Acts: Christ, History's Fulfillment and Future

Well, it's good to see you all this morning. Welcome to but that's

I'm Pastor Jonathan for our visitors. It's good to have you with us.

And I'm just excited about what God has done this week at BBS and were

so blessed with our staff, with Pastor Devin and leading our children's ministry,

but also all our volunteers this week. You guys have been amazing and so

thank you. Let's give a hand for our children's ministry, our volunteers.

If you have your Bibles, if you'll turn with me to Acts Act Shepter

thirteen this morning, Act Sheptter thirteen and we'll jump in and verse sixteen in

just a minute. You know, history is really important. I don't know

if you've ever thought about that, but we really use history to evaluate the

value of things, or the credibility or something, or the trustworthy of something

or something. You think about our vehicle. If you buy a vehicle and

you whatever brand it may be, how good and reliable and the history of

how reliable that car is, what you trust in and whether I'm going to

buy that type of vehicle again because of your past experience of how good that

vehicle will we do that same thing with the relationships. Right, If we

have an individual, a friend, a family member of that family member is

consistently true to their word, if they keep their promises, or they're consistently

consistently present in your life, you see this individual as someone that you can

trust, someone you can rely on, someone you can depend upon. But

if that person does not it is not faithful in being with you, or

not faithful in the words that they've promises they've made made to you, you

feel like this person is not trustworthy or and so the history of that relationship

really you evaluate that and see whether I can trust this individual in the future.

I could think of a teenager one time that his grandmother. He was

living with his grandparents. His parents were separated, and his dad had a

trouble with alcohol and drugs. And the grandma called me one day and wanted

me to talk to the young man. The m man was really upset,

and I remember calling him and he wouldn't talk to anyone. To finally get

him on the phone, and he wouldn't talk to his grandmother would talk to

anyone. She finally gets him on the phone to talk with me, and

I remember his first words were to me that he did it again. And

what happened was that week his dad had custody of him that week, and

all week long, he'd got his bags ready, He's got his bag packed.

He was ready to go stay with his dad for a weekend. He

looked forward to it. And on that day where he was supposed to pick

him up on a Friday, his dad didn't show up. This was now

a Friday evening, about seven o'clock, eight o'clock that night, and he

found out his dad had been arrested again for alcohol abuse or drug abuse and

was incarcerated again. And for this young man, fourteen fifteen year old boy

who trusted in his dad in one of his presence of his father in his

life, for his dad continued to fall him. He felt like now he

was at a breaking point that he no longer saw his father's trustworths. You

know, as we come to this passage for Israel and Acts, chapter thirteen,

Paul was in the city of Antioch, Pasidia. He's on his first

missionary journey. And as he's made his way into a new area called Galatia.

If you ever read the Book of you read through the New Testament,

there's a book of the Bible called Galatians. The book of the Letter to

the Galatians is a letter to the region that Paul was at. Here,

he's in the city called Antioch Pasidia. It's not Antioch Syria. If you

remember, a few weeks ago, we looked at Antiox Syria. Antiox Syria

is in Syria and out Pasidia was a city in the region of Galatia,

and it faced another city called Pasidia, and he said, that's why they

named it Antioch Pacidia. Here Paul goes into this city, and he has

his common practice as we begin working through the Book of Acts. You see

when he goes into a city and he shares the gospel with this a city.

One of the first things he always does when he would go to a

synagod, and he would share the Gospel first with the Jews. So here

he makes his way into the synagod, and it's a church service, a

lot like this morning, and they're following out the kind of the order of

service, just like we have an order of service. And one of the

common practice in the Jewish in the God is that there was a visitor,

you would ask the visitor to stand and give a word of encouragement. They

invite Paul to share, and Paul steps up and shares, and he has

his sermon. This is the longest sermon and recorded by Paul in the Book

of Acts. Don't worry, I'm not going to preach it all today.

