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Well, good morning CFBC family. Obviously we are not together
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this morning, but I am so glad that you're tuning in this
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morning for worship. I pray that you are warm and
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that you are safe. Maybe you're in your comfortable
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spot on the couch, a recliner with your coffee.
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But I want to invite you now to gather and those you with you,
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your family to gather and bring in your Bible.
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And we're going to dive into the word of God this morning.
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We're in our fourth word of our 4th Sunday in January on these
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words that quite honestly, all throughout our County School
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system, these words have been being trained, our teachers and
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our students. And we've been going to the word
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of God to see how these four things that would rain
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righteousness in our city, county community and beyond,
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what these things should look like in our lives.
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Isaiah 45, eight calls on God to let righteousness rain down from
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above so that salvation and righteousness bear fruit.
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This is what we're asking of God.
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Today's word is hope. I want you to turn in your Bible
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to Psalm 42, verse 4. Psalm 42, verse 4.
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This is a, this is a Bible verse that quite honestly, you need to
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have close to your heart, close to your mind.
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You need to be able to recall this one in times when the Holy
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Spirit needs the opportunity to bring it up.
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David asked this question, Why are you downcast, Oh my soul,
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and why are you in turmoil within me?
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Hope in God, hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my
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salvation and my God. It has been said y'all that
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there are three things that human beings need to live food,
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water and shelter, but it's just not true.
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Say God What do you mean? What I mean is those three
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things are not enough for a human being to survive.
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If it if it were true, then that would mean that we as human
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beings really only need 3 physical things for our
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survival. But we're not just physical
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beings, we need something else for our survival that's just as
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important as food, water and shelter.
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We are not like all the other animals that God made.
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If so, we could get away with just those three.
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But as human beings, we've been uniquely made in the image of
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God. We're not just body.
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We have a soul, and our needs go far beyond the basic needs of
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food, water and shelter. We were designed to enjoy a
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personal relationship with God. One of the hostage hostages that
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was held by Hamas for months was interviewed afterwards and he
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made this statement. He said.
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I realized I was either going to go mad or I was either going to
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go to God. In other words, what he was
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saying was I might have had, though they were meager and
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poor, and often times he didn't have them.
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But even if he'd had all the food, water, and shelter he
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needed in captivity, they wouldn't have been enough.
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They would have either going to go mad, go crazy, or go to God,
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because he had a need that was much bigger than those three
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things. What?
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What is that? What is that?
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Something else that we as human beings so desperately need, that
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basic human need. It's spelled HOPE.
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It's hope. It is hope that we as human
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beings need that God made us, made us to have, to have in
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order to thrive. Today we're going to talk about
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the universal essential need of hope in our lives.
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Martin Luther, the famous reformer, put it like this.
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He said everything that is done in the world is done in hope.
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No farmer sews a grain of wheat if he didn't hope that it would
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grow and produce a crop. And no bachelor would marry a
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wife if he didn't have hope for a happy future.
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And no merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he
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didn't hope for a profit, right? So almost anything and
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everything we do as human beings in this life, in this or it is
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driven by some kind of hope. And yet, right, we all struggle
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with hope sometimes. I want to ask you just right now
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maybe is that you? Are you finding yourself
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fighting for hope, struggling for hope, discouraged,
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desperate, maybe having food, water, and shelter, but knowing
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something's missing? If so, I want to encourage you
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to lean in today because we're going to see that even those in
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the Scripture, like some of the greatest examples of the godly
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men and women we see here, still struggled at times, just like
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David expresses in Psalm 42A struggle for hope.
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The first question I want to ask and answer this morning is this.
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What is biblical hope? What is biblical hope?
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Well, David challenges himself to hope in God.
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When he says hope in God, what is he saying?
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What does he mean? Well, first we need to clarify
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that the way that we use hope in everyday language in everyday
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life is very different and often than what the Bible refers to
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as. So what we mean when we say hope
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is we're saying we wish or we desire.
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Like I hope they land the job or I hope she will say yes, or I
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hope to make the great. I hope to make the team or we
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hope their dreams come true. In other words, we're using hope
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as like we wish something were true.
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We desire something to be true. We're just not so sure it's
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going to be true. That's not the way the Bible
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uses the word hope. In fact, the meaning of hope and
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Scripture is almost the opposite of our ordinary usage of hope.
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Here's what I mean. Ordinarily, when we use hope,
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we're Speaking of something that we're uncertain about rather
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than something we're absolutely certain about, like this.
