Follow Christ in Community

Paul Trulock - 7/7/2024

Key Passages: Hebrews 13:7-9, 17, 24

Remember your past leaders

- Hebrews 13:7

- Remember those who led you in the past. Those who pointed you to Christ.

- Continue to learn from what they taught you

- Imitate their faith

- We gain perspective by looking back.

Be steadfast in following Christ

- There is only one who can lead us perfectly.

- Hebrews 13:8

- We have a propensity to either be overly enamored or overly critical of our leaders.

- All human leaders are imperfect… but not Christ

- Joshua 1:7-8

- Hebrews 13:9

- Don’t be distracted by the next new shiny thing.

Submit to your present leaders

- Hebrews 13:17

- Not blindly following

- Our leaders will be held accountable

How?

- Hebrews 13:24

- Be committed to a local church

- In community

- Serving

- 1 Thessalonians 5:12-13

- Be at peace among yourselves and with your leaders.

The Impact of Hope

12/5/2021 - Dave Riddle

Psalm 42:11 - why are you overcome with despair? Hope in God!

We are the people of Hope.
- Surrounded by despair, but not living in despair.

How is it that we can be legitimately hopeful?

God is.

He exists
Jeremiah 10
- The worthlessness of idols compared to a true God. (10:10)
  - Jeremiah 10:16

God is here.

Matthew 1:23 - God is with us.
Hebrews 1:3a - Jesus is God in the flesh
- Philippians 2:5-7

God is love.

1 John 4:8-9 - God is love.
John 3:16-17 - How much God loves us.
Titus 3:4-7 - what it means for us.

God is Salvation.

Roman 8:38-39 - there is nothing that can separate us from the love of God.
Hebrews 1:3 - God the Savior

God is King.

1 Thessalonians 4:13 - don’t live as those who have no hope
- Ephesians 2:12 - We were… without Christ, without God, without hope. No longer!
1 Timothy 6:13-15 - Celebrating his first coming while awaiting his second coming!
- God will make all things new!
Hebrews 10:23 - hold tightly, without wavering, to the hope we affirm…

How can we embrace hope today?

Receive this truth in faith

1 Peter 5:7

Reflect on how God is providing hope in your life

Psalm 9:1

Encourage another Jesus-follower you’ve seen exhibiting hope.

1 Thessalonians 5:11

Share hope with someone in your missional context.

1 Peter 3:15