I want to invite your attention to a passage found in the book
of First John, the fifth chapter and I want to begin reading
there in verse 13. First John, chapter 5 in
beginning there, in verse 13, John said these things.
I have written to you, who believe, in the name of the son
of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, you may
continue to believe in the name of the son of God.
Now, this is the confidence that we have in him that if we ask
anything according Adding to his will he hears us?
And if we know that he hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we
have the petitions that we have asked of him.
If anyone sees his brother, sinning, his sin, which does not
lead to death, he will ask and he will give him Life For Those
who commit sin, not leading to death.
There's a sin leading to death and I do not say that he should
pray about. That all unrighteousness is sin
and there is a sin not leading to death for a little I don't
want to talk from these passages as found in the Epistle of John.
But first of all I want to just say this that we live in a world
that is filled with uncertainties we are unsure
what's going to happen from moment to moment day to day week
to week, we have no idea. There are many things in our
life that are completely uncertain.
In fact, we live in a world that's filled with uncertainty
as a society for example. We are so concerned about
circumstances and we are so uncertain about them that many
times, we spend large sums and large percentages of our money
on insurance policies warranties and guarantees all with the
possible contingency in life. In the back of our mind, to
cover every one of those. There's even people today that
spend large sums of money on mediums astrologers and fortune.
Tellers, all for the List of trying to grasp some insight
into the otherwise, unknown future, and all of this is for
the purpose of removing, some of the fear of uncertainty.
I haven't seen it in a very long time, but when I was a kid, I
remember seeing bumper stickers, maybe you've seen them too, but
I remember seeing bumper stickers and signs, that Sid,
the only things in life that are certain are death and taxes,
remember that we used to see that from time to time.
Time and all of. That's because we live in a
world. That's filled with uncertainty
but the Christian has around him because it's found in the word
of God, the child of God because of the Bible has certainties
that we can hang our hat on in this life.
For example, we are certain How the Universe began and we are
certain how it will end. We are certain why, and how God
created everything that in the very beginning, he literally
spoke Thing into existence and it was so we are certain why
people behave the way that they do we are certain about what is
right and what is wrong. We are certain about the
elements that make for good Human Relationships.
We are certain about how to get to heaven.
We are certain that he'll waits for the disobedient.
And for the ungodly, we are certain about God's promises
were certain about his son and our savior.
We are certain about His substitutionary death on the
cross, his literal resurrection. And we are certain that one day
he will come again in God's appointed time.
So in a world of uncertainty we the child of God Lives by a
standard of absolutes. For a little while tonight I
want to talk about two things, two, great certainties for the
child of God. Now, I want to say this,
somebody said one time that in the writings of John they are
filled with encouraging words. In fact, once said one time that
the great news of the Gospel is the great news and in The Gospel
according to John because it's a message of salvation.
But the Epistle of John is also great news because it's Message
of assurance. Look at verse 13 of our text
really quickly, and we're going to notice our first point.
And by the way, if we don't have this, we don't have anything.
If we don't have this, then nothing else in our life
matters, it doesn't matter what we achieve.
It doesn't matter all of accolades that may come our way.
Nothing in the world will matter.
If we do not have this but the child of God has an assurance
and a certainty. The number one here, it is to
know that we are saved and verse 13 of our text.
John said these things. I have written to you, who
believe, in the name of the son of God, that you may know that
you have eternal life and that you may continue to believe in
the name of the son of God. John right here is telling
Christians why he's writing. He's telling them, he's writing
to give them an assurance of eternal life.
Now I To say there are sometimes things in our life that we come
to know over a period of time. I was a painting contractor for
24 years. I don't know how it is in the
state of Missouri, but I'm going to tell you how it is in the
state of California. If you go into the Union's, for
example, you start off as a first period apprentice and it
is a five it has a 10. Apprenticeship 9 and out and
what it is over a period of five years.
A person starts learning at the very beginning as the first
period of Prentiss. And by the way, if you're a
first period of Prentice painter, you don't get to hold a
paintbrush. Rush, you don't even get to hold
a caulking gun, you hold a piece of sandpaper and a couple of
buckets and that's it. And then you kind of gradually
learn a little bit more and they let you handle a caulking gun.
And then one day, all of a sudden you spent all this time
and some journeyman hands, you a paint brush and you get the
prime something big stuff. My point is you learn the trade
over a period of time and there are many things in our life that
we have knowledge of today that we didn't have knowledge of a
year ago. Why?
