I Hope So, Hope in Victory [Part 1]

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I hope so. From Pastor Alan Wright. Part of what hope is about is getting back up when you but not now we been learning about that. That is hope that you ask your author and Bible teacher Helen Wright look into sharing the light of program of healing and hope hearing the good news of what God is done for us in Jesus Christ. I am Daniel Britt eager for you to hear Allen's message in a series called I hope so they can from the pulpit at Minolta church in Winston-Salem North Carolina.

If you want to know more about. I hope so listen up next year on shearing the light did Allen writes daily shearing. The light devotional when you sign up@shearingthelight.org and stay with us at the end of today's broadcast for a special offer to help you in your spiritual life here now with today's teaching is Allen right hope is not wishful thinking. Oh is added to of one's mind and heart that comes when there's an assurance of a blessed destiny guaranteed for the work of Jesus Christ on the cross in a moment in history that's that's what hope is so I was looking at Justin and Holly last evening. Adversity is 40 weeks along with this baby ready to come into the world that they are going to call Samuel and it's about time for Samuel to be born, and there they are ready doctors of sedative they're going to help labor start. If it doesn't, by Wednesday and so the baby is coming they don't, they wouldn't say we hope were going to have a baby because there is a baby and we can all see that there is a baby. We just can't see the baby yet we nobodies nobodies seen that babies face nobody's held that baby yeah nobodies rocks that baby yeah but that baby is coming, so there is the hope of a baby is shaping how they now are living there living every day in expectancy of this baby and that's what you call, hope, hope is the condition of one's life that is certain of the wonderful blessing that is coming, you may not know the exact nature of the blessing or exactly how you will experience that blessing and that blessing may have many challenges with that but your living today preparing the nursery by the diapers getting the" because expectancy is there, that sense of certainty that produces expectancy and with it a blasts of appreciating a blessed saying that you have not yet touched that attitude is hope and every day Scripture teaches for the Christian is meant to be live like that. We don't live our lives under the specter of death will live our lives under the specter of a destiny of despair, but we live with the sure and certain hope of Our Pl. in Christ Jesus, now and forever more. And we may face troubles in this life we do not despair in those troubles. Even when we grieve, we do not grieve like the rest of the world who has no hope. But we weather were grieving or whether were rejoicing.

We are doing so out of hope because we know that there is in Christ Jesus glory that is ours and is the hope of glory that moves us through life. So would learn about what hope really is. Hope is intimately intertwined with character which is intimately connected with endurance which is intimately connected with suffering. Suffering produces an endurance. Endurance produces character, and character which is defined as this capacity to endure is the wellspring of the hope attitude that shapes us in the Christian life. So part of what hope is about is getting back up when you but not now we been learning about that that is hope makes you keep going when you don't have hope you don't hope get you up in the morning, but your clothes on and do something. Hope less Nass makes you want to just lie there and say why does it all matter. Hope therefore is a matter of extreme importance because in the in his life and death. Five but hope has another consequence that is magnificent.

And not only is the thing that causes us to keep getting backup hope is what fuels what is true victorious living.

I love the whole story of the assistant football coach who says the head coach before he desisted heading out on a recruiting trip and he says coach, what we looking for in the head coach is what you know there's that guy you knock him down and he stays down assistant coach is just not who were looking for the coach because of no go says there's a guy you not.

Can I get back up, you knock them down and then he stays down soon goes is when Oliver I got either all-inclusive, no coach of the dinners I got you knocking now to get back up, you knock him down to get backup you not about to get back up, uniting that he gets backup Pacifico generous is that you are looking for. I got to get back up his knowledge about if I got knocking her by down.

That's a 1000 because hello is not just the thing to get you back up. It is also the thing that will empower you to take charge, to take authority over besetting sand to take authority over the foolishness of the flash to take authority over the persecution of the power of hell and that's what I want to speak to you about today. The hope of victory you got your finger at Romans. Keep it there but here is Exodus 20 where the 10 Commandments are given and after disallowing idols in any form verse five commands. You shall not bow down to them or worship them wife for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments, God is just.

He is a God of justice and he built the world but there's much injustice in it.

