Episode Transcript
Proverbs chapter 10 verse 28 Proverbs chapter 10 verse 28
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Title of the message tonight is the hope of the righteous the hope of the righteous
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Proverbs 10 28 we have a good crowd for a Wednesday night here in a good crowd online as well and looking forward to
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Sharing God's Word with you. There's something about an intense competition
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That attracts people I like competition
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There was a lot of hype today about the much
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anticipated boxing match coming up
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between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson
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Have you all plan on watching that? I'm just curious anybody in here
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Nobody here you plan on watching it. Yeah, she's a very violent woman
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She plans on watching. Yeah
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But there's I hear talk about it
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And and I know there's a lot of hype about it right now. But why did why do people want to watch?
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Two men punch each other in the face. I'll tell you why
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It's because of the intense competitiveness
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And every person watching they're going to be identifying with one of those two fighters
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Just like recently when we had the Super Bowl people who watched it were identifying with one of those two teams
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and they they they identify with the struggle in and and
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Everybody watching is hoping that their person their man or their team is going to be victorious
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they can vicariously be victorious through them and
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Then the other man they're hoping will be defeated or the other team will be defeated. But here's the thing. I
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enjoy
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watching the before and after sometimes of
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the interviews of these people
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Because when you interview both these fighters
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They're all gonna say the same thing. They're gonna beat the other guy up and
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They're gonna tell you why you talk to one team. They're gonna be victorious. They trained hard for this
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and both men in
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This upcoming fight this summer will expect to be victorious
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Both have been boasting about their pending victory over the other but only one man
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Will win the match?
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And again the same way with the two football teams competing for the Super Bowl championship both teams
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Respected to win both hope to win but only one could be victorious and the other ultimately was defeated
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The most intense competition that man has known however is not sports
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But war
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Wars the most intense competition we've ever known ever will know
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opposing sides fighting terrible battles to the death
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Each hoping the other side would win the and and that they would win the other side would fall
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But again only one side can win a war
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in
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the end
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One side will celebrate their grateful victory while the other
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licks the wounds and shameful defeat
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The Knights proverb addresses the opposing sides of our spiritual warfare
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Because we're in a battle too
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There has been a battle
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between light and darkness
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Between the kingdom of Christ and Antichrist since the very
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beginning of man in will be to the end an
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intense battle
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every one of us are in it and
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the outcome
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the costs are
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Great the stakes are high
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So Solomon tonight in reference to this in verse 28
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He begins by speaking about if you look in verse 28 28 the hope of the righteous
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The hope of the righteous when you interview these fighters or these teams
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You know, I've been training hard and I'm faster. I'm this I want to knock you out
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I'm gonna punch you in the face or whatever they say
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And then they'll have a microphone up the one of their mouth. Oh, yeah, he just he just out fought me
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He did and there they are, you know what? I'm has to eat crow
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You know what the beautiful thing is
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About being justified by grace through faith in Jesus Christ
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the beautiful thing is
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We'll never eat crow
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Will never eat crow. We don't boast in ourself
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We boast in him in whom our faith is in
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Just like King David said when when when King David fought
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against Goliath
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That was a picture of
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one man
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Fighting for the whole nation in that one man winning the victory for all
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Just like Goliath. He was one man
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Fighting for his nation in whoever which one of those two one men went one the others would vicariously went through their victory
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And that's the way it is with us
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we're gonna have the man of sin and the son of man in the end and they're gonna battle against each other and
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We have faith in the Son of man
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We have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ
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That's the hope of the righteous now the Hebrew word that's translated hope here. It means our expectation what we expect
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and
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There's another word similar to that a little bit further in this verse
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But what I want you to understand is that the Hebrew word translated hope here
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It literally means to wait
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To wait
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So it means yes, it means to hope it does mean your expectation
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The emphasis on this expectation is the waiting for it
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In other words, you don't have it now
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It's something that you have to wait for and receive in the future
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Solomon is speaking about the waiting of the righteous and boy are we waiting and we're waiting patiently
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Sometimes not quite so patient as we should but we're waiting
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There's something wonderful
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That God is going to do for the righteous
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But for now we must wait for it
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There is something wonderful that God is going to give to the the church of Jesus Christ to me and you who have put our
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Trust in him for our salvation. But for now we have to wait for it
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My wife and I both own annuities
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And one day by God's grace
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Lord lets me keep living I
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hope to quit working and then live off of the retirement
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Products that we're saving for and and and having and and and these annuities are part of that
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We own them
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They belong to us they have our names on them they're ours by right they're ours by law
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But we have no access to them
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We have to wait six and a half years before we can use them