Because we've come to learn them over time.
The word no, In this passage is found 39 times in the Epistle of
John and it does not mean to learn gradually.
He said I'm writing these things to you that believe in the name
of the son, Son of God that you may know you have eternal life
that word. No means to know for certain.
It means to know in the here and now got to make a point though.
There's a difference between assurance and arrogance and
there's a difference between confidence and conceit.
I'm not saying that we are saved by our own meritorious works.
I'm not saying that at all and all the things that I will do in
my life, you know what, if I keep everything, if I do
everything, you know what I am. The Bible says that I'm an
unprofitable servant saved by grace.
You have always spin that I have on that is really kind of like
this to practically apply it. What does that mean?
I've heard people say you see if I do everything that the Bible
says I'm just gonna barely make it does that sound like Peter
said, having an abundant entrance into the Everlasting
Kingdom one day? It doesn't sound like that.
To me, it doesn't mean that if I'm a unprofitable servant saved
by grace, it doesn't mean that if I keep the Commandments of
God, I'm going to barely squeak in that.
I mean that at all, what that means is and I think that's what
started out about the idea of being an unprofitable servant if
I hire shot. Hey, and I pay shot.
Hey, ten dollars an hour and I sub him out to somebody else for
the services that I've contracted out and I charge $20
an hour on chai. Hey, you know what Shah he is?
He is a profitable servant. Now, I will never become a
profitable. A servant to Jesus because I
will never mean more to Jesus than he means to me, I'm still
going to be an unprofitable servant.
Still not going to deserve it. It still will be a gift and it
still will be Grace, but it doesn't mean I'm going to barely
squeak in. I'm going to tell you if I make
it to Heaven, we're going to kick the doors down.
We're going in with an abundant entrance.
The Bible says, if we make it To know for certain start says that
this does not mean that we gradually grow in certainty, but
that we will possess it in the here and now, A present
certainty that we are saved. I have to make another point.
I am not saying a doctor and I don't believe in a Doctrine, you
know, this already of once saved, always saved.
I'm not saying that at all. And the Bible is clear that if I
don't keep the Commandments and I don't keep living the
Christian Life as I should, I Fall From Grace.
And if I do not make those things right, I'll be lost.
I know that I'm not preaching a doctrine of once saved, always
saved. But please understand this.
Sometimes our people believe in the concept of what saved
forever lost. We can have an assurance in a
confidence that we have eternal life.
Now the Same author. The same author that gave.
The Assurance is the same author that gave the conditions.
There are conditions to our Salvation, you know, we can
basically sum it up this way. There are two things that we
have to fit or fill conditions. Wise, number one, we have to
break with sin. And number two, we have to obey
the truth for the rest of our lives.
Everything in the, in the Christian Life falls into that
category. There are conditions on
Fellowship, we have to break with sin and we have to obey the
truth. And first John chapter 1 and
verse 6, the conditions of fellowship.
If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in
darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth now.
Taste some folks You know how we know if we're in fellowship with
somebody. Here it is.
How do you know how do I know if I'm in Fellowship?
I'm talking about spiritual Fellowship.
I'm not talking about just being friends.
I'm talking about spiritual Fellowship.
How do I know, the only way that I can know?
If I'm in fellowship with somebody else?
Is these conditions, number one, if I am in fellowship with God
because I do not walk in darkness, I walk in the light if
I am in fellowship with God. And another person is in
fellowship with God, then we are in fellowship with each other,
but if I'm in fellowship with God and this other person over
here is not in spiritual fellowship with God.
There's no way we can be in fellowship with each other.
We are not, we are divided. We are separate.
How do we know if we say? We have fellowship with him and
walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
All right, listen to this in verse 9, First John 1:9, if we
confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins,
and number two to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Now, Maybe you've heard brother, Joe, hisle over the years.
Use this example, he used the example.
There was a sister in Christ, and he was holding a meeting
somewhere and he offered the invitation.
And here comes this sister, walking down the aisle with
tears streaming down her face. She came up in the song was over
and she's sitting down next to brother Joe and she tells
brother, Joe, I have sinned and I've been asking God to forgive
me for 20 years. I've been asking for forgiveness
for 20 years and I'm scared to death.
I'm not forgiving Did you know that she was forgiven the first
time? We read the passage, again,
listen to this. If we confess our sins, he's
faithful and just to do two things.
