079 The Fundamentals: Hope

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draweth Nigh. Welcome, Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the program. We

are your host, Mariah and Matthew. Tonight we're getting back to the fundamentals.

Tonight's topic is hope, because this very disturbing verse in First Corinthians,

chapter thirteen, Verse thirteen states it very very painfully and very plainly. It

just makes it perfectly clear that the fundamentals of Christianity is a whole lot well

different than what everybody presupposes because that versus Now, faith, hope, and

love abide these three. But the greatest of these is love. So states

the English Standard version. This thought process caught me by complete surprise. But

yet it's there, and it's in your faith Christians, Hope, faith,

and love. And if you don't do those three things, you are fundamentally

not what you say you are. So ryan you're opening comments on hope.

Well, I don't know. I guess I'll just start by saying, what

are we without hope again. That was what we said last week. What

are we without love? What are we without hope? And exactly we're like

everybody else. Yeah, I mean you understand that everybody else don't believe that

Jesus Christ is God the Son. They don't believe he read they they do

not believe that they themselves even last eternally when they do, they think.

You know, they've been taught via the education system that once you die,

you just blink out. You're done. So they literally have no hope.

This is what has created the apocalyptic suicide rate. We have a young people.

That's what's done it. They have no hope. What what are we

if we can't hope for Christ coming back? I mean that's our whole thing,

right, you know, we hope in the return of Christ. Right,

we like literally can't wait. We're so excited, Like I want Jesus

to come back. Right because when Jesus comes back, he sets up the

Garden of Eden as it was supposed to be ran. That's really where we're

going. And this is going to take place for a thousand literal years.

And take note, ladies and gentlemen, if you come from a church,

that is all millennial. They don't believe in the millennial reign of Christ.

That's just enough to just let me put it to you this way. Even

the Muslims believe that Jesus is going to come back in the end times.

So without this, you're not what you say you are. If you say

there is no point when the Creator gets to have his creation the way he

wanted it and designed it, you're something else. You're different than me,

okay, because my entire will is bent on him having his will. And

after a lifetime of Christianity, that will has naturally been bent straight. Because

my carnal nature, I have it crooked. But as every day goes by,

it gets straightened out more and more and comes in line with what his

will was, which was the Garden of Eden. And these all millennials,

Oh, they mash their teeth at that. They hate God, They hate

his will, they hate what he wants. They hate that he's the creator

and he's going to judge. They hate all of that. So a Christian

is diametrically opposed to all their emotions, their lies, their deceit, their

murders, their hortoms. Were separate from all that we have hope. They

don't because we hope. That's right. We hope and something better that's right,

and that better will be established for a thousand year iron fisted rule of

the Lord Jesus Christ. Those that are innocent will not come under the subterfuge

or the trials and tribulations anymore from the wicked that quite simply will not be

tolerated. I have some verses and I want to start with first of the

one is the one that you've put in the document. But I'm going to

scroll down to the last few verses because those are the ones that hit home

with me. For we know that the whole of creation groans and suffers the

pains of childbirth together until now. And not only this, but also we

ourselves, having the first fruits of the spirit, even we ourselves grown within

ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.

For in hope we have been saved. But hope that is not seen

is not hope, for who hopes and what he all already seas. But

if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance, we way

eagerly for it. That's literally what the entirety of this versus saying that's it

right there, that's it, And it's literally saying that the entire creation grows

to get from out from underneath the boot of the rule of the wicked.

Okay, I mean, how many animals have gone, you know, extinct

and we don't even know. Okay, how many beautiful pristine rainforest have been

raped and literally made desolate entire rainforest? Okay, I mean we could go

on. How many swamps, which is the lifeblood of creation itself, they

produce so much oxygen. Okay, how many swamps have been drained? It

just is enough to blow the mind. But I like these last persons where

it's talking about in hope, we have been saved, right, First of

all, that's the first thing it says, in hope we have been saved.

But hope that is seen is not hope. So we can't hope in

things that we can see. That's right, for who hopes and what he

already sees. But if we hope for what we don't see, with perseverance,

we wait eagerly for it, that's right. So how how can we

be saved if we don't hope for the things we can't see? That is

Jesus. That is Jesus. Yes, we have hope that Jesus is there

with us. We have hope that Jesus is coming back. And therefore therefore

we up Jesus into our hearts. Therefore we believe. Therefore we become Christians.

