WEBVTT 00:00:00.221 --> 00:00:03.790 So it is a joy and an honor to bring you the word tonight. 00:00:03.790 --> 00:00:09.932 I love when I have the opportunity here to bring the word. 00:00:09.932 --> 00:00:12.771 So let's pray before we get started. 00:00:12.771 --> 00:00:14.819 Father God, we just thank you, lord, for tonight. 00:00:14.819 --> 00:00:17.245 Father, I just thank you that your word is alive. 00:00:17.245 --> 00:00:18.510 It is powerful. 00:00:18.510 --> 00:00:22.980 I thank you for everybody watching on livestream. 00:00:22.980 --> 00:00:30.000 I thank you, father, that their hearts are open to your word, that their ears are receptive to what you have to say tonight. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:32.308 Holy Spirit, we invite you in. 00:00:32.308 --> 00:00:37.909 It is not my words tonight, but it's you working through me. 00:00:37.909 --> 00:00:42.979 So we just give you all the glory and all of the honor and all of the praise in Jesus' name. 00:00:42.979 --> 00:00:45.689 Amen, amen. 00:00:46.540 --> 00:00:57.979 So if you're watching on livestream and you have your Bible in front of you, so before you open your Bible, so tonight I'll be talking about hope. 00:00:57.979 --> 00:01:11.471 The title of my message is Anchor of Hope, and so Hebrews 111 says now, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 00:01:11.471 --> 00:01:17.852 And so faith, you know, faith and hope are tied together. 00:01:17.852 --> 00:01:24.612 So faith gives our hope substance, and faith is in the heart. 00:01:24.612 --> 00:01:29.000 And so the difference in faith and hope, you know, faith is now. 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:34.506 You've heard Pastor, faith is now, but hope is for the future, and so we need both. 00:01:35.340 --> 00:01:45.569 The Word of God has a lot to say about hope and our expectation on the future, and I'll be reading out of Romans 4. 00:01:45.569 --> 00:01:48.227 I'm talking about Abraham. 00:01:48.227 --> 00:01:58.692 Romans 4.17 says, as it is written I have made you a father of many nations. 00:01:58.692 --> 00:02:09.294 In the presence of him, who he believed, god, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did. 00:02:09.294 --> 00:02:22.024 Verse 18, who, contrary to hope, in hope, believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, so shall your descendants be. 00:02:22.024 --> 00:02:37.508 And not being weak in faith, he did not consider or we say he did not consider his own body, already dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb. 00:02:37.508 --> 00:02:59.409 He did not waiver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God and being fully convinced that what he had promised he was also able to perform and therefore it was accounted to him for righteousness. 00:02:59.409 --> 00:03:19.304 So here we see that you know Abraham against all odds, against what he was facing, against those things that were dead in his life, him and Sarah they were old, can bear children, and so, against all of those things, he hoped, and so I love it that. 00:03:19.304 --> 00:03:21.349 And then it says in verse 20, giving glory. 00:03:21.349 --> 00:03:28.739 He did not waiver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God. 00:03:29.824 --> 00:03:32.939 So setting our eyes on things above. 00:03:32.939 --> 00:03:42.979 He didn't look at the natural, he didn't look at the circumstances, but he believed, he hoped in something. 00:03:42.979 --> 00:04:05.632 And so maybe you're facing something tonight where it's like you know what, it doesn't look good, the doctor says this, or my family says this, but you know what, against all that, maybe there are the things that are stacked up against you, but it hope believes. 00:04:05.632 --> 00:04:08.251 Faith is now and hope says you know what? 00:04:08.251 --> 00:04:14.634 If God said it in His word, I believe it and I believe it's going to come to pass. 00:04:14.634 --> 00:04:15.870 So I'm hopeful. 00:04:15.870 --> 00:04:18.812 My expectation is on the word of God. 00:04:18.812 --> 00:04:29.415 My expectation isn't on the natural senses and the natural circumstances around me, but my expectation is on God alone. 