One, forgive us, our sins and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness. Now what is the word confess
mean the word confess does not mean reluctant admission.
It's kind of like when you're a kid and you get busted and your
parents are they got you dead to rights and you deny it until you
can't? And you reluctantly admit it's
kind of like these police shows, like these police shows.
I like the investigation shows and they get some guy in the hot
box in there and they start grilling this guy and they say,
we got you dead to rights. We saw you, we got all these
Witnesses in the what me? What me, what me, what me and
pretty soon after hours are wearing the guy down, you know,
he says, all right, I admit it, I confess.
That is not this word. This word confess is the word
human Leggio. It's a compound word comes from
two other words, homeless, and Lego, and it means to say the
same thing. In other words, when you confess
to God your sins, you do it in this fashion with Godly sorrow
with repentance and you do it in such a way.
That you literally are saying the same thing about that sin
that God says about that sin. And you know, What happens?
He forgives every sin and even cleanses you from all
unrighteousness. One scholar said that literally
means he removes the contamination.
Even of that sin, it's gone. Remember when Jesus gave the
example of the Pharisee, and the Publican, I'm not going to talk
about the Pharisee tonight. I just want to make a point
about the tax collector, You remember when Jesus describes
these two guys and you got the Pharisee over there and he's
basically thanking God for all the great things that he is.
And you know, really he might as well just say, praise God for
the way he did it, such a wonderful job on him and how I
turned out. So great did a great job on me,
might as well have said that. What about the flip side?
What about the guy that was a tax collector?
What about the guy that was guilty of extortion?
What about the guy that was a sinner and recognized it?
And the Bible says that Jesus describes this, man, this man
won't even look up toward the heavens.
He bows his head down, he smote his breath breasts, as an
outward sign of inward anguish. And he says what God, be
merciful to me. The original says this, The
Sinner You know what that is? That's Humalog.
Yo. That's saying the same thing
about your sin that God says about that sin.
That's confession of sins with repentance and godly sorrow and
when you do that you are forgiven like it never ever
happened chapter 2 and verse 1 of First John, my little
children, these things I write to you so that you may not sin
and if anyone sins, we have an advocate with the father Jesus
Christ, the righteous John pictures Jesus as our lawyer,
pleading our case, if you will, when we sin and we're going to
make mistakes, we certainly are. And when we do, we literally
throw our self as it were on the mercy of the court and beg for
God's forgiveness. And Jesus.
Who is our propitiation in that? He paid our fine for us and God
for Christ's sake. Forgives us.
All right. What if you went up to somebody
tomorrow? Row and you said, are you saved?
What if you went up to somebody and you ask them, are you saved?
You're going to get all kinds of ideas.
If you go up to people in the world, you say you saved
somebody might say well, yeah. Or somebody might say, well, I
think so. Somebody might say, well, I hope
so very few. People are going to say, nope.
Nope, not me. Going straight to hell.
The question is, can you know? The answer is, yes, you can.
Here it is. There's a three-fold test.
John gives it. Here's number one, The Obedience
test and it's found in first John chapter 2 and verse 3.
Listen to this. Now by this we know there's that
word again to know for certain same word by this.
We know that we know him, that's a different word, that's a
relationship. We know that, we know him if we
keep his Commandments. Oh, let's just plug in the words
of what they mean by this, we are certain that we have a
Relationship with God if we keep his Commandments.
Now, the first thing that a person has to do is obey the
gospel. If a person does not obey the
gospel, That's The Obedience test that's first and foremost,
they're not going to be saved. That's the first thing.
Everybody must come to Jesus. Come believing in Jesus
repenting of their sins confess, his name as the Son of God and
be baptized in water for the remission of sins.
But it doesn't end there. The rest of our life is to be
filled with obedience, obedience to the word of God obedience.
By the way, that we worship obedience.
By the way, that we live, by the things that we teach by the
things that we practice, by the way, that we dress and on, and
on, and on, according to the word of God, The Obedience test.
Secondly though, secondly, is the disciple test and it's found
in 1st. John, Chapter 2 and verse 6.
Here it is. He who says he abides in him?
Ought himself also to walk just as he walked.
So, first and foremost, I have to pass the obedience test.
Am I doing that first? Am I a Christian?
If I obeyed the gospel and a, my obedient to the word of God, in
my life, that's number one. Go to the next one.
Am I walking? As he walked if I say, I'm a
disciple of Christ, I need to be more like Christ in my life.
