Privilege of Being in God’s House
Gratitude for the freedom and presence of the Spirit of God.Many people would love to be in a place where the spirit of God is free.It is a privilege to be in God’s house.Romans Chapter 4
Reading of Romans 4:17-25 and verse 16.Focus on faith and grace.It is of faith that it might be by grace.The promise might be sure to all the seed.Not to that only which is of the law, but also which is of the faith of Abraham.Abraham: Father of Many Nations
Abraham as the father of many nations, not just Israel.God told Abraham, “I’m going to make you a father of many nations.”All are children of Abraham through faith, not the law.Abraham pleased God through belief, not law-keeping.The law had yet to be given.Abraham came because he believed God.Abraham’s Faith
God’s promise to Abraham to make him a father of many nations.Sarah was barren.Abraham didn’t have any children.Abraham believed God despite his age (100 years old) and Sarah’s age (90 years old).Abraham believed God.It was imputed to him for righteousness.Righteousness imputed to Abraham because of belief, not personal righteousness or worthiness.Not because Abraham was righteous.Not because Abraham deserved righteousness.Not because he was worthy of righteousness.But because he believed God.Importance of Faith
Without faith, it is impossible to please God.God puts such a value on faith.When any soul will simply believe God in spite of all the circumstances, in spite of all the situations.God imputes righteousness to those who believe.Righteousness of Christ imputed at the moment of faith.We believed.Hope in a Hopeless World
Hope is very important.The world has lost hope, even the lost.Wickedness abounds and it’s getting worse.Political changes have not brought righteousness.A lot of people thought when Trump got in office that somehow this country would turn around and get righteous.We’re no closer to God than we were two years ago.Evidence of lack of revival: no abandonment of sin, no church filling.If things were really getting right, brother, we’d see it in the church.It ain’t here.It’s growing more wicked every day.Encouragement to keep hope.Don’t let anything steal your hope.Advice to avoid negative influences: turn off TV and radio, open the Bible.Turn your TV off.Turn your radio off.And open up your Bible.Stop the influences of the devil.Hope as a Necessity
Hope is absolutely necessary for the people of God.Despair and worry heard in voices of men at a gathering.There were some of them that were sharing before church, and some of them shared even after we had started.I could hear the despair in their voice.I could hear the worry and the concern.Concern is valid, but must be balanced with hope in God.Without a vision, you’ll perish.We cannot as the people of God in good faith talk about it without still having hope in God.Faith and hope are linked; faith precedes hope.If you’ve got faith hope’s right behind you.The more faith you have, the greater hope you’ll have as well.1 Corinthians 13: faith, hope, and charity (love).Love is the greatest, but in good company with faith and hope.Now abideth these three.Faith, hope, and charity.But the greatest of these is charity.Need for hope in the church.We need to have hope in our heart tonight.We need to have a hope down in our soul.With God, anything can happen.When God’s involved, anything can happen.Believe God and let hope save each day.What we need to do is believe God and then let hope save us each and every day.Hope as Verb and Noun
Hope is both an action (verb) and a thing (noun).Hope is both a verb and a noun.It is both an action and a thing.Like faith and love, hope is a real thing.Faith is an action, but faith is also a thing.Love is an action, but it is also a noun.It is a thing.Appreciation for people with hope who haven’t given up on God.I love to meet people that have got hope.I like to meet people that ain’t give up on God.They’ve not laid down on God.They’ve not quit believing in God.Hope leads to expecting God to move in unexpected ways.God’s going to do something that they ain’t expecting, that God’s going to move in a way they’ve never seen, that God’s going to come in and help them in a way that they can’t even understand or foresee.Hope should follow faith.If you’ve got faith, you ought to have some hope with you.Hope ought to follow your faith.Many Christians seem to lack hope.I see a lot of people that ain’t got much hope.I talk to Christian people, good Christian people.And when you talk to them, it seems like they don’t give up.They just throw it in the towel.Losing belief in God leads to hopelessness.When they quit believing in God, they quit believing God can do something.Focus on the