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I hope Daddy gets home early. I'm just not sure he will.
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I'm not certain he will. I, I hope that Jim will arrive
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safely. I, I, I'm not certain he will,
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but I hope he will. Or a good tailwind is our only
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hope of arriving on time. Like we hope the wind blows in
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the direction our planes flying to get us there on time.
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We're just not certain that it will.
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But that's not, that's not the biblical meaning of hope.
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Biblical hope, you see, not only desires or wishes that something
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is true, but friends, biblical hope is certain that something
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in store is true and expects it, doesn't just wish for it, but
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knows with confidence that they can look forward to it.
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That's biblical hope. Hebrews 11/1 says this.
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Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence
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of things not seen. This is as clear and simple A
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definition of faith as you'll find in the New Testament.
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And I want you to notice that biblical, biblical hope is
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actually a part of the biblical definition of faith.
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You see, faith can focus on the past, it can focus on the
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present, or it can focus on the future.
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But what we see here is that the part of faith that focuses on
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the future is called hope. When faith is directed to the
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future, the Bible calls it hope. So biblical hope is this.
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Here's your answer to question number one.
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What is biblical hope? Are you ready?
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Write this down. Biblical hope is a Christian's
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absolute confidence concerning their future in Christ.
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Biblical hope is a Christian's absolute confidence of their
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future in Christ. So biblical hope is not finger
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crossing, it's not lip biting, it is not bedding, it's not
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wondering. Biblical hope is a Christian's
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absolute rock bottom confidence in their future in Christ.
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Let me just ask you this question.
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Do you have, do you have that kind of hope?
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Do you have biblical hope? You have absolute confidence
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regarding your future in Christ because number one, you know
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there was a day in your past when you put your hope in
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Christ. You asked Him to forgive you of
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your sin. You called on him as your
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Savior. You gave your life to him, not
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with a wishful desire for heaven, but a confident
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expectation of it. Not for a wishful desire for
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forgiveness, but an absolute knowledge of it.
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Not for a wishful desire to be made alive, but having known
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you've been made alive in Christ because you've called on Jesus
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to save you. You realize right now if you
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don't have that hope or never put your hope in Christ in the
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past, that day can be today. Put your faith present in Jesus
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today. That produces biblical hope for
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tomorrow. Do you have biblical hope #2
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where does biblical hope come from?
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You can flip to Ephesians 212, or you can just listen to me
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read it here. Remember that you were at that
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time separated from Christ, alienated from the Commonwealth
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of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no
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hope and without God in the world.
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The Bible defines no hope as being without Who?
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Being without God, No God, no hope.
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Our hope comes from biblical hope comes from God.
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To which we might say, Oh well, Kyle, I feel like I've got hope
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and I'm not so sure it's always connected with God.
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Like I've got things I'm certain about or I'm looking forward to
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in life, things like this. We might have hope of getting
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married. We're looking forward to that.
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Maybe we've got hope of having kids or more kids or having
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grandkids or landing our dream job or buying that house.
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We've always wanted to go into that place.
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We've always wanted to see or enjoying life in some form or
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fashion. And all those things give us a
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kind of earthly hope. But the deal is we might all
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have positive thoughts about the future because of a variety of
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things to 1° or another. But these things, though none of
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them are guarantees, they offer us levels of hope.
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But here's the deal. None of them promise and provide
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true, lasting, and ultimate biblical hope.
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None of the things in the world can do that.
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So the Bible puts true biblical hope like this.
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Where does it come from? Proverbs 10/28 The hope of the
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righteous is gladness, but the expectation of the wicked
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perishes. The hope of the righteous is
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gladness, but the expectation, the hope of the wicked, is going
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to perish. In other words, the ultimate
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hope of those who have God, the righteous is gladness forever,
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for all eternity with God. Their hope of the righteous,
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those who have God, gets better and is guaranteed no matter what
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earthly hopes come true or not. But the hopes and dreams are
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expectations of those who do not have God of the wicked.
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Ultimately, one day all those hopes do what?
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They perish. They don't last.
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They do not provide a future that provides hope forever.
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They come to nothing. You see, anyone without God in
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Christ has no actual true, lasting, ultimate hope for their
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future. And let's just be honest,
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without true biblical hope and hope for your future death, our
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last breath for all of us takes on some terrifying proportions.
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Without biblical hope in Christ, all that is left without God is
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hell and eternal punishment and torment that is beyond
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description. It's so dreadful.