00:04:30.267 --> 00:04:54.874 And so if you go on and read Romans 5, if you keep on reading and I'm going to read that in the Passion translation, because I thought it was so good in the Passion translation, romans 5, our faith in Jesus transfers God's righteousness to us and how he now declares us flawless in His eyes. 00:04:54.874 --> 00:05:04.956 This means we can now enjoy true and lasting peace with God, all because of what our Lord Jesus, the anointed one, has done for us. 00:05:04.956 --> 00:05:16.619 Our faith guarantees us permanent access to this marvelous kindness that has given us a perfect relationship with God. 00:05:16.619 --> 00:05:26.817 What incredible joy bursts forth within us as we keep on celebrating our hope of experiencing God's glory. 00:05:26.817 --> 00:05:29.625 Isn't that good? 00:05:29.625 --> 00:05:30.531 But that's not all. 00:05:30.531 --> 00:05:31.134 That's not it. 00:05:31.134 --> 00:05:34.331 That's good, but that's not it. 00:05:34.331 --> 00:05:43.132 Even in times of trouble, we have joyful confidence, knowing that our pressures will develop in us. 00:05:43.452 --> 00:05:44.815 Patient endurance. 00:05:44.815 --> 00:05:49.074 In patient endurance we're refined our character. 00:05:49.074 --> 00:05:55.216 Improving character leads us back to hope. 00:05:55.216 --> 00:05:58.213 So our character has to be proven out. 00:05:58.213 --> 00:05:59.548 Well, I guess it does. 00:05:59.548 --> 00:06:15.593 Proving character leads us back to hope, and this hope is not a disappointing fantasy, because we can now experience the endless love of God cascading into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who lives in us. 00:06:15.593 --> 00:06:16.334 Isn't that so good? 00:06:16.334 --> 00:06:18.930 So it's not this like pie in the sky. 00:06:21.005 --> 00:06:24.475 You know, maybe sometimes unbelievers look at us weird. 00:06:24.475 --> 00:06:29.531 Or you know, if our words are full of faith and they should be, but like what? 00:06:29.531 --> 00:06:34.915 That's so contrary to what it looks like in your life hey, the word of God. 00:06:34.915 --> 00:06:36.644 We speak only the word of God. 00:06:36.644 --> 00:06:40.644 Contrary to what it looks like Contrary, you know, abraham and Sarah. 00:06:40.644 --> 00:06:48.644 Contrary you know to the natural circumstances what it looked like in their situation. 00:06:48.644 --> 00:06:53.156 They believed, they trusted God. 00:06:54.127 --> 00:06:58.586 In Hebrews 6, 18 through 20, the New Living Translation says so. 00:06:58.586 --> 00:07:01.855 God has given us both His promise and His oath. 00:07:01.855 --> 00:07:07.334 These two things are unchangeable because it is impossible for God to lie. 00:07:07.334 --> 00:07:18.396 Therefore, we who have fled to Him for refuge can have great confidence as we hold to the hope that lies before us. 00:07:18.396 --> 00:07:20.658 Again, faith is now and then. 00:07:20.658 --> 00:07:21.644 Hope is in the future. 00:07:21.644 --> 00:07:26.249 So we hold to that hope that lies before us. 00:07:26.249 --> 00:07:34.733 This hope is a strong interest where the anchor for our souls, it's an anchor we need it. 00:07:34.733 --> 00:07:38.660 It leads us through the curtain into God's inner sanctuary. 00:07:38.660 --> 00:07:46.250 Jesus has already gone in there for us, he has become our eternal high priest in the order of a Mchesedek. 00:07:46.250 --> 00:07:53.177 And so here, jesus already did what he did, he already went before us, and so we have that hope. 00:07:53.177 --> 00:07:55.158 And so I put down. 00:07:55.158 --> 00:08:16.264 When we are exhausted, the anchor of hope gives us fresh energy, like I thank you, lord, that you give me fresh energy every day when we are tempted to quit, the anchor of hope keeps us going, you know, and we're all tempted to quit sometimes, but that anchor of hope keeps us going. 00:08:16.370 --> 00:08:21.982 Hope for the future, hope that, you know, good expectation. 