help us to be filled to the fullness of who you are. And what your living hope is in us and through us in Jesus' name. As we're standing this morning, we want to finish the service out by taking communion together. And there's a beautiful verse, a few verses in 1 Corinthians 11. I want us to focus on one part of this, but I want to read it to you. It says, For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night when he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me. In the same way, he also took the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me. Listen to this. For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. What is it that we can do that's symbolic of this waiting for our future hope? Even while as we experience it in the present, communion is a gift that God has given us to help us to bridge the gap, to remind us of the wonderful gift that Jesus Christ provided. And just quickly, if there's anybody who didn't receive elements yet this morning, just raise your hand and we'll get those to you quickly. All right, there's a there's some over on this side and some right here. Just raise your hand. All right. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Father. Joshua, would you just come? Thank you, Lord. I want to pray over the bread. I'm gonna ask Joshua to pray over the cup this morning. Thank you, Lord. Who has the mic for him? There we go. I just also um want this to be a holy moment. Amen. I know we've taken communion a lot in the last month, but we couldn't go through Easter and celebrate all of these wonderful things and not remember the sacrifice until he comes. So, Father, we thank you for this bread. Thank you that it symbolizes the broken body of Jesus Christ that was broken for each and every one of us. Father, out of obedience to your word, we take of this bread and we do this in remembrance of Jesus Christ and his sacrifice. Amen.

Joshua Gruber 46:58

And likewise with the cup, it represents the new wine, the new covenant. The blood poured out, your precious blood, Lord, poured out once and for all, for all of us, for our sins. God, we thank you for your blood. We do take this in remembrance of you. We remember you and what you did on that cross. And we thank you. This is not about us. This is about you and what you did. So, God, we thank you. We thank you for your blood. We praise your name, Jesus. You may take the blood.

Tyler Lynde 47:56

Thank you, Lord. I'm gonna pray a blessing over you and then release you. My hope is that this isn't just a Sunday morning experience. My hope is that we take this with us and that we live on it, that we feast on this wonderful truth that we've been given from the Word of God this morning. There's gonna be a prayer team here at the end. If you have prayer requests, please come. And also, if you ask Jesus to come into your life and to save you this morning, we want to talk to you. We want to pray for you. We'd love to give you a new Bible to have. So if you would come also at the end and pray with those that are here, we would appreciate it. So may the Lord bless you and keep you. May He cause His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you. May He lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace in the beautiful, resurrected Son of God, name of Jesus. Amen. God bless you guys. Happy resurrection day.