Easter | Resurrecting Hope - Jon Tyson
Church of the City New York
COTC NYC
4.8 • 919 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
This Resurrection Sunday, Pastor Jon asked a question most of us don't say out loud: what happens to hope when it dies? He opened with the concept of "hope theory" — the idea that hope requires a vision, a pathway, and a sense that you can actually get there — and traced what happens when that vision collapses. The disciples on the road to Emmaus knew that feeling. They had built everything around Jesus, and then watched Him die. Walking away from Jerusalem, they said the most honest thing in the passage, "we had hoped..." Into that exact moment, Jesus shows up, not to people with their lives together, but to two people walking in the wrong direction. His next move of opening the Scriptures, sitting down at the table, breaking bread is less a lesson in theology, than an invitation back to life. All the information in the world doesn't close that gap. What changes everything is relationship with the risen Savior.
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| 0:00.0 | You can remain standing. We're going to read our teaching texts. Remain standing for the reading of God's |
| 0:05.4 | Word. This comes from Luke, chapter 24, verses 13 through 35. The Word of the Lord says this. Now that same day, |
| 0:14.4 | two of them were going to a village called Amas, about seven miles from Jerusalem. They were talking with each other about everything that had |
| 0:23.0 | happened. As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and |
| 0:28.8 | walked along with them, but they were kept from recognizing him. He asked them, what are you discussing |
| 0:34.5 | together as you walk along? They stood still faces downcast one of them named cleopas |
| 0:41.3 | asked him are you the only one visiting jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days |
| 0:47.7 | what things he asked about jesus of nazareth they replied he a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all |
| 0:57.6 | people. The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him. |
| 1:04.9 | But we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place. |
| 1:13.6 | In addition, some of our women amazed us. |
| 1:16.5 | They went to the tomb early this morning but didn't find his body. |
| 1:20.4 | They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels who said he was alive. |
| 1:25.2 | Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women |
| 1:29.2 | had said, but they did not see Jesus. He said to them, how foolish you are and how slow to believe |
| 1:36.1 | all that the prophets have spoken. Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his |
| 1:41.7 | glory? And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, |
| 1:44.7 | he explained to them what was said in all the scriptures concerning himself. As they approached |
| 1:49.6 | the village to which they were going, Jesus continued on as if he were going farther. But they |
| 1:55.3 | urged him strongly, stay with us for it is nearly evening. The day is over so he went in to stay with them when he was at |
| 2:03.5 | the table with them he took bread gave thanks broke it and began to give it to them then their eyes were |
| 2:09.7 | opened and they recognized him and he disappeared from their sight they asked each other were not our |
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