1 00:00:01,800 --> 00:00:04,500 We want to talk a little bit about the hope that a Christian 2 00:00:04,500 --> 00:00:08,300 has, you know. It seems like that we look at 3 00:00:08,300 --> 00:00:13,900 the news today and we it doesn't give us a whole lot of hope we 4 00:00:13,900 --> 00:00:15,600 see all the things that are happening. 5 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:19,500 Sometimes we just sit there and just wonder what's going to 6 00:00:19,500 --> 00:00:22,800 happen next. We shake our heads, we get 7 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:25,300 concerned about the things that are happening in the world. 8 00:00:25,300 --> 00:00:30,000 Today, we see that the terrorism we see killings, we see, 9 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:32,900 Bombings going on throughout the world. 10 00:00:32,900 --> 00:00:36,000 We see it almost daily on the evening news. 11 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:41,300 We hear about those that are being persecuted because of 12 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:45,400 their faith here just recently. We've heard about killings of 13 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:49,100 Christians in other foreign countries and maybe even here in 14 00:00:49,100 --> 00:00:52,300 this nation. When we talk about things a 15 00:00:52,308 --> 00:00:57,300 little bit closer to home, we hear about children being abused 16 00:00:57,300 --> 00:01:05,700 by their parents and maybe even others We see this sexually 17 00:01:05,700 --> 00:01:10,000 saturated environment that we live in this culture that we 18 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:14,200 live live in today, and we're not long ago, things that would 19 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:18,100 be embarrassing to several. Just don't seem to be 20 00:01:18,100 --> 00:01:24,300 embarrassing anymore. I've noticed recently that 21 00:01:24,900 --> 00:01:30,000 leaders of large corporations of products that we use from time 22 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:34,800 to time are now feel the need to interject homosexuality 23 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:37,900 Lifestyles into their advertisements. 24 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:41,200 And we're just getting bombarded with all these things that are 25 00:01:41,208 --> 00:01:43,700 going on in the world and around us. 26 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:48,200 And it's almost like we almost can't see anything else. 27 00:01:49,900 --> 00:01:53,500 Even get a little bit more personal we and closer to home. 28 00:01:53,500 --> 00:01:57,100 We may have individuals in our families that are struggling 29 00:01:57,100 --> 00:02:00,700 with sickness, start struggling with some kind of disease that 30 00:02:00,700 --> 00:02:06,000 they may never be able to get rid of, Or you see something in 31 00:02:06,900 --> 00:02:11,500 in certain stages of their life, that there is seems to be not 32 00:02:11,500 --> 00:02:15,500 much improvement in their physical life. 33 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:21,500 Or you may have a loved one. Who is spiritually lost? 34 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,800 Not at all interested in the things of God or has gone off 35 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:30,000 and separated themselves from God. 36 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:35,000 Perhaps we're stuck in an awful job and we don't know how in the 37 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:37,200 world we're going to get out and we need to pay our bills. 38 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:40,900 We need to make the money to where we can prosper and feed 39 00:02:40,900 --> 00:02:43,400 our families but we're just not happy with things that are going 40 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:45,600 on in Life. Or maybe the bad job is just 41 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:50,400 seems overwhelming. Might even have a problem with 42 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:54,600 sin in your life and we can't seem to maybe get over the top 43 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:57,000 and get rid of this sin that's in our life. 44 00:02:57,100 --> 00:03:00,100 Maybe we've struggled with it for years and years and we can't 45 00:03:00,100 --> 00:03:04,400 don't seem to be able to getting be getting anywhere with it and 46 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:08,300 all of this causes sometimes physical pain with in our lives 47 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,900 but it's often the emotional pain. 48 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,900 That's so much difficult, more difficult to deal with an 49 00:03:16,900 --> 00:03:19,300 overwhelming. And it's not it's not our only 50 00:03:19,300 --> 00:03:22,600 enough to make you feel hopeless, but it gives us a 51 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:31,700 sense and a feeling of despair. Despair is a loss of Hope. 52 00:03:33,300 --> 00:03:38,400 You ever felt like that? Sometimes we might have that 53 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:42,300 feeling like there is not going to get anything is not going to 54 00:03:42,300 --> 00:03:46,000 get better and there's no hope that's a feeling of Despair. 55 00:03:46,100 --> 00:03:53,500 Despair is the opposite of Hope. To despair means to be hopeless, 56 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:59,400 to have, no, hope to give up all hope or expectation to be 57 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:03,600 overcome by a sense of futility or defeat. 58 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:10,000 And we ever felt that way is from the Latin word dispare this 59 00:04:10,500 --> 00:04:15,600 despair. This Ferrari I guess I'm not a I 60 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:19,800 don't know Latin in other words so which means literally to be 61 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:24,300 hopeless. Despair and hopelessness or 62 00:04:24,300 --> 00:04:29,300 defined by scripture as being without God Ephesians 2 and 63 00:04:29,300 --> 00:04:33,300 verses 12 through 13. That at that time you were 64 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:37,900 without Christ, being aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel 65 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:43,300 and strangers from the covenants of Promise having no hope and 66 00:04:43,300 --> 00:04:48,300 without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus, you who 67 00:04:48,300 --> 00:04:51,800 once were far off, have been brought near by the blood of 68 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:52,700 Christ. Iced. 69 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:58,600 So what a despairing place to be in what a, what a terrible place 70 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:03,300 to be in without any hope and people that are without God, are 71 00:05:03,300 --> 00:05:06,300 those that are without hope being without hope goes 72 00:05:06,300 --> 00:05:10,100 together, with being with God, and if you're without God, 73 00:05:10,100 --> 00:05:13,000 you're without hope. So, it's sin. 74 00:05:13,100 --> 00:05:17,200 That separates us from God and takes away, Our Hope, Romans 3, 75 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:21,300 and verses verse 23, for all have sinned and fallen short of 76 00:05:21,300 --> 00:05:28,700 the glory of God Romans 6:23 for the wages of sin is death, but 77 00:05:28,700 --> 00:05:31,300 the gift of God is eternal life in Christ. 