00:08:21.982 --> 00:08:38.095 We need to have a good godly expectation, not a negative expectation, not like, oh, this is happening again, and that family member, they just act the same way every time because I'm going to go to them and say this and then they're going to say that, well, no, that's you know what. 00:08:38.095 --> 00:08:42.518 Maybe that's been in the past and they've acted that way in the past. 00:08:42.518 --> 00:08:43.874 But hope, you know. 00:08:43.874 --> 00:08:47.976 Our hope should be that, hey, if God did it for us, he can do it for them. 00:08:47.976 --> 00:08:51.157 You know we should be expecting great things. 00:08:51.157 --> 00:08:56.138 When we lose our way and are confused, the anchor of hope removes panic. 00:08:56.138 --> 00:08:57.774 We don't have to freak out. 00:08:57.774 --> 00:09:03.220 We don't have to panic, you know, when the world is fearful and panicky. 00:09:03.220 --> 00:09:05.014 We don't have to. 00:09:05.014 --> 00:09:10.779 God doesn't want His kids to be panicky and fearful and full of dread. 00:09:12.429 --> 00:09:13.755 So I have a couple of points tonight. 00:09:13.755 --> 00:09:15.336 Why do you need an anchor? 00:09:15.336 --> 00:09:22.998 Number one to keep your life from being shipwrecked, and so hope in Jesus protects you. 00:09:22.998 --> 00:09:30.322 In the same way, an anchor keeps a boat safe, and so you know, anchors don't stop the storm. 00:09:30.322 --> 00:09:33.078 Like I think most boats have an anchor. 00:09:33.078 --> 00:09:37.910 I'm not sure if all boats have an anchor, but I'm assuming they do, Probably. 00:09:37.910 --> 00:09:40.378 I'm sure the huge naval ships have. 00:09:40.378 --> 00:09:46.077 You know, have you ever seen their anchors are probably like a thousand pounds, they're ginormous. 00:09:46.077 --> 00:09:54.518 And just the chains on those anchors I mean, you know, if they didn't have an anchor, you know that they'd be in trouble. 00:09:54.518 --> 00:09:56.417 And so why do we need an anchor? 00:09:56.417 --> 00:09:59.219 Number one, to keep your life from being shipwrecked. 00:09:59.219 --> 00:10:09.280 And so, just because you know an anchor doesn't stop the storm but it'll keep you strong, it'll keep you secure during the storm. 00:10:09.280 --> 00:10:11.456 And so our hope is always in Jesus. 00:10:11.456 --> 00:10:15.057 Without Him our life would be shipwrecked, right? 00:10:15.057 --> 00:10:22.760 And so Psalm 27, 13 and 14 said says I would have lost heart unless I had believed. 00:10:22.760 --> 00:10:32.054 Let me read that again I would have lost heart unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. 00:10:32.054 --> 00:10:38.719 Wait on the Lord, be of good courage and he shall strengthen your heart. 00:10:38.719 --> 00:10:41.216 And wait, I say on the Lord. 00:10:41.216 --> 00:10:46.332 And so here I mean, you know, why do we need an anchor? 00:10:46.332 --> 00:10:48.379 So our life isn't shipwrecked. 00:10:48.379 --> 00:10:53.501 And I was reading so I can't. 00:10:53.590 --> 00:10:54.995 So I follow this thing on this. 00:10:54.995 --> 00:10:58.397 I don't know, I don't wanna call it a website. 00:10:58.397 --> 00:11:03.039 On Instagram I follow this feed and it's called kind of kind or something. 00:11:03.039 --> 00:11:26.860 Anyways, it's a cute little, just kind of videos that people you know in the world we live in and sometimes your feed through Instagram and social media can be you can get bogged down with seeing all kinds of really the world we live in, you know, with guns and police and just like. 00:11:26.860 --> 00:11:28.616 Sometimes I don't wanna see those videos. 00:11:28.616 --> 00:11:34.437 Like I know, like it's good to be informed and you have to know what's going on. 00:11:34.437 --> 00:11:56.451 But then sometimes I wanna watch kind videos like hey, you know what, there are nice people out there, there are Christian people out there, there are people out there just doing good, and so through my Instagram feed so I like this because sometimes it'll come across and just cute little videos of a kid, you know, just doing a kind deed or the FedEx guy you know there was this. 00:11:56.451 --> 00:12:04.173 Sometimes people have these, you know, video surveillance things on the front of their door and there was the video of the FedEx guy. 00:12:04.173 --> 00:12:11.716 He just brought in the trashcan for the person