Series: Hope Beyond
Series Thesis: Someone has wisely stated that if you could convince a man that there is no hope, he would curse the day he was born and then give up. Hope is essential for the mindset of mankind and for vision for the future.
Scripture for series:
I Peter 1:3-6: Praise to God for a Living Hope
3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you, 5who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. 6In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
Series Introduction:
The question of "Is there any hope?" is common in our chaotic world today. We hear this question being asked by young, middle aged, and older people today. People look around and see pandemics, political dissension, death, racial tensions, a society ready to explode and numerous deaths. We see and read of shootings, addictions, depression, suicide. We hear so many lies being spun daily on the news and through the media we know somethings going to explode. We experience the pain of others greed. We see leadership breakdown, inflation on the rise. We see more unrest in foreign countries than ever before and we see the borders of our nation in chaos. Our society is calling good evil and evil good. They are celebrating sin and rejecting the ways of God more and more. Our family units are crashing all around us and society is sinking deeper into deception and anti-god ways.
So many are asking is there any hope?
I answer “yes” there is hope in Jesus- yes there is hope in the future and everything we are facing today has been faced by Christians before us just read your Christian History– the world we live in has faced other pandemics, political corruption, economic depression, racial riots and division. It has gone through times of economic collapse and high inflation.
Story from a past Pandemic and hope – the story of the Red Cross – remind them of.
Story from political corruption of the past and a hope – Charles Colson’s story!
Story from racial riots and division of the past and hope – Martin Luther King’s message “I have dream.” Show video of Stone Mt. from One Race.
Story from economic collapse – the great depression and the birth of CHC – this church birthed in the very beginning of the Great Depression on April 19, 1928:
Most people know the Great Depression started with the stock market crash of Sept. 1929, but we often forget it lasted 10 years — until 1939. Not only was there 25% unemployment, but the price of some crops also dropped by 60%. Simultaneously, agriculture was devastated by the Dust Bowl, the result from decades of farming the Great Plains without resting the fields. Many people lost their farms. Some people could no longer care for their children and placed them in orphanages or sent them off to be adopted. Those were long, terrible years. But God saw the church of Jesus thrive and grow in this very same time period.
CHC called back then Christ Church grew? CHC purchased a building in March 1931 in the middle of the Great Depression so did other churches grow in this time period as well! My own college North Central University was started in the middle of the Great Depression in 1935 with many miracles and the purchase of their building in downtown mpls.. Bible camps were purchased and launched during the Great Depression as well.
Note: The Church historically has flourished during war, famine, economic depressions, riots, political corruption, plagues and persecution in history. So in light of looking back through the Bible and Church history I have hope for the future.
What robs people of a future hope? The number one reason is their perception of their failures – yes failure!
Albert Einstein’s story!
Sermon: Hope in the Future!
Scripture:
Jeremiah 29:11: 11For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Proverbs 24:14: 14Know also that wisdom is sweet to your soul; if you find it, there is a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.
Proverbs 23:17-19
17Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always be zealous for the fear of the LORD.
18There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.
19Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path.
Thesis: God promises all of His disciples a future and a hope. Jesus lets us know there is hope beyond world wide catastrophes and even our personal failures.
Why did Peter say there is a “Living Hope” because for many failure crushes people’s hope – He knew what personal failure felt like.
Introduction:
The Word of God encourages us with the many promises that remind us that if we follow the Lord there is always a future hope. This future hope is secure and true – failure cannot remove it from us or any power in this world remove hope from us if we stay connected to Jesus. The Bible says not even demonic powers can remove the future hope that awaits the believer in Jesus.
See Romans 8:35-39: 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Hope in the future is rooted in a personal relationship with Jesus, in the Father’s love and in the power and presence of the Holy Spirit in this world.