present and the work to be done.I’m still breathing.I’ve still got a day ahead of me if God wakes me up and the sun shines again.We’ve got work to do.Need for hope to avoid emotional and spiritual backsliding.You’ll get so far down the ditch that you’ll end up backslidden emotionally and spiritually.You’ll get to the place where you sell out on faith and you sit down on God and suddenly, amen, everything that is wrong begins to come your way.Reaping hard things from sowing bad things.You’ll begin to reap hard things because you’ve sown bad things.Even without understanding God’s plan, hope is essential.Even though we cannot see what God is doing, we do not know what moment in time, what dispensation we’re in.What I can tell you is that we still need hope today.Abraham believed against hope.Abraham, who against hope, believed in hope.Hope is part of faith.Hope’s part of our faith.These three abideth, faith, hope, and love.But the greatest of these is hope.Believing Against Hope
Abraham believed against hope (Romans 4:18).Every earthly argument or sense was not supporting what God was telling Abraham.Everything that God told Abraham, the worldly argument, the worldly sense, the worldly rationality, The worldly experience would tell Abraham that’s not going to happen.Worldly rationality says it’s impossible, but God can do anything.It cannot be.It is impossible.There’s no need to believe in that because that is not reality.It is not something that can occur.Believing God despite circumstances allows hope to flourish.When everything says it cannot be.It still can be.Believing in God
Believing in hope means believing in God (verse 17).Before him whom he believed even God.Believing in God overrides worldly rationale and human experience.If you’re believing in God today, all bets are off as far as the world’s rationale.All bets are off is on human experience.God can change situations even when doctors say nothing can be done.You may have been to a thousand doctors and every one of them tell you, Nope, there is nothing that can be done.But brother, when you put it in God’s hands, it can change.Question of who to believe: doctors, lawyers, personal experience, or God.Do you believe the doctors?Do you believe the lawyer?Do you believe that person?Do you believe your experience, your own rationale, your own common sense?God can do anything, including wondrous miracles.All of those things are nothing to my God.Because God can do anything.God acts when humans cannot.God did it because you couldn’t do it.God did it because nobody else could do it.God did it to show you He could do it.Believing in God despite terrible circumstances.There are circumstances in my life that are terrible, and I have no idea how this is going to turn out.Anything is possible with prayer and belief.If you’ll keep praying and you’ll keep believing, friend, anything is possible.God’s timing differs from human timing; patience is needed.God’s timing ain’t your timing.So just be patient.Human solutions to God problems don’t work.His wife said, I’ve come up with a human solution to a God problem.What you need is not a human solution, but you need the God solution.Trusting God with all your heart leads to directed steps.If I trust in Him with all my heart and lean not to my own understanding but in all my ways acknowledge Him that He will direct my steps.God fixes what humans cannot.You’re liable to find out He fixes what can’t be fixed by humans.God’s Abilities
Believing in God who is able to do all things.Abraham believed in any help because he was believing, number one, in God who is able to do all things.Believing in God who can quicken the dead.He was believing that God was able to quicken the dead.This God had power to raise someone up from the dead.Believing in God who calls things that are not as though they were.When God talks about something that has not happened, he’s speaking to it as if it will happen because he will make it happen.God will speak it as if it has already happened.Need for More Faith
Need for more faith.I need more faith.I need to believe God for more than what I’m believing.Trusting God for things that are impossible for humans.When you trust God and believe Him for things that you can’t fix, you can’t do.Daily choice to believe God or the world.Every day when you get up, you’re going to have to make a choice.Am I going to believe God today or am I going to believe the world?Believing God leads to the birth of hope.If you believe God, friend, hope is born again right in your soul.Abraham’s Strength in Faith
