The Power of Hope

The Power of Hope

I Corinthians 15

1. What are you hoping for?

• We are all hopers
• We are facing a hope shortage

1. What are you hoping in?

• Hope is what anchors the soul and holds you in the storm. Hope is what keeps you going when you’ve lost what you were hoping for. (Hebrews 6:19)

III. Why you can put your hope in the Gospel

1. It’s historical (it’s true)

• The resurrection then means you can put your ultimate hope in God.
• We are part of the “third day” story

1. It’s what the Gospel offers

• The problem with the human race is that we’re still us
• The hope of the Gospel is that it offers grace, forgiveness, salvation and eternal life.

What will you hope IN?

• You can live for what is temporal…or you can live for God, what is eternal.
• On what will you take your stand?

“Hope” is the thing with feathers –
That perches in the soul –
And sings the tune without the words –
And never stops – at all –
By Emily Dickinson