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In Jesus name

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the title of today’s message is prisoners of hope

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I’m gonna begin by reading Romans 15 verse 13

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And this actually is a prayer Now may the God of hope

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fill you with all joy and peace and believing

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that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit

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I just want to look at this for a moment because this is an actual prayer Paul doesn’t just speak words

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He’s praying for people to have a revelation of something into an experience something for themselves He calls God the God of hope

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Let that sink in He’s the God of hope not the God of discouragement not the God of impossibility not the God of giving up He’s the God of hope in the midst of every circumstance trial and tribulation He is the God of hope in the face of all impossibility He’s the God of hope When the world is falling apart

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May He fill you with all peace

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and joy

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He wants you to have peace and joy for that is the kingdom of God

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in believing

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the key is to believe

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And the one whom the father sent

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that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit

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Just that one verse has so much packed into it doesn’t it

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Even that last clause

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by the power of the Holy Spirit

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we need to be a Holy Spirit filled church

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The church without the Holy Spirit has no power you will receive power from on high when the Holy Spirit comes upon you

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If we don’t have hope

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I wonder if we have the Holy Spirit

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is that’s a great way to measure Do we have the Holy Spirit The Kingdom of God is in righteousness peace and joy in the Holy Ghost Here it makes the Holy Spirit one of the fruits of it is hope without hope We have lost the Holy Spirit of God

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There is no discouragement in his presence

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There’s no boredom in his presence There’s no dissatisfaction in his presence When we drink the water that he gives we never thirst again

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And the challenge of the church of Jesus Christ in this hour is to stay in the Holy Ghost to stay in the Holy Spirit of God in the midst of the world that is falling to hopelessness and despair

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I actually had planned something else this week and then I had a dream about

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hope

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and it was really interesting because in the dream it was people that were really scared about the LGBTQ agenda

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And I I don’t know where you guys are or where you live in regard to such fears but walking with God we don’t fear anything

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And that’s why I was like do I really bring this up in our church Because we are hoping that people have such a vision of Jesus Christ and of his kingdom and of his salvation that nothing causes us to fear or be afraid that we don’t see impossibility in the face of every problem in this world And yet I know for a fact that this agenda is causing a lot of fear in a lot of people

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And not only is it causing a lot of fear on a big scale but we have a lot of Christian parents who have had their Children You could say abducted

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by the LGBTQ plus agenda

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because it is a form of child abduction It’s a robbing of life and a robbing of humanity and robbing of truth and dignity and purpose and significance

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And so many people are so afraid

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that their Children could be snatched by the LGBT Q agenda and destroyed

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But I’ll tell you what

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the most powerful thing

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to win a world

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that is groping for salvation because that’s what we’re really looking Looking at

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is a people that are bold and unafraid full of hope full of purpose full of passion and full of life

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that they could see something of the quality of the gospel of Jesus Christ in their life that they would say why would I forsake

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this great inheritance When I can see the effect that it has on the lives of people that I know I can see the righteousness peace and joy I can see the hope I can see the grace I can see the love I can see the mercy

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was talking with Bishop Ron earlier this week And he was talking about when Fernando brought a homosexual couple to the church here

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and he said right before they left because they got there in the military and got rest stationed they stopped him and said I want to thank you

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We know that you don’t approve of our lifestyle

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but you have loved us and you have welcomed us

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and you’ve cared for us

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And I think that that’s a real measure of success isn’t it

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They knew that they were loved they knew that they were cared for and they were loved enough to also know

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that it wasn’t approved of either

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I think that’s a big success isn’t it

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And if we’re really being honest about how broken this world is and if we really look at the things that rob people of life and lead them down roads that lead to death there’s usually a long history of being wounded

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and until those wounds are healed they often don’t just go OK Change

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Does that make sense

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There are so many things in a person’s life that until God puts his finger on it and heals them of those wounds

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they bear with things

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that he will later sanctify them from

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And that’s why we keep talking a lot in preparation that Jesus is our sancti fire

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That Jesus is the one who saves people And that when people fall in love with him when they surrender their lives to him when they come to believe he is the Christ the son of the living God he begins to work in the inside and starts to transform them from the inside out And we have to be patient with one another and gracious with one another and loving with one another but also speak the truth and love because the spirit of God works through the word

