THE BEAUTIFUL HOPE

THE BEAUTIFUL HOPE

By Heine Ruth Chyntia

I would like to say Happy Sabbath to all the teachers and my beloved friends.

On this beautiful evening, I am really happy to get the chance to stand in this pulpit and spread the words of God.

I’m going to start my sermon with a short illustration

There was a woman who was very happy because she was pregnant for her 2^nd child.  This woman always did the best so her child could be delivered safely and healthy.  But, something weird happened to her.  Her lovely child couldn’t be born.  Otherwise, the sign to give birth had appeared.  The woman started to feel worry.  There were many times the process of delivery cancelled.  Because of that, the doctors felt disappointed in waiting for the delivery day

One day, the woman felt something happened to her.  She knew that it was the sign to give birth.  She soon told to her husband to call doctor.  Unluckily, none of the doctors who came to help her because many times they came, but there weren’t any results.  The doctors felt tricked.

Finally, the woman had to give birth by herself without any helps from the doctors.  She was only helped by and old midwife.

She screamed to hold the pain.  But, she never gave up.  She had only one hope that was her baby.  Even though, it could make herself in danger.

She was tired and couldn’t able to survive.  The woman surrendered everything to God then.  Suddenly, there was a miracle happened.  She felt like someone touched her belly with three fingers near her heart.  And at that time, without felt any pain, suffering, and misery, her baby was born

HOPE

The woman’s hope pushed her not to give up.  The woman didn’t forget to give her hope to God.  Because only God is the one who could help her.  Hope is very important in our lives.  So, this time the title of my sermon is “THE BEAUTIFUL HOPE”

A.      What is hope?

 This supposed to be the 1^st questions before we discuss more about hope. 

According to the Bible, Paul said in Roman 8: 24-25

(I hope all of you can open your Bible and read together)

Hope is something that happens yet, but we are sure that it will happen.

 We believe something that doesn’t exist. 

We believe something that we don’t see before.

The same as the woman, she never saw her baby, but she had hope that her baby surely be born safely. 

Is that right?  If she wasn’t sure, she wouldn’t call the doctors many times.  It is Hope.

Peter is the other example from Hope about uncertain things.

All of us surely know about Peter

Peter had a big hope.

 What was his hope? 

His hope was he could walk on the water with Jesus. 

We can read in Matthew 14:29

Peter never walked on the water before.  But, he had a big hope. He succed to change his fearness become hopeness. He trusted and believed that the one whom he saw was Jesus.  So, he could walk on the water with Him.

Hope is not a dream.  Peter didn’t dream to walk on the water, but he hoped to walk with Jesus.  Hope can push someone who is brave to do something impossible.  Hope of Peter pushed him so he was brave and finally, he did.

B.     Who does need the hope?

Every human in the earth needs hope.

Why?  EGW .stated that in her book ‘’the Desire of ages ‘’page 26 the eart in the place wher sin abounded wher the devil claims as belonging to to him

Because we are in the world that full of evil and sin.  And the wage of sin is death Do you want to die ? of course I do not want, si if we don’t want we need  hope

So we need hope.  Only with hope, we can be saved. Roman 8:24-25

We can apart from death   (Roman 33:18 – 19)

C.    How with those who don’t have hope?

Without hope, there is no salvation

Without salvation, there is no destruction

Those who don’t have hope are going to destruct

D.     When and where do we have to have hope?

In everywhere and every time we have to have hope ,HOW ? we must to see the lord, like a song that we often sing every Friday morning in chapel,’’its time to see the lord’’                  

Because only by looking at the lord, the hope of salvation into our part…………..

·          hope is our anchor.  Without anchors, a ship will never survive

In Hebrew 6:19-20 stated that…

We will never know what will happen tomorrow, 2 days later, next week, or next month.  But, with hope, we still have the right standard

-           We get the glory

-           Freed from sin

-           Included in the freedom of the glory of God’s children

Roman 8:18-21

E.       To whom do we must hope for ur bright future?

Peter had a big hope, and from his hope he could walk on the water (Matthew 14:28)

However, the environmental influences can still destabilize us.  Peter’s hope was destabilizing him, so his faith in Jesus was reduce.  And when he lost his faith, he drowned.  (Matthew 14:30)

But the hope of creating a belief, when Peter was sinking into the water, he returned hoped, He hope again,(not for other but to God) “God help me” and his belief soon focus again to God (Roman 8:24).      Hope is the source of salvation (Matthew 14:31)

Jesus was reaching His hand to Peter and Peter saved by his hope.

Ellen G. White – the Great Controversy

Jesus Christ always gives His hand to help us.  Now, depends on us whether we want to call upn His name in the hope of faith

F.     Why do we have to have hope to God?
                     God is the source of salvation (Acts 4:12)
                     Only God can help us, because He is our creator.  He has the power of our lives.
                     
                     God is the source of hope (Roman 15:13)
                     Jesus is our source of hope, because only God is the source of salvation.  It’s impossible to put our hope to someone who cannot save and protect us

CONCLUSION

Before we arrived at the conclusion

The conclusions tonight are:

-           1. All the human being have fallen into sin and the wage of sin is death.  Therefore, we need hope because the true hope is the only one of the source of salvation

-           2 .True hope is hope to Jesus Christ, because only God is the source of hope (Roman 15:13)      and source of salvation (Acts 4:12)

-           3. Do not be afraid to have hope in God he is always near with us, he always watch and keep his people

-           Ellen G. White “the Great Controversy”, p. 108 __________ God is always be with us, he always watch us, and always ready to help us when we ask His help

-           Ellen G. White “_____________________________” Hope of Jesus will not be wasteful.  There will be eternal live waiting for us if we can survive in the true hope of Jesus.

I hope in this sermon ,all of us have hope in God and we can get closer , to God ,who is the sourse of salvation and hope

This is my sermon, may GBus

By, Heine Ruth Chyntia Oroh, 12 IPA

SLAPUR  2015