Opening Illustration:
Nearly a hundred years ago, the Philadelphia Church in Stockholm, Sweden, sent two missionary couples to the Congo. David and Svea Flood, along with Joel and Bertha Erickson, they macheted their way through the jungle to establish a mission station. During their first year, they didn’t see a single convert. The village was resistant to the gospel because they were afraid of offending their tribal gods, but that didn’t keep Svea from sharing the love of Jesus with a five-year-old boy who delivered fresh eggs to their back door every day. Svea became pregnant not long after arriving, but she was bedridden during much of the pregnancy battling malaria. She gave birth to a baby girl, Aina, on April 13, 1923, but Svea died seventeen days later. David made a casket and buried his twenty-seven-year-old wife on the mountainside overlooking the village. Grief, then bitterness, flooded his heart. David gave his daughter, Aina, to the Ericksons and returned to Sweden with dashed dreams and a broken heart. He would spend the next five decades of his life trying to drown his sorrow with drink. He forewarned those he knew never to mention God’s name in his presence. The Ericksons raised Aina until she was a toddler, but both of them died within three days of each other when the villagers poisoned them to death.
Aina was given to an American missionary couple, Arthur and Anna Berg. The Bergs renamed their adopted daughter Agnes, and called her Aggie. They eventually returned to America to pastor a church in South Dakota. After high school, Aggie enrolled at North Central Bible College in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She met and married a fellow student, Dewey Hurst. They started a family of their own and served a number of churches as pastors. Then Dr. Hurst became president of Northwest Bible College.
On their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, the college gave the Hursts a special gift — a trip to Sweden. Aggie’s sole purpose in going was to find her biological father who had abandoned her fifty years before. They searched Stockholm for five days without a trace. Then, on the last day before departure, they got a tip that led to the third floor of a ram shackled apartment building. There they found Aggie’s dad, who was on his deathbed with a failing liver. The last words David Flood ever expected to hear were, “Papa, it’s Aina.” And the first words out of his mouth were filled with remorse: “I never meant to give you away.”
When they embraced, a fifty-year curse of bitterness was broken. A father and daughter were reconciled that day, and a father was reconciled with his heavenly Father for eternity. When Aggie landed in Seattle the next day, she received news that her father had passed away while they were in flight.
Now here’s the rest of the story. Five years later, Dewey and Aggie Hurst attended the World Pentecostal Conference in London, England. Ten thousand delegates from around the world gathered at Royal Prince Albert Hall. One of the speakers on opening night was Ruhigita Ndagora, the superintendent of the Pentecostal Church in Zaire. What caught Aggie’s attention was the fact that Ruhigita was from the region where her parents had been missionaries half a century before. After the message, Aggie spoke to him through an interpreter. She asked if he knew of the village where she was born, and Ruhigita told her he had grown up in that village. She asked if he knew of missionaries by the name of Flood. He said, “Every day I would go to Svea Flood’s back door with a basket of eggs, and she would tell me about Jesus. I don’t know if she had a single convert in all of Africa besides me.” Then he added, “Shortly after I accepted Christ, Svea died and her husband left. She had a baby girl named Aina, and I’ve always wondered what happened to her.” When Aggie revealed that she was Aina, Ruhigita Ndagora started to sob. They embraced like siblings separated since birth. Then Ruhigita said, “Just a few months ago, I placed flowers on your mother’s grave. On behalf of the hundreds of churches and hundreds of thousands of believers in Zaire, thank you for letting your mother die so that so many of us could live.”
Pause! Let the Holy Spirit speak to everyone!
Listen friends and families of CHC – “Failure is never a failure when God is involved in a person’s life and destiny.”
Patterson states, “Sometimes going all in feels like it’s all for naught. That’s how it felt on the Saturday between Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday. But it’s not over until God says it’s over! The greatest spiritual victory was won on the heels of its seemingly greatest defeat. All was lost, but not for long. Three days after his crucifixion, Jesus walked out of His tomb under His own power. In God’s kingdom, failure is never final. Not if you believe in the resurrection! You won’t win every spiritual battle, but the war has already been decisively won. The victory was sealed two thousand years ago when Jesus broke the seal on His tomb. It was the deathblow to death itself. And we are more than conquerors because of what Christ accomplished.”
