If you think inheriting this world would be pretty good, you don't know the half of it.

This world will be set free from all of its bondage to decay and dissolution and disorder,

and it will be a new heavens and a new earth and then we with our new eyes,

our new ears, our new hands, our new taste buds will be able to enjoy it and its greatness and our

greatness will come together to, to choose my words carefully, to produce an almost infinite joy.

What kind of future awaits those who trust in Christ?

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper turns to Romans 8, 18 to 25 to reveal the breathtaking hope of a renewed creation where God's children will enter unending joy and glory.

This sermon was originally delivered at Bethlehem Baptist Church on May 5, 2002.

Well, if you were here last week, you may remember that I argued that verses 18 to 25 are a support for your hope in the face of the suffering that you are required to go through according to verse 17.

Let's read verse 17.

If you're children of God, then you are heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs of Christ,

if you suffer with Him in order that you might be glorified with Him.

And I said that the sum of the argument in verses 18 to 25,

underneath that hope or suffering that you're called to go through in verse 17.

The sum of the argument is this.

It's worth it.

It's worth it.

That's the summary of verses 18 to 25.

Now, today we turn to the six statements of hope in verses 18 to 25.

And they are designed to help you suffer without losing hope.

That's what they're for.

Here's the first one.

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