Title: Hope Egg (3 of 4)
Series: Easter Eggs
Author: Steve Jones
Text: Philippians 3:10-12
SERMON SUMMARY: The hope of future resurrection IS:
1) HOPE OF CERTAINTY
2) HOPE OF ASSUAGED FOMO.
3) HOPE OF SELF-DETERMINATION
INTRODUCTION: In the 1940s, Flagstaff, Maine, was an active logging town. The tiny town's 300 residents enjoyed living in the picturesque valley. However, shortly after World War II, the state government notified the town of its plans to build a hydroelectric dam downriver from Flagstaff. Unfortunately, that meant the town was destined to be flooded, making it a ghost town under 50 feet of water. Dr. Halford Luccock, Professor of homiletics at Yale University, commented on the sense of futility Flagstaff's residents experienced once they learned it was destined for extinction. He said the effect on that little town was demoralizing. Everything suddenly came to a standstill. All construction stopped, and all repairs and improvements ceased. What was the use of painting a house if, in a few years, it would be under water? Why bother to fill in potholes if the whole village was going to be wiped out anyway?
The town quickly decayed. Month by month, the whole village became run-down and ghostly. Ultimately, they could do nothing about it but prepare to move out. The river that was dammed up was appropriately named "Dead River" because hope had died in Flagstaff.
Dr. Luccock made this memorable application. "Where there is no faith in the future, there is no power in the present." Solomon put it more simply, "Where there is no vision, the people perish" (Proverbs 29:18).
What is there about the resurrection of Jesus that gives us hope?
I. HOPE THAT FUTURE RESURRECTION WILLCERTAINLY HAPPEN TO US
John 5:28-29 "The time is coming when all the dead in their graves will hear the voice of God's Son, and they will rise again."
?The resurrection is going to happen to each one of us. That makes it relevant. There are many l ...
Series: Easter Eggs
Author: Steve Jones
Text: Philippians 3:10-12
SERMON SUMMARY: The hope of future resurrection IS:
1) HOPE OF CERTAINTY
2) HOPE OF ASSUAGED FOMO.
3) HOPE OF SELF-DETERMINATION
INTRODUCTION: In the 1940s, Flagstaff, Maine, was an active logging town. The tiny town's 300 residents enjoyed living in the picturesque valley. However, shortly after World War II, the state government notified the town of its plans to build a hydroelectric dam downriver from Flagstaff. Unfortunately, that meant the town was destined to be flooded, making it a ghost town under 50 feet of water. Dr. Halford Luccock, Professor of homiletics at Yale University, commented on the sense of futility Flagstaff's residents experienced once they learned it was destined for extinction. He said the effect on that little town was demoralizing. Everything suddenly came to a standstill. All construction stopped, and all repairs and improvements ceased. What was the use of painting a house if, in a few years, it would be under water? Why bother to fill in potholes if the whole village was going to be wiped out anyway?
The town quickly decayed. Month by month, the whole village became run-down and ghostly. Ultimately, they could do nothing about it but prepare to move out. The river that was dammed up was appropriately named "Dead River" because hope had died in Flagstaff.
Dr. Luccock made this memorable application. "Where there is no faith in the future, there is no power in the present." Solomon put it more simply, "Where there is no vision, the people perish" (Proverbs 29:18).
What is there about the resurrection of Jesus that gives us hope?
I. HOPE THAT FUTURE RESURRECTION WILLCERTAINLY HAPPEN TO US
John 5:28-29 "The time is coming when all the dead in their graves will hear the voice of God's Son, and they will rise again."
?The resurrection is going to happen to each one of us. That makes it relevant. There are many l ...
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