Kingdom Virtues: Hope

Kingdom Virtues: Hope

Pastor Aaron Sutherland

I. WE ARE CALLED TO ANSWER HOPE 

2 CORINTHIANS 4:6

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ. 

What we believe about our future determines much of our experience in the present.

II. WE ARE CALLED TO CARRY HOPE

2 CORINTHIANS 4: 7

But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. 

III. WE ARE CALLED TO REFINE HOPE

2 CORINTHIANS 4:8-11 

We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body. 

We clearly see God’s hope when we have lost hope in everything else.

“Everything is needful that He sends, nothing is needful that He withholds.”

John Newton

 MATTHEW 16:24 

Then Jesus told his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me." 

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