you know and it showed him bringing in the trash, just kind deeds, you know, and I think that is so good. 00:12:11.950 --> 00:12:24.557 I just like watching those videos, but not too long ago they posted, so sometimes they'll post like history stuff, and I like it, I like to learn new things, and so they have posted this picture of this girl. 00:12:24.557 --> 00:12:42.581 It looked like she was, you know, in water in the jungle, so I clicked on her name and I kind of read about her, and so she was a survivor of a plane crash that went down in the early 1970s and she was. 00:12:42.581 --> 00:13:04.969 So the plane was carrying about 90-something people and she was 17 years old at that time and she was flying, I believe, in Peru, over the Amazon jungle, and there was a lightning strike on the plane, and so the plane went down and she was buckled to her seat. 00:13:04.969 --> 00:13:17.139 So she went down and survived, still buckled to her seat, like through the trees and the jungle, and then she survived. 00:13:17.139 --> 00:13:25.851 So she was the only survivor off on the plane, and so she was in the jungle and I didn't read her. 00:13:25.871 --> 00:13:32.870 She has a book and they've done documentaries and I think there's a movie, but I just read a little part of her book. 00:13:32.870 --> 00:13:38.167 But she survived 10 days in the jungle, like by herself. 00:13:38.167 --> 00:13:42.769 Talk about grit, talk about not losing hope. 00:13:42.769 --> 00:13:54.028 And so I was just fascinated, that one little chapter that I read, and she, you know she, on one of the little she said, you know she didn't know if her mom was alive or not. 00:13:54.028 --> 00:14:00.928 She was like where you know, I wonder, you know she was, she's like I kept thinking about my mom, you know, I wonder where she's at. 00:14:00.928 --> 00:14:04.340 And then I got to, you know, I got to make it, I got to push through. 00:14:04.340 --> 00:14:07.009 So she, she walked through the water. 00:14:07.009 --> 00:14:07.601 She didn't. 00:14:07.601 --> 00:14:13.610 She was like I know, if I stop here, and in her book she's saying you know, I know, if I stop here I'll die, you know. 00:14:13.610 --> 00:14:19.066 So she kept through the water, through the Amazon River, and she, and you know I got to get back. 00:14:19.066 --> 00:14:22.402 You know I got to tell my dad, like I wonder what my dad's thinking, like we haven't. 00:14:22.682 --> 00:14:27.049 You know, it's on day five and it was a fascinating story. 00:14:27.049 --> 00:14:33.113 But just when I read that little part I was like man, this girl, she, she could have given up. 00:14:33.113 --> 00:14:36.844 It's like day three, nobody's out here come to get me. 00:14:36.844 --> 00:14:41.013 Day four, day five, mosquitoes are eating me alive. 00:14:41.013 --> 00:14:54.888 She had like maggots on her arm, she was trying to get out broken collar bone, so all these things were stacked up against her and but she kept on. 00:14:54.888 --> 00:14:58.000 I was just amazed, man, she kept on, she kept pushing. 00:14:58.000 --> 00:14:59.063 She's like I can't stop. 00:14:59.063 --> 00:15:05.826 I got to go, I got to, you know, I got to find, you know, my dad told me, you know, just go along the river because there might be civilization. 00:15:05.826 --> 00:15:07.846 And anyway she made it. 00:15:07.846 --> 00:15:12.708 Somebody found her, um, but I was just like man, she, she didn't lose hope. 00:15:12.708 --> 00:15:27.899 When you know, all everything was stacked up against her, um, and even at like night, she and her, and her in that chapter was reading she's like, at night I would hear these creatures, you know, and um, but God, but God. 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:30.746 And so why do we need to anchor? 00:15:30.746 --> 00:15:32.972 To keep your life for being shipwrecked. 00:15:32.972 --> 00:15:37.312 And so Jesus is our anchor, amen. 00:15:37.312 --> 00:15:41.371 And then number two, um, to keep you from drifting. 