But as he begins his sermon, he recounts the history of God's faithfulness in

the history of Israel. And this is why Paul does this. It's very

important as we study this passive scripture. Paul understands when Israel looks upon the

pass and they look at the past and they see how God was faithful in

the past, that gave them credibility that God can be trusted in the future.

Hear me, It's very important. It's a huge part of this passage

for Paul. If God is faithful in history, then God can be trusted

with the future. What do you think about it? In your life?

What hope do you have for the future? If you think about it,

what is you stand today in twenty twenty four, what's your hope for twenty

twenty five? What's your hope for ten years from now? Twenty thirty four

is even hard to say, isn't it? What's your hope for ten years

from now? What's your hope for twenty years from now? Is it in

America? Is it in If your hope is in America, then it's really

important who's the next president? Right? If your hope is maybe in your

career. Maybe your hope is is if if I could just get this job

promotion, then things would be better for me and my family. If your

hope is in maybe a relationship. Maybe you're single and you're looking for mister

missus right or mister right, then you're putting a lot of hope in a

relationship. Maybe your hope is in your finances, maybe you'll be able to

pay off your house or some dead or maybe your student. Your hope is

in your athletics or your academics right, Or maybe your hope is in your

health. Right, if I could just stay healthy, you can continue to

be to eat healthy, be active in exercise. Then if I can do

this thing, then maybe I'll have a good ten years health wise, or

I have a good ten years in my career, or I have a good

ten years of my finances, or if I have a better life in the

next ten years, if my job would just get a little bit better.

If we put our hope in things of this life, even in America,

then our hope is in things of what we're trusting in this world. But

Paul doesn't want us, or want the Jews to put the hope in things

of this world. He wants them to put the hope of their future in

the Lord. And more importantly here, for Paul, the hope of Israel

was a savior. Here's one thing. Israel had gotten a lot of things

wrong, but one thing Israel had right. What Israel hoped for when Paul

was preaching the sermon and antioptaciity, the one thing that they longed for.

What their hope was for the next ten years, the next twenty years,

or next thirty years, next forty years. They hoped in a savior.

They believe what their only hope was for a country, for a people,

for an individual, for bigger than their careers or their finances or a relationship.

Their hope was in a coming savior. And in this passage of scripture,

Paul stands up and he gives a word of encouragement. And his words

of encouragement is a look past history, look at the history, and look

how history God had fulfilled his promises to his people, and as he reminds

them how God fulfilled his promises to Israel in the past, it gave them

credibility that the same God who was faithful to his promises in history will be

faithful to his promises for the future. Can I say to you today,

our hope cannot be in America. Our hope cannot be in our finances.

Our hope cannot be in our careers, in a relationship, and our money,

in our health. Our hope for the future is looking in the past

of our life, in our relationship with the Lord in the past, and

see how God has been faithful to his promises to us in our life and

the life of this church. And our hope for the future is the same

God who is faithful in the past to his promises, will be the same

Savior who is our hope for the future. So you stand with me unless

we read God's word together. It's Acts chapter thirteen and glor read sixteen through

twenty five, and I want you to see how in Paul's sermon he shows

how Christ is History's fulfillment in future. Let's look together, Let's read scripture

him. I need to get to the right place myself. Acts chapter thirteen,

and we'll start in verse sixteen. Listen what he says here and the

Bible says. And Paul stood up and motioned with his hand. He said,

men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen. The God

of this people, Israel, chose our fathers and made the people great during

their day in the land of Egypt, and with his uplifted arm he led

them out of it for about forty years. He put up with them in

the wilderness, and after destroying seven nations the land of Canaan, he gave

them their land as an inheritance. All this took about four hundred and fifty

years. And after that he gave them judges until Samuel the Prophet. Then

they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul, the son of

Kush, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. And

when and when he had removed him, he raced up David to be their

king, in whom he testified and said, I have found David, the

son of Jestine, man after my heart, who will do all of my

will. And of this man's offspring. God has brought to Israel a savior

Jesus. As he listened promised before his coming, John proclaimed a bad to

some of repentance to all the people of Visual And as John was finishing his

course, he says, what do you suppose that I am? I am

not he No, But behold after me one is coming the sandals of whose

feet I am not worthy to untie. Pray with me this morning. Lord.

