JCSLK 65 Jesus Teaching in the Upper Room #1 Hope John 14:1-11
JCSLK 65 Jesus Teaching in the Upper Room #1 Hope John 14:1-11 Sermon Video Years ago I attended the funeral of a young Christian boy who has committed suicide. As I sat in the service, I kept asking, “what would make someone, who had confessed Christ as their savior, take their own life? I remember once, talking to a young teen girl, she was pregnant and while we spoke, she lit up a cigarette. Later in the conversation she told me with a bragging tone that she was still smoking pot and drinking as well. Why would she do those things? And they are not the only ones, we all see around us people who are destroying their lives in so many ways. What drives people to such destructive, self-annihilating actions? I think on of the answers is hopelessness. They feel they have no hope and so why care and why stay in this world any longer. Jesus knew the danger of hopelessness even to his own disciples and on the night he was arrested and taken from them He gave them the...