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The truth is we're all getting older my ability to perform in my line of work is getting shorter
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And if God allows me once again to keep living then one day I won't be able to do the job I do
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The other job this one. I hope I can do a lot longer
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But I still need to eat you see
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One day I won't be able to do my job, but I still have more medical bills than I have today
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So I have to be paid by God's grace
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I'll be able to rest and then one day access my 401k. I'm getting real close to the 401k
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Getting somewhat close to the annuity
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That's my hope
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That's my legal expectation
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But for now I have to wait you see that's the way it is
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That's the way it is
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With our victory in Jesus Christ it legally belongs to us. It's ours by right
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It's ours by the law of Almighty God and the covenant that we've been given in Jesus Christ
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But right now we have to wait we have to wait
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So the hope of the righteous is speaking about
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Something that righteous people that is those justified by faith in Jesus Christ something that they're waiting on
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Something that people who've accepted Christ as their Savior are waiting for
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Now if you're waiting for something that means what you don't have it
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If you're waiting for it, you don't have it
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You're waiting on Amazon to come deliver a package
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You've paid for it
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That product belongs to you
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But it's not yours yet. You you have to wait to get it. Here's a kingdom truth for you
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You can't have a future hope without having a present need
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You can't have a future hope
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Without having a present need that it is all
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Worked into the fabric of the gospel
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That our future hope is
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based on our present need
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My body is growing older and it's going to die
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I have a present need for a new body and I have a future hope of getting one in the gospel. I
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Have loved ones
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Believers in Christ who've died and are buried in the grave right now. I
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Have a present need for my loved ones to be raised from the dead
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And I have a future hope that one day when Jesus returns with a shout the dead in Christ are gonna rise
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My government is corrupt and wicked I
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Have a present need for a righteous
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worldwide government and
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By the gospel have a future hope of getting one when Jesus sits on the throne
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You can't have a future hope
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Without having a present need. It's just part of being a Christian
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Romans chapter 8 verse 22 through 25
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Romans chapter 8 verse 22 through 25 the Apostle Paul says for we know
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That the whole creation groans and travails and pain together until now
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The whole creation just groans travails and pain
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It's a way of
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Describing what the creations like right now because it's fallen
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It's broken and then he goes on to say and not only they but ourselves also
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We groan and travail in pain which have the first fruits of the spirit even we ourselves groan within
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ourselves you ever look around in this world and you see how wicked and
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disgusting this world is how corrupt this world is how vile and violent this world is and you just
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Grown inside yourself you ever get to where you say I don't even want to watch the news
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That's that groaning and you're like oh
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Lord one day you'll fix it
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That's our only hope to get this world fixed
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He said we groan within ourselves waiting for the adoption to it
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He explains what the adoption is the redemption of our body
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One day the new man on the inside is going to be matched up with a new man on the outside
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Will be a new and perfect man in Italy
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Residing in a new and perfect body outwardly in a new and perfect earth that we're standing on
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Living in a new and perfect kingdom when Jesus comes
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That's what we're groaning for. That's what the adoption is all about
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But then he goes on to say in verse 24 Paul says for we are saved by hope
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Saved by hope
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But hope that is seen is not hope
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If you have it you're not hoping for it
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But we're saved by hope as a Christian everything as a Christian is based on something
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We can't see we have never seen Jesus Christ
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In that amazing those people who say odd
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There was a preacher a while back said he was shaving in his bathroom and Jesus came in the bathroom talking to him while he was
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shaving
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Man I tell you if that were to happen to me
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First of all, Jesus would have to heal me because I'd cut myself all over
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You know
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Bible says whom having not seen you love people who say they've seen Jesus. They're not saved by hope. They're saved by sight
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But but but in this
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Dispensation we're saved by hope and the hope that is not seen
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Means means you you can't see Christ. We don't see him on the cross. We don't see the apostles
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We don't see the second coming of Jesus. We've never seen the things described in the Word of God in heaven
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We've never seen a sinless person. We've never seen a rapture. These are things that the eyes have not witnessed
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But we believe
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That's hope
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Something you have a future knee of you have a present need and so you put your hope
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in a future expectation
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met by Jesus Christ through his gospel and
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So he says for we are saved by hope but hope that is seen is not hope for what a man seeeth
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What if he yet hoped for what you hoping for it if you if you're saying it's not open anymore
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Now it's sight not something you you presently have a no he says but if we hope for that
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We see not then do we with patience? Here's our word wait for it
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wait for it and
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So this is when when saw this time about the hope of the righteous. He is once again talking about the gospel
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We are saved by hope
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We hear the good news of Jesus Christ. We hear what he has done
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We haven't seen it. We hear what he is going to do. We haven't seen it, but we believe it
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Therefore we put our hope in it
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Therefore even though the world is burning down around us we with patience wait on it to come to pass
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We're waiting on it if I lie in the bed and I draw my last breath
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I will go off into eternity what?
