Where's Your Hope?

Romans 3:9-20

We’re growing in our faith and becoming more like Christ. But up until we've accepted Christ, we're guilty of all of our wrongs and we're guilty of where we fallen short. That’s where the Law comes in - the Law points out our sins. Now, can the Law set us free? No. The law does not bring freedom. The law can bring conviction but it's Christ that sets us free. Nothing else but Christ.

1 John 3 says you've have been given a new name. Once you're accepted Christ and you're filled with the Holy Spirit you are now called a child of God. It doesn't matter
what you've done. It doesn't matter the roads that you've walked down. It doesn't matter where you've been. It doesn't matter what titles the world has given you. lf you've
accepted Christ, you are forgiven and you are set free. And you have new life — this is the Gospel that yet while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. So that we can come into relationship with the father.

You don't have to put your ladder against things that fall and shake. You can put your ladder on the right wall.

You can place your hope in the one that is eternal. You can put your hope in the one that does not fall. Watch where you put your hope.

Romans 8:20-21

We're born with the flesh and your natural tendency is to sin. That’s kind of our default. That's where we go initially in life. But it doesn't have to stay that way. There’s freedom.

This passage is saying we’ve been frustrated since the Garden of Eden. Genesis chapter two and three and so forth and so on where the
initial sin, the original sin, we come from that line of Adam and Eve and because we come from that line it's natural for us to sin.

Romans 8:31-39

It is God who justifies. Not our work, not the law, but it is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one! Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble, or hardships, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?