00:15:41.371 --> 00:15:52.961 Um, boats without an anchor drift into disaster, become grounded on reefs and rocks, and so you know we have to hook onto Jesus, we can. 00:15:52.961 --> 00:16:04.341 It might be, um, you know, more comfortable to go with the flow sometimes, but if the Holy ghost doesn't want you to go with the flow, you got to stay connected to a church. 00:16:04.341 --> 00:16:07.094 You got to stay connected to a local pastor. 00:16:07.094 --> 00:16:07.817 You know, have a pastor. 00:16:07.817 --> 00:16:17.317 You got to stay connected, even when times are tough and difficult and it's prickly and and you don't get along with people. 00:16:17.317 --> 00:16:19.919 But hey, you know what you need to stay connected. 00:16:19.919 --> 00:16:30.277 You don't drift off just because you get your feelings hurt or just because somebody took your parking space or just because somebody took your seat at church. 00:16:30.277 --> 00:16:31.220 We don't drift off. 00:16:31.220 --> 00:16:36.909 We stay connected to the source and the sources Jesus, he's our living water, amen. 00:16:36.909 --> 00:16:39.389 So why do we need an anchor? 00:16:39.389 --> 00:16:40.980 To keep your life from being shipwrecked. 00:16:40.980 --> 00:16:43.249 And number two to keep you from drifting. 00:16:43.249 --> 00:16:45.899 Second, corinthians 13, five. 00:16:47.326 --> 00:16:52.692 And the new King James says examine yourself as to whether you are in faith, test yourselves. 00:16:52.692 --> 00:16:57.835 Do you not know yourselves that Jesus Christ is? 00:16:57.835 --> 00:16:59.679 Then you, unless, indeed, you are disqualified? 00:16:59.679 --> 00:17:06.785 So I mean here the word of God says hey, do a test on yourself, examine yourself. 00:17:06.785 --> 00:17:07.740 Are you in faith? 00:17:07.740 --> 00:17:11.079 Do you have hope for the future? 00:17:11.079 --> 00:17:14.118 Do you have hope for your family? 00:17:14.118 --> 00:17:19.220 Is there in positive expectation on your future? 00:17:19.220 --> 00:17:20.599 Have you lost hope? 00:17:20.599 --> 00:17:24.003 Do you give up too easily? 00:17:24.003 --> 00:17:28.154 Right, and so these are good questions to ask ourselves. 00:17:28.154 --> 00:17:30.692 Are we in faith? 00:17:30.692 --> 00:17:34.097 Are we hopeful. 00:17:34.097 --> 00:17:39.257 And so the Bible says to examine ourselves, examine our life. 00:17:39.257 --> 00:17:41.432 You know the word of God is a mirror. 00:17:41.432 --> 00:17:46.076 If you read it It'll point out, like nobody even has to point things out about you. 00:17:46.076 --> 00:17:49.353 If you read the word, the word of God points things out like. 00:17:49.353 --> 00:17:51.116 You know what I do need to tweak that area. 00:17:51.116 --> 00:17:54.695 You know what I do need to change what I'm saying. 00:17:55.746 --> 00:18:00.538 Last Sunday night I taught the importance of our words, a couple of scriptures that I mentioned. 00:18:00.538 --> 00:18:02.431 Let me just mention those to you. 00:18:02.431 --> 00:18:07.989 The power of your words Proverbs 15 force as gentle. 00:18:07.989 --> 00:18:09.633 Words bring life and health. 00:18:09.633 --> 00:18:11.758 A deceitful tongue crushes the spirit. 00:18:11.758 --> 00:18:18.644 Proverbs 1821 death and life run the power of the tongue and those who love it will eat its fruit. 00:18:18.644 --> 00:18:29.267 Barbara 1624 kind words are like honey, sweet to the soul and healthy for the body, in that good. 00:18:29.267 --> 00:18:44.383 Parvus 18, for a person's words can be life-giving water, words of true wisdom are as refreshing as a bubbling brook, and so what we say has a lot to do. 00:18:44.383 --> 00:18:52.407 You know it has a lot to do with what you know we're walking through like, yes, trials, tribulations, those come. 00:18:52.407 --> 00:18:55.739 Tough times come, but what we say it matters. 00:18:55.739 --> 00:18:56.863 Paul and Silas I mean. 00:18:56.863 --> 00:18:57.565 In Acts 16. 00:18:57.565 --> 00:19:01.472 They were locked up in prison, but they sang. 00:19:01.472 --> 00:19:03.696 They sang praises to God. 00:19:03.696 --> 00:19:11.099 They were joyful, you know when it didn't look like, you know they were bound, but they sang praises. 00:19:11.099 --> 00:19:15.128 So what we say matters, okay. 00:19:15.169 --> 00:19:17.794 So number three to keep you constant. 00:19:17.794 --> 00:19:19.336 So why do we need to anchor? 