He designed creation after his own nature, and since he is just there is injustice in God's plan for the world so injustice sin must be punished. Never forget that Christian assertion of the love of God towards sinners is never the same thing is God's tolerance of sin within centers. It is for the very end tolerance of sin that God had to send Jesus Christ to become sin in our behalf. So God is just, and he is jealous in the same sense that a husband who loves his wife doesn't share his wife with other men because if you don't care who all she goes out with that.

How could you say you love her. So God's jealous love is the love of a bridegroom who says I love you too much to let you commit adultery with other gods, no idols, and so God is just and God is jealous, which defines the nature of his plan for the world and the power of his love, and therefore sin will be punished and he says that by the punishment of sin. What will happen is sins of the fathers will go on to third and fourth generation. And then he draws a contrast that while sin has a consequence that goes even to 1/3 and fourth generation. He contrasts he says, but, God and I show has said I show mercy, kindness, graciousness and unconditional love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

I set this as a backdrop to what I'm gonna say today because it's so powerful. If you begin to conceive of what this means God even when he was giving the Mosaic law was prefiguring his plan, that sin would not have the final say so.

It would have a limit of its impact and of its duration, but that God's love would have a limitless impact in a limitless duration. You see the number thousand and the Scripture. It is almost always symbolic meaning, fullness, ongoing infinite quality like we say I wouldn't do that for a million bucks what we we don't mean I wouldn't do it for $1,000,001. What we mean is I'm I will do that.

I know because I went, no matter how expansive it is and that that's the way the number thousand is used in most places, not everyplace, but most places in the Scripture. And so what God is saying is that it is an my promise and my heart you need understand this is and will be punished but that love will be shown endlessly without measure and without hand to those who love me and keep my commandments. That's the plan that's listening to shearing the and will have more teaching in a moment. Today's series felt the day before Christmas stockings hung by the fireplace is waiting to be filled colorful packages just waiting to be ripped open the wonderful feeling when you're certain something that is coming and there's a word for that posture of high hope that certainty left future child size not wishful thinking that if a child size for Christmas that I know it's going to be good models have if you are fast. Hope Pastor Alan Wright thing. Amazing exploration of Bremen's final 612 message CD album called I hope you delve deep into the writers of grace. We have the scatter watermark can heal or deliver. Discover how hope can fit to flee and miss you. See, maybe it's time for you to feel like a kid at Christmas. Again, the gospel is shared when you get to sing right Collis at 877-544-4860 or come to my website sharing the right to like listening to shearing the entities teaching them to you. Once again Alan running Romans chapter 5 we pick up reading at verse 12 therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men because all sin. For before the law was given sin was in the world, but sin is not taken into account when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who was a pattern or some translations made say a tight of the one who was to come. Joshua in the Old Testament was his name was Yeshua and he was one of only two courageous wines who dared to take the promised land. And he became the general of Israel who would take steps of faith to lead the people to conquer the land that they'd already been given there needed to be someone that would believe God that when God said this is your land. I've given it to you so everyplace you step your foot will be yours.

They needed a general believed that to lead them into that promised land in the New Testament, Jesus is born and his name is Yeshua and the indication is clear that he is the new Joshua Hebrews speaks of Jesus being better than Joshua. So Joshua was a type. He was a real person really live really let Israel, but God in his sovereign oversight of history.

Let Joshua even in his name.

Pre-figure Jesus, but Jesus is the reality the Joshua only pointed to because it's only ultimately through Jesus that spiritually we come into the kingdom of God so that the type Adam is a type of Christ. But in this instance, Adam, the first man is a type that he is a type in the negative sense he is like Christ in that one man's act of disobedience brought the whole world into sin because Adam send this is what Paul is asserting and everybody was born in Adam all the words you trace back your ancestry as far as you want to go and at some point there was a real historical man and the Bible asserts Adam as this real historical figure who send and therefore everyone ultimately was in Adam. Everyone came forth on that seed and therefore everyone was born in sin and so everyone born into this world is in a sense, born from Adam. One man's disobedience that put Adam out of the garden of Eden took him out of Paradise meant that all of us would also be born out of Paradise.