Now I'm going to tell you, you are never in your life going to
live it in sinless Perfection, you will not and neither will.
I but our goal. Jesus is the bar, Jesus is the
standard. We need to strive to be more
like Jesus in everything that we do in our life, the disciple
test. But thirdly, this is the hard
one. Sometimes we say, oh absolutely,
I have a, the word of God. Absolutely.
I'm trying to walk as he walked keeping sin out of my life and
all that. But then there comes the third
test, you know what it is? It's the love test. oh, people
misunderstand love In 1st John Chapter 2, beginning in verse 9.
He who says he's in the light and hates his brother is in
darkness unto. Now he who loves his brother
abides in the light and there's no cause for stumbling in him.
But he who hates his brother is in darkness and walks in
darkness, and does not know where he's going because the
darkness has blinded his eyes. Now, I don't think I'm speaking
to anyone here that is guilty of not loving their brother.
What I've seen in a few days that I've been here is a
congregation filled with wonderful people.
And as an outsider looking in you appear to be people that
love each other and you demonstrate that with kindness
one to the other. So I don't think I'm talking to
anybody here tonight but let me just say there is a third test
and it's called the love test and if I say that I walk in the
light but I hate my brother, I'm a liar and I'm in darkness now,
what do we say a few nights ago? I think it was back Sunday
night. I made the point about love and
what love means and what hate means.
It all that the way that you demonstrate, whether you love or
hate, someone is, by the way that you treat someone.
I'm going to tell you, there are people that will not give you
the warm fuzzies. There are people that just don't
give you that warm sensation inside that you feel love for
and there are people in your life that you love without
having anyone command you to love them.
You love them naturally. That's not this word that is
phileo. I'm talking about agape love,
it's a love of service and sacrifice to others.
And by the way, it's always the love that's attributed to God.
And he gave the greatest sacrifice of all he gave his son
for the sins of the world. By the way, it's kind of hard
enough. Even it's hard enough even to
love your neighbor. I've had some neighbors that
really weren't worth loving. It's hard.
Sometimes to love your neighbor. But Jesus said, go a step
further and love your enemy. What's that mean, that means, by
the way that you treat them, but the greatest way that you can
demonstrate love to them, is that you still have a desire,
even though they're rotten rotten rotten.
You still have a desire that they go to heaven.
You want them to be saved to. You want their soul to be saved,
too. That's the epitome.
That's the highest point of your demonstration of love for them.
Am I saved and my past in the It's test.
Am I passing the disciple test? Am I passing the love test?
All right, there's something else.
That's great. And I want you to get this,
please, because this is a blessing that the world does not
have. Number one, a blessing, the
world doesn't have is to know that you have eternal life.
That's number one. Another Blessing the world
doesn't have its right now, you know what?
It is confidence in prayer. That God actually here's our
prayer. My talk about what that actually
means in a minute but I want to talk about confidence and
prayer. First, John 5:14, listen to this
Now, this is the confidence that we have in him that if we ask
anything according to his, will he hears us?
The word confidence comes from the Greek word, which refers to
boldness and freedom with which one speaks.
It's in chapter 3, beginning in verse 21 and 22.
It speaks of boldness in our prayer life.
Notice beloved, if our heart, which is the mind.
If our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward
God, that whatever we ask we receive from him.
Because why do things we keep his Commandments?
And We do those things that are pleasing in his sight, okay?
Verse John 5:14 that if we ask anything according to his will
he hears us? What is God's will?
What is it? It's what God Wills, what God
desires? What God wants or what God
allows and to pray. According to his will is to pray
with that provision when Jesus in Matthew 26, was in the
garden. He prayed to his father three
times. He said, if it's possible, let
this cup pass from me, but not my will, but thy will be done.
In other words, he poured his heart out to God, but he put it
all in the hands of God. He said if it really is your
will remember last night I said very quickly in passing that
when you pray according to God's will with that provision and you
say those words, you have to mean it and you have to actually
be okay with the answer. If you're not going to be okay
with the answer, don't pray if it's your will because you don't
mean it. If you pray according to God's
will and you say if it Be Your Will you have to mean it, you
have to be okay with the answer. All right, what does it mean to
hear? Listen.
God hears, the audible sound of everything.
To say that God cannot hear the audible sounds that are in the
world of a sinner praying is to limit.
God, I've heard people say that God can't even hear the audible
sound. In other words, it's blocked
off. He's not even capable of
hearing, the audible sound of a sinner.