I mean, what was the other verse that you said that literally?

I mean, is can we believe without hope? No, that that's pointless.

You have no hope. This is what the munda. You know,

vast swaths of the church is doing right now. They claim to be Christians

and they're doing Christianity, but they do not hope in the Lord Jesus Christ.

I mean, that is enough to really rattle your cage when you're able

to realize the extent that this goes on. Because most people that sit in

the pew, they read their Bibles, right, yeah, and they completely

read Revelation chapter twenty and come to the conclusion that the Creator is going to

have it his way just like he wanted it in the Garden of Eden,

and that's going to transpire on the earth. That's really going to happen.

But you know, we need to come to grips with this that the Eastern

and Oriental Orthodox Churches. They don't believe in the millennial ray of Christ.

Roman Catholic Church doesn't. Do you know how many people you're talking about just

right now, let's talk about the Protestant denominations that reject the millennial ring of

Christ. They literally reject They don't think the hope. They don't think Christ

is coming back. That's right, Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican, Methodist,

and Messianic Jews. So what do they believe. They don't think Jesus is

coming back. They think he's going to come back and immediately hand it over

to God, and he's going to recreate the earth. They just literally remove

the millennial ran of Christ. They think he's going to come back everybody and

God the Father is going to recreate everything. They literally take Revelation chapter twenty

and remove it from the text. They literally have no hope. They have

literally a destroyed what the Bible calls the blessed hope. Okay, let's read

Titus chapter two, verses eleven through fifteen, For the grace of God has

appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly

possessions and to live self controlled upright and godly lives in the present age,

waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God

and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself up for us to redeem us from

all lawlessness and to purify for himself of people for his own possession who are

zealous for good works. Declare these things exhort and rebute with all authority.

Let no one disregards you. Period. At the end of the sentence,

they have rejected this blessed hope. They're saying that, no, God don't

get to have his own people here on earth to rule and reign over.

They reject that and say we're all going to get out of jail free and

go to heaven. Okay, this is loudly describing that the Lord Jesus Christ

is going to rule and reign over righteous people, and that happens for a

thousand years. They have rejected Titus chapter two, verse thirteen. They've rejected

the blessed hope. This isn't any hope, Mariah, it is the blessed

Oh yeah, is that enough to leave you stunned for a minute or what?

Yeah? I guess, But like in my opinion, it's not just

this one hope that that we're talking about here, it's hope in general.

You know, well, yeah, because this is why there's also another special

term you understand, the return and rule and rate of Christ. That's called

the blessed hope. It's a very special hope. The New Testament also has

another word for this. It's called the living hope. Okay, once you

understand that, once you memorize verses like this, you'll begin to understand why

they don't have any hope period. Blessed be the God and Father of our

Lord Jesus Christ. According to his great mercy, he has caused us to

be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the

dead. So here is the problem, Mariah. This verse is saying that

if you don't believe in the blessed hope, you don't have the living hope

because you have not been born again, you do not have the dwelling of

the Holy Spirit. Therefore you've hatered after the doctrines of demons. You understand.

Let me read that verse again and understand. This is more true than

the sky being blue. This is more true than water being wet. One

Peter, Chapter one, verse three. Blessed be God and Father of our

Lord Jesus Christ. According to his great mercy, he has caused us to

be born again to a living oak through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the

dead. They've not been born again. So all these church denominations that I

talked about when we're talking most of the church Eastern and Oriental Orthodox, both

of those Roman Catholicism, the Lutherans, the Reformed, the Anglican, the

Methodist. I'm sorry, I have to disagree with you. I don't think

that just because you haven't read that one part in the Bible, that you're

not a Christian. I didn't say you weren't a Christian. I said you

weren't born again. Yeah. I don't think that really, So how can

you contradict this verse. I'm not contradicting the verse. I'm just saying that

if if you haven't read that part of the Bible, and you don't know

that part of the Bible, I don't think that looks town says the living

hope that the Holy Spirit has. Whether you read it or not, is

it regardless, doesn't matter if you read it if you don't have your living

hope, it's because you're not born again. You don't have to read verse.

What do you mean about how do you define living hope? What the

verse said? You have been reborn through the resurrection of the Lord J's Christ.