One man's disobedience brought that unrighteousness and that separation from God to every person that would be more so in other words, there was a massive impact of his one act. What Paul is saying is that Christ is the second Adam, who himself. Not this time through disobedience but through obedience that suffered even to the point of going to the cross through that one man's obedience. There has been therefore an endless impact to all who accept Christ and they would be restored and fellowship with God. So there's a first Adam, but Jesus is the real Adam and though we were all in Adam, when you come to saving faith in Christ by simple belief that he's died for you and Ray from the dead, then you are in Christ. So Paul keeps saying over and over. The New Testament where in Christ, and so where is it that we have every spiritual blessing hitting Christ.

Where is it that we were chosen in him before the batted in Christ, so that's what it means that Adam is a type of of Christ, and that sets the foundation of what Paul is getting rated to say what what Paul is asserting here is to me the foundation by which I have made a theological shift in my life to that of of a sense of living in victory and what that animal talk about what that means for most of my Christian life I felt that the talk of Christian victory was empty because surely I still sin in my life and I would hear people talk about the victorious Christian life and yet you wonder sometimes what is the substance of that and what Paul is laying out here in Romans five and as he continues in the next chapters is the depth of how the gospel and all of its fullness puts hope into our hearts so that we can live with that since a victory and that's what were going so Adam and the second Adam, but Paul says, and here's the key gift is not like the trespass to Adam is like Christ, and that this impact from disobedience in this impact from obedience have such far-reaching measure for all who are in Adam and all who are in Christ. But then what he saying is, but the gift is not like the trespass and this is the heart of the hope right here that there is something that is categorically qualitatively and even measurably different about the gift of the car. Risk the grace and righteousness of God that is not like the sin of Adam and he goes on. If the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God's grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ overflow to the many. Again, the gift of God is not like the result of the one man sin. The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification in verse 17 by the trespass of the one man death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God's abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ. So this promise of the provision of grace and the gift of righteousness, both of which are essential for our victorious living. This is the substance is off raining in life, but the raining and live is intimately connected with the fact that the gift is not like the trespass. If the gift were just like the trespass. Then we would be safe perhaps but we would not rain in life and it is the heart I believe of the book of Romans for us to move our thinking from one in which we are sinners that are dominated by our sin nature to move us to the vision that we are saints who dominate our sin nature because of our position in Christ: right listening to shearing the entities teaching will victory you felt the day before Christmas empty stockings hung by the fireplace is waiting to be filled colorful packages just waiting to be ripped open the wonderful feeling when you're certain something that is coming and there's a word for that pasture of high hope.

How in the sky during that certainty left future child size home for Christmas not wishful thinking that if a child size many different Christmas that I know it's gonna be good models have if you fast. Hope Pastor Alan) amazing exploration of Bremen's final 612 message CD album called I hope you delve deep into the writers of grace. We have the scatter watermark can save, heal or deliver you discover how hope can for chiefly CDM maybe it's time for you to feel like a kid at Christmas.

Again, the gospel is shared when you get teaching right this bypass is only possible because of recent financial support. When you get today. We will send you today's special affect happiness in this series I banks from sharing the right ministries, 877-544-4860 or come to my website sharing the right leg. The world sings songs of hope talks about hope movies inspire us with the threat of hope woven into the story line, the hope of the gospel certainly inspires and motivates is also a way of life and certainty for the believers. It is hope. It is we have said is not wishful thinking. Hope is instead and an attitude of heart that comes to pass. When we are absolutely convinced of our blessedness in Christ. In other words, the confidence that Jesus our champion has one the battle for us on the cross and has defeated death and defeated sin that while we may still face trouble in this world knowing that that victory is been one that causes us to have our spirits be convinced of of the promised blessings to come in that is really what hope is in the Christian has that hope nudges for three-minute happy song, or a two hour movie that is uplifting, but becomes the R pattern for little it's what we are designed to live in daily. Our hope in Christ always encouraged to hear from you whether you visit online sharing the.org or call 877 like 60 again shearing the non-O RG or call 8770 IG HT 60 get Allen writes daily shearing the devotional in your inbox each morning when you sign up sharing the life who RG this is been sharing the life Helen listener supported production sharing the like