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This afternoon, we welcome again
each and every one of you to the

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assembly. 
The worship service of the 

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Church of our Lord and Savior. 
Jesus Christ. 

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It's been a great day on many 
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that this morning, we had the 
great privilege as well as 

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blessing to gather together to 
worship God. 

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Through Jesus Christ. 
Remember, the death burial and 

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resurrection of our Lord and 
Savior, Jesus Christ. to be able

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to have lunch together, for 
which the ladies and The fellows

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that cook deserve our richest. 
Thank you to be able to sing 

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together and now to conclude our
time together here at this place

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in just a few minutes. 
I want to thank this 

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congregation for the invitation 
to come here. 

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It's certainly like seeing 
family in more ways than one not

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only Brothers and Sisters in 
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And anybody that knows what he 
knows that she just loves coming

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here and so it's just beneficial
all the way around. 

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You encourage us and strengthen 
us and we thank you for that. 

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This afternoon, I want to talk 
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about hope. 
And it's not hope and a sense 

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that you probably heard over the
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It's not the sense of one of 
those quickie get it out of the 

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way sermons where you kind of 
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But I want to talk to you about 
Hope and how it can help you and

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I and our daily walk. 
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And I can use hope as described 
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ourselves. 
Strengthen ourselves help others

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be a better servant to God. 
Be a better. 

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Spouse of better brother or 
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help all of us to grow. 
Have you ever set goals for 

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yourself in your Christian walk?
Have you ever sat down for a few

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minutes and on a piece of paper 
wrote down several goals that 

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you might have as being a 
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of the list would be to go to 
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You'd certainly have in there 
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If you have children, the 
faithfulness of your children or

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family members to help your home
congregation grow to improve 

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yourself to gains in knowledge, 
which in turn, helps you to gain

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in strength and an understanding
and the ability to save and help

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others. 
Some of the things that would be

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on that list are things that 
hope Define Nelson's Bible 

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dictionary defines, hope as a 
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Bible. 
The word, hope stands for both 

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the act of hoping. 
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Romans the fourth chapter and 
verse 18, The Apostle Paul would

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write who against hope believed 
in hope that he might become the

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father of many nations according
to that, which was spoken so 

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shall thy seed. 
Be course, the Apostle there was

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talking about Abraham and those 
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and the Book of Genesis will 
understand and know exactly the 

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story as it's laid out. 
How Abraham had been promised by

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God? 
That it would be his seed. 

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It would be through Abraham that
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Abraham and his wife, Sarah were
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And as only Humanity, can find, 
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relationships Sarah and gives 
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Association is born a son. 
Ish meal. 

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Abraham was content if you can 
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his line would pass through wish
meal, but God had other plans 

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for Abraham. 
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Abraham and Sarah were both old.
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pregnant and she would give 
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And it would be through Isaac 
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continue to be fulfilled that 
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be fulfilled. 
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faith that Abraham had to have. 
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years old or close to it? 
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to think about this and the wife
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tells you we're pregnant. 
You'd not only probably fall out

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of your seat that you'd probably
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process. 
The hope that Abraham had was 

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his faith and conviction. 
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also put it to this way in First
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saith. 
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for our sakes. 
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This is written that he that 
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And he, that thresh's shouldn't 
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hope, Colossians 1 and 5 for the
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in heaven. 
Where have you heard before in 

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the word of the truth of the 
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The Apostle Paul gives us two 
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And to think about, first of 
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what it is, you're doing in your
service unto God, it should be 

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done to the very best of your 
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Because of the promise that is 
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And I and a home in heaven, have
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Of course, not have any of us 
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Then that we can go from what we
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Rational human beings to 
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the Son of God. 
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as God and of Christ, and of 
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and promises that we find in 
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We know, of course, that the 
foundation is what we find in 

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the pages of inspiration and our
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But what causes us to press on 
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being fulfilled. 
It is our hope, and having 

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confidence. 
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rewarder of those that 
diligently seek his son and our 

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Savior Jesus Christ. 
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what God has said, welcome to be
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out in the future that a day is 
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When all of The promises of God 
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Now, you and I can read in the 
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read about what a wonderful 
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that is the home of the redeemed
and we can read that, we will be

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there all of eternity. 
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That helps us to carry on. 
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proven. 
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but Faith, takes it a step 
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have assurance. 
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what we find in scripture, for 
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We've never seen heaven. 
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lived on the face of the Earth, 
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seen heaven. 
Yet, we have witnesses, both 

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those for and against that's all
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We have witnesses, both those 
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the birth of the church. 
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that lead us to believe through 
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That the things that we read 
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Miracles, his ability to heal 
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His ability to walk on water and
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raise From the dead. 
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It's not just a matter of the 
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would be those that could be put
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That could say that were alive 
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I saw the man. 
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man. 
I saw what he did. 

