Easter II - EMPTY PROMISES
Powell Butte Christian Church
English - April 19, 2020 17:00 - 42 minutes - 19.6 MBChristianity Religion & Spirituality sermon church pbcc powell butte christian Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
2020 – an election year. You know what that means? Promises ever intended to REALLY be fulfilled. A cynic once said the way you can tell if a politician is lying is if he is moving his lips.
From the opening story, we can see that politicians aren’t the only ones who make empty promises. Satan – the enemy of God’s Kingdom – our adversary - is SKILLED at those kinds of lies.
Resurrection Sunday will forever stand as an example of a few empty promises the devil made to the world – or at least TRIED to. He THOUGHT he promised he would win in the end. Crucify the Son of God, get rid of the King; the world would be a better place. Wait...I’ve heard that more recently….
God made promises that weekend as well. And in a way you can say that these were Empty Promises – but in a vastly different sense. Whereas the Enemy’s promises, when bought into, just lead to a sense of emptiness in ourselves, God’s promises are intended to fill us full of his love and grace and power through His Holy Spirit. AND (here’s the great part) those promises hinge on the emptiness of the tools employed by Satan in an attempt to derail our faith.
And so the promises of God – based on an empty cross, an empty tomb, and some empty grave-clothes – are the Empty Promises I want to celebrate with you today.