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waiting on
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Jesus to fulfill his promise
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That for me to be present
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Absent from this body will be to be present with him and that he'll one day raise this body from the dead
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That's the hope of the righteous
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Praise God as Christians. We have to wait with patience for our future
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Hope just as I wait with patience for my future annuity
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And the Bible says here's the beautiful thing the Bible says tonight that the future
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Hope of those who trust in Christ look back in your text in the book of Proverbs
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Shall be what?
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gladness
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Gladness
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And sometimes when I'm at Walmart and listen, that's rare. I do not like going to Walmart
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My wife calls them pajama people. I
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Just know I going in there I don't
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But sometimes when I when I buy something at Walmart, I'll go up to the cashier
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pay for my product and
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They'll want to ask me if I want to buy a warranty for it on my way out
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They do y'all that way I won't buy a warranty and most the time I don't spend the money on the warranty
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For one I won't be able to find my receipt. I can promise you that and if you do it'll be faded
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You can't read the print on it
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But there's some things I don't mind spending my money on to buy a warranty for
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You ever spent money on a warranty and on something that's expensive that you've bought like a
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like a car or some expensive product that you've bought and
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Sure enough
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Sure enough
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That car or that product broke on you during that warranty and you were so
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What glad?
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That you had that warranty ever happened anybody in here lots of folks
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So glad you had that warranty
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When that product broke down you thought yourself I am so glad
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That I bought that one. It's almost like you're happy it broke down
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Because now you feel vindicated for spending that money. I feel good about it
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Do you know what the gospel is?
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It's a warranty for the believer in Jesus Christ an iron
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Glad warranty sometimes it'll give you a lifetime warranty on something
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You don't even know if that if that business is going to be around in your lifetime
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But the gospel of Jesus Christ iron clad
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Will last forever and forever and forever one day. This world is coming to a
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tragic and sad end
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This world like a car is gonna break down on us
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our God is gonna come back to judge the world for its sins and
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Only those with the warranty of the gospel of Jesus Christ will be saved from that sad and tragic end
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The world will perish
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And only those in Christ will enter the kingdom of God
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And when that happens those who accepted the good news of God's Son
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Will be so glad they placed their hope in him
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their
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Expectation they're waiting on it. We say that a lot of times will say was it worth waiting for?