So they've gotten saved, they've been baptizing to the Lutheran Church, the

Catholic Church, the Reformed Church. But they this verse is saying you have

not been born again if you don't have that living hope, which is the

blessed hope. Yeah, yes, yes, I know, you don't have

to agree with me. Yes, it is true. So you're saying the

hope that we've been saved, yes, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from

the dead. Oh, there's a big difference from getting saved at the altar

and being born again. Okay, I was just confused with what you're saying.

No, I agree with you. Well, I'm glad you asked for

clarification. Yeah, but when you realize how many churches this is affecting,

it's it's worrisome. To say the least. You have to believe that you've

been saved by the blood of Jesus Christ. You have to believe that he's

been born again, and you have to believe that he can essentially raise you

from the dead and cause you to be born again. If you can't have

hope in that, you can't believe. But yet they say they do believe.

Let me put it this way. If you can't have the hope that

you can be saved, you can't be saved. Yes, that's true.

That's true. And we both know that. You know. Well, let's

read some more verses. We haven't read Romans chapter five one through five yet,

have we. Okay, let me read that. Therefore, having been

justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

through whom we also have obtained our introduction by faith and to disgrace in which

we stand, and we exult in Ah of the glory of God. And

not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation

brings perseverance and perseverance, proven character and proven character, hope, and hope

does not disappoint because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts

through the Holy Spirit, who was given to us. It's saying it here

a different way. This is the dwelling of the Holy Spirit, and without

it you've not been born again, Mariah. And without it, once again,

I say what the earlier verse said. Without this, you've not been

born again, and you have no hote. You're a dead issue. I

mean, you can be a Catholic to the cows come home, you can

be a Lutheran from cradle to grave, and if you've not been born again,

John chapter three and first Peter chapter one, scream it out. I

mean, is in this saying that the Holy Spirit will give us hope?

Yes, yes, the only and this is part and parcel with with also

the Bible saying that when the Holy Spirit comes, it will lead us into

all truth and will show us what is to come. What is to come,

Mariah, We've just been discussing him. What is the blessed hope,

the rule and the reign of the Lord Jesus Christ on the earth, having

set up a garden of Eden for a thousand years. And I don't know.

I love the way it puts this. It says, and perseverance,

proven character, and proven character hope. So if proven character causes hope,

isn't hope? An article of proof is a proof that you have that proven

character a man. Is it not proof that you know, if you go

defire yourself with a prostitute, isn't that proof you are not a Christian?

Okay, if you partake in and pay for any any way of doing this.

This includes pornography. Right, So if you're viewing pornography on the web,

okay, you are partaking with a Harley, right, doesn't matter if

that Harlod is a male or female. You are not a Christian, Mariah.

You do not have proven character instituted upon you through the power of the

Holy Spirit, the dwelling of the Holy Spirit. So yes, everything that

just came out of your mouth, that is true. That's true because that's

what the Bible said. This is how you know someone who's been born again.

I'll read it again. This is how you know somebody's been born again.

And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing

that tribulation brings perseverance and perseverance, proven character, and proven character. Hope.

That's how you know when somebody's been born again, no matter what happens,

no matter what they're faced with. I mean, how many times have

this family been faced with things all of them. Okay, let's talk about

this. What happened within weeks of you coming back home? We used to

have three vehicles, right, Okay? Did we weep and well? And

did we say God don't love us? And did we roll over and play

dead? What happened? I'll tell you what happened? Nothing, nothing happened.

And how many vehicles have we had since you've been born? Every one

of them. You need to understand that every one of them we never sold,

Mariah. They were junk so by the time that we had to get

another vehicle, we had to call the junkyard to come get it. We've

never sold one of our vehicles. That reminds me of another verse I put

in here. Let me see how I can find it. Yeah, it's

down there, I see it. Which is very troubling that you would include

this one in here, but to go for it. All right, So

I'm just going to go ahead and read the whole thing. Well, tell

everybody what you're reading first, and reading Jeremiah chapter twenty nine, verses one

through fourteen. Now, these are the words of the letter which Jeremiah the

Prophet sent from Jerusalem to the rest of the elders. Of the exile,

the priests, the prophets, and all the people whom nebecon Azer had taken

into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. This was after a king jess Andiah and