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But it’s not about condemnation It’s not about you don’t meet our approval that you have to do these things in order to belong It’s about God loves us and he designed us a certain way and it leads to human flourishing And when we’re living in ways that are contrary to the way that God designed us it leads to the very opposite of human flourishing

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But it’s just a matter of fact that very rarely can you beat somebody over the head with guilt and get them to actually have real life transformation You might manipulate them for a while to behave but you so such a resentment in them

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that it’s counterproductive

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And this is the challenge I think of the church of Jesus Christ to actually dare to believe that he’s at work in the church And if we get people to meet Jesus and be filled with the Holy Spirit he will break every yoke he will set the prisoners free

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and he will do it and we will come alongside and build them up not tear them down

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But at the same time say because I love you friend

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Let me tell you this is the way that leads to life

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It’s not about approval it’s about flourishing It’s about living life the way God designed it and attended it because it’s the best way

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It’s the king’s way

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When I think of this idea of hope

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and the need for hope it really hits people at so many different levels Do we have hope Because obviously in the dream was talking about the LGTBQ plus agenda and we’re really seeing that playing out at a national level and there is a lot of fear and fear mongering going on with it And the question that was asked to me in the dream wasn’t asked to me but it was

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to me of the nation Do you dare to believe that Jesus has the power to heal and to save Do you believe that Jesus has the power to turn things around And you think Well that question isn’t really even a good question Of course I believe that I know theoretically he can change things around But in your heart do you expect it

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there’s a big difference

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Hope that doesn’t expect

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is not really hope Does that make sense Are you expecting that God will turn it around in response to our prayers or your prayers

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Are you expecting that God I mean really it’s that simple asking you receive what does not yield to the law of prayer

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Come on Right If my people called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways Come on

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Do we actually expect God to turn it around

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But but the fears and the discouragement and the things that are robbing people of life go much deeper aren’t they

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There’s a generation of young people now that see no hope for the future They see that there will be no economy left There’s many who don’t even believe there will be an America left There are so many that don’t see that they will ever be able to get out of debt There are so many people that are living in a constant state of hopelessness and despair that they see no way out

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But yet that same warfare often hits believers in so many areas of our own lives

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in circumstances and situations that we face talking to pastor David yesterday It’s amazing what pain will do It can make you despair of life itself and pain can be physical it can be emotional but it can make you despair of life itself and see no way out

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to live without hope

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Do we dare to believe

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that we can experience the Holy Spirit

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turning around situations

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that we face at the highest level or the most basic personal level

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May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace and believing

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and that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit

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I just wanted to read some quotes of what hope has meant to some people in the past

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Thomas Fuller said great hopes made great men

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What a good idea isn’t it

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Great hopes make great men or women

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If we don’t hope for something great

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then there’s nothing compelling us Nothing driving us

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really just wanted to get some pictures of what hope can do and hear the language of people that have caught in the flu of hope the bug of hope the positive bug right

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Whatever and largest hope will also exalt Courage said Samuel Johnson

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If we can enlarge hope in one another it will exalt courage

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clement of Alexandria If you do not hope you will never discover what lies beyond your hope

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That’s really interesting isn’t it

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Because when we have no hope it puts us in a prison of despair

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we never can discover what lies on the other side of hope being fulfilled

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Like this George Herbert He that lives in hope Dances without music

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Isn’t that great He who lives in hope dances without music It’s like hope is a music in the soul that makes you dance and rejoice and celebrate all the time

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Roy Kemp there is no better or more blessed bondage

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than to be a prisoner of hope

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to be a prisoner of hope

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And and there’s so many ways you could take that right prisoners that have hope of God’s deliverance But how about literally I am bound to hope because I believe in Jesus Christ I have no other option

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I can’t have anything but hope because I know Christ has died Christ has risen and Christ will come again

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I can’t but have hope because every enemy will be put under his feet

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I can’t but have hope because I know that he is good and he is faithful and I shall see I know that my redeemer lives and I shall see his goodness in the land of the living Come on

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a prisoner of hope

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A w Tozer hope is a word which has taken on a new and deeper meaning for us because the savior took it into his mouth

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loving him and obeying him We suddenly discover that hope is really the direction taken by the whole Bible Hope is the music of the whole Bible the heartbeat the pulse and the atmosphere of the whole Bible

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I love that hope is the music of the whole Bible

