Believers' Greatest Hope, Part 1

Insight for Living Daily Broadcast

Chuck Swindoll - Insight for Living

Christian, Religious And Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 Every New Year, many of us hang a new calendar on the wall. On this blank calendar, we make our plans and write down what we think might happen. No one, however, really knows what the future holds. One future event is certain: Christ’s return. Listen as Pastor Chuck Swindoll opens God’s calendar of the future. In 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18, God unveils details about the resurrection, the rapture, and our reunion with loved ones who have died. We don’t know when Christ will come back, but we know He will. What a day that will be!

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0:00.0	Life is fleeting. The Bible says life is like a vapor that appears for a moment and then
0:12.4	vanishes into thin air. Not only that, but we can't see into the future. We're blind to what
0:18.6	lies ahead. Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall unveils what Scripture calls the Believers' greatest
0:25.6	hope, a future so certain, so glorious, that it transforms how we face both living and dying.
0:32.6	You see, when sound theology takes root in our hearts, fear gives way to confidence.
0:38.0	Death loses its sting.
0:40.1	And the brevity of life becomes beautiful.
0:49.2	I hope you have your Bible with you, and if you you have please turn to the letter of first
0:57.2	Thessalonians chapter four if you will Paul's words to the people of first century
1:07.0	Thessalonica known as the Thessalonians.
1:11.6	And here, Paul unveils what I'm calling the believers' greatest hope.
1:18.6	As best I can interpret the scriptures, Paul writes here of the events that are next in line in God's world program for the future.
1:33.1	Now, once you locate this, I want you to mark James Chapter 4.
1:38.7	So you might use the ribbon from your Bible, if you have that, or maybe the worship folder,
1:43.5	and just tuck it in
1:44.5	there.
1:45.4	And James 4 will begin the message at that spot, but first I want to read the last several
1:54.7	verses of First Thessalonians 4.
1:59.3	I'm reading from the new American standard version of the scriptures.
2:03.6	First Thessalonians 413,
2:06.6	but we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep,
2:12.6	so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope.
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