Streaming Now: The Soloist

Everyone has a story.

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Amount of suffering that some people have experienced can create that feeling of Hopelessness.

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For others, it’s not hopelessness that takes residence in our hearts and minds, it’s Cynicism. 

Cynicism has no place in the life of a Jesus follower.

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Luke 10: 30-34 (NIV)
In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him.

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Matthew 25: 35-36, 40 (NIV)
For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’
“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

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Serving > hopelessness or cynicism

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Galatians 6: 9 (NIV)
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

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Colossians 3: 23-24 (NIV)
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

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