Abraham was not weak in faith.Abraham was strong in the faith.Abraham believed God when asked to sacrifice Isaac.Take your only son Isaac up there and offer him up as a sacrifice unto me.Abraham believed God would provide a sacrifice.God will provide himself a lamb for the sacrifice.Abraham believed God could raise Isaac from the dead.He believed in his heart that if God allowed him to take that boy, that he’d raise him from the dead.Overcoming Weakness in Faith
Problem of weakness in faith.I think that’s part of our problem today.Faith can move mountains (Matthew 21:21).If we had faith we’d say to the mountain be you moved and cast into the sea and it would be.Abraham’s example of not considering his own body as dead.Being not weak in the faith, he considered not his own body, now need.Not letting the mind dictate faith.Abraham did not let his mind dictate what God was saying, whether it be possible or impossible.Not staggering at the promise of God through unbelief.He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in the faith, giving glory to God.Being fully persuaded that God could perform what He promised.Being fully persuaded what he had promised, he was also able to perform.Value of Hope
Faith, hope, and charity (love) are all important.These three things abide.Faith, hope, and charity.The greatest of these is charity.Need for hope.You need a lot of hope, by the way.Wake up with enough faith to produce hope for the day.You need to wake up in the morning with enough faith to produce more hope so that you have hope to do you all day long.Losing hope leads to stopping.The minute you run out of hope, the minute you sit down.The minute you quit working for God, the minute we quit living for God and serving God and reading and studying and seeking God, when you lose hope, you just stop.Hope is essential for survival, like for prisoners of war.The main thing that those prisoners of war in Vietnam needed, the main thing they needed was hope that they’d get out.Hope can lift one out of pits, depression, and hurt.It’ll lift you up out of that pit that you’re in, that depression that you’re in, that hurt that you’re feeling.Hope is powerful and can save.Hope will save you.It’s that powerful.Hope from the Scriptures
Hope comes from the Scriptures (Romans 15:4).Whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning.That we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.Faith comes from hearing the Word of God.Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.Increased faith leads to bold hope.As your faith is increased, brother, hope becomes bold within yourself.Need for hope at all times, not just in church.You don’t need it on Wednesday and Sunday.You need hope on Thursday morning.You need some good hope on Friday morning.The world should see hope in Christians.Reckon why they’d ever ask you about Christ if when they see or hear you, all they see is somebody that has no hope.The lost are the most hopeless.If there’s anybody hopeless, It’s the lost.Without hope in Christ, life is miserable (1 Corinthians 15:19).If I had hope in this life only in Christ, I’d be of all men most miserable.God of Hope
The Word of God gives hope and sustains belief.The Word of God was meant to give us hope because it gives us faith.Hope keeps serving and fighting and helping and it’ll sustain you.God is the God of hope (Romans 15:13).Now the God of hope, fill you with all joy and peace and believing.Prayer for God to fill with joy, peace, and belief.I pray that He fill you with all joy and peace and believing.Abounding in hope through the power of the Holy Ghost.That ye may abound in hope through the power of the Holy Ghost.Supercharged Hope
The Holy Ghost supercharges hope.The Holy Ghost then gets into hope.It gets supercharged at that point.Hope begins to do unexpected things.Suddenly hope begins to do things you didn’t know hope could do.The power of the Holy Ghost brings action.When you get the power of the Holy Ghost into something, you better get out of its way.Because it’s fixing to do something.Hopelessness leads to despair.So many people have got their head down, which infers to me they’ve lost hope, which means they’re not believing God.Christians should never be hopeless.You’re never hopeless.Simple faith in Christ produces supercharged hope.That simple faith in Christ produces a supercharged hope that has power to lift you up out of depression, lift you up out of the pit, lift you up out of that hard place.God can do what no one else can do.God can do what no one else can do.Hope as an Anchor