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If I’m if I am losing hope if I’m discouraged imagine that listen to a song that catches you up into a world of hope

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It’s the whole music of the Bible It is the whole atmosphere of the Bible Hope just explodes off of every page of scripture There is hope

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There is hope

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even in the darkest hours when men

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and he felt

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God gives a promise of hope

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There is never a time where there is no hope

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And we know the end from the beginning it is written the line of the tribe of Judah has overcome He will wipe away every tear There will be no more sorrow there will be no more pain there will be no more suffering

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He was the Lord

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carries us victoriously through the dark of night

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And I’m just reading a lot of scriptures here But I want to mention that the context the context of scriptures locates hope in the atmosphere of the whole Bible

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because I was realizing when I’m

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picking out some of these scriptures it’s not like they’re definitions of hope Does that make sense But what happens is you’ll see hope is embedded in these passages that are surrounded in the context of scripture Because as a w Tozer said it’s the music of scripture It’s the atmosphere of scripture

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So Romans 51 through five therefore having been justified by faith

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and these words they they become so theological that they lose the joy behind it

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Therefore having been justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ through whom we also have access by faith into this grace in which we now stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God

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Like Paul is trying to use language to let us grasp something that that we were enemies to God We were cut off we were strangers were without hope in the world

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But then God sent his only son to die for us

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And by some miracle of His grace he opened up our eyes to see and know that He is the savior of the world the Christ the son of the living God

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And that our names are written in the lamb’s book of Life It’s like Paul is trying to wake and stir something up in us of remembrance that sometimes we lose in the language of it of what a marvelous and precious and glorious thing that God has done for us in Jesus Christ to not let it get lost in ritual or tradition or in just familiarity

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But to let it burn in us once again and invite us into his presence and invite us into that fellowship and communion with Him that is transformational

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and rejoice in the hope of the glory of God He puts all these little words in here that have so much meaning

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and not only that but we also glory in tribulations knowing that tribulation produces perseverance and perseverance character and character Hope

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Now hope does not disappoint

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because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts by the Holy Spirit

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who has been given to us

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Paul Paul’s writing because they were being persecuted for being believers in those days A lot of these passages that he wrote was in the context of persecution and in the context see God’s word has hope for every circumstance It doesn’t matter what it is

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And so Paul in another passage in Corinthians he said if there was no resurrection of the dead then we would be the most pitied of all people

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Why Because we stand against everything that is evil and unjust and tyrannical in this world And we’re proclaim not Caesar as Lord but Jesus as Lord we proclaim salvation found in no other name And we’re willing to lay down our lives because we won’t bow down and worship any other God

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Really Was that a good idea You guys are being put to death Was it worth it And he said that we preach the resurrection of the dead and the life everlasting We preach eternal salvation that there’s a home in the heavens not made by human hands And though they take this body

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we store up treasures in heaven

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that will never be taken for

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And so the church has flourished and endured every form of persecution because there is there is an ultimate eternal hope

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grounded in the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead because he is risen We too shall live

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that is a grounding of hope that will carry you through the worst of every situation Nothing can prevail against that hope period

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But a lot of people live in the midst of real issues facing real life today

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Is there that kind of hope in the gospel Is there a temporal hope Yes there is there is no area of life that is without hope in the gospel of Jesus Christ

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So we don’t want to miss either side of the eternal hope or the temporal hope Christian missionaries and preachers have preached to broken people and broken families for ages Jesus can heal you Jesus can set you free There’s no sin there’s no trouble There is nothing that is robbing you of life that he cannot set you free from

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But do we have visions to make it even larger There is no trouble facing communities or nations or this world that was not resolved at Calvary

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Is there not is there any enemy that wasn’t fully defeated by Jesus Christ And his shed blood Is there any enemy that he is not ascended and triumphant and Lord over Is there any area of life on planet earth that gets to escape his Dominion

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No he is lord over all and there is hope for every situation

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in Jesus Christ

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Maybe it will be through trials maybe it will be through tribulations maybe it will be through generations

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But Jesus Christ is victorious and Lord over

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isn’t that awesome

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and we need to hold both of those the eternal and the temporal hope

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I would challenge that often When I when I go back to that dream I had I think that many people have more faith in the power of evil and evil men

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than they have in the power of the gospel of Jesus Christ

