Overcoming Hopelessness

Hope Series – Part 3

Steve Gallimore | pastorsteve@tvcc.us
November 26, 2017
Happy Thanksgiving!

“The hope of the world is the church, fully equipped to minister with the gospel of Christ.”

1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, 2 To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. 3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 4 since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, 5 because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, Colossians 1:1-5 (ESV)

21 And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, 22 he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, 23 if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister. Colossians 1:21-23 (ESV)

11 Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles…12 were separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. Ephesians 2:11-12 (ESV)

1 . The man who doubts or denies the existence of God, stands without any hope.
2 . The man who denies the Bible as the Word of God, stands without any hope.
3 . The man who does not accept the Christ that the Bible presents, stands without any hope.