the Queen Mother, the court officials, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem,

the craftsmen and the smiths had departed from Jerusalem. The letter was sent by

the hand of Alassa, the son of Shaffen, and Jamia, the son

of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah, king of Judah, sent to Babylon, to

nebicon Azar, King of Babylon, saying, thus says the Lord of Hosts,

the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into

exile. We'rem Jerusalem and Babylon. So this is to the people. This

is to the people who are in exile, not you, actually, yeah,

go ahead, build houses and live in them, and plant gardens and

eat their produce. Take wives and become fathers of sons and daughters. And

take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husband that they may

bear sons and daughters and multiply there and do not decrease. Seek the welfare

of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the

Lord on its behalf or in its welfare. You will have welfare. For

this, says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel. Do not

let your prophets, who are in your mints and your diviners deceive you,

and do not listen to the dreams which they dream, for they prophise I

false leave you in my name. I have not sent them to clear the

Lord. For thus says the Lord. When seventy years have been completed for

Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill my good word to you to bring

you back to this place. For I know the plans I have for you

to clear the Lord for welfare and not for calamity, to give you a

future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray

to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and

find me. When you search for me with all your heart, I will

be found by you, declares the Lord. And I will restore your fortunes

and will gather you from all your nations and from all the places where I

have driven you, declares the Lord. And I will bring you back to

the place from where I sent you into exile? Is this chapter not commanding

us to hope? Absolutely? And actually this is why only our prophecy model

works because this includes the Great gathering, so we hold to a relocation prophecy

model. This is true. This is why we hold to this because take

note, this is exactly what's going to happen in the future. It literally

states here that Okay, God himself will gather us from all the nations and

from all the places where I have driven you, declares to the Lord,

and I will bring you back to the place from where I sent you into

exile. This is h Yeah, I don't I don't have any word for

it, well except hope. Now, Uh, Mariah's flipping back and forth

from the Bible. Well, I deleted the verse numbers and want to rear

to the verses I highlighted. I don't know if you know which specific verses

those are. Well, so I'm trying to find it in my Bible so

I can refer to specific verses. I won't be easier if I just click

on it. Right, I've got it right here. Oh do you,

Jeremiah, what chapter you remember? You better remember build houses and live in

them, which verses five five through eight. So these verses aren't just talking

about a hope in the future coming back of Christ. That's right, that's

you're absolutely right. We are too, Yeah, that we are to occupy

all right. This is why the Lord Jesus Christ in the Garden of geth

sevene. Okay, that's why he said he prayed to God the Father,

do not take them out of the world, but keep them in the world.

Okay. So there's no such false teaching as being raptured to heaven.

That's not going to happen. We're not going to heaven. Jesus is coming

to earth, okay, And that's what this relocation will facilitate. And all

scriptures bear witness to the great gathering before the tribulation. But think about it

this way. We are meant to hope in whatever we do, right,

I mean right, God is commanding us to have hope now right now.

He doesn't want us to just be, you know, wallowing in our misery

and our self pity because the world is such a bad place. He wants

us to build houses and live in them gardens and eat their produce, build

families and multiply and seek the welfare of the city where we have been sent.

And then and then after he gives us all these commits, we get

further to the last few verses. That's what twelve eleven through fourteen he says,

then you will call upon me and pray to me. So these verses

he's expanding from the command of hope, and he's now he's going into the

promise of hope and the virtue of hope. And he's saying, then,

after you hope in all these things, after you've accepted me as being your

savior and your shepherd and your shield, then you will call upon me and

come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will

seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart,

and I will be found by you, declares the Lord. And I will

restore your fortunes and will gather you from all the nations and all the places

where I have driven you, declares the Lord. And I will bring you

back to the place from where I sent you into exile. So once you

give him that hope, then he's going to he's going to bring you under

his wings. Right, And I just think that that verse in that passage

is so precious. Well, it's very precious, because this is literally saying

that when he says he will come to you, that's the dwelling of the

spirit. You've been born again. Want steak, But how do you do

it? You must seek him with all your heart. Once you seek him

with all of your heart, that means you put your retirement aside. Yep.

Okay, you know long because this is mainly what people worry about.

