Believers' Greatest Hope, Part 3

Insight for Living Daily Broadcast

Chuck Swindoll - Insight for Living

Christian, Religious And Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2025

⏱️ 27 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	Our Christian hope isn't built on wishful thinking. It's anchored in historical reality.
0:13.7	Christmas proved God keeps his promises when Christ entered our world. Good Friday demonstrated
0:19.4	the depth of his love through ultimate sacrifice.
0:22.6	And Easter morning shattered death's grip with resurrection power.
0:26.6	These aren't fairy tales. They're facts that forever changed human destiny.
0:31.6	Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Windall describes how sound theological doctrine guarantees our future hope. Because
0:39.7	Jesus died and rose again, we too shall rise. Because he conquered death, we need not fear it. Chuck
0:46.8	titled today's message, The Believers' Greatest Hope. Grief over grief over someone's death is normal and certainly understandable,
1:03.7	but a grief of despair is an open denial of hope,
1:17.4	reveals an absence of understanding and ignorance of the truth and I don't mean that to be ugly or to be offensive
1:20.8	if you're not informed
1:23.2	then your grief will be
1:26.9	a kind of sadness you cannot get past. But if you're informed,
1:33.9	you're able to deal with it. You have hope. Now, as you work your way through these verses,
1:41.4	and there's no reason for me to make them complicated because they are not,
1:46.0	we encounter first in verses 14 and 15 our foundational assurance.
1:55.0	I would call this the Christian's creed.
1:59.0	It's in three parts. Look at it. The first relates to Jesus. For if we believe and could be
2:08.6	rendered since we believe, and there are three things we believe in these two verses. Number one,
2:15.7	that Jesus died and rose again.
2:20.5	Foundational theology.
2:23.2	We believe Jesus died and rose again.
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