78 00:05:31,300 --> 00:05:34,500 Jesus, our lord, and Paul also instructed the church in 79 00:05:34,500 --> 00:05:39,600 thessalonica, not to grieve as others who have no hope. 80 00:05:43,300 --> 00:05:51,300 So sin is what causes, no hope sin living outside of God, 81 00:05:51,300 --> 00:05:55,400 living without God in our life sin is what separates us from 82 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:58,000 God. So often in our lives and 83 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:00,700 certain situation, there are times when we feel that there's 84 00:06:00,700 --> 00:06:06,700 little or no, hope we may tend to lose our grip on hope, if not 85 00:06:06,700 --> 00:06:13,900 completely permanently, maybe temporarily We feel a sense of 86 00:06:13,900 --> 00:06:18,800 Despair and hopelessness but I want to notice though that God 87 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:23,000 can help us to strengthen our grip on the hope that only he 88 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:26,100 can bring us. We often had sing the song that 89 00:06:26,100 --> 00:06:31,900 says my hope is built on nothing less than Jesus blood and 90 00:06:31,900 --> 00:06:37,300 righteousness, I dare not trust the sweetest frame but wholly 91 00:06:37,300 --> 00:06:41,700 lean on Jesus name, on Christ, the solid rock. 92 00:06:41,900 --> 00:06:45,700 I stand all other ground is sinking sand. 93 00:06:45,700 --> 00:06:48,500 All other ground is sinking sand. 94 00:06:49,500 --> 00:06:52,700 One thing that we want to notice is what hope is not. 95 00:06:54,100 --> 00:06:57,300 Listen to what Webster's Dictionary defines, hope as in 96 00:06:57,300 --> 00:07:00,900 our way that we typically use hope today. 97 00:07:01,300 --> 00:07:07,000 Webster says it is to want something to happen or be true 98 00:07:07,100 --> 00:07:09,700 and think that it could happen or be true. 99 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:14,100 This is the way that we typically think of hope it's 100 00:07:14,100 --> 00:07:20,300 this is more of a feeling and wishes in other words, just for 101 00:07:20,300 --> 00:07:24,800 illustration we might say, I hope it doesn't rain. 102 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:29,100 Tomorrow or get too hot tomorrow. 103 00:07:29,100 --> 00:07:33,900 That's a wish. I hope we catch some fish. 104 00:07:33,900 --> 00:07:35,400 How many times have we said that? 105 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:41,900 I hope I get that job. I hope that thing that thing is 106 00:07:41,900 --> 00:07:46,900 not poisonous. I hope Terry's lesson is not too 107 00:07:46,900 --> 00:07:49,000 long. How many of us hope for that? 108 00:07:51,900 --> 00:07:59,800 That's a wish may not come true. And all of us have a hope of the 109 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:02,800 Dodgers winning or the Rams winning or the Lakers, or the 110 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:07,100 Cowboys of winning that game. Those are wishes. 111 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:11,900 You see that's wishful thinking. That's, that's the hope that we 112 00:08:11,900 --> 00:08:16,400 typically use today. And the scriptures hope is 113 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:19,900 different than wishful thinking. Notice what Vines expository 114 00:08:19,900 --> 00:08:23,600 dictionary of New Testament words defines hope as in the New 115 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:28,400 Testament favorable and confident expectation. 116 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:33,400 It has to do with the Unseen and the future Baker's Bible 117 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:36,100 dictionary says, hope means to trust in. 118 00:08:36,500 --> 00:08:40,799 Wait for look for or desire, something or someone or to 119 00:08:40,799 --> 00:08:44,900 expect something beneficial in the future, looking with x, 120 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:51,000 Spect a ssion is akin to hoping, so there's always waiting 121 00:08:52,100 --> 00:08:57,200 there's always confident expectation involved in hope. 122 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:02,100 That's not wishful thinking. It is the expectation that 123 00:09:02,100 --> 00:09:06,900 something will happen. Now, if I stick my finger in the 124 00:09:06,900 --> 00:09:10,300 fire, I can expect it to get burned. 125 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:15,600 That's not what you know that's pretty much a true thing so it 126 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:21,700 is confident expectation that something will happen and we're 127 00:09:21,700 --> 00:09:24,400 going to notice more about that as we go on. 128 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:30,800 Listen to Romans 8, and verse 32, 23 through 25. 129 00:09:31,300 --> 00:09:35,300 Not only that, but we also who have the first fruits of the 130 00:09:35,300 --> 00:09:39,200 spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves eagerly 131 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:41,700 waiting. The adoption, the Redemption of 132 00:09:41,700 --> 00:09:47,900 our body for, we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen 133 00:09:47,900 --> 00:09:51,600 is not hope. For why does one still hope for 134 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:56,200 what he sees. But if we hope for what we do, 135 00:09:56,200 --> 00:10:01,100 not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance. 136 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:06,100 So it's something we don't see, but we wait for it with 137 00:10:06,100 --> 00:10:10,100 perseverance when we see it, when we've already obtained it, 138 00:10:10,100 --> 00:10:14,500 it's not hope any longer as what he's saying, we eagerly wait for 139 00:10:14,500 --> 00:10:19,000 it, with perseverance so we can see the contrast between the 140 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:21,700 biblical. Hope that is talked about, which 141 00:10:21,700 --> 00:10:26,000 is sure and certain, and the common understanding of hope 142 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:29,100 that we may have today, which is wishful thinking. 