Sermon Outline

Title: Only Jesus Offers Hope

Speaker: Pastor Paul Chappell

Bible Reference: John 14:1-6

Introduction

1. There Is Hope in a                    

John 14:1
1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

A. Because of His Divine Nature

John 1:14
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Colossians 2:9
9 For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.

B.  Because of His Redemptive Work   

Romans 5:8
8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Colossians 1:14
14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

Matthew 9:2
2 And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.

John 15:13
13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Galatians 4:4-5
4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his
5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

2. There Is Hope in a                        

John 14:2
2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

A. Heaven Is a Place

2 Corinthians 5:8
8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

B.  Heaven Is a Prepared Place

1 Peter 1:3-5
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Revelation 21:4
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and

2 Corinthians 5:1
1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

1 John 3:1-2
1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

3.  There Is Hope in a                          

John 14:3-4
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.

A. Promise of His Resurrection

John 11:25
25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

B. Promise of Eternal Life

1 John 5:11-13
11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

C. Promise of Our Resurrection

1 Corinthians 15:50-54, 57
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-14
13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

Conclusion

John 14:6
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.