Okay, ninety percent of the time they're worrying about how much their paycheck can

go to savings for retirement. Okay, you put that in the garbage you

start building up for the king. Take notes that it was amazing that you

are commanded to bear children and train them up in the Lord. Right,

and they're supposed to have children. You're supposed to be giving your sons and

daughters you know, to each other us. This is removing nationality from the

equation. Yep. Look. Romans chapters nine through eleven proves that the citizens

of the Israeli Empire are not God's chosen people. You are. Christians are

God's chosen people, and Christians are supposed to marry Christians, and Christians don't

have any skin color yeah, Okay. We are a coat of many colors,

so it really doesn't matter as long as you're yoke together with them through

your hope in the Lord Jesus Christ. Yep. Okay, So this it

just blows me a Wait that verse eleven comes right out and says it for

I know the plans I have for you. These the work plan does not

mean today. Plans are in the future, right, little plan. I

think what he's talking about here, he's talking about your whole time, the

entire timeline of Israel, God's chosen people. Those are Russian Christians, Polish

Christians, American Indian Christians. Yeah. Yeah. And as Christians, we

don't we don't worry about our mistakes we made in the past. I mean,

that's something that's something that's brought up a lot in church and in worship

songs, is we don't worry about what we did in the past. And

one of the main reasons for that is because we know that God has a

plan for us from beginning to end. He's got the whole story. And

let's let's clarify past. Your past is before you were Christian. Okay,

that's your past once you get saved you're in Israel, then it transfers to

the future. So your past actions you did before the Lord Jesus Christ saved

you, that's your past. Your future is in him. That is the

blame, I said, Hope, that is the living. And I would

like to point out something else about these same verses. Is this not describing

the salvation plan? Is this not describing salvation when you call upon him and

come and pray to him and listens to you, and you seek him and

you find him when you search with all your heart. That's what I said.

I just think I think that's amazing. I would like to back to

the last last week when we were talking about how love is a fundamental to

being saved. I think that it's with Hope. Well, well, I'm

beginning to think that their event horizon is the same place exactly. It's it's

that crisis moment whenever you cry out to God. I think I think we

proved this existentially in the in the last episode, because that I think that's

actually what's what he's saying that. Yeah, I think that to which you

must have faith, hope, and love, or that's what he gives you

upon salvation. I don't yeah, I think it's above our pay great,

okay, because this much is true. How many people got saved before they

understood that, you know, Genesis chapter one, Okay, But after they

got saved they had to faith enough to read Genesis chapter one and say,

yeah, I mean God's God. I mean, if he wanted to take

the work that on the first day, if he wanted it to take a

million years, he could have. But he didn't. He said he did

it in one day. And he said it even further, he said,

there is evening, there is morning one day. So this takes faith,

right. Yeah, So I'm not so sure that you're giving you you are

given faith, hope, and love upon being saved. I don't know.

Yeah, I think it goes both ways. And you admitted that yourself that

before you you were saved, you you you really weren't loving people too well,

right, I didn't even understand. And I think it's the same with

hope. Why why what I hope before I was saved? What's the point?

You know? No, I guess I don't know. I think Christ

gives us a different kind of boot. He he takes our book or any

bitty or any bitty little children's book. He opens it up and he writes

a whole new chapter, and that whole new chapter is like a whole leg

style. Right. Well, I mean this is for sure, many many,

many, many people have false hope. Okay, many people hope in

the lottery, right, so they played the lot I mean I've known,

I've worked with people that they would take like a hundred bucks out of every

every single paycheck. And there were times where I was having to give them

a ride because their vehicle broke down. I would have to be on pay

day. They want to go take it to go get it, and I'm

like, what are you doing? Then? So, yeah, you know,

there's a lot of people that hope in the stock market, they hope

in this, they hope in that, and then you know, along comes

some airplanes and crashes into their system. But there's all kinds of people that

how many people have faith in black magic? Let me tell you that's the

wrong thing to have faith and open, but many do. I mean,

you do know why that. I mean, there's not too many newspapers that

actually get printed anymore. But you realize one of the main items in the

newspaper is the horoscope, and they literally planned their day off that horse cope,

and in that is there is no hope. There is only death.

There's a reason why it's called black magic. Right. Well, I mean

that's the thing. There you go again bringing up a good point. Uh,

there's no hope in white magic, okay, And that's where a lot

of people get fooled. They're like, why am I doing black magic?