We pray Lord, just this morning, that we would consider the history

a visual and your faithfulness to your promises. Lord, I pray that we

would consider a history of our life and how you've been faithful to your promises

to us. And God, I pray today as we look toward the future,

we will put our hope Lord into coming Savior Lord, not in things

of this world, not in our abilities, or our things, or the

material things of this world, or maybe the powers of this world. But

Lord, I hope would be in you a savior Lord today. So Lord,

help us lead us just as you led your people that day in Antiochtysidia.

Your Holy Spirit moved in that place. God, we pray your Holy

Spirit would move in this place today. God, I pray you give me

clarity of speech and clarity of thought, and Lord, that I would deliver

not my words but yours, Lord, and your name. We pray,

Amen, you may be seated. So this morning I want you to see,

as I mentioned, how Christ is history's fulfillment and future. First,

I want you to see Paul. He's again, he's going back, he

stands up, and you can imagine, and a sin of God as a

church service, as I mentioned, has a typical order of service, and

so did the Sin of God. And here Paul goes into that senate God

and they would start off by reading the Law. So that was a portion

of the tour, which is first five books of the Bible, and then

from there they would also read one of the prophets, and so they did

that, and then after that there would be just a word of exhortation,

maybe a little bit of explanation of what one of the passages says, and

then there would be a brief exposition or a word of encouragement. So that's

kind of what happens. Paul goes in and they're in the church service,

and he's just a visitor there. They traveled about one hundred miles from Purgate

to where they are they're in the the service and they see Paul there,

they know where that he's traveled for a long way to be there. And

just as a courtesy that he asked Paul to stand up. And Paul stands

up and he scripture says, he motions his hand and as Paul, as

you imagine, they've read the tour, what is the tour? The tour

is the history of the Israel. Right then, what else have they read?

They've read the prophets were the prophet's pointing to prophets are proclaiming a savior.

So with in line of what they've just read, Paul begins to start

out his message by describing the history, and he reminds them first when we

talk about looking at christ fulfillment of history, he records the history and how

history. First, history records God fulfilling his promises for a people. He

reminds them of the beginning. Listen, the history of your past, Israel.

The history of your past is God records how God has fulfilled his promise

to your people, you nation of visual God said you will be I will

you will be my people, and I will be God right, how old

before you? And then he describes how God had fulfilled his promises to his

people, how he had led them. Listen to the imagery of the passage

of Scripture, he says in verse sixteen. In seventeen, in verse seventeen,

he says, the God of this people, Israel, chose our father

and made the people great during their stay in Egypt. He said, listen,

God made a covenant with you. God chose you. And listened to

the imagery. The next part of this verse, he said, and with

an uplifted arm, he led them out. And he's recalling the Egyptian captivity.

You, if you remember your history of Old Testama, Egypt was in

captivity for four hundred years in Egypt. And he says, listen, while

you were in Egypt, God cared for you. God provided for you.

Then he uses the imagery that by God's hand, God led them out of

Egypt into the wilderness. So he's using this imagery that it wasn't man's hand,

It was not man's powers, not man's strength, it was not man's

ingenuity. No, it was God's hand about you, Israel, because he

loved you, because he made a promise to you, because you are his

people, that he took his hand, and he grabbed you, million of

you in Egypt, and he carried you out into the wilderness and eventually into

the Promised Land. So he's using this imagery of God's mighty hand. It's

not Moses' power, Israel's power. It was God's hand and Israel that led

them. He even uses another term, looking what happens. He said,

his uplifted army led them out, and for about forty years he put up

with them in the wilderness. It's interesting that he uses this idea with he

put up with it's the idea that to bore with. It's the idea of

putting up with someone's manners or their moods. You have someone just in your

family. They have little bad habits, right, or maybe their moody and

they have ups and downs. Hey, but you put up with those moods.

