April 20, 2025 Easter Sunday

God–the Be-All and End-All

“God—The Be-All and End-All” a sermon based on Psalm 118:1-2;14-24; 1 Corinthians 15:19-26; and John 20:1-18 delivered on Easter Sunday, April 20, 2025, at the First Congregational UCC of Onekama, Michigan by the Rev. Alison Andrea Young.

When we end the Lord’s Prayer like we do. We say “Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever.” And then we say “Amen” –which in essence means in Hebrew “that’s the truth.” When Paul writes to the church in Corinth he is saying much the same thing. In Chapter 15 verses 24 to 28 Paul says that when the end comes, Christ “hands over the kingdom to God the Father,” and this is because “‘God has put all things in subjection under his feet.’ . . .When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to the one who put all things in subjection under him, so that God may be all in all.”
In the end, Paul writes, God will be “all in all.” God will BE “the kingdom, power and glory forever.” God will actually be “the be-all and end-all!” . . .