Transcript
In the beginning, God created the sun, moon, and stars, the animals, trees, and seas
And he made us his own and he gave us a garden
And there was beauty and peace and life, but that wasn't enough
And so we sinned and we ate and we fell
And where there was once beauty and peace in life, there was now pain and chaos and death
We went from a garden to a grave, but God promised to bring us back, back from the grave into the garden
Days, weeks, years, generations of waiting for the promise
The promise to come back to the garden
For God so loved the world that he sent Jesus friend of sinners, man of sorrows, Lord of glory and light of the world, rejected, refused, condemned and crucified
Buried in a borrowed tomb, forsaken and forgotten
But three days later, he stepped out of his grave and into a garden
And the same will be true of all who trust him, where there is pain and chaos and death, there will be beauty and peace in life because Jesus is alive
So is hope, so is grace
So is salvation
So is transformation
Because Jesus is alive, we can step out of the grave and into the