Easter Sunday and we are beginning a look at things that really but invisibly happened when we first believed in Jesus. Today we see that we were really dead and in Jesus we are now really alive.

Jesus took our sin and nailed it to the tree. It is not in us anymore!

In the Gospel of Matthew, the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday illustrates His kingliness. It calls us to recognize Him for His kingly role in our lives.

God deeply cares about the eternal destination of mankind. Jesus, in fact, comes to the earth to seek and save the lost. If the Father and Son so desperately loves people, we too ought to pour our efforts and compassion into our relationships with them.

If God matters (and we showed that in the sermon last week), then listening to Him matters. Giving attention to the Word of God is what makes us more like God in our character, behavior, and compassion.

What Matters Most in this life? God. A friendship with God. Time, energy, passion, and love invested in your friendship with God. Making God known in your sphere of relationships.

We have seen from Hosea that God loves us in an endless way. Now we want to see the same principle from the New Testament in the first letter of John.

God loves us in a way that is consistent and unshakeable. He loves us through thick and thin. And even as we stumble, He always lovingly invites us to return.

God has laid out His love and desire to welcome us back into His family. Now what will we do with it?

God shows us His love by buying us off the slaveblock from our old taskmaster, sin. We were used and abused by sin and death and God graciously rescued us.