That's not what that means. God hears everything.
So, what does it mean the promise to the child of God?
What does it mean that God Hears A Christians prayer?
Here it is. The very fact that he hears
prayer. We Vine says signifies that he
answers prayer. In other words, God hears, the
audible sound of everything, but he only answers his children.
That's the difference. That's a great blessing.
The word here, presupposes a response.
Remember that country song years ago, sometimes I thank God for
unanswered prayers. Interesting, isn't it?
It's the world. The concept that if you ask for
something and you don't get it that God didn't answer it.
Okay? I'm gonna tell you right now.
If you're a child of God and you ask in faith believing according
to God's will, God answers every single prayer, you pray.
I want to tell you a little story, just a little example.
Something happened to me years ago as a painting contractor,
when I was still doing that, you know, one of the things, one of
the challenges that you have in business, as, you know, no
doubt. You got to try to round up
enough work to keep your guys working all the time, but at the
same time, you have to have enough cash flow that you can
pay your bills and you have to have some good jobs that you
have some volume. So that the company gets, well,
you need all that. There's a hotel downtown
Bakersfield called the Padre Hotel years and years and years
ago, was a very famous hotel. Very nice had theme rooms and
all this. You know, what happened over
time, it became a home for slums, homeless people live
there, it was run down to nothing.
It was awful, disgusting. There was a company down south
in the Los Angeles area and you know what they did, they bought
the Padre Hotel and they said we are going to refurbish the whole
thing. We're going to restore the whole
thing and all that. I got to tell you, I wore my
knees out, praying that God would give me that job.
I wanted that job so bad. You know, why?
Cuz in my mind I'm thinking this is the job we're going to have
cash flow. It's going to keep my guys
working for a long, long time. It's going to be all that.
It's gonna be great. It's gonna take All this
pressure off, right? I prayed and I prayed and I
prayed, and I prayed, and the outside of the bid, the Outside
Alone was over a hundred thousand dollars worth of
painting. I didn't get it.
I was disappointed. Really disappointed.
You know, what happened? It was some new fellow that got
his license. You have to have a contractor's
license to contract in California.
His license. He went and got the job.
Oh, he was just absolutely just happy as can be when you talk to
him, you know what happened, he did the work and got beat out of
every dime. He got beat out of every penny
and it broke his company all. I'm saying it in my mind.
This is the job. And God said know, sometimes God
knows more than we know. Now, I'm not saying that is not
a testimonial, I don't do that a testimonial, I think it's wrong
because when you preach people give testimonials what they're
doing is they're attracting attention to themselves.
I'm just giving you a little example.
I thought I was wrong. I thought this was it.
God knew more than me. And I'm thankful now that God
said, no, he said no to my request in Mark chapter 11 and
verse 24, we find also, we must ask in faith believing.
Therefore, I say to you, whatever you ask, when you pray
believe that you will have it and you will have them.
The blessings are for his children.
Only remember in John chapter 9, when Jesus heals, the man that
was born blind, remember when they tried to say the Pharisees
tried to say, oh he's a sinner. And all that.
Remember what happens the man that was born blind said this.
Now we know that God does not hear that means answer, he does
not hear Sinner's but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does
his will him, he hears and that word simply means answers.
Look at first, John 5 and verse 15.
Watch this. And if and that word means since
since, we know that he hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we
have the petitions that we have asked of him.
In other words, we have so much confidence that God is going to
answer our prayers. Then when we bow the knee before
him and we pour our heart out to him and we prayed but not in
faith believing and we pray. According to God's will as we're
actually making the petition. We know that God's answering
that prayer. Great confidence.
Great blessings. For the child of God.
All right but now we got to come down to one final thing.
We got to talk about a passage found in verse 16 that sometimes
is really misunderstood. Let's talk about that verse, let
me read it first, break it down. First John 5:16 if anyone sees
his brother, sending us in, which does not lead to death, he
will ask and he will give him Life For Those who commit sin,
not leading to death. There's a sin leading to death,
and I do not say that he should. About that.
All right, you got two kinds of prayers.
That seems like two kinds of sins here.
It says one, you got to send that is not unto death and to
you got to send that is unto death.
And John says, if you see a brother and he sending a sin
that is not unto death, that's the King James.
The new King James, says leading to death.
You will ask and God will give strength, God will bless that
person. God will do that.
