Biblical hope is not something you're unsure about at all.

Biblical hope is something that you are very sure about that just hadn't happened yet,

but something that you look forward to with great anticipation

and that literally reshapes your entire outlook on life.

And what is Paul saying that we are certain is going to happen?

What is our hope that God is going to finish what he started in us?

Welcome back to the Summit Life podcast with Pastor J.D.

Greer.

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Today, Pastor Jadie shows us why it's not enough just to know the facts.

God has to grant us spiritual sight if we want to know him more and see his true glory.

So let's get started in the book of Ephesians.

So if you've got your Bible, begin to turn into Ephesians chapter one. As you're turning there, let me just ask a question here. How many of you have had LASIC surgery? Why don't you raise your hands, Ray, you had LASIC surgery? I had it several years ago so I can see a few of you out there. I probably need to have it again. But I had it about 14 years ago, and if I remember correctly, it was pretty new on the market. I actually heard an advertisement for it on the radio. And I was wearing contacts at the time. And they said, hey, if you pay for one eye, we'll throw in the other eye for free. And I thought, well, who takes the one eye only option? I wasn't sure about that,

but I got two eyes, so that sounds perfect. So I went in, and I got my little exam done and made my appointment. I went in on the day for the appointment, and I'm thinking, surely, you know, I sat in this little waiting room for like, you know, seven or eight minutes and the doctor calls me back in and I'm thinking surely there's got to be some kind of prep, you know, process or some kind of, you know, long whatever. I've got to wear a robe or something. But nope, she talks to me for two or three minutes, sits me down and straps my head back in a chair. Then she hands me a couple of valiant pills and she straps me down. And immediately, as my head is strapped with this chair, I start having second thoughts. Like, do good eye doctors advertise on the radio? I mean, I'm not sure that that's really, you know, did I just really sell my eye out to the lowest bitter? Is what I kind of feel like I just did. But at that point, you know, when you get strapped down, the little machine has already taken over. And so this little, like, that's the way I can describe it's like a little vacuum cleaner comes out and just kind of locks on to your eye and kind of pulls it up just a tad.

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