You put up with those bad habits. Why because you love them,

right, But sometimes that means you have to just kind of endure, right,

some bad habits or some bad moods. The imagery of this past of

scripture, he says, Israel, in your history, God by his mighty

hand, it wasn't your power. It was God's power. He led you

out and when you got into the wilderness and you whine and you complained and

you grumbled over God? Or why did you take us from Egypt and you

led us into the wilderness to die? When you grumbled and you had a

bad mood about what I was doing. Listen, I put up with you.

And why because I made a promise that you would be my people and

I would be your God. She thinking about I remember many many years ago,

I think I shared this with you before. I remember hurricane season starting

and I remember the probably the most rememorable hurricane for me was a hurricane when

I was a young man, and it was Hurricane Hugo. I think most

of you can some of you can remember Hurricane Hugo. But it devastated the

North Carolina coast. We lived outside of Charlotte, and so I mean it

did damage all the way up the coast, all the way to Charlotte,

just devastated. And I remember that night we are being at home and hearing

the story there was coming and we didn't really know what was going to happen.

And I remember that night when the hurricane came through. It not out

all the power, I mean everywhere we were out of power for weeks in

Charlotte, in the Charlotte area, and I'm sure probably here as well.

And I remember that night when the hurricane came through that I woke up and

we had an outside light, kind of a yard light outside my window,

and said always lived up my room. But that night, when it took

out the power, there was no light in the house. I remember,

I was just just terrified because you could hear the wind, and you can

hear the and you could hear the storm it took out. It was taking

out stuff. Stuff was just shaken. And I remember I called out to

my mom and dad, and I don't remember which one came in, but

one of them came in with the flashlight. And that night we all gathered

together and stayed in one room because of the storm. And you remember that

that night and that my life. I remember I fell back to sleep even

in the midst of the storm. As terrifying as that storm was, Why

was I at peace? Why was I okay because of the presence of my

family were there. And I believe, no matter how bad things got that

night, I was okay because my parents were there. Listen, God is

telling Israel Israel. You remember your past. You know, as bad as

it got in Egyptian captivity, I wasn't one that was there with you.

And you know in your times, where as bad as you're not only things

happen in your life. As bad as sometimes you have been, sometimes you've

been way the word stubborn, grumbled, disobey God. And even in your

bad moments, I was there. I've been faithful in the past to you

as a people, and in the future you can trust me because I'll be

there again. Can I tell you today, church family, that's not only

a promise for Israel, but if you're a child of God today. The

Bible says this in Matthew twenty eight eighteen, and Jesus came and said to

them, all authority in heaven and on earth that's been given to me,

go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of

the Father's Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them. Reserve all that commanded

you, and behold listen to this. I am with you always to the

end of the age. I want you to think about today in your life.

If you think about the past of your life, how have you seen

faithfully through your history of your life, that God has been faithful this promised

to you as a people, to you as a believer, that in your

tough moments, your moments of crisis, to the moments where you've just been

a something that He's had to endure, God has been with you. And

as you look to the future of your life, well, his faithfulness to

you and being with you as a people give you greater confidence in the future

that He can be trusted again. Want you see secondly, in this passage,

history records God fulfilling his promise for a people, but history records God

fulfilling his promises for land. You know in Deuteronomy Saven, God had told

Israel that he had a land for them. It was called the Promised Land.