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I keep going back to this idea of historically Christian missionaries who believed that they could tear into the darkest most evil places of planet earth and bring the light of salvation through Jesus Christ into the darkest most demonized deum people

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whether they were cannibals or whatever

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they dared to believe The gospel of Jesus Christ could save him and set him free

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David Lokeren New York City heroin addicts The light of the gospel can set them free There’s no area of darkness no bondage no stronghold that Christ cannot liberate from That used to be the expectation of Christians everywhere

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But now it seems like we have more faith in the power of evil corporate America to own government and to pervert things and more faith in the power of the LGBTQ plus and more faith in the power of media or TV or entertainment or whatever

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We have to ask the Lord have we fallen from that faith once and for all delivered unto the saints Have we lost hope Have we lost that kind of bold holy spirit faith that moves mountains that sets that liberty to the captives that goes and shows the world that he is alive and that he is good and he will set you free

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Maybe we need revival Revival needs to begin with us Maybe we need to be challenged in the areas of our life where we’ve let fear and discouragement and hopelessness to sneak in and rob us of this bold expectation

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Hope

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and the greatest grounding of hope is the power of the gospel in human lives Colossians 1 26 and 29 The can never do Paul justice or any scripture justice

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The mystery which has been hidden from the ages and from generations but has now been revealed to his saints to them God will to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among gentiles

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which is Christ in you

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among the gentiles the hope of glory Him We preach warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus

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Paul How dare you write that you have such bold expectations and hope for the power of the Gospel to change lives

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I mean if you really look at that it’s challenging

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do any of us say that that is why we are ministering That is the expectation of our ministry

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Oh Lord send revival think of listen to it again

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Him we preach warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus

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to this end I also labor striving according to his working which works in me mightily

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Do we have this kind of perspective of our lives and our ministry and the impact of our ministry Do we have this bold perspective that agrees with scripture and agrees with reality because that’s what it is

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He’s no more of a Christian than we are

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He’s no more a child of God than we are This scripture is no less true of them than it is of us

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But just like when Jesus walked the earth

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he had to be accessed by faith

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we had to yield to him as Lord and believe

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the one who the father sent

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he can do very few mighty miracles in his own home path

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because of their familiarity

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And a lot of times revival is just a real awakening to this truth of scripture that kind of slapped us in the face saying look at me look at me I’ve been here all along look at me and dare to believe this is what I’ve been trying to tell you all along It’s right there Wake up and repent change your mind

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That’s what it means Change your mind Look again see again Could it really be that God is at work in us that mightily to present every person perfect in Christ Jesus

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Lord help our unbelief Lord I believe help my unbelief

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the need for hope We’ve got a cultural crisis We’ve got

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all kinds of things going on in our culture You can think of it

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But I wanted to connect for a moment

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with two things One the challenge of hope in the midst of pain

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pain is one of the great enemies of hope

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And when people are in pain and I mean it can be a headache

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it can be a backache it can be emotional pain it can be any kind of pain but it will rob the very hope right out of your soul

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And there’s times when people are in pain

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we must heed that scripture Do not forsake the assembling of one another together When you’re not in a lot of pain you can fight a good fight

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But when you’re in a lot of pain you need your brothers and sisters to come around and encourage you

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to build you up

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We have to create a community that does not get down on people for doubt or unbelief or for whatever It’s got to be about empowering the life of Christ in one another And when we see people in pain that we breathe hope in life and encouragement enlarge their hope

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right

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And when you and when somebody is in pain you have to reach out to people

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This is one of the great things about marriage I’ve I’ve I’ve heard so many people tell me about this

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because when you are married I know this is wrong but bear with me

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husbands and wives are not given crystal balls to know the secrets and intentions of each other’s hearts and mice

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So if there’s a problem you need to communicate it

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If there’s something going on you need to communicate it

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Because if you don’t

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don’t expect that they have that crystal ball that’s gonna tell them something is going on No they they only know it when the explosion goes off right By which time it’s too late Does that make sense But a lot of times the the church has really

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done a disservice to believers A lot of times when we it’s like fighters are fighting or learning the art of war knowing the tactics of the enemy When you see something that keeps happening over and over again we’re meant to take a step back and say are we laying the foundation wrong from the beginning

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If we’re creating weak and beggarly Christians that fall away easily Are we pandering too much to diapers