He adds, “If you go all in and all out for the cause of Christ, there will be setbacks along the way. But remember this: without a crucifixion there can be no resurrection! And when you have a setback, you do not take a step back, because God is already preparing your comeback.” From Mark Battersons book All In pages 123-126
To David and Svea Flood they didn’t have a single convert they knew of. David thought it was all for naught and he gave up and yielded to failure. But one young seed took root and bore fruit beyond belief in that village. You never know which seed it will be that will grow and produce fruit – this is why you have to hope in the future. Remember if you are faithful to plant and water your seeds then scripture guarantees that God Himself will give the increase!
Point by Batterson: “Never underestimate the ripple effect of one act of obedience. It will never be all for nothing (especially when God is involved).”
1. Question: What robs people of a future hope? Answer: The number one reason is their perception of their failures – others failures – yes failure I think robs people of hope in the future!
a. But the Bible tells us there is hope beyond failure – there is always hope n the future and when we see failure differently we see past the failure and see hope in our future.
b. A case in point is found in the life of the author of 1 Peter and 2 – the apostle Peter focused on the subject of Hope beyond in his letter to the scattered churches – who I believe some of them thought there is no hope for a future we will all be slaughtered.
i. Peter came to understand there is always hope beyond a present failure – whether its person or national. Whether it’s physical, or economical or spiritual in a connection to Jesus there is always a future hope.
ii. Peter is portrayed in the Gospel as a rough and in your face fisherman ( a tough person) who was quick to speak and act without thinking first. Jesus even tried to warn Peter that he would fail- listen to Jesus words of warning to Peter:
1. Luke 22:31-34: 31“Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift you as wheat. 32But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.” 33But he replied, “Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death.” 34Jesus answered, “I tell you, Peter, before the rooster crows today, you will deny three times that you know me.”
a. Jesus warned Peter but Peter rebuked his warning as Hog wash! His words I will never do that Jesus!
i. But failure came – Peter’s first failure was not denying Christ but actually pulling his sword in the garden and cutting off Malchus ear when they came to arrest Jesus! See Jesus response to Peter and His action.
1. John 18:10-11: 10Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest’s servant, cutting off his right ear. (The servant’s name was Malchus.) 11Jesus commanded Peter, “Put your sword away! Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given me?”
a. Then Jesus healed the servants ear!
b. Peters next failure was what Jesus had predicted – his denial of knowing Him 3x – his most famous failure.
i. Luke 22:56-62: 56A servant girl saw him seated there in the firelight. She looked closely at him and said, “This man was with him.” 57But he denied it. “Woman, I don’t know him,” he said. 58A little later someone else saw him and said, “You also are one of them.” “Man, I am not!” Peter replied. 59About an hour later another asserted, “Certainly this fellow was with him, for he is a Galilean.” 60Peter replied, “Man, I don’t know what you’re talking about!” Just as he was speaking, the rooster crowed. 61The Lord turned and looked straight at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word the Lord had spoken to him: “Before the rooster crows today, you will disown me three times.” 62And he went outside and wept bitterly.
1. Wow Jesus warned – Peter failed – Jesus looked at Him! Wow can you imagine the flood of emotions and pain?
2. Swindoll states this about our story, “No longer loyal and strong, far from courageous and committed, the man was suddenly reduced to heaving sobs. What guilt he bore! How ashamed he felt! Words cannot adequately portray his brokenness. Emotionally, he plunged to rock bottom, caught in the grip of hopelessness; the effect on Peter was shattering. Every time he closed his eyes he could see the face of Jesus staring at him, as if asking, “How could you, Peter? Why would you?” That look. Those words. The man was haunted for days. The Savior’s subsequent death by crucifixion must have been like a nail driven into Peter’s heart. The one thing he needed to carry him on was gone . . . gone forever, he thought. Hope.”
