Our hope is in Jesus .

Jesus did not yield up His life till He had accomplished the work which He came to do; and He exclaimed with His parting breath, "It is finished! ( SR 247) . mistreated , misunderstood and finally put to death by those he came to save , our savior gave it all for us . The apostle Paul says " He emptied himself " He came to rescue sinners and to restored fallen humanity back to God, he became man so he could take humanity to the higher courts in heaven . "Jesus Christ laid off His royal robe, His kingly crown, and clothed His divinity with humanity, in order to become a substitute and surety for humanity, that dying in humanity He might by his death destroy him who had the power of death. " ( LHU  345) our only hope is in what Jesus did for us  and what he  is doing for us .He has opened the way so we can be with him " And if I come again , I will take you to myself that where I am you might be also " . The resurrection of Lazarus is a demonstration of what will happen at the last trumpet when the " dead in Christ shall rise first " Our Sister Daisy Roman , is resting in the lord , I remember when I made an appeal for someone to accept Jesus as Lord , she was the first person to raise her hand as a sign of accepting Jesus in her life and later she decided to get baptized to seal her life with Jesus .She is sleeping now , waiting for the last trumpet . For the Lord himself , shall descend from heaven with a shout , with the voice of the archangel , with the trumpet of God and the dead in Christ shall first . We have this hope that soon we will see Daisy , not suffering , not in pain as we saw her last  but with great joy in the presence of her savior . He has finished the race , now the question is , will we join ? I pray that we will have this hope .