JESUS CHRIST IS THE HOPE FOR THE HOPELESS

Sunday Morning Sermon 30/08/2020

By Pastor BD. Kowarson.

First of All Praise the Lord

In this contemporary world many believers are hopeless mentally when one consider about himself/herself. But there is hope for every type of people that has been designed by God.  These Sunday morning in my short sermon i want to draw Devotional Though from the Dead Sea. The Dead Sea is so salty that it contains no flora and fauna. What accounts for this unusual condition? There are absolutely no outlets! A great volume of water pours into this area, but nothing flows out. Many inlets plus no outlets equal a dead sea.  Piles of driftwood, bleached white like old bones, surround the shoreline. If bodies of water could be ghost towns, the Dead Sea would top the list. It’s the lowest place on earth; it’s the hottest spot in Israel. With a name like the “Dead Sea,” it might expect a disappointing for the tourists.  

Devotional Thought on the Dead Sea

The Dead Sea has had many names throughout history. The Scriptures refer to it as the “Salt Sea” (Numbers 34:3), the “Sea” (Ezekiel 47:8), and the “Eastern Sea” (Joel 2:20). Other designations in history include the “Sea of Asphalt,” the “Stinking Sea, and the “Devil’s Sea.”

It may seem hard to believe, but the region used to be a well-watered area as lush and attractive as the Garden of Eden. But God’s judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah changed the area’s fertility to a desolate expanse that represented judgment on sin (Genesis 13:10; Deuteronomy 29:23; Jeremiah 17:6). The evaporation hovering over the Dead Sea gives a constant haze over its surface. It reminds us of the furnace-like smoke that rose from the valley after the destruction of Sodom (Genesis 19:28).

Today, the Dead Sea represents the remnants of God’s judgment on sin. But one day, Scripture promises, the Dead Sea will live again. When Jesus rules the earth in the Millennial Kingdom, water will flow from Jerusalem’s Temple Mount and fishermen will line the banks of the Dead Sea (Ezekiel 47:8-11; Zechariah 14:8). There is hope one day Flora and fauna will be found in the Dead Sea as the Lord Jesus Christ will heal the world from the cures.

This law of nature may also be applied to the child of God, and it explains why many believers are so unfruitful and lacking in spiritual vitality. It’s possible for some people to attend the conferences, listen to the Preaching from the media ministry, reading the Scriptures, and yet seem lifeless and unproductive in their Christian lives. Such individuals may be like the Dead Sea. They have several “inlets” but no “outlets.” Here is the healing to be vibrant and useful believers, we must not only “take in” all we can, but we must also “give out” in service to others for God. There will be healing from the cures, even there is hope for the Dead Sea to be healed by God, so there is also hope for everyone  in Jesus Christ, as He dead to give hope and healing to the hopeless in this world. 

God Bless Us All