We've got to allow God to strip down all the years of grime and cheap paint piled on top of each other. He needs to get down to the bare original so He can begin to fill the cracks, sand the rough edges, and make our hearts beautiful again. He’s already looked beneath the layers and has determined that we're all worth doing over. Sermon Notes and Sermon Slides available at www.mympumc.net

1. Living Easter

2. People of the Empty Tomb

3. Life

4. Most families are more
messed up than their
façade indicates.

5. Most families are
teetering on the edge of
Financial Collapse.

6. Did you know according to CNN
Money,“27% of Americans have
no savings whatsoever,
and 46% have less than
$800 available in
savings to cover an
emergency”

7. Most families are
frayed by hyper-
competitive lifestyle,
leading to low self-
esteem.

8. RestoredBring Back, to return it to its original
condition

9. For Christ’s love
compels us, because we
are convinced that one
died for all, and
therefore all died.
And he died for all,
that those who live
should no longer live
for themselves but for
him who died for them
and was raised again.

10. Therefore, if anyone
is in Christ, the new
creation has come: The
old has gone, the new
is here! All this is
from God, who
reconciled us to
himself through Christ
and gave us the
ministry of
reconciliation: that
God was reconciling
the world to himself
in Christ, not
counting people’s sins
against them.

11. And he has committed to
us the message of
reconciliation. We are
therefore Christ’s
ambassadors, as though
God were making his
appeal through us. We
implore you on Christ’s
behalf: Be reconciled to
God. God made him who had
no sin to be sin for us,
so that in him we might
become the righteousness
of God.
2 Cor 5:14-21

12. RestoredBring Back, to return it to its original
condition

13. Yourself
Start with

14. Yourself
Start with

15. We are a New Creation
if anyone is in
Christ, the new
creation has come:
The old has gone,
The new is here!

16. Perception Problem
“It’s easy to see a smudge
on your neighbor’s face and
be oblivious to the filth on
your own.” Matt 7:3

17. How I see
myself!

18. How others
see me!

19. How I really am!

20. I need some work…

21. What am I hiding behind?
What have I whitewashed
over?
Where is my blind spot?

22. Gospel Confusion
“Go, stand in the temple
courts,” he said, “and
tell the people all about
this new life.” Acts 5:20

23. The Purpose of the
Cross is NEW LIFE

24. Am I following Jesus
or simply waiting &
watching?

25. Fearful Faith
On the evening of that
first day of the week,
when the disciples were
together, with the doors
locked for fear of the
Jewish leaders, Jesus came
and stood among them and
said, “Peace be with you!”
John 20:19

26. Sanding rough edges
smooth
Stripping old habits
away
Replace broken frames

27. Sanding rough edges
smooth
Stripping old habits
away
Replace broken frames

28. Where am I avoiding Jesus?
When do I feel closest to
Jesus?
When do I feel most ALIVE?

29. We are a New Creation
RestoredBring Back, to return it to its original
condition

30. We are a New Creation“and now, with God’s
help,
I shall become
myself.”
Augustine
I Believe…

31. Remember your
Baptism

39. O God, let us not lose sight of the connection
between Easter and Good Friday. Let us remember
that, if Easter demonstrates your ability to work
your divine will without our help, Good Friday
confirms that your victories do not come without
cost to us. Deliver us from the lure of cheap
grace. Make us as willing to pay the cost of your

40. Pour out your Holy Spirit, to bless this
gift of water and those who receive it, to
wash away our sin and clothe us in
righteousness throughout our lives, that,
dying and being raised with Christ, we may
Pastor:

41. All praise to you, Eternal Father,
through your Son Jesus Christ, who
with you and the Holy Spirit, lives
and reigns for ever. Amen
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