Now it is time to you aligned yourself in Jesus, time to straight up your ways to be in God’s ways, to get out of the wrong doing. It is time of true conversion. Time to learn that Jesus is our only HOPE.
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God our Savior, and of Christ Jesus, who is our hope;
Colossians 1: 27 to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
This morning the title of my message is Jesus Christ our hope and I would like to show you some aspects of our hope in Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ the only hope of Salvation for sinners.
Following his release from his first imprisonment, Paul visited some of the churches which he had ministered before. During the journey, he left his disciple Timothy in Ephesus to deal with some problems in the church while he departed for Macedonia. Apparently in Ephesus, false teachings had crept into the Ephesian Church and are robbing the believers of their hope of salvation. These false teachers were teaching that observance of the laws is a necessary means of salvation. 1 Timothy 1:7 They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not know what they are talking about or what they so confidently affirm.
Paul firmed to them that.1 Timothy 1:15 The sole purpose of Christ coming into the world was to save sinners of whom I am the worst.
If Christ can save a sinner like Paul, he could save anyone
Paul considered himself as the worst of all sinners. He said in 1Tim 1:15, of whom I am the worst. Paul was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor of the church. He witnessed the stoning of Stephen. Such was his reputation that the church in the beginning did not believe that Paul was truly converted.
Jesus is the only hope of a transformed life in times like this of chaos. When a person accepts Christ, Jesus Christ the King of glory enter into the heart of the believer. As the believer yield to the Kingship of Christ, he becomes transformed and grows from glory to glory, becoming more and more like Christ.
Transformation comes from the work of Christ within our heart and not through our own strength.
The word “Glory” comes from the Greek word Doxa which means:
“the glorious condition of blessedness into which is appointed and promised that true Christians shall enter after their Savior’s return from heaven”
In Colossians 1:5 Paul said that there is a hope laid out for us in heaven.
In heaven, we will receive a new glorified body, we will be made perfect without a struggle with sins, no more pain, no more hurts, no more tears.
No more poverty, not more wars, no more injustice. We will receive our heavenly inheritance and live in the glorious presence of God.
Understanding this HOPE, keep our future hope of glory always before us is of great importance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxmVPdo2aq4&feature=youtu.be
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