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Pastor Chuck Swindoll | Insight for Living – What is Hope? Pastor Chu... · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: I want to talk to you for a few moments
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  Speaker 1: about hope. Hope is a word that needs to be
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  Speaker 1: explained because many think of it as sort of a
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  Speaker 1: superstitious wishing upon a star or throwing a few coins
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  Speaker 1: in a pond or a fountain. That's not hope, that's
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  Speaker 1: an empty dream. I read recently that we can live
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  Speaker 1: a number of weeks without food, we can live about
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  Speaker 1: a week without water. We can live a few minutes
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  Speaker 1: without air, but only a few seconds without hope. Hopelessness
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  Speaker 1: is a synonym for depression, a dark sense of foreboding,
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  Speaker 1: and our world is caught in that shadow, that deep
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  Speaker 1: dark place. I know that because we were here from
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  Speaker 1: so many who were feeling hopeless, and that brings me
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  Speaker 1: to insight for living and our partnership together in that ministry.
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  Speaker 1: I like to think of it as a place of
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  Speaker 1: hope that offers hope to those who have lost their way,
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  Speaker 1: who feel submerged in the darkness of our times. Let
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  Speaker 1: me give you a simple definition of true hope, trusting
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  Speaker 1: God's promises before we see the results. Think about that
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  Speaker 1: we're trusting before the ultimate results have occurred, so we
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  Speaker 1: hope for that. Scripture says If we hope for that
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  Speaker 1: which we do not see, we patiently wait for it.
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  Speaker 1: Some of you are in that waiting mode right now.
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  Speaker 1: That's why you listen to Insight for Living. We're like
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  Speaker 1: a bright beacon on a shoreline that sends out rays
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  Speaker 1: of hope to those who have lost their way. My
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  Speaker 1: prayer is that God would move in your heart this
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  Speaker 1: time of the year, when giving is so much a
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  Speaker 1: part of the Christmas season, that you'll save a part
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  Speaker 1: of your ability to give for Insight for Living. If
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  Speaker 1: you would be extra generous, I would be extra grateful.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for giving me hope that you'll stand with us.
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  Speaker 1: Let's agree to send out the hope together through your
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  Speaker 1: gift and through our message, will make that happen this year.