143 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:33,900 There's a story about a self-made millionaire. 144 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:42,800 That who completely changed the lives of some sixth grade 145 00:10:42,900 --> 00:10:49,400 students in in New York in East. Harlem, this man had been asked 146 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:54,200 to speak to a class of students and he wondered how in the world 147 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:57,200 he would, he would even get them to even look at him. 148 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:00,000 And so he threw his notes away and he thought he'd just speak 149 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,800 from his heart. He says, stay in school. 150 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:06,700 And he said, if you stay in school, I'll pay your tuition to 151 00:11:06,700 --> 00:11:10,700 college. Well, all of a sudden, these 152 00:11:10,700 --> 00:11:14,600 kids had some hope. They had some hope, they had 153 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:19,100 some expectation of something that was going to be beneficial 154 00:11:19,100 --> 00:11:24,000 to them later on. One student said I had something 155 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,100 to look forward to something waiting for him. 156 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:30,600 For me, it was a golden feeling and nearly 90% of the students 157 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:35,500 graduated high school. Before that, it's likely that 158 00:11:35,500 --> 00:11:38,700 many of those six graders would even have graduated. 159 00:11:39,900 --> 00:11:43,100 He gave them something to look forward to as well as the 160 00:11:43,100 --> 00:11:46,600 foundation of their hope. That one student said I had 161 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:50,500 something to look forward to something waiting for me. 162 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:55,500 So we when we think about hope the question may come up or do 163 00:11:55,500 --> 00:11:59,000 we get hope? Where do we get hope. 164 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:02,400 We get Hope by reading our Bible. 165 00:12:03,100 --> 00:12:04,900 The word of God is a book of Hope. 166 00:12:04,900 --> 00:12:08,900 Romans 15 verse 4, for whatever things were written, before were 167 00:12:08,900 --> 00:12:12,700 written for our learning that through the patience and comfort 168 00:12:12,700 --> 00:12:18,500 of the scriptures, we might have hope Some people get just 169 00:12:18,500 --> 00:12:21,300 hopeless maybe we're not reading our Bibles away. 170 00:12:21,300 --> 00:12:23,900 We ought to be reading them. Maybe we're not studying God's 171 00:12:23,900 --> 00:12:25,700 word, maybe we're not being encouraged. 172 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:28,600 We're not being lifted up because we're not reading the 173 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:31,600 things that Comfort us as Christians. 174 00:12:32,700 --> 00:12:37,300 It offers hope for all of life. It offers hope for the sick that 175 00:12:37,300 --> 00:12:39,100 offers hope in our relationships. 176 00:12:39,300 --> 00:12:43,000 It offers hope for the loved ones who at whenever they're in 177 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:47,700 a spiritual or spiritual or physical sickness in life. 178 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:51,200 It offers hope for most challenging problems that we 179 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:54,100 face in this life. It even offers hope for the 180 00:12:54,100 --> 00:12:58,100 things we look for and look around at, in this world, it 181 00:12:58,100 --> 00:13:02,800 offers us. Expectation of things getting 182 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:06,500 better. It's easy to say that our hope 183 00:13:06,700 --> 00:13:10,300 is in God's promise. It's harder to to live. 184 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:14,300 Like we believe it and draw strength and encouragement. 185 00:13:14,300 --> 00:13:16,600 From our hope, we need to try to remember that. 186 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:24,800 These are promises from God What is the hope of the Christian? 187 00:13:27,500 --> 00:13:31,900 The Christian hope. Is a hope of inheritance. 188 00:13:32,900 --> 00:13:35,900 First Peter, 1 verses 3 through 4 blessed. 189 00:13:35,900 --> 00:13:39,000 Be the God and father of our Lord, Jesus Christ who according 190 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:44,000 to His, abundant Mercy, has begotten us to a Living Hope 191 00:13:44,500 --> 00:13:47,600 through the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 192 00:13:47,700 --> 00:13:53,900 From the dead to an inheritance Incorruptible and undefiled and 193 00:13:53,900 --> 00:13:57,400 that does not fade away reserved in heaven for you. 194 00:13:57,900 --> 00:14:02,200 So it gives us a hope of inheritance, the Christian has a 195 00:14:02,208 --> 00:14:06,100 hope of Eternal life notice Titus 1 and 2 in Hope of eternal 196 00:14:06,100 --> 00:14:10,900 life which God who cannot lie promised Before Time began. 197 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,700 Notice Titus 3 and verse 7 that having been justified by his 198 00:14:14,700 --> 00:14:18,800 grace, we should become errors according to the hope of eternal 199 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:22,800 life. And also, it's the love. 200 00:14:23,900 --> 00:14:26,700 That God has for us through Jesus Christ. 201 00:14:26,700 --> 00:14:30,600 That allows those of us who have been baptized, who are believers 202 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:34,300 who have obeyed, the gospel Plan of Salvation, and to spend 203 00:14:34,300 --> 00:14:37,200 eternity with him. Notice first, John, four, and 204 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:40,500 verse 10. And this is love not that, we 205 00:14:40,500 --> 00:14:44,000 believe that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his 206 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:48,600 son to be the propitiation for our sins, John 3, and verse 16 207 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:50,700 for God. So loved the world that he gave 208 00:14:50,700 --> 00:14:54,200 his only begotten, son, that whosoever believes As in him, 209 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:56,500 should not perish but have everlasting. 210 00:14:56,500 --> 00:15:01,300 Life Acts 2 and verse 38 and then Peter said to them, repent. 211 00:15:01,300 --> 00:15:04,100 And let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus 212 00:15:04,100 --> 00:15:07,400 Christ for the remission of your sins and you shall receive the 213 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:12,200 gift of the holy spirit. So the hope of Salvation is what 214 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:15,200 keeps us going through this life here on Earth. 