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Many can't stomach what the Bible says so clearly about the
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lack of hope for those that are not in Christ.
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In fact, I don't know if you heard about the most recent news
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concerning this topic surrounded Kirk Cameron, who came out
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publicly proclaiming that he no longer believed in an eternal
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place called hell where those who are not in Christ will spend
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eternity. He actually affirmed a long
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standing ancient unbiblical idea called annihilationism, which is
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this belief that if you don't accept Christ as your savior and
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your sins are not forgiven, your punishment is actually that you
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when you die, you don't go to hell, but you just cease to
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exist. And this idea comes from the
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rejection of the pure hopelessness that is a reality
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according to the Bible, for those that are not in Christ.
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And that's just too much for people to often stomach, so they
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reject that idea due to its hopelessness.
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But this is the difference between the hope we have in
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Jesus versus the hopelessness forever for those who don't.
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This is where biblical hope comes from, right?
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And our hope is in Jesus and Jesus alone.
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First Peter 1/3 through 6. Blessed be the God and Father of
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our Lord Jesus Christ according to his great mercy, He's caused
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us to be born again. I love this to a living hope
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through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
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You see, hope comes from God and this hope we have has a name,
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and his name is Jesus. Our hope is in Jesus.
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It's a living hope because Jesus is alive our hope is in Jesus
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and it's a living hope because Jesus has made us alive.
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Our hope in Jesus is a living hope because we're going to live
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with him forever in the place he's prepared for us.
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Biblical hope comes from God, church, family, and his name is
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Jesus. The third question we're going
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to ask and answer is this. What is it?
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What is it? Third question that upholds
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biblical hope? What upholds biblical hope?
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Billy Graham was asked by US. Senator Billy, are you a
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optimist or you a pessimist? To which Billy responded, I'm an
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optimist. To which the senator looked back
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to him and said, Billy, how can you be an optimist in the world
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that we're living in? Billy's response was simply
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this. Because I know the last page of
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the Bible. What a great answer.
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You see, without God, optimism is quite honestly a joke.
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Without God, things don't ultimately can't go anywhere
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good forever. But knowing the promises of God,
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who alone is omnipotent, that means all powerful omniscient,
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that means all knowing and omnipresent means God is always
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everywhere. His promises and his power and
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His presence allow us to have the optimism that is the only
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logical option because of God and who He is.
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You see, biblical hope is upheld by the precious and sure
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promises of God. Biblical hope is upheld by the
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precious and sure promises of God.
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Listen to second Peter chapter one, verse 3 through 5.
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His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to
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life and godliness through the knowledge of him who called us
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to his own glory and excellence, by which he's granted to us his
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precious and very great promises.
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There it is so that through them you may become partakers of the
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divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in
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the world because of sinful desire.
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See, the promises of God are like the load bearing walls of
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our faith. The promises of God are like the
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rebar in the concrete of our faith.
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The promises of God are like the I beams in the bridge of our
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faith. They're like the bones in the
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body of our faith. Our hope is in Jesus, and what
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Jesus has promised us is what upholds our hope in Him on a
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daily basis. So what are these precious and
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very great promises, Jesus, that He has promised us that uphold
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our faith, right? I'm so glad you asked.
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I mean, I'm going to go through these because we could keep
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going on these, but I've just got to mention a few of these.
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Are you ready #1 His constant promise of His constant presence
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with us now and forever. In the promise to never leave us
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nor forsake us. His power and His grace to be
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sufficient for our every need and every day.
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Working all things for our good, supplying all our needs.
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Victory over death, abundant life, rest, peace that passes
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understanding, plain sins for our good and our future, Eternal
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life, forgiveness of sin, a new resurrected body, Complete
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transformation in the image of Christ.
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Heaven and eternal place prepared for us specifically in
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heaven. Christ returning physically to
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claimants, claimants and get us as his own.
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A new heavens and a new earth. No more tears, pain or
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suffering. We could go on.
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All of these are the pure and precious certain absolute
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promises of God that actually uphold our hope, which means
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your hope means your hope is only as sure and only as strong
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as your knowledge and familiarity with the promises of
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God. No wonder Hebrews 10/23 says,
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let us hold fast to the confession of our hope.
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Let's hold fast to the confession of our convictions of
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the promises of God without wavering, for he who promised is
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faithful. We're clinging to the promises
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of God. This is where our hope is
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upheld. But this is the exact problem
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for so many Christians because they don't cling to the promises
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of God and said they grasp and they grope after the pleasures
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of this world, seeking to satisfy their soul.
