Jesus Christ, who according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope

through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance, incorruptible, and and undefiled and that does not fade away reserved

in heaven for you who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

In this, you greatly rejoice, though now, for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various

trials.

That the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be

found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Wh whom having not seen you love.

Though now you do not see Him yet believing you rejoice with joy in expressible and full of glory receiving the end of your

faith the salvation of your souls.

Amen. We look to you tonight and pray Lord that you'd restore to us the joy of your salvation.

That you'd build in us more of your hope, not only to take us higher, but to take us deeper,

that it would be that anchor for our souls, sure and steadfast.

We pray, Lord, that you'd speak to us tonight, that right now we would get a deeper, greater,

grander understanding of your truth so that our hope would be strong.

In Jesus' name, Amen.

Amen.

So tonight I want to talk about what I'll call our manifold hope.

And before we get into that, though, I need to just clear the air about for a definitional thing. See as as Christians we have a lot of

words that we use that the rest of the world doesn't really use the same way.

Someone would say oh you just got saved, huh? You go yeah, so you need to get plugged in. It's time for you to get plugged in.

All right man, are you doing your devos? And we have these things and we a lot of times

Christians mock Christians for having what we call

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