Give life for the one who's committed, a sin that is not
leading to death. All right?
What kind of death is that talking about?
You can pick up a commentary and it'll say, I read a commentator
one time. It said, well, that death is
physical death and what it means is, you can ask God to forgive
you of any kind of sin, except the one that leads to capital
punishment. Is that what he's talking about?
I've heard another say this though, it's physical death.
And therefore, as long as a person doesn't die, then they
still can be forgiven, but if they commit a sin, the takes
their life, they can't be forgiven.
That what that's talking about? Absolutely.
Not folks is talking about spiritual life and spiritual
death. The entire epistle is filled
with what spiritual life and spiritual death.
What does John already say? He says, we go from what from
Death to life. Now, he wasn't talking about
people, being raised from the dead, he's talking about,
spiritual death and spiritual life.
And when we come to Christ in Christ, we have Spiritual life.
So what he's talking about is he's talking about a sin that
does not lead to spiritual death.
You ask God, and God will give life for the one who commits
such a sin. All right, what's the sin unto
death? Then what is that?
What's the sin that is unto death?
What's the big, bad Sin? All kinds of ideas?
People think some say it's the unpardonable.
Anibal sin of Matthew 12 and Mark 3, some say it's the
willful sin of Hebrews chapter 10 and on and on and on what is
the sin that leads to spiritual death?
Here it is. Here's the big bad, terrible
rotten sin, here it is. And he sinned That you will not
make right? Any sin that you will not repent
of give you an example. Let's just say that brother.
So, and so here, I'll just create a guy, he's out of Duty,
he leaves the church, he goes out into the world of sin.
He doesn't want to make things, right?
He turns his back on everything he's ever known.
Own. He decides to go out into the
world and commit sins and be away from the church, guess
what? That is a sin that leads to
spiritual death or a separation from God.
He won't make it right. He won't repent.
John said if your brother is doing that kind of sin.
Don't pray for him now. That doesn't mean don't pray
that they come back. That means don't, pray that
they're forgiving in their sinful state.
I got loved ones, folks. I got family members some that
are out of Duty. I pray for him all the time.
I pray that they will repent and come back so that they can be
restored. And forgiven, I just don't pray
for their forgiveness while they're in that state because
until they come back, they are committing a sin that leads to
spiritual separation from God. That's the sin unto spiritual
death. Now, let me ask you, what if
somebody commits that kind of a sin, What if somebody actually
does that? Can they be forgiven?
Absolutely remember that passage found in first John chapter 1
and verse 9 that is an absolute of any sin.
There's not a sin that you can commit, you cannot be forgiven
of watch this first, John 1:9. If we confess our sins, he's
faithful. And just to forgive us, our sins
and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Okay. These are great blessings for
the child of God. These are tremendous blessings
folks. And sometimes when you feel as
though you're getting discouraged because things are
not going your way in your life, remember something you have
something that the world doesn't have.
That's a fact. The world might think they have
it, they may think they want it. They may standing and encourage
one another with it, to make him feel better and days of sorrow
and sadness. Perhaps, when they stand over a
new Leaf. Grave of a loved one, I don't
know. But there's a difference.
There's a difference for the child of God.
The child of God can know for certain.
He is saved and know that when he asked God God will answer his
or her prayer. One final thing.
Remember last night, I closed with the word hope.
I want to tell you the difference between the world's
hope and our hope and then I'm finished.
There's a difference between the worlds.
Hope, you know what? The world's hope is the world
taupe is postponed. Disappointment, give you an
example, I love my sister. Loved her very much.
We're 11 months apart, where's close to being twins as you can
without being twins? I guess we're 11 months apart,
my sister and I, I remember growing up, we'd be watching a
football game on TV and our team was just getting whipped.
I don't know by 40 points with a minute left.
Left and my sister would say, well don't worry.
There's still hope. Yeah, no, there isn't.
That's postponed disappointment. Because guess what?
In one more minute we got to eat and swallow.
The fact that we just got waste, we got whipped.
Postponed disappointment. That's the world's hope.
The child of God has real hope. It's a belief in a trust in God,
that God is in total and thorough control in our life in
both Time. And Eternity that we can know
that when we pillow our head tonight, when we ask God to
please clean our slate and please forgive us of any sin
that is in our life. We can pillow our heads tonight
and know that if the Lord comes back we're going on.
That's a great blessing, know, were saved and that God answers.
Our prayers Christian certainties.
I'm through tonight.