I'm only doing positive magic. Now you're gonna promptly burn in hell? Okay,

that's that. That's what's happening. We don't need to say that about

people we don't know. But yes, magic is very bad. It's not

positive. It is not what deceived people think it is, right because they're

deceived. It's not hope. The only place that we can find a real

living hope is with God. And you can you can figure that out when

you walk in any church to not be nation. When you talk to any

real Christians, you will see their hope. So, you know, Mariah,

you're bringing up a very painful point that you and I have been talking

at length about here lately. You know, where is the main hope for

today's generation actually being done? You think it's since you're at your normal brick

and mortar church. Is that where salvation is taking place? Is people getting

saved? There? No? Where is that actual? Where are there actually

alter calls where people can go turn their lives over to the Lord. J's

scratch, where's that happening? I mean you realize almost all the alters in

the churches across this nation have been pulled out, that there are no alter

calls anymore. Ye, I mean there is no one trying to proselyties the

lost at the damn, because that's what they are until they get saved.

I think though, and this goes, this goes with our word of hope.

I think it's scattered. I think it gets scattered and it's few in

between. But that's where we can find our hope. We can find those

little things that are doing a lot, and that's where we find hope.

I want to read this verse, and it doesn't come out and say the

word hope, but it is. It does mean a lot of hope.

And it's sorry I didn't write down hole verse in the document, but it's

and I love these verses verst. Thessalonian five or through ten. But you

brethren, are not in darkness that the day would overtake you like a thief.

For you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are

not of night nor of darkness. So then let us not sleep as others

do, but let us be alert and sober. For those who sleep to

their sleeping at night, and those who get drunk get drunk at night.

But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put

on the breastplate of faith and love and as a helmet the hope of salvation.

For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through

our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, so that whether we are

awake or asleep, we will live together with him. Therefore, encourage one

another in building and build one another up, just as you were doing.

This states it again, both those who are alive and remain and those that

have already fallen asleep, those who have already died, they're going to be

brought back to life, and we are going to live with him in the

re established garden of even yep. And it is plain into this is the

hope of our salvation. Even if we die, Okay, we are going

to be raged through the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. We are going

to live literally again, just like the Lord Jesus Christ be bopped around for

how long after he was cructified, he came and talked to at least five

hundred people saw him. There was no doubting what happened. That's what we're

going to do. And we have to keep that hope. And it's easier

said than done to remember the hope and to stay strong in that hope and

to live in that hope. It's it's easy to forget that you are a

creature of the day, that you are a son and a daughter of the

day and not of the night, that you have that hope of salvation.

And like I agree, I've been in those moments, you know, where

you you forget that there's hope and it feels like that you can't have that

hope. But as Christians, we are not only promised that hope, and

we are given that hope and then we are commanded that hope. And that's

that's how you came back right from you know, you're the first one in

the family that entered the ministry full time and come you know, and that

came to an end, right but you're not dead, are you. You're

already applying for different church camps because you know that's where God's saving people.

Because I have a hope. I have a hope, and I mean back

to Jeremiah twenty nine, I have a hope in God's plan for me.

I'm not gonna I'm not gonna let anything pull me down. You're not going

to roll over and play deck because you're not so and commanded to do otherwise

in my opinion, Right yeah, I'm not allowed to. Right right,

you're not allowed to. So what is this ominous reference here with no verses

about it? Either? Hebrew six. I was trying to do it really

fast, really well, yeah, that's really fast. Just Hebrew six.

So the whole chapter, I'm telling you right now, Hebrew six is more.

Is a whole lot more than you can choose, So don't write at

all. I was trying to find that very so fast, and I was

Hebrew. Hebrews an old destent. You were looking for Hebrew. That's when

I got to see that, man, I mean, that's that's really trick.

But if you're looking for the first reference, there is verse eleven in

chapter six. I mean, I don't know what your versus you. I

was just thinking that. And my Bible has it labeled better things for you

you versus nine twenty, And I just think that like this, this whole

chapter, I'm just gonna reade through it. This whole passage just has a

lot. But beloved, we are convinced of better things concerning you, and

things that accompany salvation. Though we are speaking in this way, for God

is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have

shown towards His name in having ministered and then still ministering to the saints.