And after you take them took them out of Egypt and led him into

the wilderness, he told them that there was a land for them. By

promised land, it was a land fill of milk and honey, and Deuteronomy

seven one says, when the Lord your God brings you into the land,

that you're entering to take possession of it clear away many nations before you,

the hit Tites, the Gerysites, the Emrites, the Canonite, the Parizites,

Parizites, Heites, and Jebusites. That's a lot of Heites, seven

nations, more and mightier than you. God says, I got a promise

land for you. There's a lot of armies ahead of you, but I've

got a place for you. And Joshua says in Joshua one thirteen, remember

the Lord, Remember the word that Moses is serving. The Lord commanded you,

saying, the Lord, your God is providing a place of rest and

will give you this land. Not only Paul does reminded them that God kept

his promises to his people. He reminds them that history records how God fulfilled

his promises to his people, but how history records that God fulfilled his promises

of a land. God told Israel, I have a land for you,

and I'm going to give you that land. God made a promise to them,

and God fulfilled that promise. And history records how God fulfilled that promise.

And listen to what Paul. He reminds them of this in verse eighteen.

He says, for about forty years he put up with them in the

wilderness, and after destroying the seven Nations, that was the nations I just

mentioned or just read about the Heights and Deuteronomy. After destroying seven nations in

the land of Cavenan, he gave them their land as an inheritance. Listen,

God promised you Israel that he had a promised land for you, and

God kept this promises. History shows us how God kept his promises to his

people. History records how God fulfilled his promises not only to his people,

but God fulfilled his promises to give you land. He said he would give

you a promised land. He said there'd be seven nations and that he would

wipe out to lead you into that land. And just as God promised it

God, History records how God fulfilled his promise to you. He delivered.

He defeated the seven nations and he gave you that promise land. Can I

tell you today, if you just thought about in your life, what are

the different ways when God makes a promise to you that God provides for his

people. Scripture says, and we just read it, right, God shall

upon all my needs according to his richest in Heaven. Right how many times

I mean just in the last few months. It's for us as a church.

If you've knew to beathe is. One of the things that we have

seen God do is in the last seven years just radically provide for the church

in ways that just are beyond what we could do. Just last October,

we had a dead We had a building on this property, We had dead

on its one hundred and eighty thousand dollars and we as a church needed to

It was becoming a strain on us as a church. And we came together

the church last year and said, hey, what are we going to do

with this piece of property. We need to get rid of the debt we

do. We need to sell the building and we need to pay it off.

And we as a church came together and said, yes, God,

we believe that you want us to pay it off. And for the last

over the last twelve months, we as a church raised and God provided,

And just a few months ago we celebrated in June. God provided for what

we needed and God paid off our debt. I love what one church member

says is you can't look at the last seven years but is and see that

any man could have done that. Only God could have done what He's done

in the last seven years. And after seeing how God's provided for his people.

How God provided for the place in which he gives us. That should

give us confidence that God will provide for us in the future. That's what

he's telling Israel. Israel, listen. History records of how God fulfilled his

promises to you as a people. History records how God fulfilled his promises for

you for a land. But history records of how God provided I promise to

you for a king. Scripture tells us that Israel as they became a nation,

and Israel in Canaan, they want all the other nations had kings,

and they wanted a king. They asked God for a king, and scripture

describes how God fulfilled his promise to give them a king. In verse twenty

one. Is this that asked for a king, and God gave them Saul

the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin for forty years.

And when we removed him, he raised him up David to be their

king, and whom he testified saying, I have found in David, the

son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, and who will do

my will. You ask for a king, and I gave you a king.

God fulfilled. History records how God fulfilled has promised you for land.