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Right

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And and so I just you know one of the convictions that’s gotten into me is we need to build Christians strong for the war that we are in the middle of not the war that is coming The war that we are in the middle of we need men and not mice I think to said right We need men and not mice So we have to

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change some of the ideas we put into people I mean our our whole culture is doing this and we’re creating man Children and girl Children Do you see what I’m saying Like we are not giving people strength and the tools and the character and the values and the attitudes that they need to stand strong and to succeed to be pillars

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We’re giving them coloring books and crying rooms and we expect them to stand strong in the day of adversity

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I mean it’s like we want people to run around with toilet paper all the time wiping up the rear ends

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in Christians That’s why we need to raise people strong to say age per Christian has to say Lord I stand for you

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I live for you My life’s responsibility is to you And because you ordain the church I will be faithful to the church not dependent upon the goodness or the not so goodness of any other member or how they treated me I’m committed to you Jesus Christ

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And because I’m committed to you Jesus Christ in my walk

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with you is so important I’m going to dare to believe that you’ve hidden treasures in your people whether they have lots of rough edges or few that I can go to become more go and receive from to become more like you And if I’m struggling Lord and I’m having a hard time my relationship with you is so important that I’m going to go and get help I’m going to go and ask for prayer I’m going to go and not just assume people have a crystal ball

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because what we want to do is we want to expect people to be strong

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It’s about expectation Does that make sense

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So it’s like we want to expect that one another are walking with God that they’re strong in the Lord that they are We don’t nobody expected Paul was backsliding

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ever

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I wonder if Paul is backsliding Peter is backsliding I wonder if James is backsliding or John is backsliding right

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We need to figure out how to create a breed of Christians that could stand on their own 2 ft if they were thrown into prison like Richard Worman like so many of the other saints of old if they were thrown into prison like Joseph would they stand on their own Are we creating the type of Christians that can stand in the day of adversity

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I believe we can

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I believe that we can have hope to create a better breed of Christians that are more true

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to who we really are in Christ Jesus

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Isn’t that exciting

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I think it’s very exciting

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The pure one of the things I wanted to mention now I’ll skip that I’ll save it for another day It doesn’t fit as good anymore

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So I got on a rabbit truck

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I do want to mention two more things

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from this area before we start Um

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the road to closing Put it that way The long road to closing

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Number one

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we need a move of God in this generation

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When I talk about hope we need to have hope for a move of God in this generation I’ve been thinking a lot about the revivals throughout history and about the Jesus movement

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and thinking that our Children are living in a time where they have never seen a move of the Kingdom of God in their generation

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They don’t know what it’s like to see multitudes being swept into the kingdom and really seeking to live as genuine disciples of Jesus Christ They’ve seen the trickle but not the floodgate

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We need to be praying God open up the flood gates of heaven let a river of living water flow through the nations and cleanse out everything that needs to be cleansed Let a move of God start to sweep the nations and that we dare to believe that the hope for the future is in the church of Jesus Christ As multitudes are flooded into the Kingdom of God

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We’ve got to be praying about that and everybody who remembers what that is like

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need to be seeking God continually Lord let our Children let our grandchildren our great grandchildren

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experience it for themselves Lord that I wish I would rather they had experienced it than I had

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Come on We’ve got to start caring about what is killing this next generation We’ve got to start caring that they are They are groping in darkness They are walking in darkness without hope without any

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expectation that things can turn out well

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And there are people who remember I’ve seen a move of God I’ve seen God at work I’ve seen what it is like and it is awesome and it can change the most broken lives and turn them around so completely You know there’s always a constant trickle There’s never a time never a day goes by that God doesn’t bring somebody to himself

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I’m not talking about that There’s never a day where God is not adding to his church but I’m talking about a move of God that impacts a generation a move of God that turns the tide where they go from God is dead to Jesus on the cover of tide

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where God turns things around and lets something get put into the heart and soul and identity of a generation that Jesus Christ is able to turn around the most impossible situations and I know Him and He is good and he is worth it all

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We need a move of God in this generation and we need to be praying for it We need to be seeking for it We need to be so obsessed with it for our children’s sake More than we are obsessed with retirement more than we’re obsessed with anything else in our life Lord let our Children know a move of God

