Glory to God.

Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord.

He is a good father, isn't he?

Thank you, Lord.

Open your Bibles tonight to Ephesians 2, verse 12.

You know, I was looking at, you know, so many times we look at words. You know, with me,

God will give me to focus on a word. And because so often what the devil tries to do is take

words of power and take the power out of them. When we take a word that's in the Bible that God put in there,

a God word, which if it's in the Bible, it's a God word,

and we move it over into the man realm.

Right?

We start using it in our everyday life the same way the world uses it.

Then we take the power out of it because it no longer does what God intended it to do.

Amen?

You know, there's many words like that, but one that we're going to look at tonight is exactly hope.

You know, Brother Moore's taught this for years, and I think even before we had church,

I heard him teach it in a tape, that hope in the Bible is not the same as the hope the world

talks about.

The world, they talk about wishing.

You know, I looked at it. Actually, I googled it. I said, define hope. And one of the definitions was wish, right? Because that's all it is for them. I sure hope it happens. But how many have said that? You know, I caught myself the other day saying that. But the key to that is I caught

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