God history shows how God fulfill has promised you for as a people. God

history shows how God fulfilled his promise to you for a king. And then

lastly, here Paul takes the evidence. Listen to this how God and history

shows how God has kept his promises. Israel's hope was what, as I

told you at the very beginning, a savior. That was what the hope

was for their nation. That it was for their people, is that we

need the savior that you promised in scripture. They knew of all the promises

I just told you when they started out. They're reading that day. They

read from the Tour, which was the history of what God had done,

and they read from the prophets about the prophecies of a coming Messiah, a

coming savior. And listen to what Paul says, based upon the record of

God and how he has kept his promises in history, know that God has

kept his promise for a savior. And this is what he says. And

he's pointing to the Jews that the fulfillment of God's promise is Jesus. What

he says in verse twenty two. And when he removed him, he raised

up David to be their king, and whom he testified said, I found

David, the son of Jesse, and man after my own heart, who

will do all my will. Of this man's offspring, Prophecy would declare that

it was of the lineage of David that the Savior of the Messiah would come.

He says, of this man's offspring. God has promised to Israel a

savior Jesus as he has promised, says Israel. Listen, listen to people.

You see how God's been faithful in the past. He fulfilled his promise

to you as the people. He fulfilled his promise to you for a land.

He fulfilled his promise to give you a king. And now that history

and his faithfulness I want you to see. And this is huge. Listen,

this is very important for Israel. They believed in the sovereignty of God.

That means that God was in control of history. Right by God's hand.

He led them through Egypt in the four hundred years God's by God's hand,

he led them through the wilderness. By God's hand, his sovereign hand,

he gave them. It wasn't that it wasn't Israel who defeated the armies.

It was God who defeated the Seven nations that drove out the Canaanites.

It was always God orchestrating history, moving history, and history was always moving

forward to something. What and what was the culmination of history? The Savior

coming into the world. That's very important for you. They believed history was

moving forward and history is being fulfilled in God's promises, and it was moving

forward. And the culmination of history was Jesus coming. Let me say it

this way for the Jews, the Savior coming, Paul says to the Jews,

Listen, God has fulfilled history, and the future is Jesus. He

is the Savior. He's the one you've been looking for. He's the fulfillment

of history. He's the future of history. It is this savior you've been

looking for. And his name is Jesus. Why is this important for you

and I? You would say to you and I what pastor you would say,

I understand this. I believe in Jesus and I understand that he is

the Messiah. So why is this important to me? How is this?

How is this applied to me? I would say to you and I,

how this applies to you? And I? Is today We live in a

world that says the history doesn't have any points, there's no point in him.

We live in a world that says there's no really point in the future.

There's really nothing to live for. The only thing to live for is

what things you can get in this world. Whether it's your job, your

career, your health, or your money or whatever. It may be.

A relationship lived for those things today, Can I tell you that Paul was

very clear that the future of this world for Israel hope lied in a savior.

Can I say today we have gotten distracted by our world by thinking that

we should put our hope in things of this world. Can I tell you

listen to it is very important the future for you and I. The hope

for you and I is the same hope that was for the Jews. Our

hope is in listen, a coming savior in history today from twenty twenty four

to the rest, just as God was sovereignly orchestrating and moving history. It

may see the president is in charge of America. It may seem like there's

other people who are in power of other countries. But can I tell you

our God is the one who orchestrates history Our God is the one who moves

the hand of this world. Our God is the one Scripture says, rises

up kings and brings them down. And our God is moving forward to history.

And what is he moving toward when Jesus returns again, Listen to what

says what Scripture says John fourteen, Listen to this lo I go to prepare

a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place to you,

listen what says I'll read verse one. Yeah, you can go back

to one. I'm sorry, I'm getting ahead of myself. Let not your

hearts be troubled. Think about that. This world, well, we get

troubled for we get in trouble when our four one K doesn't do what it's

supposed to do. We get troubled when our relationships go bad. We get

trouble when we don't we get laid off, or we don't have that job.

We get in trouble when our dad's continue to continue them out. We

get in trouble when our health goes bad. And we get in trouble because

we put our hope in these things. And Jesus says, listen, don't

let your hearts be trouble when you lose your job. Don't let your hearts

be trouble when your finances go away or go in trouble. Don't let your

hearts get trouble when your health goes bad. Don't let your hearts get trouble.