Hebrews 6:18-19: hope as a strong consolation.By two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation.Lay hold upon the hope set before us.Who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us.Hope is both an action and a thing.Hope is both a verb and a noun.Hope is an action and a thing.Hope is the answer and a supercharged power.Out there in front of you is hope.Out there in front of you is the answer, the hope that you need.You’ll experience hope as a thing.A supercharged.Holy Spirit-filled thing.A power unlike anything else on the earth.Hope changes perspective.Give somebody real hope.Their perspective changes on every circumstance.Loss of hope leads to despair and suicide.If you take their hope away, you know what they do these days?They try to kill themselves.Need to exercise faith to increase hope.You better keep working on hope.Hope will rescue and save.Hope’s going to rescue you.Hope’s going to save you.Hope as an anchor of the soul (Hebrews 6:19).Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul.Hope leads to Christ’s presence.Hope will lead you into His presence.Need to be at the feet of the One who can do all things.The one thing you need, more than anything else, is to be at the feet of the One who can do all things.Hope takes one to Christ.Your hope took you there.Hopelessness leads to quitting.You take a person that’s hopeless and you know what they want to do?They want to quit.Hope leads to seeking Jesus.Somebody that’s filled with hope is going to find themselves at the feet of Jesus one more time.Hope is supercharged by the Holy Ghost.Hope is supercharged of the Holy Ghost.Hope is brought by the Scriptures.It is brought to us by the Scriptures.Hope is a refuge and a sure anchor.God has said it before us that we might lay hold upon it as a refuge.It is a sure and steadfast anchor of our…Hope leads into the presence of Christ.It takes me into the presence of Christ.Creation’s Groaning and Hope’s Saving Power
All creation groans (Romans 8:22).We know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.Everyone experiences problems.Every one of you have got problems.Choice to believe God and have hope or go farther down.They can either believe God.In that moment, they can either believe God and watch hope be born and supercharged powerfully enter into their life and lift them out of that circumstance or they will go farther down.Saved by hope (Romans 8:24).For we are saved by hope.Hope saves like a life preserver.Like a life preserver, when I’m going under it, Hope saves me.Hope lifts one up when feeling overwhelmed.When it feels like you’re just so far down that you ain’t going to come up again, and suddenly you feel like something grabbed a hold of you and just hit you right back down.That was hope.Hope replaces negative emotions with positive ones.A smile replaced the frame.And confidence the worry.And boldness the fear.Hope is always available in Christ.In Christ, there is always hope.Hope rescues and lifts up.Hope, it didn’t rescue you.It didn’t lift you up out of that where you said it didn’t pull you right back up to hope it saved you.Waiting with Patience
Hope is born of faith.Hope is born of faith.When there is no faith, there is no hope.More faith leads to more hope.The more faith you have, the more hope is born.Hope lifts above the world’s troubles.Hope will save you.Hope will lift you above the waves of this world and the wretchedness we live in and the groaning and the pain.Hope is for things not seen (Romans 8:24-25).Hope that is seen is not hope.If we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.Patience is needed while waiting for God’s promise.If we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.Hope sustains while waiting.That hope will be what sustains you as you wait for it.Hope is an anchor of the soul.Hope will hold you.As an anchor of the soul.Hope leads closer to God.That hope is taking you right into him.Hope leads into the holiest of holies.It’s walking you closer and closer to him.Until it goes right inside, within the veil, behind the curtain, to the holies of holies.God does what no one else can do.God did something that nobody else could do.Patience allows hope to work until God fulfills His promise.With patience while hope did its work in sustaining and saving day after day moment after moment until finally God does what God said he’d do.Once the promise is seen, there is no more need for hope.Once you see it, you no longer have to hope for it no more.Faith, hope, and charity (love) are essential.Faith, hope, and charity.These three.Gratitude for hope.Thank God for Hope.Believing and carrying on despite uncertainty.You just keep carrying on.And you keep believing.Hope it keeps up.God’s plan is good.What a good plan He came up with, honey.Use faith, hope, and love.You’ve got them.Use them.Invitation to be filled with hope.I’d like to see you leave here filled with hope.Filled with hope.Let God save and help.Let him save you tonight.Let him help you.
