OVERCOMING HOPELESSNESS
Hope Alive Finale’ – Part 8
Steve Gallimore | pastorsteve@tvcc.us
February 21, 2021
Ephesians 2:13 (NLT)
But now you belong to Christ Jesus. Though you once were far away from God, now you have been brought near to him because of the blood of Christ.
Ephesians 2:11–12 (NLT)
11 “Don’t forget that you Gentiles used to be outsiders…”
12 “In those days you were living apart from Christ. You were excluded from citizenship among the people of Israel, and you did not know the covenant promises God had made to them. You lived in this world without God and without hope.”
There are three groups of people who live in the world without hope…
1. The person who doubts or denies the
Genesis 1:1 (NLT)
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
John 1:1 (ESV)
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
“My question- which at the age of fifty brought me to the verge of suicide – was the simplest of questions. It was: ‘What will come of what I am doing today or tomorrow? What will come of my whole life? Why should I live, why wish for anything, or do anything?’ It can also be expressed thus: Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destroy?”
~ Leo Tolstoy ~
2. The person who denies the
John 17:17 (ESV)
“Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.”
3. The person who doubts or denies
John 3:16-18 (ESV)
16“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.”
John 6:37 (ESV)
“All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.”
4. The person who
Acts 3:19–20 (NLT)
19 “Now repent of your sins and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped away. 20 Then times of refreshment will come from the presence of the Lord, and he will again send you Jesus, your appointed Messiah.”
Luke 13:3 (ESV)
“No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”
Luke 9:23 (NLT)
“Then he said to the crowd, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross daily, and follow me.”
John 1:12–13 (ESV)
12 “But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.”