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But those things never can. And when they let them down, all
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the sudden they find themselves encouraged and restless and and
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depressed and without hope because they're not clinging to
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the promises of God. This is exactly what God has
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called us to do by hope up the the promises that uphold our
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hope. To live by clinging to them, to
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read them, to read the word of God, to memorize them, to
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meditate on them, and to preach them to ourselves like David
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does in Psalm 42. Hope in God, he says to himself,
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to teach them to our kids and to take every thought in our minds
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captive to surrender to the truth of the promises of God
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because we know them and we're living by them.
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Fourthly and finally, what does biblical hope do?
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What does biblical hope do? Y'all?
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It is inevitable that all of us, you and me, will go through
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times when we struggle for hope. This is what David did, happens
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to everybody. Jesus told us in John 1633 in
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the world, you're going to have tribulation and trials and
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distress and frustration, but be of good cheer.
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What does he say? Take courage.
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What does he mean? He means to be confident.
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It means to be courageous. He means take hope, be hopeful.
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Why? I've overcome the world.
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That's not I'm going to overcome the world.
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That's I have overcome the world.
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You can have hope. That's a promise of God.
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He's already overcome the world. So here's what biblical hope
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does #1 Are you ready? Biblical hope fills us with
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hope. It fills us with hope.
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Listen to Romans 1513. May the God of hope fill you
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with all joy and peace and believing, so that by the power
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of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
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Biblical hope fills us with hope.
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You see, by the power of the Holy Spirit you can and will
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make your He can and will make your whole life radiant with
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hope. That's part of the working of
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the Holy Spirit in our lives. The God of hope filling us with
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hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.
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Biblical hope and abounding in hope means gladness.
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It means joy, it means peace, it means strength, it means freedom
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from fear and happiness in Jesus.
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Who doesn't want to live with those things?
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Who doesn't want to overflow and abound in hope by the power of
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the Spirit? The God of hope #2 Biblical hope
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anchors our soul. It anchors our soul.
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Hebrews 619 through 20. We have this as a surer and
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steadfast anchor of the soul hope that enters into the inner
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place behind the curtain where Jesus has gone as a forerunner
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on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the
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order of Melchizedek. Biblical hope anchors our soul
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in Jesus. This anchor works in two ways.
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First, it works to steady your soul by ending your soul's
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constant search for rest. See, our souls were made for
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God. In fact, the famous North
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African pastor in the 3rd century named Augustine put it
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like this. He said, God, you have made us
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for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they find their
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rest in Thee. Did you realize that until a
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human being and their soul finds rest in Jesus, deep down it's
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restless because it hasn't found its true home.
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The soul without Jesus is a gypsy soul that can never find
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true rest and satisfaction in the home it was made for in
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Jesus. So the hope that we have in
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Christ anchors us by ending our search for rest in peace of a
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second. It works to steady the ship of
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our soul when we're under the threat of the constant up and
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down waves of the circumstances of life.
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See, no matter how high or no matter how low your
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circumstances may go. Soul tethered to Jesus doesn't
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have to move, because Jesus doesn't move.
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He's the same yesterday, he's the same today, and he's the
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same forever. He has the rock on which we
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stand that when all else is shaken, he will never be shaken.
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And we won't be shaken if we're standing with both feet on
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Jesus, no matter what comes in our lives.
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So biblical hope anchors our souls both spiritually in rest,
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in peace, and circumstantially in the anchor of the rock of
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Jesus, which is our steadiness in hope in him #3 finally,
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biblical hope. Biblical hope allows us to
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persevere. Listen to Romans 823 through 25.
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And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first
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fruits of the Spirit, grown inwardly as we wait eagerly for
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adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
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For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not
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hope, but who hopes for what he sees?
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But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with
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patience. But if we hope in what we do not
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see, we're persevering. We're waiting for it with
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patience. You see, this is what biblical
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hope does. Life on this side of heaven.
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Y'all, let's be honest, involves some groaning, just like that
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Bible verse just said. Why?
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Because we're living under the curse of sin, life on the other
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side of heaven doesn't involve any groaning, but glory.
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So what is it that holds us in the middle between groaning in
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this life and the glory waiting for us in the next?
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It is biblical hope that allows us to hope.
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And yet what we cannot see but what we know is certain.
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That anchors our soul and allows us to persevere.
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That allows us to press through knowing the victory is coming.
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The cross reminding us of God's mercy.
