WHERE IS YOUR HOPE?

WHERE IS YOUR HOPE?

A sermon preached on the Easter Sunday, 21^st April, 2019 by Rev. Fortune Nwaiwu

Can the dead live again? If so, this would give me hope through all my years of struggle, and I would eagerly await the release of death”− Job 14:14 NLT.

I preach from the angle of the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ who was crucified. We see that there were many people in those days that had committed crimes and were supposed to die based on the Law of Moses (i.e. the man that committed adultery with the woman that was brought to Jesus that he saved) but no one sentenced them to death. But why is it that our Lord Jesus Christ, an innocent soul was crucified? He came to show us the way, to save us from the power of sin. In order to fulfill the scriptures, he was destined to die for us all, but his people did not know him. Out of hatred, he was killed− he was oppressed and treated harshly, and yet he did not say a word. He remained silent before his foes. But what sustained him even onto his death is his hope in God for resurrection.

In the days of his anguish occasioned by his terrible disease, Job became despondent and imagined how he would vanish from this earth. He thought that the end result of his sickness is death. He asked: ‘Can the dead live again?’ It was a question he asked to himself though it might be taken as a rhetorical question bulging with intense sorrow. But this question later became an anchor of his hope in God. Hear him: ‘If so, this would give me hope through all my years of struggle, and I would eagerly await the release of death’− Job 14:14

Hope is a confidence and a form of expectation someone has. And such an expectation is what brings courage to someone. Job’s expectation is that he would rise again. As Christians, there is only one thing that keeps us moving ahead, enduring many things here on earth which is hope. We hope that even if we die, we will live again. Therefore let your hope be in Christ. In him, he will remove the cloud of gloom, the shadow of death that hangs over the earth. He will swallow up death forever! The Sovereign LORD will wipe away all tears. He will remove forever all insults and mockery against his land and people says the LORD (Isa. 25:7-8 NLT).

Death is the worst instrument of Satan that he uses to terrorize the whole earth. Many fear to die but Christ was humble even unto his death. Soldiers guarded his tomb with the aim of stopping his resurrection, but could not because no one can ever stop whatever God has designed to be. If you are here with no hope of resurrection, you are not for Christ. Do the right thing you ought to do at the right time and hope in him, then everything about you that have fallen will rise again, your business will rise, your family will rise, and you will rise beyond human destruction.

What is that that has fallen in your life? Is there any part of your body that is dead? Or have you lost some beloved ones? Or are you hopeless right now because of injurious things of nature or circumstances? Hear our God speaking to you right now: … 'I am ready to set things right, not in the distant future, but right now!' (Isa. 46:13). Can you meditate on this verse? Whatever that is giving you a false hope God has come to right it, to give you hope of survival, prosperity and eternal life. 

Let’s sing and meditate on this hymn, S.S &S 902

My hope is built on nothing less

Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness;

I dare not trust the sweetest frame,

But wholly lean on Jesus’ name.

On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;

All other ground is sinking sand,

All other ground is sinking sand.

May God bless you all, sanctify you and give your soul a living hope. Amen.

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