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Yes, it was worth waiting for
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Jesus will be worth waiting for too
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He'll be worth waiting for we'll be so glad that we put our trust in him our expectations will not be let down
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The hope of the righteous shall be gladness
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We will be victorious in him
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His kingdoms going to win our team is going to win and
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The kingdom of darkness is going to be defeated when Jesus comes once and for all
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But look back in your text. There's a but
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There's good news, but the good news isn't for everybody I mean it's to everybody
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But not everybody is going to participate in that good news because they're not all going to believe in Christ
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But
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What Solomon saying is not everybody's going to be glad when that time comes
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The Bible says the day of the Lord is going to be a very dark day
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It's going to be light for us, but it's going to be great darkness and sorrow for others
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You know not everybody's gonna be glad when that time comes as at the beginning of verse 28 if you would underscore the hope of the
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righteous
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the hope of the righteous
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Now underscore the expectation of the wicked
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The expectation of the wicked they're two different things
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two different things
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The hope of the righteous the expectation of the wicked the words hope and expectation
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They're essentially the same thing except the word hope once again it emphasizes the fact that we have to wait
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We don't have it now, but we'll get it the world already has everything it's going to get
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And then they'll lose what they have in the end and they'll get judgment
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We don't have everything we're going to get
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We'll lose this world. Praise God and we'll get salvation from our circumstances as we talked about
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Early in a in a in a previous message
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But it talks about what they expect to happen as hope
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emphasizes waiting
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expectation this Hebrew word
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Emphasizes what they anticipate to happen what they expect to happen in the future
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The point being those who don't place their trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. They expect things to turn out a certain way
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I've cautioned people before
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Who I saw going against God's Word and in their mind they had all these lovely?
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pine the sky plans of their what their decision was going to do for them and
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I knew going against God's Word. I knew what was going to happen
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And I remember telling people before at one particular person remember saying it's not going to turn out
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The way you think it's not going to turn out that way and it didn't turn out that way that was their expectation
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and
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Their choice to defy God's Word did not deliver their expectation
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It never does for those who go against God's Word. They expect things to go down
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The the way their godly teachers told them it would go down
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They feel certain that there is no afterlife
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They feel certain that there is no God that they're going to have to answer to one day
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There was a man
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talking to
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Brother Chris Johnson
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This week I was visiting with brother Chris and the man was
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Scoffing at brother Chris
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talking about his imaginary God
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scoffing at him
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He can do that
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But it's not going to go down the way he expects
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Not going to happen
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They expect that death will be the end of all things for them. They expect things to turn out a certain way
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But when their time comes to die their expectations look back in your text shall perish
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It's going to perish
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I read a an article today on on Facebook
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It had a
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Carving of a giraffe that was carved in stone thousands of years ago
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Archaeology history
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and
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these people talked about
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how
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Someone carved it, you know 2,000 years ago and or 3,000 or however long it was and
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And so I just wrote in there very very wise like with the same tone as an atheist. I
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Said how foolish to believe in this imaginary person that carved this giraffe. I
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Said there's absolutely no evidence for this person. I
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Said we all know and the science tells us
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this giraffe on this rock
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evolved from lower life forms
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Makes just as much sense
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Just so that when they read it they would think this guy's an idiot and then hopefully they would think you know what I am too
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to think that a picture of
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Something far more complex has to be made by someone but that which is more complex
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It just came up on its own from more life forms and it breathes and thinks and walks around
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It's all just you
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Know this imaginary creator, you know
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But their expectations are going to perish
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Hopelessness is one of the the saddest feelings there there is
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You ever been a situation you had hope and that everything's gonna turn out okay
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And finally all you exhaust every measure possible and you realize all hope is gone
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You lose a loved one you think okay. Well, maybe we'll get them past this hard part and then you realize it's gone
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There's no hope to bring them back. We got to take them off life support
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We have to do that all hope is gone
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And and this is where they're going to be at in the end. They're going to have all hope
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perish beneath them
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Just go away all hopes gonna be removed a person can survive a long time
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As long as they have hope
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One day this godless world is going to realize that they've been duped by the devil
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Just absolutely duped
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And all their hope will perish forever. There will be no more foolish teachers cheering them on to their destruction
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There'll be no more chances for them to repent
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Their hope will forever be gone and they will forever perish
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but
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Those who trusted in Christ
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Will be so glad that they did for they shall not perish
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If their hope shall not perish
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But have everlasting life
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Thank God we are on the winning side
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We have a team we can boast about
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Because we have a captain who will never fail
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Father we thank you so much for your precious word
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Lord as we just said and as we know and have experienced in life
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We can go through a lot as long as we know there's light at the end of the tunnel
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And Lord your church is going to be called into some very very dark days ahead
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We're gonna be tried and brought through the fire
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But
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Lord we have this rock-solid guarantee that the hope of the righteous shall be gladness not sadness
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But gladness
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Lord in the gospel we have light at the end of the tunnel a
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light that shall never be put out and
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We're so thankful father
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That we win in Jesus precious name
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Amen.
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