215 00:15:15,300 --> 00:15:18,400 It's what it's what maintains us. 216 00:15:18,700 --> 00:15:23,400 It's what holds us together. Emotionally. 217 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:30,000 Spiritually. While we're here on this Earth 218 00:15:30,100 --> 00:15:33,600 of sin. All these things going on around 219 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:35,400 us. If we have that hope. 220 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:40,700 What do we care? We have something so much better 221 00:15:40,700 --> 00:15:47,700 to look forward to. When we look at God and we look 222 00:15:47,700 --> 00:15:49,600 at the hope of Eternal salvation. 223 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:52,700 We look at Evan. We look towards that goal. 224 00:15:52,700 --> 00:15:56,500 We have so much hope and God's love is what allows that to 225 00:15:56,500 --> 00:16:00,000 happen. How can we assure ourselves of 226 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,600 this? Hope we can know Second 227 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:04,500 Corinthians 5 verses 1 through 2. 228 00:16:04,900 --> 00:16:09,500 For we know that if our Earthly house the house, the world that 229 00:16:09,500 --> 00:16:14,100 we live in right now. This tent is destroyed. 230 00:16:14,100 --> 00:16:18,000 We have a building from God a house not made with hands 231 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:21,900 Eternal in the heavens for in this week groan earnestly 232 00:16:21,900 --> 00:16:26,000 Desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from Heaven. 233 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:31,000 Wow. This whole world could be 234 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:36,000 completely destroyed and we still have a house not built 235 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:38,900 with hands. God has reserved and placed in 236 00:16:38,900 --> 00:16:42,100 heaven for us when we leave this world. 237 00:16:42,500 --> 00:16:45,200 How can we know by believing obeying? 238 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:47,300 What God has said in his written word? 239 00:16:47,300 --> 00:16:50,500 First, John 5 verse 13. These things I have written to 240 00:16:50,500 --> 00:16:54,700 you, who believe, in the name of the son of God, that you may 241 00:16:54,700 --> 00:17:00,100 know. That you have eternal life. 242 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:04,099 And that you may continue to believe in the name of the son 243 00:17:04,099 --> 00:17:09,300 of God. We can know we can have 244 00:17:09,300 --> 00:17:14,900 assurance and we can have hope in reaching Heaven by following 245 00:17:14,900 --> 00:17:18,900 God by obeying his will by realizing his love for us in 246 00:17:18,900 --> 00:17:21,599 obeying the gospel and being baptized into Christ. 247 00:17:21,599 --> 00:17:23,200 We're going to notice more about that. 248 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:27,300 Well, what are the blessings enjoyed in eternal life? 249 00:17:27,300 --> 00:17:29,700 Well. We've talked about this 250 00:17:29,700 --> 00:17:31,600 recently. I've been talking with some 251 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:34,800 others recently about this. We get new bodies. 252 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:42,500 Or sometimes we roll out of bed. And we just ache from one end to 253 00:17:42,500 --> 00:17:45,200 the other. Maybe we're not even able to 254 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:46,800 walk. I know some that are not even 255 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:49,800 able to walk. I know some that have physical 256 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:53,000 afflictions and ailments in their life, but you know what? 257 00:17:53,700 --> 00:17:56,600 In heaven. The hope is we get a new body. 258 00:17:58,900 --> 00:18:03,200 Our bodies will change notice Philippians 3, and verse 21 who 259 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:07,700 will transform our lowly body. The bodies that we have now that 260 00:18:07,700 --> 00:18:12,000 it may be conformed to his glorious body according to the 261 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:17,100 working by which he is able even to him subdue, all things to 262 00:18:17,100 --> 00:18:20,500 himself. We find that we will be like him 263 00:18:20,500 --> 00:18:22,400 First John 3 and verse two beloved. 264 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:25,900 Now, we are children of God and it has not yet been revealed 265 00:18:25,900 --> 00:18:30,500 what we shall be, but we know That when he is revealed. 266 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:37,800 We shall be like him. For we shall see him as he is. 267 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:41,500 All these eggs. These pains these problems that 268 00:18:41,500 --> 00:18:45,600 we have in this life being may be crippled, maybe being 269 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:49,700 bedridden baby being not able to walk. 270 00:18:49,700 --> 00:18:52,700 Maybe having all kinds of difficulties in this life. 271 00:18:52,700 --> 00:18:55,300 We get a new body. What a hope? 272 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:57,700 What's something to look forward to? 273 00:19:03,100 --> 00:19:06,900 We also realize that we'll be able to enjoy the Mansions or 274 00:19:06,900 --> 00:19:10,100 The Dwelling Places. John 14 and verses 1 through 3. 275 00:19:10,100 --> 00:19:13,400 Let not your heart, be troubled, you believe in God believe. 276 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:18,900 Also in me and my father's house are many mansions or Dwelling 277 00:19:18,900 --> 00:19:23,400 Places if it were not. So I would have told you I go to 278 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:29,000 prepare a place for you and if I go to prepare a place for you, I 279 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,400 will come. Again, and receive you to myself 280 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:34,200 that where I am, there you may be. 281 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:37,700 Also, why would he go and prepare a place if he wasn't 282 00:19:37,700 --> 00:19:39,600 expecting to have someone stay there. 283 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:46,200 He's expecting us to stay there. He's expecting all of us. 284 00:19:46,500 --> 00:19:52,500 The deal with this world to have a place that is free from all 285 00:19:52,500 --> 00:19:56,900 that. Separated from the world. 