Hopeful People
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Grateful people are Hopeful people
Hope: a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen.
Grateful for our salvation and hopeful for the future.
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18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God. 22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? 25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.
present suffering / compared with / the glory that will be revealed. “Suffering? What suffering?”
Remember the def of Hope: a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen.
1. What are you suffering with right now? ______________
19 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
Waits in eager expectation / even creation has hope
20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
Not by its own choice - It had no say.
17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.
20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
liberated from bondage and decay
Time laps of roses dying: https://youtu.be/MlSyHu6TWtI?si=rrjb9ICsx75axlvU
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
Groaning as in the pain of childbirth
KK’s birth / 10 days over due / Tam was induced / contractions slowly intensified /
Earth quakes are a symbol of these groans. Don’t like earth quakes? Remind ourselves it is just the earth reminding us that it too can not wait for its redemption.
23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.
Just as the first pieces of produce to appear on a tree provide hope of a future harvest
The reason we groan is because we have experienced “the firstfruits of the Spirit,” a foretaste of the glory to come. Just as the nation of Israel tasted the firstfruits of Canaan when the spies returned (Num. 13:23–27), so we Christians have tasted of the blessings of heaven through the ministry of the Spirit.
What I love about adoption? They chose you.
5 God was kind and decided that Christ would choose us to be God’s own adopted children.
23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.
the redemption of our bodies
20 But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.
24 For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have?
Getting the same gift you got last year. Best life now / book Joel O.
25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
2 in the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time,
hope
6 You have accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord. Now keep on following him. 7 Plant your roots in Christ and let him be the foundation for your life. Be strong in your faith, just as you were taught. And be grateful.
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