Sunday Service Sermon 15.26

April 5 10:30 - 11:30 am  |  Faith Evangelical Free Church

90 East St, Boyceville, WI, USA

The Ministry of Jesus

Jesus in His incarnational ministry lived, walked, talked, ministered, and acted in a real time and place interacting with people and all of creation for the purpose of calling for repentance, providing forgiveness, and bringing salvation.

Luke 24:36-49

Where is your hope?

How is real hope found in Jesus Christ?

Exploring the passage

  • Jesus appears

 

  • The disciples react

 

  • Jesus’ scars

 

  • Jesus eats food

 

  • “Remember?”

 

  • Jesus opens their minds

 

  • “You are my witnesses!”

 

 Now What?

  • Jesus is the Good News

 

  • Where is hope?

 

  • Inward hope & Feeling hopeful is no hope

 

  • Our Hope is only Jesus
    • Centered On Christ
    • Based On Scripture
    • Producing Personal Assurance
    • Seen In Daily Life
    • Accessible To All

 

Again – Where is YOUR Hope? 

 

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Who is your hope in today? To whom are you a witness of the Hope you have in Jesus Christ?

Memorize this-

Luke 24:46–48  

and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.  You are witnesses of these things.

 

The horizontal situations, locations, experiences, and relationships of everyday life are dangerous places to look for hope. Why? They all fail you. First, everywhere you could look horizontally has been affected by the fall in some way. There are simply no perfectly ideal situations, no paradise locations, no completely satisfying experiences, and surely no perfect people this side of eternity. Add to this the fact that all these things are fleeting. None of them lasts. Every horizontal thing, this side of eternity, is in the process of decay. So hope that addresses your deepest needs, that gives you reason to continue no matter how hard life is, and that promises you eternal good is only ever found vertically.

 Tripp, P. D. (2021). 40 Days of Hope (pp. 86–87). Crossway.

 

 

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