Well, good morning, sore Church, Good morning. Friends, Family. I hope you guys are doing well this morning. Um, I’m really excited to Share the word with you this morning, we’re gonna be talking about empty expectations. We’re gonna be looking at John chapter 20 I’m gonna walk you through those 1st 10 verses there. Um, but before we do, I think it’s customary right to say he is risen and you he is risen. Indeed. Amen to that. Amen to that. So why are you turning to John chapter 20 I want to share with you some of my first world problems. Maybe you can laugh at my misery. Um but it’s connected to today’s message about expectations again. First world problems, nothing too major. Right? Um, so my vehicle, the car that I drive has a backup sensor, every time I put the vehicle in reverse, it beeps and it lets me know that something is behind my vehicle or something is in in the rear of my vehicle. And the intensity of the beat increases the closer I get to something, this beat has conditioned me like one of Pavlov’s dogs. Right to the point where I’ve become somewhat of a bad driver when it comes to putting my vehicle in reverse, which is a problem. When I drive my wife’s minivan that does not have the beeping backup sensor. And so every time I hop into that van and I throw it into reverse, conditioned like one of Pavlov’s dogs, I hastily back up, not hearing the beat, not worried that there’s anything behind me until I hear a crunching sound and my wife saying, you just scratched up my van again again. Mhm. Every time I get into her van, I have expectations, but they are empty because she does not have a backup sensor in the back of her van. And today we’re gonna talk about empty expectations and we’re we ought to have our expectations. So I’m gonna walk us through john chapter 20 verses one through 10, beginning in verse and the first verse, jOHn says now on the first day of the week, mary Magdalene came to the tomb early while it was still dark and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. one of the very first things we see here is the highlighting of the first day of the week. Which is significant because whether you understand it or not, we gather on the first day of the week and we gather on the first day of the week because it is the Lord’s day, it is the Lord’s day because that is the day that the Lord was raised from the dead. This is unique. This is different because in the jewish culture, according to the old testament, the sabbath was at the end of the week, saturday, but jesus was raised on the first day of the week and so realistically, every sunday is a reminder of resurrection, sunday, the Chavez according to old testament law was a day of rest and worship. Now sunday has become the day of rest and worship the resurrection of the Lord points to the ultimate rest. The rest from the plight of sin and Brokenness and the curse of sin that is upon the world. It is a promise of the rest that God will give us from even the pains of death as jesus overcame death. So the first day of the week is for us a witness of the promise that we have in christ jesus. And there was no coincidence that the writers of the new testament like to highlight the Lord’s day, the first day of the week mary Magdalene, she comes to the tomb early while it is still dark. Now that is quite risky for a woman at this particular time in history, it’s dark out. She’s headed to place of burial, she’s headed to a grave site, so to speak and to do so in, in the cover of darkness was risky, but why does she do it? Why does she do it? Why is she headed so early in the morning to get to the tomb mary is still grieving and we know from other accounts you didn’t go alone. There were at least two women that went to the tomb this early in the morning. …