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Series Review
How many of you would consider yourselves an optimist?
How many of you would consider yourselves a realist?
I heard a preacher say that optimist is the person who invented the airplane and the realist is the person who invented the parachute.
The optimist says “Life is a bowl of cherries,” and the realist says, “there are pits in those cherries.”
There is a fine line between realism and cynicism.
Realism means looking at things as they are, not just as they want them to be.
That’s good.
Cynicism means looking at things as they are and believing that they won’t get any better.
It’s Superbowl time, so I thought I would use a football analogy for cynicism.
I heard a preacher say that optimist is the person who invented the airplane and the realist is the person who invented the parachute.
The optimist says “Life is a bowl of cherries,” and the realist says, “there are pits in those cherries.”
Hope makes a difference in the way we live.
If you have no hope of example of Hope, why we lack, why we need, the difference it makes...
example of Hope, why we lack, why we need, the difference it makes...
Hope in suffering, providence and petition
It’s Superbowl time, so I thought I would start off with a football analogy.
There are usually 2 fanbases that are really excited about next Sunday’s game.
The rest find the game mildly entertaining, but love the commercials and the half time show.
But you have those fans that have lost hope in their home team.
If you follow football, I’m talking about the Cleveland Browns.
Aside from the unfortunate name, they have been unfortunate enough to lose every game this year.
They are perennial losers.
And their fan base is cynical: they have no hope that their team will ever make the playoffs, much less the Superbowl.
They lack motivation to buy tickets, cheer for the team.
Players dread being drafted by the team or traded to them.
It’s called a graveyard for player’s careers.
Hope makes such a huge difference.
There are usually 2 fanbases that are really excited about next Sunday’s game.
The rest find the game mildly entertaining, but love the commercials and the half time show.
But you have those fans that have lost hope in their home team.
If you follow football, I’m talking about the Cleveland Browns, who lost every game this year.
They are perennial losers.
And their fan base is cynical: they have no hope that their team will ever make the playoffs, much less the Superbowl.
They lack motivation to buy tickets, they local media openly mocks the organization.
Players dread being drafted by the team or traded to them.
It’s called a graveyard for player’s careers.
They have no hope things will improve, so they have settled for cynicism.
Hope makes a huge difference.
Sermon Introduction
We’ve talked about the hope we can have during our suffering.
We’ve talked about the hope we have in watching God provide for our needs.
Last week we talked about the hope we can have while we are asking, and how we can have hope even before the prayer request is answered.
Today is about long term hope: future hope.
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and by long term I mean long term on a cosmic, historical scale.
In his book Man’s Search for Meaning, Victor Frankl argued that the “loss of hope and courage can have a deadly effect on man.”
As a result of his experiences in a Nazi concentration camp, Frankl contended that when a man no longer possesses a motive for living, no future to look toward, he curls up in a corner and dies.
“Any attempt to restore a man’s inner strength in camp,” he wrote, “had first to succeed in showing him some future goal.”
the difference between getting the light bill paid and getting your finances in order and setting financial goals
There is a difference between catching up on the bills and getting your finances in order and setting financial goals.
There is a difference between resolving a specific conflict with your spouse and learning to communicate effectively and plan a life together.
It’s easier to have hope for short term victories than it is to have
Some years ago a hydroelectric dam was to be built across a valley in New England.
The people in a small town in the valley were to be relocated because the town itself would be submerged when the dam was finished.
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