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The empty tomb reminding us of God's power.
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The indwelling of the Holy Spirit reminding us of God's
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promised presence, the word of God giving us a defense against
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the enemy and Jesus is victory over death, reminding us of the
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promise of forgiveness of sin, salvation and eternal life
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forever. Between the groaning and the
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glory is the hope we have in Jesus that allows us to set our
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eyes on him, the author and perfector of our faith, and
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persevere with hope and gladness.
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And when God is form forming us in the image of Christ through
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the ups and downs of life, no matter what, that God is
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bringing us to a place where we're going to be with him
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forever. This is what what biblical hope
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does. Psalm 42 four why are you
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downcast O my soul? Why are you in turmoil within
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me? Hope in God, for I will yet
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praise him my salvation and my God.
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If David had days that he had to preach to himself to hoping God,
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so will you and so will I. Do you need to preach the self
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this to yourself today? You know, biblical hope is often
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a fight. Maybe you're fighting right now
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for biblical hope. Maybe you're in the middle of
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the trenches of the ring and you feel like you're losing.
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What would I say to you? What would would the Word of God
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tell you practically to do if today you're fighting for hope
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or you need to be ready to fight tomorrow?
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Let me tell you a few things and then we'll finish.
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Number one, never give up. Never give up.
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Never lose sight of the fact that God, by His power, has the
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power to change your circumstances and that every
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storm will pass. Don't give up.
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Keep trusting #2 avoid blaming God or thinking He's punishing
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you for some sin. Listen, don't turn to anger or
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blame towards God. Trust God in the midst of the
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hard things, knowing He's using all those things even for your
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good. Don't let it erode your hope.
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Thirdly, do what's right. Even when you're hurting and
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even if others are not doing you right, continue to do what's
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right. Continue to do what you know God
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has revealed to you to do that would honor Him and bless Him
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and bless others around you even when you don't feel like it.
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Hey, next, don't withdraw or sulk or isolate yourself from
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others. The Bible says only a fool
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isolates himself. And so often it's God using the
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others around you to help guide you and encourage you to the
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place He's leading and calling you to go.
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Keep your word and honor your commitments.
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This is a character building time when you're fighting for
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hope. Keep your word.
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Walk with integrity. Be the man or woman, boy or girl
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God's caused you to be. And don't.
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Finally, don't stop believing. Don't give up hope that God can
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improve your situation, that He will lead you through the storm,
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that He's got a destination and plan in mind for you that He's
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working this for your glory. Don't give up.
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Keep walking by faith. When David says hope in God, he
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does not mean cross your fingers, bite your lip, wander
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or bet. He means if I could borrow the
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words from a missionary that would live many years after
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David. What he means is David, expect
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great things from God because God is great hope in God.
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Church family, what a blessing God's Word is to us.
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I want to pray for you in a moment, but I want to invite you
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before I do to take some time today at home and talk about
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what you've heard. Talk about it with your spouse.
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Talk about this with your kids and your family.
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Talk about that verse, Psalm 42 verse four.
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What does it mean to hope in God and talk about biblical of ask
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one another if you have it when that happened when that day was
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you trusted Christ. If you need to do that, you can
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call on Jesus even now. And if you need to fight for
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hope now and get on your knees as a result of hearing what
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you've heard and say, Lord, help me even as David fought for
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hope, to fight for it today to remember what upholds my hope,
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to put my eyes on Jesus, the author and perfector of my faith
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and my hope, and to live in the hope as the God of hope allows
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us to overflow in it. Spend some time talking about
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these things in your home today where you are, and ask God to
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help you overflow with hope. Heavenly Father, thank you for
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the chance to worship. Even though we're not together.
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We thank you for your word. We thank you for the hope that
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you've given us. God, I want to pray for everyone
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watching wherever they are, whatever their situation, and
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especially those fighting for that.
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God is the God of hope. You would cause them to overflow
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by the power of the Holy Spirit with hope.
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Help them to believe the promises of God, to immerse
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themselves in them and to stake their lives on the truth of what
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you promised us and help us to live our lives for the world to
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see that there is a God that Father, you offer hope of all,
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hope that lasts for all eternity.
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And we praise you in Jesus name. And all God's people said Amen.
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Cheers family. I love you.
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Stay warm, stay safe. Can't wait to see you soon.
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And as we say each week as you go, you go to whenever it is you
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go and leave your home, you go to make disciples.
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Love you all. We'll see you back at CBC very
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soon.