3. But chuck adds the rest of the story: “Until that glorious resurrection day, the first Easter morn, when we read not only of Jesus’ miraculous, bodily resurrection from the dead but also those great words of grace, “Go, tell His disciples and Peter . . . ” (Mark 16:7). And Peter! The significance of those two words cannot be overstated. They introduced hope into the old fisherman’s life . . . the one essential ingredient without which he could otherwise not recover. Upon hearing of his Savior’s resurrection and also his Savior’s concern that he especially be given the message, Peter had hope beyond his failure. Because of that, he could go on. And, not surprisingly, he would later be the one who would write the classic letter of hope to those who needed to hear it the most . . . those who were residing “as aliens, scattered” across the vast landscape of the Roman Empire (1 Pet. 1:1).”
a. Hope Again by Charles Swindoll Chapter 1
c. John Maxwell states, “In Leadership Magazine, J. Wallace Hamilton states, "The increase of suicides, alcoholics, and even some forms of nervous breakdowns is evidence that many people are training for success when they should be training for failure. Failure is far more common than success; poverty is more prevalent than wealth; and disappointment more normal than arrival." From Failing Forward.
i. Maxwell also states, “Because in life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with your problems. Are you going to fail forward or backward?”
1. That is the big question today – How will we fail because we will all fail!
ii. Maxwell adds, “Every person's life is filled with errors and negative experiences. But know this: Errors become mistakes when we perceive them and respond to them incorrectly. Mistakes become failures when we continually respond to them incorrectly. People who fail forward are able to see errors or negative experiences as a regular part of life, learn from them, and then move on. They persevere in order to achieve their purpose in life.”
1. Washington Irving once commented, "Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them." The terrible truth is that all roads to achievement lead through the land of failure.”
a. Maxwell Fail Forward
2. Question: “So how can you prevent failure and mistakes from robbing you of hope in the future?” Answer: “Change your perception of what you did wrong or do what you know you should do – change how you view your life and imminent failures – it’s all about your mindset.
a. Some of us need to learn the “whatever” principles found in Scripture: My wife loves this word “Whatever!”
i. Mark Batterson states, “There are two whatever verses in Scripture. Both start with the same all-inclusive phrase: ‘whatever you do.’ “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters.”
1. You want hope for the future – whatever you do each day do it for Jesus!
a. Mark notes, “The phrase with all your heart means “with extra energy.” It means giving it everything you’ve got — 100 percent. It literally means doing something like your life depended on it. The issue is not what you are doing. The real issue is why you do it, how you do it, and who you do it for.
2. He adds, in his subsection “Mundane Miracles” – “Now here’s the other whatever verse. “So, whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.”
a. Mark makes this observation, “How do you eat and drink for the glory of God? Paul is using the daily rituals of eating and drinking to make an all-encompassing point: even the most mundane of activities is absolutely miraculous. You take approximately 23,000 breaths every day, but when was the last time you thanked God for one of them? The process of inhaling oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide is a complicated respiratory task that requires physiological precision. We tend to thank God for the things that take our breath away. And that’s fine. But maybe we should thank Him for every other breath too!”
i. It’s all about our perspective our view of life we look through determines if we keep our hope in the future.
b. He adds this quote in his book as he progresses to the next chapter which caught my attention - “SDG” is the why behind every what. Or maybe I should say it’s the why behind every whatever.” What is an SDG? I was think strange abbreviation: Here is the meaning of an “SDG”
i. Story from Mark Batterson: “Johann Sebastian Bach was to classical music what William Shakespeare was to English literature and Sir Isaac Newton was to physics. His body of work includes 256 cantatas. And while it’s impossible to peg a magnum opus, my personal favorite is Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring. Nearly four centuries after its original writing, it’s still one of the most popular sound tracks to one of life’s most momentous occasions — the bridal entrance at a wedding ceremony.”
