Our Hope - The Most REAL Thing in the Universe!

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Hope is NOT what you feel when your favorite quarterback rears backs and slings a pass into the end zone as time expires during the play offs.

Hope is NOT a wish. It is not what you do jumping up and down with your fingers crossed and eyes closed.

Hope IS the very real expectation of an un-seen guarantee of eternal life with God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit forever and ever AMEN!

"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..."

This sermon was preached on Lord's Day evening, 21 January 2018 at the Archdale church of Christ, 2525 Archdale Drive, Charlotte, NC 28210.  Your speaker is Russ McCullough.  You and yours are always invited!

The Way of Zebah and Zalmunna

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It's called a number of things.  Pragmatism.  Outcome based thinking.  Visualization.  Positive thinking.  Self improvement.  Self actualization.

Pick your own title.  They are all the same.  We are told that we can "become what we imagine."  Really?!  Can we?  Can we make our own success by these methods?  Sadly, no.

Long ago, a 15,000 man army "imagined" that they could retreat, relocate, and relax having escaped from the Lord of Hosts and the 300 man army of Gideon.  Their two "positive thinking" commanders were named Zebah and Zalmunna.  The Bible says in Judges 8.11 that this army "felt secure."  Feelings lie.  Far from secure, this army that retreated from the Lord of Hosts, relocated to a valley of perceived security, and finally relaxed in a false hope...instead were soon destroyed as a fighting force.  Their two leaders were slain by Gideon himself.

And so it is today.  Unless we surrender to Jesus Christ, we too, will be surrounded and destroyed.  To retreat from our sin, relocate to a new place of perceived security, and relax in a false hope will gain us nothing and cost us everything.

This sermon was preached by Russ McCullough at the Archdale church of Christ, 2525 Archdale Drive, Charlotte, NC 28210 at the 10 a.m. morning worship service on Lord's Day morning, 21 January 2018.  Feel free to use this material as you choose.