Jesus is the hope of the world.
Not your church, not your denomination, not your tribe, not your strategy, not your home group and not your amazing way of getting everybody to follow you.
Jesus is the hope of the world. Get that wrong and you are stuffed! Put your hope in anything other than the resurrected Jesus Christ and you will be disappointed. People will let you down, church will let you down, denominations will let you down, but Jesus will never let you down.
Everything around us changes. People change, projects change, worship songs will change, that model of church will change but Jesus does not change.
Hope can be a dangerous thing when we pin it to the wrong things. Unexpected disappointments come, unfulfilled dreams and deep hurts rise because our hope was not anchored.
Now we can hope in a lot of things and sometimes those things will disappoint us but you and I can have a confident hope... indeed today we can rejoice in this confidence hope..
‘Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.’ 1Pet 1:3
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 boast in the HOPE of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.’ Rom 5 1-5
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Rom 15:13
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
Romans 12:12
So today make him your cornerstone nothing else.
I don’t preach church, I preach Christ.
HE IS THE HOPE OF THE WORLD.
My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus' blood and righteousness
I dare not trust the sweetest frame
But wholly trust in Jesus' name
Christ alone; cornerstone
Weak made strong; in the Saviour's love
Through the storm, He is Lord
Lord of all
When Darkness seems to hide His face
I rest on His unchanging grace
In every high and stormy gale
My anchor holds within the veil
My anchor holds within the veil