286 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:00,900 Nothing that we live that we that we have problems with. 287 00:20:00,900 --> 00:20:05,000 In this world will be allowed into heaven and what a blessing 288 00:20:05,100 --> 00:20:08,500 that will be. We have a place that has a 289 00:20:08,508 --> 00:20:12,500 better country, Hebrews 11 verse 16, but now they desire a better 290 00:20:12,500 --> 00:20:16,200 that is a Heavenly country. Therefore, God is not ashamed to 291 00:20:16,208 --> 00:20:20,100 be called their God for. He has prepared a city for them 292 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:23,900 a country. Or we don't have the problems 293 00:20:23,900 --> 00:20:27,900 that we do today. Wow. 294 00:20:27,900 --> 00:20:29,700 How much are we looking forward to that? 295 00:20:33,900 --> 00:20:37,900 You'll also find a rest Hebrews 4 and verses 9 through 11. 296 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:44,800 There remains therefore a rest for the people of God for he who 297 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:47,500 has entered his rest has himself. 298 00:20:47,500 --> 00:20:52,400 Also seized from his works as God did from his Let us 299 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:57,700 therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall 300 00:20:57,700 --> 00:21:00,800 according to the same example of disobedience. 301 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:07,000 Who will receive this rest. Those who die in the Lord. 302 00:21:07,700 --> 00:21:12,000 Notice Revelation 14 verse 13, then I Heard a Voice from Heaven 303 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:16,400 saying unto me, write blessed are the Dead who die in the Lord 304 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:22,100 from now on, yes says the spirit that they may rest from their 305 00:21:22,100 --> 00:21:26,100 labors and their works. Follow them. 306 00:21:28,700 --> 00:21:32,100 You know, how good it is to how wonderful it feels to come in 307 00:21:32,100 --> 00:21:36,100 from A Hard Day's Work and sit down and rest. 308 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:41,200 When we labor here on this Earth, a putting up with all the 309 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:44,400 things of this Earth that Satan has put in front of us, we deal 310 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:47,600 with all the issues that we talked at about at the beginning 311 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:50,400 of the lesson. We are so worried and we're so 312 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:54,000 concerned, sometimes about all those things, one of these days 313 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:58,900 we get to rest from all that. We don't have to put up with 314 00:21:58,900 --> 00:22:01,700 that anymore. What a blessing. 315 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:09,400 We are as the old song says we are Standing on the Promises of 316 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:15,400 God, that's hope. How do we obtain this hope? 317 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:22,600 We attain it by hearing the word of God, Romans 10 verse 17. 318 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:27,200 So then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. 319 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:30,100 We also obtained this. Hope by believing what he what 320 00:22:30,100 --> 00:22:33,600 we've heard and studied Hebrews 11 verse 6, but without faith, 321 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:37,400 it is impossible to please him for, he who comes to God, must 322 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:41,900 believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who 323 00:22:41,900 --> 00:22:45,400 diligently diligently seek him. We also obtain this Hope by 324 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:47,500 repenting. In another words, a change of 325 00:22:47,500 --> 00:22:49,900 will which results in a change of mind? 326 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:51,900 Which results in a change of life. 327 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:56,900 Jesus said in Luke 13 and verse 3, I tell you, no, but unless 328 00:22:56,900 --> 00:22:59,700 you repent, you will all likewise perish. 329 00:23:01,700 --> 00:23:05,600 The Apostle Paul said in Acts 17 to verse 30 truly these times of 330 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:09,100 ignorance, God, overlooked. But now commands, all men 331 00:23:09,300 --> 00:23:14,900 everywhere to repent X 2, and verse 37, and 38. 332 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:18,600 Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart and said 333 00:23:18,700 --> 00:23:20,900 to Peter and the rest of the Apostles men and Brethren. 334 00:23:20,900 --> 00:23:24,900 What shall we do? Then Peter said to them, repent, 335 00:23:25,700 --> 00:23:29,200 and be baptized and repent. And let every one of you be 336 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:33,500 baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins 337 00:23:33,700 --> 00:23:36,700 and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 338 00:23:37,700 --> 00:23:42,600 We also obtained this. Hope by confessing the name of 339 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:44,600 Christ. In other words, what we believe 340 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:47,800 Paul writing to the church in Rome said in Romans 10 verses 9 341 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:51,500 through 10 that if you confess with your mouth, the Lord Jesus, 342 00:23:51,700 --> 00:23:55,200 and believe in your heart, that God has raised him from the 343 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:57,900 dead. You will be saved for with the 344 00:23:57,908 --> 00:24:00,800 Hartman. One Believes unto righteousness 345 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:05,300 and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 346 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:11,000 We're not quite there yet. There's an example of this 347 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:14,400 happening in Acts 18 verses 36 through 37. 348 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:19,500 Now, as they went down the road, they came to some water and the 349 00:24:19,500 --> 00:24:24,300 eunuch said, see here is water. What hinders me from being 350 00:24:24,300 --> 00:24:28,000 baptized and Philip said, if you believe with all your heart, you 351 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:32,000 may any answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the 352 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,200 Son of God. That's the confession that we 353 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:37,800 make of our faith. That we believe that Jesus 354 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:42,200 Christ is the Son of God. And then the final step that 355 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:46,200 allows us to be a participant in, this hope is being baptized 356 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:50,300 into the body of Christ, Galatians, 3 and verses 27. 