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Hope is something that you and I
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dealing with Heaven from 
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We won't be able to find a 
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they've seen firsthand the 
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But we can believe that God is a
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diligently seek him. 
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God does not lie. 
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reward for those that diligently
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All in heaven. 
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Does not arise or change from an
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but from God who is in himself, 
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David would say in Psalms 39 and
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know, genuine hope is not a 
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know, I have you ever thought to
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Well, you know, I wish I could 
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this or I wish I could do that. 
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Hope is the firm assurance. 
That God is the author of The 

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Salvation of humankind that God 
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his promises. 
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mankind. 
You know, I can hope. 

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That my guys do a good job at 
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I can hope that they're 
productive but unless I am there

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to oversee and to make sure 
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room for failure. 
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With God, there's no such thing 
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because God himself is the 
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Because God himself cannot and 
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chapter verses 24 and 25. 
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we are saved by hope, but hope 
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what a man seeth. 
Why doth he yet hope for But if 

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we hope for that, we see, not 
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Wait for it? 
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that would be laid out a little 
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understand but really in essence
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clear as he possibly can for our
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Why would you hope For something
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You see that conflict? 
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A step farther, and brings it 
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And I as members of the body of 
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enough? 
To run the race to its 

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conclusion. 
To be rewarded with all that God

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has promised. 
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down to. 
There's Legions of people in 

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this old world. 
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Put all of their hope and trust 
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And now have gone off to do 
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they must do that. 
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God. 
You see their patients wasn't 

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honed where they could fulfill 
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But the Apostle Paul tells you 
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That the hope that we have. 
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and all that that entails. 
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If we run the race with 
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And I finish what we start, can 
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And I get to the finish line and
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Simply put I would say this. 
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If you don't believe in God or 
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you don't believe that Jesus 
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your hope is shattered so to 
speak, then I would recommend to

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you that beginning. 
As soon as we're finished this 

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afternoon, that you go out and 
live life for all the Gusto, you

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can grab because if you don't 
have hope in God, and you don't 

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believe in heaven and you don't 
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That Jesus Christ is the Son of 
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to expect is what you can 
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whole life. 
And you'd better go out and live

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with all the Gusto, you can 
conjure up and you'd better go 

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out and sin and sin and sin like
there's no tomorrow because if 

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your hope is a non Heavenly 
things than it can only be on 

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things on this Earth. 
And you'd better make the very 

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best effort. 
You can to go out and be 

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fulfilled. 
I'm not quite sure what the 

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Fulfillment of that would be. 
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you broken and empty and 
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but if we cannot put our hope 
and trust and faith in God, Then

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all you and I have is what we 
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And we'd better get right out 
there and grab for all we can 

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get. 
And Hebrews 11 and verse 1. 

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Now, Faith is the substance of 
things hoped for the evidence of

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Things Not Seen and Hebrews 11 
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being warned of God of things, 
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Seen moved with fear prepared an
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by the, which he condemned the 
world and became heir of the 

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righteousness, which is by 
faith. 

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The Hebrew writer there and 
eleven, and one tells us that 

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hope. 
I don't want to misquote. 

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This faith is the substance of 
things hoped for the evidence of

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Things Not Seen. 
Now, let's look very quickly at 

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the example of Noah, you all 
know the story of Noah and the 

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Ark, but let's back up just a 
little bit and let's put this 

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all into perspective in a way 
that brings it right to our 

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front porch. 
Ryan decides that. 

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He's been told by God to go out 
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He doesn't decide, he's been 
told by God to go build a boat. 

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So he goes out and begins to 
accumulate all the materials and

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he begins construction on this 
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That wouldn't be very long till 
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to laugh and joke and ridicule 
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He's lost his mind, whatever it 
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there. 
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That's the position. 
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his task. he labored and labored
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about you, but most of us I 
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we'd stand a few days maybe of 
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to everybody's jokes and 
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And destroy the world. 
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sometimes overlook. 
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There had never been rain upon 
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The Bible is clear and its 
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that all things have been 
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imagine what people must have 
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Has he continued on? 
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Each and every one of us for a 
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talking about building a boat. 
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Does your Faith and Hope and 
confidence in God set, you apart

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in that, you don't partake of 
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schoolmates may do that. 
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or do you just kind of go along 
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and Hope and conviction in God, 
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the point of drawing attention 
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following the will and word of 
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ability. 
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fact that you have hope faith 
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Or do you get swayed by friends 
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Use profane language in any 
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You see you and I can be Noah in
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The question is, do we have 
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Like Noah had that will stay the
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Or do we kind of get bumped 
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will win. 
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with these people were another 
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And ask yourself this. 
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tomorrow, And it wouldn't matter
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And you ask them to go to church
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What would their reaction be? 
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That you go to church. 
Would they be surprised that, 

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you know, anything about the 
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Or would your life and speech? 
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we should be in the sight of 
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And even though they might not 
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they know full well where you 
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They know full well where you 
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On spiritual matters on things 
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hope and conviction. 
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But sanctify, the Lord God in 
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Always to give an answer to 
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A reason of the hope that is in 
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first John, three, and three and
every man that hath, this hope 

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in him purifies himself even as 
he is pure. you know, it's been 

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mentioned twice in the public 
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today. 
Would, you know? 