When that boy or that girl breaks up with you. Don't let your

hearts be trouble. What believe in God, believe also in me. In

my father's house there are many rooms. If I were not told I've gone,

I'm getting so excited and breathing too fast. I would have told you

that I'd go to prepare place for you. And if I go to prepare

place for you, I will come again and take you to myself. Listen

to this that where I am you who will be also our hope today.

Listen. Our hope today is not in our health or not in a relationship.

Our hope today is that God has been faithful in the past. He's

been faithful, that he's been present with us, He's been faithful, that

he's provided for our needs. He's been faithful. That he is the King

of kings and the Lord of lords. And listen, he is faithful and

his promises that he was the Savior that was born in Bethlehem, and that

based upon how he's been faithful and and history has recorded his faithfulness and his

promises, we can have confidence today that future is moving forward, that he

will come again, and he'll come in for you, that he might bring

you to him, and that you might be with him. Ask you today,

what's your hope in? Is it in a coming Savior? Is your

life moving toward Lord? I really don't want the things of this life.

I really want the things of you, God, your kingdom, your reign,

and me. I heard of a man. He was a he's a

pilot in nineteen sixty five. He was one of the first American pilots that

was shot down during Vietnam. He was called or was a prisoner of war,

and he spent seven years as a pow and they tortured him and tried

to get him to denounce his involvement in the war for the US. They

changed him for days. At times, they would change his hands above his

head and so he couldn't even try to swap the mosquitoes off of him.

He got to a place where it even damaged. They broke his legs repeatedly,

and they would never reset his legs, so today he still walks with

a limp. Said one of the worst things that they ever did to him

was they were separate him from all the other POWs, all the other Americans,

and for years he would only see the guards and those who would torture

him. They asked him one day, what kept him alive? This is

what he said, He said, Hope. Hope is what kept me alive.

Hope from one day going home, and each day could be the day

of his release. He says, Without hope, he knew that he would

die hopeless as others had done. Is hope what kept him alive. I

will ask you today, what is your hope in He knew in this passage,

in this story that if you didn't have hope for a future, there

was nothing to live for today. If you don't know Jesus Christ, you

don't know God's presence. Why because you've never into dream a relationship with Him,

So you don't know his presence when the problems come in your life,

when the storms come in your life, you don't know the presence of God.

You don't know the provisions of God to provide for you in the times

of christis of the times of need. Why because you've never surrend of your

life to Jesus. You don't know the King of Jesus. All you know

and all you can trust in is the powers of this world. And today,

the reality is you don't know the Savior came and died for you,

the one that history finds it's fulfillment in and future in. Today. Can

I tell you what hope do you have? Some of you've never seen Jesus

Christ. You don't have hope. I say today just says on that day

Paul was declaring, Listen, your hope for the future is in Jesus,

is in the Savior that came and lived and died for your sins. I'll

ask you today, do you have your hope in Jesus today? If not,

would today be the day you say, Lord, Today, I want

to put my hope in my future, not in me, in you Jesus

today. Would pray with me, Lord, we love you, We thank

you Lord for your word. I pray that Lord, or we would about

what we've placed our hope in God. I pray we would consider how history

records your faithfulness to your promises and God. That would give us confidence,

Lord, that Lord, we can't trust you. We can put our hope

in you. Lord, we can put our hope in you, a savior

who was born for us. So, Lord, I pray for those who

never received you today, but I pray there'd be those who put their hope

in you for the first time today. I pray they'd be those today who

are believers, but you know they're just recently. They've gotten their hopes set

on things of this world, maybe their jobs or this country, or a

relationship or their abilities, and they've been discouraged, defeated. Today, I

pray they'd be those that say, Lord, I don't want to put my

hope into anything else to sip you. Lord, help me to set mind

hope in you today, or however you lead us to day, I pray

we would respond, Lord, according to your word. Day. And how

have you spoken to us? In your name? We pray Jesus paid it

all and all to fish