357 00:24:50,500 --> 00:24:56,800 And 28, for, as many of you as were baptized into Christ, have 358 00:24:56,800 --> 00:25:00,300 put on Christ There is neither Jew. 359 00:25:00,300 --> 00:25:03,300 Nor Greek. There is neither slave nor free. 360 00:25:03,300 --> 00:25:09,000 There is neither male nor female for you are all one in Christ, 361 00:25:09,100 --> 00:25:14,900 Jesus. So baptism transforms us from an 362 00:25:14,900 --> 00:25:19,100 unsaved condition having no hope. 363 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:24,900 That unsafe condition is a is a condition of hopelessness of 364 00:25:24,900 --> 00:25:31,100 Despair have no hope of eternal life and it changes us from that 365 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:35,600 condition. To a saved condition of now 366 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:42,400 having the hope of eternal life. Baptism saves us first Peter 3, 367 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:46,300 and verse 21 there is also an antitype which now saves us. 368 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:51,100 Baptism, not the removal of the filth of the filth of the flesh, 369 00:25:51,300 --> 00:25:54,600 but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through 370 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:56,700 the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 371 00:25:56,700 --> 00:26:01,000 Mark 16 and 16. He who believes and is baptized 372 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:05,000 will be saved but he who does not believe will be condemned. 373 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:13,900 Why does baptism save us? Because it washes away, our sins 374 00:26:14,700 --> 00:26:16,700 sin is what separates us from God. 375 00:26:16,700 --> 00:26:20,100 Remember, sin is what keeps us from having that. 376 00:26:20,100 --> 00:26:25,500 Hope that Eternal hope soon, is what keeps us from being able to 377 00:26:25,500 --> 00:26:28,900 participate in all the things that God has prepared for us 378 00:26:29,100 --> 00:26:32,300 notice in Acts the second chapter, 20 second chapter verse 379 00:26:32,300 --> 00:26:34,400 16. And now why are you waiting 380 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:39,700 arise and be baptized and wash away your sins? 381 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:45,600 Calling on the name of the Lord. So when the sins are washed away 382 00:26:47,100 --> 00:26:51,300 now we have fellowship with God. Now we have the blessings that 383 00:26:51,300 --> 00:26:54,900 God has prepared for us. What do we do after we attain 384 00:26:54,900 --> 00:26:58,700 this hope? We keep ourselves pure from the 385 00:26:58,700 --> 00:27:01,000 world. First John 3 and verses 1 386 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,000 through 3 behold, what manner of love. 387 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:06,300 The father has bestowed on us that we should be called the 388 00:27:06,300 --> 00:27:09,500 children of God. Therefore, the world does not 389 00:27:09,500 --> 00:27:12,100 know us because it did not know him. 390 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:17,100 Beloved now, we are children of God, and it is has not yet been 391 00:27:17,100 --> 00:27:20,800 revealed what we shall be. But we know that when he is 392 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:22,700 revealed we shall be like him for. 393 00:27:22,700 --> 00:27:27,000 We shall be like him was so before because for we shall 394 00:27:27,100 --> 00:27:31,300 She'll see him as he is, excuse me and everyone who has this 395 00:27:31,300 --> 00:27:36,200 hope in him purifies himself just as he is pure. 396 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:40,500 So we continue to purify ourselves, we can continue to 397 00:27:40,500 --> 00:27:43,500 keep ourselves pure and separated from the world. 398 00:27:43,500 --> 00:27:48,700 Don't don't go back into sin. Don't leave God, don't separate 399 00:27:48,700 --> 00:27:52,300 yourself from God. Keep yourself pure in this world 400 00:27:52,300 --> 00:27:54,200 that we live in. We live righteously. 401 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:57,800 Also, tied his 2 and verses 11 and 13 for the So God, that 402 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:02,500 brings salvation has appeared to all men teaching us that denying 403 00:28:02,500 --> 00:28:07,000 ungodliness and worldly lusts. We should live soberly 404 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:12,000 righteously and godly in the present age. 405 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:17,500 Looking for the Blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great 406 00:28:17,500 --> 00:28:23,900 God and Savior Jesus Christ. So, we separate ourselves, we 407 00:28:23,900 --> 00:28:26,100 deny the ungodliness and worldly lusts. 408 00:28:26,100 --> 00:28:30,300 And we live, soberly and righteously, while we're here on 409 00:28:30,300 --> 00:28:34,100 this Earth, even though we put up with so much. 410 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:41,800 We still have to remain pure. The Hope talked about in the 411 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:47,400 scriptures is available, only to the Believers, isn't it 412 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:50,900 comforting than in the midst of this sinful world, we live in, 413 00:28:51,500 --> 00:28:56,300 we can have Assurance in something we can have faith and 414 00:28:56,300 --> 00:29:00,000 assurance and something a promise that was made by God to 415 00:29:00,008 --> 00:29:01,800 those who obey him and serve him. 416 00:29:02,700 --> 00:29:05,600 We sometimes have that feeling of despair. 417 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:10,400 But all we need to do is look to God for the hope. 418 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:21,000 Our hope is an anchor. Hebrews 16 or 6 in verses 17 419 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:26,100 through 19. Thus God determined to show more 420 00:29:26,100 --> 00:29:30,800 abundantly to The Heirs of Promise, the immutability of his 421 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:34,200 counsel confirmed, it by an oath. 422 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:39,900 That by two immutable things in which it is impossible for God 423 00:29:39,900 --> 00:29:42,700 to lie. We might have a strong 424 00:29:42,700 --> 00:29:47,600 consolation who have fled for Refuge to lay hold of the Hope 425 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:53,000 set before us. This hope we have as an anchor 426 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:58,000 of the Soul, both sure and steadfast Shannon fed steadfast 427 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,500 and which enters the presence behind the veil. 428 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:07,800 Mark Bailey writing in his commentary talks about these two 429 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:13,300 immutable things. He says they are defines this 430 00:30:13,500 --> 00:30:21,200 word immutable basically means fixed or unalterable, that means 431 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:26,500 whatever it is. It is and it can't be changed. 