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if we could give the most precious gift to our Children We would give them an experience of a revival a real spirit of God revival to see with their own eyes drug addicts throwing away their drug paraphernalia at the altar and having their lives transformed to seeing the

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most broken lives restored to see what it’s like to see people who are hard in their sins and transgressions or broken in their hopelessness and despair all coming and giving their lives to Jesus and living living for the Lord and with one another

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people from all kinds of social strata people from all kinds of ethnic backgrounds coming together and saying we have one blood the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ that unites us all

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to see walls torn down

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We need that

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hoping for

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It’s only going to come with prayer

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It’s only gonna come with prayer in Romans 4 16 to 18 I really picked out a couple of scriptures because we need to wrestle with God

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because you know it says in Hebrews

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faith is the substance of things hoped for

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So if we’re hoping for something then what is the substance of it the thing we were hoping for right

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We want to we don’t to live in hope hope deferred makes the heart sick We can’t just go on hoping forever We have to lay hold of that for which we’re hoping right

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So Romans 4 16 to 18 talking about Abraham

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Therefore it is a faith that it might be according to grace so that the promise might be sured to all the seed not only to those who are of the law but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham who is the father of us all as it is written I have made you a father of many nations in the presence of Him whom he believed God who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did who contrary to hope and hope believed

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so that he became the father of many nations

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You see God is the God who calls those things that are not as though they are

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You let that sink in

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He’s not he’s the God who can create all things with the word of His power He says he calls those things that are not as though they are

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And he told Abraham you’re going to have

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descendants like the stars of the heaven with Sarah

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And and he did not look at the impossibility of the situation He looked at the promise of God and he held that hope He was pregnant with hope and that hope was in Him

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because it was grounded on a promise But at a certain point it wasn’t enough to be pregnant with hope It says who contrary or against hope believed in hope and gave birth

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If there was no substance of things hoped for kind of like Paul said if there was no resurrection of the dead We’re the most pity of all people

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and and just hope for the sake of hope is to be pity But our hope is grounded in Jesus Christ and him crucified risen

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and seated on the throne

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Our hope is grounded in the eternal promises and covenants of God

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Our hope is founded in the promises even regarding prayer that there’s almost nothing that prayer does not

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cover except for things like carnal pray Thank God for that

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right

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We our hope in Christ is not hopeless it is not wasted It is

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not something that does not have an end

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of victory

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Who contrary to hope or believe in hope

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We want to be pregnant with hope but we want to give birth It would be horrible to be pregnant for years and years and years and never get birth

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and it’s ok If there’s birth pains it’s ok If there’s trials and tribulations it’s ok if everything seems to go backwards when you’re moving forward

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because something is being birthed in the earth And it’s in that context My favorite one of my favorite passages Romans 8 28 talks about all of creation being delivered from the bodies of corruption through the revelation or the revealing or the coming forth of the sons of God on the earth that when

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Christ is reproduced in us it’s going to have a radical transformative powerful effect on planet earth and it always does whenever anybody comes to Christ and lives for Him Whenever somebody walks in the spirit of God it changes the whole world when multitudes do it changes everything

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But moving on from that passage he says but if we hope for what we do not see Romans 8 25 we eagerly await for it with perseverance

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So Paul gives us a whole picture of the whole world being delivered from bondage to corruption And then he says but we wait for it eagerly with perseverance

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How do you wait for it Is the question right How should we be waiting when we have hope for deliverance Hope for breakthrough hope for revival hope for transformation He says here’s how you wait in hope Likewise the spirit helps in our weakness for We do not know what we should pray for as

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we ought But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings that cannot be altered So here we see that Paul Paul equates the hope for the worldwide deliverance from the bondage to corruption to break through to victory on planet Earth

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to praying in the Holy Ghost

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It’s just it’s the very next thought out of his mind Well

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it’s like it’s so obvious to Paul it’s so obvious to the Holy Spirit writing through him How do you wait for the salvation of God How do you wait for the breakthrough How do you participate in the greatest liberation of planet Earth

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The Spirit makes intercession for us with groanings that cannot be uttered

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Lord please release that in our lives Release that in the church of Jesus Christ Let it grow let it burn Let anyone who’s never experienced it Let them just experience it Let it just take off like wildfire because this is how we wait for the Lord