And we desire that each of you show us the same diligence as to realize

the full assurance of hope until we end, so that you will not be

sluggish but imitators of those who, through faith and patience, inherit the promise.

Amen. For when God made the promise to Abraham, since he could

swear by no one greater, he swore by himself, saying I will surely

bless you, and I will surely multiply you. And so, having patiently

waited, he obtained the promise for men swear by one greater than themselves,

and with them. An oath given as confirmation is an end of every dispute.

In the same way, God desiring even more to show to the errors

of the promise, the unchangeableness of his purpose, interposed with an oath,

so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie,

we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the

hope set before us. This hope we have as an anchor to the soul,

a hope both sure and steadfast, and one who enters within the veil

where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest

forever, according to the or of Melchiz, dead forever, no ways,

A man, I mean, it's amazing me when you read it. It

supercharges me, It excites me. I mean, there's just so much there,

and all of it is hope, right, And that's what it said,

Who are we if we cannot hope? But better yet, who are

we that we can? Well? Who are we that we can hope?

Right? Well? This is those that don't hope are dead. Those who

do hope we are alive. We have a living hope. We are children

of the promise that a man, we are the children of this very promise.

Without this promise, there is nothing. There is no hope without that

promise exactly. And I love how it said because God is not a liar,

right a man. That's why all these things have come to be.

That's why all these things have come to pass. And that's why Jeremiah chapter

twenty nine is going to come to pass. Yep, it is going to

happen. I love verse twelve. So that you will not be sluggish but

imitators of those who, through faith and patience inherit the promises. Guys,

we are commanded to have hope, right, and I mean it is It's

not just an offer. It is a gift. It is the conduit of

our actions. It is why we do these good works that He keeps talking

to us, because we have hope and we want to give other people that

hope exactly. So hope is the conduit of your Christianity. It's a pillar.

Yeah, I mean that's what we kept We kept arguing about whether,

going back and forth, whether this series shouldn't have been called The Pillars of

the Faith, the Three Pillars. But yeah, we're we're holding to that

these are the fundamentals. Yes, they are fundamental. So no, we're

not going to change in midstream. But without faith, hope, and love,

you are nothing. Yep, you you have no future. I mean

you got one or two options. Honey. You can either live forever,

but make no mistakes. If you don't, you will die forever. Yep.

And hope is a beautiful thing, right. It takes this, It

takes this finite situation we're in called life and gives it immortality. Takes the

square and makes it a cube. I guess you could say, hey,

man, that's a good way to put it. That's a good way to

put it. I mean it just it just sharpens your view and it takes

you a million light years away into one. I don't know, hope.

I'm just I'm so happy that we can hope and what is to come we

can hope and what's next? Well, I mean, you know, this

reminds me of First Peter, Chapter one, verse thirteen. This is a

good example of how hope is to condu it. It says, therefore,

prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely

on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

So it is the conduit, it's it's it's how we prepare our minds for

action. We're supposed to do something, and you're right where that thing is

happening at is in camp ministry. It's not happening in the local churches.

Not happening not here. It's not well. I mean, I don't I

don't even know of a church that even does alter calls. They don't have

revivals, they don't have week long revivals where they bring in uh, special

revival teams, an evangelist with you know, with a with And that's the

thing. People don't even know what I'm probably talking about. Those days are

over. Here's what I think. I think, Bring hope with you wherever

you go, whether it's church, whether it's church camp, whether it's school,

whether it's work, whether it's the side of the street. You are

that light on the hill, whether you like it or not. You are

that lantern on the stormy side of the ocean, whether you want to be

or not. And that's an important mission. But bring hope with you wherever

you go, because you have the hope of Jesus Christ in you and just

like just like a lamp, you can you can light your neighbor's candle.

Somebody's gonna light it. Yep. Well, pretty good stuff, right,

pretty good stuff. So you're gonna pray us out of here or what yep,

or you're just gonna do the words prayer. You can do whatever you

want. Your brain watch prayer. Our Father, who is in heaven,

follow be your name, your kingdom. Come, Your will be done on

earth as it is in heaven. Do us this day our daily bread,

and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive the who truspass against us,

and lead us not into temptation. But you'll libress from the evil one,

for yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen,

Amen and Amen til next time, ladies and gentlemen, God bless god'speed.

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