432 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:30,400 It's unalterable. And these things are it is 433 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:34,400 impossible for God to break, promise talked about in the 434 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:38,600 previous verses. And is impossible for God to MIT 435 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:44,900 misrepresent and oath. Therefore, it will be fulfilled. 436 00:30:46,100 --> 00:30:48,800 He goes on to talk about this strong. 437 00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:53,400 Consolation both of these truths that is it is impossible for God 438 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:56,300 to break a promise and it is impossible for God not to 439 00:30:56,300 --> 00:31:00,800 fulfill an oath or made. That all Christians will have a 440 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,900 strong. Consolation, the term strong 441 00:31:03,900 --> 00:31:08,400 means something that is firm or sure, and the term consolation 442 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:11,600 means comfort. Or possibly better 443 00:31:11,700 --> 00:31:15,600 encouragement. As it is translated in the 444 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:20,000 revised version, every promise of God is or will be fulfilled 445 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:24,400 and is unchangeable and is comforting for those who are his 446 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:32,200 children. fled for Refugee, Emser says, This phrase is based 447 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,600 on a provision. Under the Mosaic law system 448 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:36,900 whereby persons accused of a crime. 449 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,700 Whether guilty are not could flee to a place called as City 450 00:31:40,700 --> 00:31:44,800 of Refuge. Today, the only place where the 451 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:50,400 sinner can find Refuge is in the church is in the body of Christ. 452 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,500 We find Refuge from Satan in the church. 453 00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:58,800 He goes on to say, Mark, Bailey goes on to say about verse 19. 454 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:02,700 This hope we have as an anchor of the soul. 455 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:07,500 The anchor in ancient times was as well as in modern times, it's 456 00:32:07,500 --> 00:32:10,800 used as a symbol of Hope. In this passage it is used 457 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:14,900 figuratively signifying. A safeguard the Christians. 458 00:32:14,900 --> 00:32:19,300 Anchor is his hope of Salvation in Jesus Christ. 459 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:23,100 As long as he maintains his hope and it remains steadfast, there 460 00:32:23,100 --> 00:32:26,900 is hope for salvation. But he, who loses his anchor, he 461 00:32:26,900 --> 00:32:29,800 loses his salvation and Jesus Christ. 462 00:32:30,500 --> 00:32:32,100 And he goes on to talk about both. 463 00:32:32,100 --> 00:32:35,600 Sure, and steadfast the adjectives. 464 00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:37,300 Sure. And steadfast indicate that a 465 00:32:37,308 --> 00:32:42,100 Christian is Hope is unfailing and firmly fixed. 466 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:47,000 The Christian spiritual anchor or hope is sure and steadfast 467 00:32:47,100 --> 00:32:56,700 and it can be trusted. I don't know how many of us have 468 00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:00,800 been in a boat from time to time and and we put the anchor out 469 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,200 there. And, you know, I've sometimes 470 00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:06,400 thought I had a good, a good. Hold on the bottom and it's just 471 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:08,700 been in sand and it just pulls. You along. 472 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,300 Pulls you either Downstream or the wind pushes out a way? 473 00:33:11,500 --> 00:33:15,200 I didn't have a sure anchor, it wasn't steadfast. 474 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:18,500 It wasn't sure if I get that thing hooked on a rock. 475 00:33:18,500 --> 00:33:21,200 And sometimes I've had an anchor Hooked On a Rock so bad, I'm 476 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:22,700 like, the never got it off there. 477 00:33:23,300 --> 00:33:28,400 That's what Jesus Christ. Christ is That's the anchor that 478 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:32,500 we place our faith. In Our Hope in is Jesus Christ. 479 00:33:32,500 --> 00:33:38,000 The Rock of our salvation In 1882 Priscilla, Jane Owens. 480 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,000 A 49 year old school teacher from Baltimore wrote these 481 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:47,200 words, Will your anchor hold in the storm of life when the 482 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:49,600 clouds and fold their wings of strife? 483 00:33:50,100 --> 00:33:53,600 When the strong Tides lift, and the cables strain, will your 484 00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:58,900 anchor drift or firm remain? It is safely moored till the 485 00:33:58,900 --> 00:34:03,800 storms withstand forces, well, secured by the savior's hand, 486 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:08,199 and the cables passed from his heart to mind, can defy that 487 00:34:08,199 --> 00:34:12,400 blast through strengths Divine, it will surely hold in The 488 00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:16,100 Straits of fear When the breakers have told that the reef 489 00:34:16,100 --> 00:34:20,100 is near through, the Tempest, do the Tempest Rave and the wild 490 00:34:20,100 --> 00:34:25,699 winds blow, not an angry wave shall or our bark or flow. 491 00:34:26,199 --> 00:34:30,000 It will hold it will firmly hold in the floods of death. 