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Where to go in your Bible if 
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you what it took to be saved. 
Would you be able to give them 

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some kind of Direction? 
Or would you have to flip back 

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to the back of your Bible and 
look in the text and look in 

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help mates and well it's here. 
It's here somewhere and I'll get

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it for you. 
You know, if I ask somebody To 

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help me find the way to 
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they were a member, Of their 
church and they've been baptized

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and they couldn't tell me how to
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I wouldn't have a lot of 
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it would lead me to believe that
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How can something so important? 
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Where is our hope? 
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And Hebrews 7 and verse 9. 
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perfect. 
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hope by the, which we draw nigh 
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13. 
The Apostle Paul would right 

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now, the god of Hope fill you 
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believing that ye may abound in 
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Holy Ghost. the song that Aaron 
LED, number 162, If you have the

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book in front of you, I want you
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We're not going to sing this, 
but read the words, cares of 

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this life often make us forget 
what hope and joy Christ can 

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give. 
Let us all remember his words 

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and for his glory now live 
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Kind there in the course, cares 
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Often make us forget what hope 
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We get sidetracked so easily. 
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and we forget that we have all 
of the treasures that matter in 

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this old world in God, All that 
matters. we let this thing in 

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that thing and you know, we have
a disagreement with this one or 

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that one and it's like watching,
uh, watching some kind of a 

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barometer, you know, if we have 
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Well then our faith cools off, 
but if things are well, then our

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faith gets hot and our faith 
calls off. 

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In our faith gets hot, We need 
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According to the word of God. 
How it is that we can stay 

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enthusiastic. 
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And not let the little cares and
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Throw us off. 
Now, I understand there's things

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in this life that are terrible 
but let's let's take it right to

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the very Crux of the matter. 
What's the greatest thing in in 

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this life that you can hope for 
heaven, what's the worst thing? 

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That could happen. 
Hell. 

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So you have the greatest and the
worst. 

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And when you look at those two 
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to you? 
The most cares and concerns with

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this old life, really? 
Aren't the big deal. 

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We make him out to be. 
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it comes down to. 
Where is our emphasis? 

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Finally, in closing. 
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16. 
Now our Lord Jesus Christ 

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himself and God even Our Father 
which hath loved us and have 

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given us everlasting consolation
and Good. 

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Hope through Grace Romans 15 and
verse 4 for whatsoever. 

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Things were written aforetime 
were written for our learning 

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that we through patience and 
comfort of the scriptures might 

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have hope. 
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verse 23 if you continue in the 
faith, grounded and settled, and

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be not moved away from the hope 
of the Gospel, which ye have 

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heard and which was preached to 
every creature, which is under 

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heaven where of I Paul and made 
a minister I would leave you 

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with those words, down there and
Colossians 1, and verse 23, if 

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you continue in the faith, 
grounded, and settled, And be 

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not moved away from the hope of 
the Gospel. 

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Which he have heard. 
We don't even need to finish the

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verse. 
Today, ask yourself. 

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Where is my hope? 
is my hope tied to things that 

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really have no bearing on my 
salvation. 

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Or as my hope tied to the hope 
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God almighty. 
Remember this? 

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God is the author. 
Perfecter and finisher of our 

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faith. 
And it through the death burial 

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and resurrection of his son and 
our Savior Jesus Christ. 

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The way was paved for you. 
And I instead of being strangers

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instead of being estranged from 
God, to be reconciled to God. 

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So one of the greatest barriers 
was not down with the death 

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burial and resurrection of our 
Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. 

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But that's not where it starts 
and stops. 

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You see if you and I aren't 
convicted in our faith 

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conviction. 
Hope belief in God. 

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Then we won't take the steps to 
be saved. 

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We won't Avail ourselves to the 
greatest gifts ever been given 

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to mankind. 
And I don't know about you. 

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But I want to spend eternity in 
heaven. and I believe, That 

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heaven is real. 
And I believe that heaven 

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exists. and not because I said 
so but because the Bible says so

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And that's where my hope. 
Faith and confidence lie. 

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