In Defense of Hope | Jackie Hill Perry

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Louie Giglio

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4.8 • 546 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

As hopelessness, despair, and depression are on the rise, the need for hope is more desperate than ever. In this powerful talk, Jackie Hill Perry shifts the narrative that hope coincides with our circumstances, teaching that our hope instead completely hinges on the resurrection of Christ.

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0:00.0	Imagine a courtroom.
0:03.0	Imagine a courtroom.
0:24.6	On one side is the jury making observations.
0:32.6	On the other side is the prosecution arguing against the one who was on the stand.
0:40.3	And on the stand next to the judge is hope.
0:47.3	Hope is on trial because stuff like the flesh, the world, and Satan have made it where hope is no longer trusted.
1:00.8	We look at hope and we despise it. We hear its arguments and we suck our teeth and roll our eyes
1:09.1	because truth be told,
1:14.6	when we needed hope to do what we thought it promised us it would do,
1:16.5	it let us down, it failed us.
1:22.7	So instead of asking for hope to help us hold its hand just a little bit longer, we let it go and we refuse to believe that maybe the problem isn't actually hope, it's us.
1:31.7	I've titled this talk in defense of hope.
1:39.6	I've personally struggled with the idea of hope, more than faith.
1:45.0	Christians, we love talking about faith, about belief, about trust.
1:52.0	We know that without faith it is impossible to please God.
1:56.0	We know that faith in Christ is what saves us and keeps us.
2:00.0	We know that with faith we can say to this mountain be moved and it will but hope.
2:07.3	I feel like we don't discuss that enough and we should since the very definition of faith
2:13.0	involves hope.
2:14.3	Faith is the substance of things hoped for, meaning faith in hope are not the same
2:20.3	thing, but you cannot have faith without having hope. For example, when you ask God to forgive you,
2:29.7	when you placed your faith in Christ, you had and now have the hope that when you die, when you meet
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