492 00:34:30,500 --> 00:34:35,199 When the waters cold chill, our last breath on the rising tide. 493 00:34:35,500 --> 00:34:39,199 It can never fail while Our Hope abide within the Veil. 494 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:44,000 When our eyes behold through the Gathering night, the City of 495 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:48,900 Gold, our Harbor bright. We shall link or fast by the 496 00:34:48,900 --> 00:34:53,100 Heavenly short, but the storms all past forever more. 497 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:59,100 We have an anchor that keeps the soul steadfast and sure while 498 00:34:59,100 --> 00:35:03,200 the Billows roll, fastened to the Rock, which cannot moved 499 00:35:03,500 --> 00:35:06,400 grounded for am in deep in the savior's love. 500 00:35:08,100 --> 00:35:12,800 JC Sproul said hope is the anchor of the Soul because it 501 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:14,900 gives stability to the Christian life. 502 00:35:15,700 --> 00:35:20,500 But hope is not simply a wish, rather it is that which latches 503 00:35:20,500 --> 00:35:24,300 onto the certainty of the promises of the future that God 504 00:35:24,500 --> 00:35:29,500 has made. In conclusion, Christians are 505 00:35:29,500 --> 00:35:34,300 people of Hope. We are confident that God's 506 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:38,700 promises of something we long for will someday. 507 00:35:39,100 --> 00:35:45,400 Come This is a fundamental difference between us and the 508 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:50,700 unbeliever. We have a hope we have, if we 509 00:35:50,700 --> 00:35:53,800 don't have a hope, we have nothing, but if we have a hope, 510 00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:58,400 we have everything. And if we don't have a hope, our 511 00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:04,500 life is meaningless. while we deal with all the problems of 512 00:36:04,500 --> 00:36:09,300 this life and all the things that go on around us, And this 513 00:36:09,300 --> 00:36:12,400 world of Despair and hopelessness. 514 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:17,200 Our God is the god of Hope. And he causes us to abound in 515 00:36:17,207 --> 00:36:20,800 the Hope by the power of the Holy Spirit, Romans 15 and verse 516 00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:24,300 13. This world is a place of failed 517 00:36:24,300 --> 00:36:28,800 dreams and failed efforts. But our God is the god of a 518 00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,400 Living. Hope First, Peter 1 verse 3. 519 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,300 This world is a place of disappointments. 520 00:36:35,900 --> 00:36:40,800 What the bible promises. But God gives the Christian a 521 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:44,800 hope that does not disappoint the Christians. 522 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:48,600 Hope is important, it makes Faith Pleasant, it makes our 523 00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:51,300 life here on this Earth. Dealing with all the things that 524 00:36:51,300 --> 00:36:56,900 we deal with pleasant. We can see something better for 525 00:36:56,900 --> 00:37:02,900 us and we can find comfort in that Romans 12 and verse 12. 526 00:37:03,300 --> 00:37:06,300 Faith is not just a belief that God is, but also that he is a 527 00:37:06,308 --> 00:37:08,300 rewarder of those who diligently. 528 00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:12,300 Gently seek Him, Hebrews 11 verse 6 and that is the pleasure 529 00:37:12,300 --> 00:37:14,700 of faith. Hope causes us to focus on the 530 00:37:14,707 --> 00:37:18,600 things that we desire and not the things that we endure here 531 00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:23,200 on this Earth. It anchors the soul, nothing can 532 00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:25,100 sway us. Nothing to keep us. 533 00:37:25,100 --> 00:37:28,200 Nothing can pull us away. Not the trials, not the problems 534 00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:30,800 that we put off with. Not the distress, not the 535 00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:36,900 persecutions, maybe even death. As long as our hope is grounded 536 00:37:37,300 --> 00:37:39,300 firm and deep in the savior's love. 537 00:37:40,500 --> 00:37:46,500 We may always be ready to give all an answer of the hope that 538 00:37:46,500 --> 00:37:50,300 lies within us. With meekness and fear, first, 539 00:37:50,300 --> 00:37:53,000 Peter 3, and verse, 15, Ephesians 4. 540 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:57,100 And 4 tells us that just as there is only one God and one. 541 00:37:57,100 --> 00:38:00,400 Lord, and one spirit and one Faith. 542 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:05,100 There is only one hope that means the Bible only points us 543 00:38:05,100 --> 00:38:08,700 to one thing as the objective of our desire. 544 00:38:08,900 --> 00:38:12,200 And that means that we can only expect one thing to happen at 545 00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:15,300 the end of this life, and we can have hope in that. 546 00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:18,600 And so What is the Christian hope? 547 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:23,800 Well, again, Titus 1 and 2 tells us that the Christian Holt is 548 00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:27,500 eternal life. My question to us this morning 549 00:38:27,500 --> 00:38:31,100 is do you have a hope of eternal life? 550 00:38:37,100 --> 00:38:42,300 if you died today, would you have a hope of a hint of Heaven? 551 00:38:43,700 --> 00:38:47,200 Are you saved? Have you been baptized for the 552 00:38:47,207 --> 00:38:50,900 remission of your sins? Have you been washed? 553 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,700 By the blood of Christ. Have your sins, been washed away 554 00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:58,600 by the blood of Christ? If you are a child of God? 555 00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:01,800 Are you living a life of sin to where you are? 556 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:06,200 Not in harmony with God that you that you are not living the life 557 00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:10,800 that you need to be? Do you have sins that you have 558 00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:12,600 not made, right? Have you committed sins that 559 00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:16,700 you're not repenting up? Are you struggling in life and 560 00:39:16,700 --> 00:39:21,600 not giving up sin in your life? Are you living in this? 561 00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:24,300 Censor this feeling of Despair and hopelessness. 562 00:39:28,500 --> 00:39:32,400 Why are you waiting? Why are you waiting to get right 563 00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:34,700 with God? Don't lose hope of your 564 00:39:34,700 --> 00:39:36,700 salvation. Second Corinthians 6 and verse 565 00:39:36,700 --> 00:39:39,900 to behold now is the accepted time behold. 566 00:39:39,900 --> 00:39:45,000 Now is the day of salvation. The lesson is yours. 567 00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:49,300 We thank you for listening to our podcast, put on by the 568 00:39:49,300 --> 00:39:55,000 Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. 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