The Hope Jesus Brings
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🗓️ 10 March 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Do not grieve like the rest of mankind who have no hope. |
| 0:04.9 | 1 Thessalonians 413 |
| 0:06.7 | Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:12.8 | The hope Jesus brings was written by Dave Brannan and read by Stephen Tabor. |
| 0:21.6 | First Thessalonians chapter 4 verses 13 through 18 |
| 0:27.1 | Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death |
| 0:32.6 | so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus |
| 0:39.4 | died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen |
| 0:45.9 | asleep in Him. According to the Lord's word, we tell you that we who are still alive, |
| 0:51.8 | who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not |
| 0:55.3 | proceed those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud |
| 1:01.6 | command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ |
| 1:08.3 | will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left |
| 1:13.6 | will be caught up together with them |
| 1:15.6 | in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. |
| 1:18.8 | And so we will be with the Lord forever. |
| 1:22.5 | Therefore, encourage one another with these words. |
| 1:28.6 | The hope Jesus brings, written by Dave Brannon. |
| 1:33.5 | It began with an email, a grieving father sent to me. |
| 1:37.3 | He had lost his daughter, Alyssa, a college junior, in a car accident, and he needed to hear |
| 1:42.8 | from someone who understood his wrenching pain. |
| 1:46.5 | Nearly 300 emails and four years later, Craig and I were finally able to meet in person. |
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