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Great expectations
(Great expectations picture here)
Great expectations is more than a book, or a movie made from the book.
Do you ever have expectations of yourself or others?
What does the word expectation mean?
Defined (N) It is a strong belief that something will happened or be the case in the future.
What kind of expectations do you have today, now, in life now?
Do you think God has expectations of us today?
Do you think God gives us hope, reasons to have great expectations now?
(personal expectations)
Graduate high school
Graduate boot camp
Get married and have a family
Be heaven bound
Get clean/sober
Preach/teach the word
Our passage today is looking at our present age and the age to come, what we have today and what we can have great expectations to have as we have life in the Spirit.
Paul is going to draw a comparison of this present age, and the age to come, one is incomparable to the other.
So, here are the comparisons we are looking at today
Suffering compared to glory (8:18-19)
Corruption compared to glory (8:20-21)
Groans compared to redemption (8:22-23)
No hope compared to hope with perseverance (8:24-25)
First we need to start with the passage and lean in to glean from the word before looking at the points.
What is the theme of this passage as you see it?
Hope, great expectations
Anything in particular stick out to you?
To me (v.24) the definition of hope
What is Paul conveying (v.18)?
Present day suffering not worthy to compared to the glory to come.
What does Paul use as illustration (vv.19-22)?
Paul uses all of creation
Anxious, longing, waiting eagerly, subjected to futility, that creation would be set free, as it groans, suffers together until now.
Paul switches from creation to the created in God’s image man, what is man waiting for (v.23)?
Waiting, eagerly for our adoption and redemption of our body
How does Paul define hope (v.24)?
Hope is that we have been saved, in something that is not seen.
What does Paul call for in (v.25)?
He calls for perseverance as we wait eagerly for hope ( adoption, redemption) to be fulfilled.
Suffering compared to glory
Our present suffering is not worth comparing with our future glory and our future inheritance fulfilled.
Paul is not ignorant, bind to the present suffering, for even Jesus, Peter and James all spoke on it.
Yet, our future glory, our future inheritance fulfilled far outweighs any suffering now that is temporary and the glory is eternal
Today we see the wickedness of man, the wretchedness of sin and the deceitfulness of the deceiver.
Because of the craftiness, the deceitfulness of the deceiver we live now in a fallen world, a corruptible world.
Our future is filled with incorruptibility, immortality and never ending love.
Consider Gods love (Eph6:23-24)
Now look at what Paul told the Corinthian Church (1Cor15:54)
Are you getting the picture yet?
How about one more passage (2Cor4:16-5:5)
OK, really one more to drive home the point why incomparable (1Jn3:1-3)
In looking, thinking, pondering on all these passages what are you taking away from them?
May we hope, may we hold onto that word.
That truth that our present suffering is incomparable to our future glory and inheritance!
Corruption compared to glory
In the beginning of creation there was no corruption ( ref. Gen1:26-31).
Man had dominion over all things
Sin entered the world and everything changed (ref.
Gen3:3ff)
Corruption entered, the consequences of sin (death) entered the world
Pain in childbirth
Toil the ground now.
Even though these things entered the world (corruption) God and Jesus Christ gave us hope.
An eager expectation is found in hope see, even though we may suffer now (1Pt5:10)
God of all grace called you into eternal glory, see what Paul has to say (Eph1:13-14)
In this corruptible world, where we may suffer now, we may even groan (8:22) , hold on there is better yet to come.
Groans compared to redemption
All, whole, creation groans
All creation awaits, eagerly our (man’s) final adoption as sons.
Though pain of childbirth, Toiling, suffering, persecution, one day it will be gone, until then, may we remember (1Pt4:12-17)
Though we suffer now, will glory later, don’t loose your hope now.
What is the definition of hope?
The confident expectation of good to come in the future.
Is that not what Paul is trying to convey in our passage this morning.
Hope with perseverance
What is perseverance?
Do you think that Christians need perseverance, and if so, why?
Just as a refresher, what is hope?
Perseverance in hope, with great expectations:
In Hope we have been saved
For Hope is not what is seen, but in what is to come with confident expectation
Do we have hope, confident expectation, great expectation that by your faith you can know you are saved and have a heavenly kingdom to come as you have the kingdom of the beloved Son now?
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