Gabe Fluhrer

No morals, no commitments, nothing but cynicism and despair.

And so it's little wonder that people have no hope.

When the predominant worldview is blind, pitiless indifference, like that which Dawkins speaks about, or everything else has let me down, God probably will too.

If that's where we think, then hope will be always fleeting, always elusive.

And what the resurrection of Christ does is resurrect hope in our lives.

And how does that happen?

Let's trace it out from the scriptures from 2 Corinthians 5.

As Paul instructs us on our hope.

Verse 1, for we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling, if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked.

For while we are still in this tent we groan, being burdened, not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.

Here's what he's saying to us.

There's a hope of new creation that we find in the gospel of resurrection.

The hope of new creation.

Did you notice that pregnant language again?

That we might be further clothed.

What does Paul have in mind?

Nakedness, of course.

But that's not just not having any clothes on.