1. Pause “I did not know Bach wrote that and I have done hundreds of weddings – did you know?
ii. Marks continues in his story, “Listening to Bach’s music is a rapturous experience, but it’s not just because of the melodies and harmonies. It’s more than the mere combination of notes. It’s the motivation behind the music. The reason Toccata and Fugue in D Minor or Mass in B Minor touch the soul is that they come from the soul. Bach’s cantatas didn’t originate as music. They were prayers before they were songs, literally. Before Bach started scoring a sheet of music, he would scrawl J.J. — Jesu, juva — at the very top. It was the simplest of prayers: Jesus, help me. Then, at the completion of every composition, Bach inscribed three letters in the margin of his music: SDG. Those three letters stood for the Latin phrase, Soli Deo Gloria — to the glory of God alone. Mark Batterson All In pages 117-121.
iii. Mark keeps drawing more out of the story about having a future hope: “Soli Deo Gloria was one of the rallying cries of the Protestant Reformation, but Bach personalized it. His life was a unique translation of that singular motive.”
1. Mark applies the life story message of hope: “So is yours. No one can glorify God like you or for you. Your life is an original score. Imagine if filmmakers and politicians and entrepreneurs followed suit. What kind of cultural impact would we have if our scripts and bills and business plans originated as prayers? Imagine students scribbling SDG on their essays for AP American History, mechanics etching SDG on mufflers and motors, or doctors scrawling SDG on their prescriptions. It’s not about what you do. It’s about why you do what you do. Ultimately, it’s about who you do it for. In God’s kingdom, it’s our motivations that matter most. If you do the right thing for the wrong reason, it doesn’t even count.”
iv. He adds this quote in his book: “Arnold Summerfield, the German physicist and pianist, observed that a single hydrogen atom, which emits one hundred frequencies, is more musical than a grand piano, which only emits eighty-eight frequencies. Every single atom is a unique expression of God’s creative genius. And that means every atom is a unique expression of worship.”
1. Are you tracking with his thoughts? Well he makes it more clear as he adds:
a. According to composer Leonard Bernstein, the best translation of Genesis 1:3 and several other verses in Genesis 1 is not “and God said.” He believed a better translation is “and God sang.” The Almighty sang every atom into existence, and every atom echoes that original melody sung in three-part harmony by the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Did you know that the electron shell of the carbon atom produces the same harmonic scale as the Gregorian chant? Or that whale songs can travel thousands of miles underwater? Or that meadowlarks have a range of three hundred notes? But the songs we can hear audibly are only one instrument in the symphony orchestra called creation. Research in the field of bioacoustics has revealed that we are surrounded by millions of ultrasonic songs. Supersensitive sound instruments have discovered that even earthworms make faint staccato sounds!
b. He adds more evidence of his theory: “Lewis Thomas put it this way: “If we had better hearing, and could discern the descants [singing] of sea birds, the rhythmic tympani [drumming] of schools of mollusks, or even the distant harmonics of midges [flies] hanging over meadows in the sun, the combined sound might lift us off our feet.” Someday the sound will lift us off our feet. Glorified eardrums will reveal millions of songs previously inaudible to the human ear.”
i. Now he adds Scripture to show how if we notice the sounds around us we should have hope in the future: “Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, saying: “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!” In the meantime, we have to settle for Bach.
1. The above From All In by Mark Batterson pages 117-121 chapter 12 SDG
2. Wow what a story of were we can get Hope in the future from – just listen to the sounds of the Creation all around us!
2. Application to us at CHC: Maybe we need to give ourselves a daily reminder each time we write a song or sing a song in worship or even listen to natures sounds, maybe we need to write a message to God as a prayer and sing it or listen to a message and hum along with it, or do a task for the Lord making music in our hearts, or do a days work singing all the way through and all these intentional focuses will remind us of His promise of a future hope.
c. Peter who’s first letter to the church is all about this “Living Hope” A hope in the future – a hope that is with us now – it’s not dead but alive – this is the best way of looking into the future – seeing Creation – remember he knew the agony of failure in the things of the Lord. His failure was denying Jesus three times – but that failure did not end with no hope. Because Jesus came to him when he was fishing again to restore his hope in the future – even made him breakfast.
