Is lasting hope possible?? City Church with Fred Harrell

Is there anything you're saying "NO" to simply because you are a Christian??

Hope is the heart reaching for a cure
Unless God begins to save us, we have no hope
IS your hope robust enough to handle this life?
What do you do when your struggles are deep and profound,
despairing, deep suffering?
The ultimate foundation of your hope must withstand this suffering/difficulty
Profound, resilient hope

She wasn't perfect
She was a mess like all of us
But she was never hopeless

The thing you MUST have of else you die is HOPE
(even self-destruct in the giving up)
When it's all taken away, your line of O2 is resilient, transcendent hope!

I will act on it and seek to make it take place
stabilizes and enables you

Lasting hope that is radical-- war itself eliminated see Isaiah 2:1-5

The only hope we have is if God agrees to save us
He WILL intervene-- the day is coming

Realized partially yet substantially. Jesus will draw all to himself. it's happening in the here and now as people come to know the Lord

Must be embodied- you must take it up and live it now b/c you believe in this happening.
We walk in light of an entirely new future and vision
"I form the intention"
Your SETTLED INTENT (not your perfect practice)
He's looking for followers

And like GPS when we do screw up and go our own way, he says
"recalculating route... make a U-turn"
(not "you idiot, you didn't listen to me, you big moron!")
That is GRACE