Rejoice in Hope
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 13 June 2021
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Summary
In our third devotional in this week-long series on the marks of a true Christian, today we’re going to explore together what it means to rejoice in hope. In a world that can so often bring us down, so often appear to be without hope, today we have the opportunity to make room for God to give us his perspective, that we might rejoice in his hope. May God give us wisdom, joy, and eternal perspective today as we make space for him to fill.
Our Scripture for today comes from Romans 12:12, and today's worship is Living Hope by Phil Wickham.
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| 0:00.0 | In our third episode in this week-long series, on the marks of a true Christian, |
| 0:10.0 | today we're going to explore together what it means to rejoice in hope, |
| 0:15.0 | in a world that can so often bring us down, so often appear to be without hope. Today we have the opportunity to make |
| 0:23.8 | room for God to give us his perspective that we might rejoice in his hope. May God give us wisdom, |
| 0:31.8 | joy, and eternal perspective today as we make space for him to fill. Welcome to the first of teen podcast. Our verse for today comes from Romans 12 verse 12, where Paul writes, |
| 0:58.7 | rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. |
| 1:08.1 | We are not promised a life without struggle here on earth. |
| 1:13.6 | In fact, the Bible makes it clear that the world will hate us for our love of Jesus. |
| 1:20.6 | John 15, 18 through 19 says, |
| 1:23.6 | If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. |
| 1:29.8 | If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. |
| 1:34.0 | But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world. |
| 1:39.1 | Therefore the world hates you. |
| 1:42.3 | Jesus even promises us in John 1633 that in the world you will have |
| 1:48.3 | tribulation. Except John, each disciple was martyred for his faith in Christ, and John was exiled |
| 1:57.5 | to the prison island of Patmos for preaching that Jesus is God. |
| 2:03.6 | We live in an imperfect world, wrought with the destruction, sin and separation from God has caused. |
| 2:12.6 | You and I will face trials here as followers of Jesus. |
| 2:18.3 | In light of Jesus' promise, of problems here on earth, |
| 2:23.3 | it's interesting that Paul would write in Romans 1212, |
| 2:27.3 | rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. Paul knew all too well the trials we as believers |
| 2:39.7 | can face in the world, but he wasn't about to let them affect his ability to rejoice in hope. |
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