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He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the spirit is because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God to those who are called according to his purpose for whom he fore he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his son That he might be the 1st 1st born among many brethren moreover whom he predestined He also called whom he called he also justified whom he justified He also glorified

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Abraham was pregnant with a son

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The world is pregnant with the sons of God

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And it’s this intercession of the spirit that gives birth to all of this thought process is so connected The world liberated from bondage being pregnant with hope the intercession of the spirit and then the coming forth of the sons of God

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being conformed to his image

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It’s that simple

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Remember we’re saying Paul

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Him we preach warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus to this end I also labor striving according to his working which works in me mightily Colossians Romans It’s the picture It’s the image It’s the agenda Worldwide liberation Groaning in the spirit pregnant with hope hope for deliverance hope for salvation Whether it’s your personal

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life for your Children that have wandered astray for the situations that you find yourself in being pregnant in hope and groaning in the spirit and praying and seeking God And ultimately the greatest deliverance of all things comes by making disciples reproducing the sons of God and the earth the daughters of God and the earth The agenda is all over the same pattern throughout all scripture It’s obvious and awesome isn’t it

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And that we get to be participants

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let God do something

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prisoners of hope

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make us prisoners of hope

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I mean hopefully you saw a picture because I know I go through lots of scriptures and lots of things and connect things in very obtuse ways But I hope that you can see the connection how important it is that we have hope how we need to be challenged If we’ve lost hope to see the sneaky ways that we lose hope How important hope is uh how we can be part of actually birthing

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things in this world that are praiseworthy to God that bring Him glory and honor But ultimately the most important thing is to see

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the reproduction of the sons and daughters of God through the gospel of Jesus Christ the importance of praying in the Holy Spirit praying

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Hopefully we caught a hope that we would have a hope for our Children and our grandchildren great grandchildren to know a move of the kingdom of God

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Zachariah 9 to 11

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As for you also

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because of the blood of your covenant

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I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit

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Return to the stronghold You prisoners of hope

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Even today I declare that I will restore double to you

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for I have bent you to my bow fitted the bow with Ephraim and raised up your son’s Oz against your sons og

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and I made you like the sword of a mighty man

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Then the Lord will be seen over them and his arrow will go forth like lightning The Lord God will blow the trumpet and will go with whirlwinds from the south

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to return to the stronghold

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The prisoners of hope

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There is no situation There is no circumstance

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where God who calls those things that are not as though they are Can’t turn things around in a suddenly there is nothing impossible There is nothing that can stand against Jesus Christ Our Lord nothing there’s no bondage He cannot break There’s no stronghold he can’t demolish Even if something is dead there’s no dead that he cannot race

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There is nothing impossible with God

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must be a people of

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let us be a people

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Let us be a people

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You show this world

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Jesus Christ

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you not

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pass their own

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Thank you

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Feel like we should have a response to that call for action that we don’t wait passively

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Um But we weighed actively

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for the hope that’s in our hearts So um I’ve recently started praying in the mornings with uh uh brother Dwayne

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in the church I think uh

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that that should be something that we labor to do together to get together throughout the week and pray

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So I would just encourage you guys If there’s anything on your heart we’re going to have the uh the pastors up here in the prayer team up here for prayer but also throughout the week Um If you would reach out to one another and let’s start praying in the mornings or in the evenings together as God lays it on your heart

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for Him to bring redemption The enemies that were

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the gates of hell are not coming against us We’re we’re going against them So uh let’s close in prayer Heavenly Father we thank you

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Lord We invite you Lord God to come in and to have your way Lord Jesus

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The the hope that is within us Lord God is uh sometimes a hope against hope Lord and all the other voices that are uh that are crying out for our attention that are coming to snatch away the seed that has been sown in our heart Lord God

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uh we rebuke those things in the name of Jesus

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We just ask you Lord to prepare the soil of our hearts to receive what you have for us Lord and to let that seed take root and grow and we just give you thanks and praise Lord God

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for your heart Lord is is redemption and restoration Lord And that is in the heart of the gospel message Lord it should be a part of who we are as we as we go about our business and our conversation So let it be So let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven

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We just thank you The prayer team uh will be up Uh We’ll come up here

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Sorry I didn’t say amen The prayer team will be up front come up front and bring whatever is on your heart If you need prayer for whatever situation and then if you want to join us at Main Street social afterward for some fellowship time

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uh We look forward to seeing you there Thank you