i. See John 21:1-14
3. Illustration of cross as anchor of the soul: I started this series pointing to the cross as our hope – our anchor in the storms of life – in ring us back to it today.
a. Hope in Jesus is the anchor of our soul according to Hebrews 6:19-20: 19We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, 20where Jesus, who went before us, has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.
i. Anchor: Hope is to be our anchor in the storms of life – It’s rooted in Jesus the Living Hope! The believer trusts and knows Jesus is the most secure thing to believe in and follow – why because he is personal and has our back. Our hope in the future of life – of our dreams and even hope beyond our failures lies in seeing the reality of the cross each day as our essential anchor.
b. Hands on Illustration to help them remember: Hope in Jesus- Hope in Grace- Hope in the Church- Hope in the future.
i. Hitch up and try to topple the cross in the sanctuary – get it to rock – In life storms blow hard in life – trust me I know – and sometimes that blowing can seem as if the cross could let go – but understand that God has it all figured out – we have hope in grace something we do not deserve but we get it because of the cross – Brennan preached on this – then Vernon preached last week on Hope in the church - what happens when the wind blows so hard and it seems that the cross is not holding? The cross starts rocking?
1. Jesus gave us the church to help us be even more anchored and secure – watch this – Jesus sends us people who come around us in storms and failures to anchor us to the cross. When you are connected to the body of Christ you have an anchor that will never let you go or let you fall. This by the way is called the church in Scripture the Body of Christ. Watch now as I try to topple this cross.
2. I hope you are seeing the revelation that Your hope for the future comes from Jesus’ and nothing can take that away if you stay faithful to Him.
a. Hope is not something we have naturally. It's something supernatural! The following material is from "A Future and a Hope", Ogilivie
b. Hope cannot be humanly induced on demand. I cannot give myself hope. Jesus gives me hope through him, thru grace, thru the church and into the future.
c. Hope is not wishful thinking,
i. - We try to wish our dreams into reality and we try to wish away the hurts of life but it never works.
d. Hope is not yearning.
i. Ogilivie states, "We often incorrectly use the word, "hope" to express our yearning. "Oh, I hope so!" We say, expressing a longing for something to be true or to happen. "Here's hoping," we say in response to a possibility." (47)
e. Hope is not simply cheery optimism.
i. "Hope certainly can produce and optimistic attitude, but an optimistic attitude is not a substitute for true hope." (48)
ii. Optimism that is not based on God's promises, power, and faithfulness fades under the pressure of disappointments.
c. Hope in the future and current Hope is centered in the person of Jesus Christ. Christ's life, message, atonement for the sins of the world and resurrection are now the basis of all hope – past – present -future.
i. Jesus Christ is the object of Hope, but also, He is the one and only who enables us to truly have lasting hope.
ii. Hope comes to us by having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. It comes from knowing God on a personal level.
1. Romans 5: 1-5: Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.
d. Peter wrote a lot about hope in his letters to the churches because he knew the pain and agony of failure and we’re real hope came from.
Conclusion:
What do we need to know from this message?
Answer: Do you desire Hope for the future, hope beyond failure, hope beyond brokenness, a hope that will never leave you or forsake you, a hope, that will put you back together, a true unfailing hope? Then today yield your life to Jesus Christ and you will see the pieces of your life slowly put back together with Hope. Hope in the future is essential to changing this world and we need to see failure as opportunities to grow and mature and press forward.
Why do they need to know this message?
Answer: So, they know not to quit when they fail or make mistake – but get back up and fail forward shining the light on the grace and mercy of Jesus!
What do we need to do?
Answer: Place our faith and hope in Jesus and see our failures as growing opportunities!
Why do they need to do this?
Answer: If we don’t lose hope – then we don’t give up and we press forward to see change happen in this fallen world – Jesus has placed us hear to make a difference – believe it – see the future has hope!
