Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to another mornings with the master for the

voters of the Lord, Thaley, with you. Good morning, you guys. Good morning, indeed. We're

picking back up with new morning mercies so that further ado, Tories, can take it from

here. Yes, y'all. Let's do it. It says this. Corporate worship reminds you that hope is

not a situation, location, idea, or thing. Hope is a person, and his name is Jesus. Titus

three, four through eights, as this. But when the goodness and loving kindness of God, our

Savior appeared, He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according

to His own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured

out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by His grace,

we might become errors according to the hope of eternal life. The saying is trust worthy,

and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may

be careful to devote themselves to good works. These things are excellent and profitable for

people. Everyone wants it. It's the thing that fuels what we do. It's the thing that

stimulates courage and perseverance. It's what gets you through the tough times and keeps

you from quitting. It's hard to be happy and hard to get up and continue when you don't

have any of it. What is it? Hope, of course. Everyone craves hope. Now, the radical message

of the Bible captured well by the Titus passage is that sturdy hope. Hope that won't ever

fail you or leave you embarrassed is only found vertically. The horizontal situations,

locations, experiences, and relationships of everyday life are dangerous places to look

for hope. Why? They all fail you. First, everywhere you could look horizontally has been

affected by the fall in some way. There are simply no perfectly ideal situations, no

paradise locations, no completely satisfying experiences, and surely no perfect people

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