00:19:19.336 --> 00:19:20.439 To keep you constant. 00:19:20.439 --> 00:19:28.972 So and I had this like visual of, and I wrote this down if you throw out an anchor but don't secure the line, it won't do you any good. 00:19:28.972 --> 00:19:36.156 You can throw out an anchor all day long, and but if it's not connected to anything, what are you doing? 00:19:36.156 --> 00:19:45.163 Like the boat's still gonna go adrift, right, and so not obeying God's word is like turning loose of that rope. 00:19:45.163 --> 00:19:50.478 And so we, when we hear the word, faith comes. 00:19:50.478 --> 00:19:54.951 But then there's this next step, or you know what I have to do something about that? 00:19:54.951 --> 00:20:02.040 I heard the word, but then now comes an action, now there's comes obedience on my part. 00:20:02.040 --> 00:20:05.832 And so you stay on track. 00:20:05.832 --> 00:20:10.590 When you stay connected, it keeps you constant. 00:20:10.590 --> 00:20:13.888 It keeps you, you know, disciplined. 00:20:13.888 --> 00:20:15.794 The word of God keeps you disciplined. 00:20:16.516 --> 00:20:28.353 And so, you know, we used to have a boat when the kids were little and we used to go to Lake Conroe, and Sometimes I Remember, you know we would. 00:20:28.353 --> 00:20:35.897 I don't know if we'd go in the middle of the lake, but we would find a spot and we'd like get jumped out of the boat and just swim in the area. 00:20:35.897 --> 00:20:41.653 But then I would notice, so Jay would put the anchor out, but then the boat was. 00:20:41.653 --> 00:20:57.045 It wasn't, we were drifting away from the boat, like I don't know if we were drifting or the boat was drifting and maybe the anchor didn't Didn't, you know, go all the way down, maybe it was like the ground was too sandy, I don't know. 00:20:57.045 --> 00:20:59.851 I don't know all these things, but I just remember. 00:20:59.851 --> 00:21:01.795 But you know what? 00:21:01.795 --> 00:21:03.499 Our anchor in Jesus? 00:21:03.499 --> 00:21:08.557 It needs to be on solid ground, it needs to be dug down deep. 00:21:08.557 --> 00:21:11.894 We can't drift, we can't drift away. 00:21:14.184 --> 00:21:20.178 Philippians 3 13 says no, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved and this is Paul talking. 00:21:20.178 --> 00:21:34.944 But I focus on this one thing For getting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us. 00:21:34.944 --> 00:21:40.644 And so here, paul is focused on the future. 00:21:40.644 --> 00:21:55.654 He's not focused on what's in the past, and he had a past, saul, but he's, he's like hey, this one thing I do, I'm folk, I press Towards that hope, I press on words towards that. 00:21:55.654 --> 00:21:57.779 You know positive expectation. 00:21:57.779 --> 00:22:07.652 And Paul, if you, and if you keep on reading, he says I know how to be a base and I know how to abound, no matter the circumstances. 00:22:07.652 --> 00:22:11.884 You know, I keep Jesus as my number one, I keep him in front of me. 00:22:12.891 --> 00:22:21.078 I say a 43, 1 through 3 in the message Says do not be afraid, I've redeemed you, I've called your name, your mind. 00:22:21.078 --> 00:22:26.867 When you're in over your head and sometimes we are I'll be there with you. 00:22:26.867 --> 00:22:29.114 God's saying I got this, I got your back. 00:22:29.114 --> 00:22:33.090 When you're in rough waters, you will not go down. 00:22:33.090 --> 00:22:45.650 When you're between a rock and a hard place, it won't be a dead end because I am God, your personal God, the holy of Israel, your Savior. 00:22:45.650 --> 00:22:49.392 So here, hey, he's saying I've redeemed you, I got you. 00:22:49.392 --> 00:23:02.560 When you're in rough waters, when you feel like you're both sinking, when you're a feel like your hate, don't give up, don't quit what's coming out of your mouth, right, just like second Corinthians. 00:23:02.694 --> 00:23:04.481 Hey, let's examine ourselves. 00:23:04.481 --> 00:23:05.858 Are we complaining? 00:23:05.858 --> 00:23:07.042 Are we murmuring? 00:23:07.042 --> 00:23:08.038 Are we thankful? 