• Hebrews 6:13-20 NIV 

Hope can be a distant reality, but it can also be a present truth empowering you to live your life.

Prov. 13:12 NIV Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.

Giving hope to someone can restore life to them.

One hope that I think everyone has: hope for eternal life.

Thought: There are many reasons Jesus came to this earth.

• To reveal God’s love
• To offer us immortality – eternal life

But in order to be our hope for eternal life, Jesus had to live a life of hope.

Two lives are changed because of hope – faith that Jesus could do the impossible.

Mark 5:21-24; 35-43 NIV

Luke 8:40-42; 49-56 NIV

1. What was Jairus’ hope?

• That Jesus would come and heal his daughter
  • Luke 8:41-42; Mark 5:22-23 NIV 

1. Doesn’t every parent want their child to live a long and healthy life?

Jairus had a great need.

• Jesus was his hope that this need would be met

Jesus’ life was an example that showed his ability to do the miraculous.

Jairus believed that Jesus could heal his daughter.

Note: vs 49

There will be times in our lives when the circumstances around us seem to determine how we will respond to the hope that we have in Jesus.

• Death had come
• Hope was lost
• Fear and mourning began
• Reality was showing its ugly face

But then Jesus step in…again

Note: vs 50

“Don’t be afraid; just believe”

In the face of disaster, Jesus was calling on Jairus to hold onto his faith.

Sometimes that’s all we can do…hang on.

Note: vs. 51-53

Jesus was calling on him to activate his hope.

Jairus had to believe in something he knew didn’t make sense.

Note: vs. 52-53

When you hope in something that cannot be explained, expect some type of ridicule.

But vs. 54

“Child, get up!”

“Hope opened deaths door and life walked through.”

When hope seems lost, Jesus steps in and brings it back.

• As Edward Mote was walking to work one day in 1834, the thought popped into his head to write a hymn on the “Gracious Experience of a Christian.” As he walked up the road, he had the chorus, “On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand; All other ground is sinking sand.” By the end of the day, he had the first four verses written out and safely tucked away in his pocket. Later that week, he visited his friend whose wife was very ill, and as they couldn’t find a hymnal to sing from, he dug up his newly written verses and sang those with the couple. The wife enjoyed them so much she asked for a copy, and (Edward) Mote went home to finish the last two verses and sent it off to a publisher, saying, “As these verses so met the dying woman’s case, my attention to them was the more arrested, and I had a thousand printed for distribution” (Lutheran Hymnal Handbook). Almost two centuries later, we continue to sing these words of hope and assurance, our declaration that in the midst of all trials and storms, we will cling to the rock that is our Savior.
• 1 My hope is built on nothing less
  than Jesus’ blood and righteousness;
  I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
  but wholly lean on Jesus’ name.
• 2 When darkness veils his lovely face,
  I rest on his unchanging grace;
  in every high and stormy gale,
  my anchor holds within the veil.
• 3 His oath, his covenant, his blood,
  support me in the whelming flood;
  when all around my soul gives way,
  he then is all my hope and stay.
• 4 When he shall come with trumpet sound,
  O may I then in him be found:
  dressed in his righteousness alone,
  faultless to stand before the throne.
• Refrain:
  On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand:
  all other ground is sinking sand;
  all other ground is sinking sand.

As we come into this Easter season, I will be sharing with you the hope that we can find in Jesus. 

A hope that can change our lives. A hope that can direct our hearts.

A hope that is built upon the life and death of Jesus.