00:23:08.038 --> 00:23:08.882 Are we praising God? 00:23:08.882 --> 00:23:12.260 Thank you, jesus, that I'm alive For such a time as this. 00:23:12.260 --> 00:23:13.380 Thank you that I have breath. 00:23:13.380 --> 00:23:16.124 Thank you that I've been redeemed from the curse. 00:23:16.124 --> 00:23:19.903 I thank you that I'm alive and well and healthy. 00:23:19.903 --> 00:23:24.085 God wants us to be. 00:23:24.085 --> 00:23:30.830 He wants us to be thankful for what he's done. 00:23:30.830 --> 00:23:37.022 And so here it says hey, when you're in over your head, I'll be there for you. 00:23:37.022 --> 00:23:39.383 So I just want to encourage you tonight. 00:23:39.474 --> 00:23:40.298 Don't lose hope. 00:23:40.298 --> 00:23:50.343 Whatever you may be facing, expect that God, if God said it in his word, he'll do it. 00:23:50.343 --> 00:24:00.805 It'll come to pass, whatever you're believing for maybe it's a way we're a child God said you and your household shall be saved. 00:24:00.805 --> 00:24:09.624 Maybe it's, you know, ex-husband or ex-wife or a family member that's just you're in contention with. 00:24:09.624 --> 00:24:15.818 Hey, listen, god wants you to have peace in your life, and so don't give up. 00:24:15.818 --> 00:24:17.715 Pray for those you know. 00:24:17.715 --> 00:24:21.563 The Bible says love your enemies, do good to those that despitefully use you. 00:24:21.563 --> 00:24:27.307 And so when we do our part and when we act on the word God, we'll do his part. 00:24:27.307 --> 00:24:28.500 He's already done his part. 00:24:28.500 --> 00:24:32.464 It's just us lining up with his will and what he has. 00:24:32.464 --> 00:24:34.738 And so I just want to encourage you don't lose hope. 00:24:34.738 --> 00:24:42.920 Whatever you're going through, whatever challenge you are facing, expect God to do great things. 00:24:42.920 --> 00:24:45.182 I mean, he's done it in my life. 00:24:45.355 --> 00:24:56.785 I know a lot of people here can testify of what God has done in their lives, and so don't lose hope, keep expecting, keep believing, keep walking. 00:24:56.785 --> 00:25:02.123 You know it may seem like you're walking through the Amazon jungle, but keep like. 00:25:02.123 --> 00:25:05.784 No, I gotta keep going, I gotta keep moving. 00:25:05.784 --> 00:25:16.103 And when I was reading that you know the 17 year old girl I was reading and she was like, oh yeah, there was like you know, she listed all the things. 00:25:16.103 --> 00:25:18.343 She was so graphic, like well, how could you not be? 00:25:18.343 --> 00:25:19.740 But there was crocodiles by her. 00:25:19.740 --> 00:25:22.657 She's like I just kept floating, I just kept going. 00:25:22.657 --> 00:25:27.416 You know the animals at night that she didn't sleep, she just kept. 00:25:27.416 --> 00:25:28.441 She just kept. 00:25:28.441 --> 00:25:33.540 She had that hope, like, hey, I'm gonna see my dad, you know, I wonder what my dad's thinking. 00:25:33.540 --> 00:25:41.319 And so I just want to encourage you keep going, keep moving, keep stepping in the direction that God has called you. 00:25:41.815 --> 00:25:46.361 And it's a supernatural working with the natural, like we can't just expect all of this. 00:25:46.361 --> 00:25:52.964 You know God to do the, and he does, and he's a great God and he's a miracle working God. 00:25:52.964 --> 00:25:55.402 But we in the natural also have to do our part. 00:25:55.402 --> 00:26:00.885 We have to what the word says we have to do love Right. 00:26:00.885 --> 00:26:02.097 Love those. 00:26:02.097 --> 00:26:03.196 We have to. 00:26:03.196 --> 00:26:11.338 If, if just like physical therapy, you know, if we broke a bone and the doctor says you need physical therapy, well, no, I'm not, I just no. 00:26:11.338 --> 00:26:15.022 But hey, listen in the natural we have to, we have to walk it out. 00:26:15.022 --> 00:26:18.744 It's the natural and the supernatural working together. 00:26:18.744 --> 00:26:20.840 So I just want to encourage you with that. 00:26:20.840 --> 00:26:26.125 Don't lose hope, no matter what you're facing. 00:26:26.125 --> 00:26:27.479 Trust in the Lord. 00:26:27.479 --> 00:26:29.257 Put our hope. 00:26:29.257 --> 00:26:31.805 Our hope is in the Lord and not in man. 00:26:31.805 --> 00:26:32.961 Amen.