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Thank you so much.

You know that I love the word and to be here behind this, which I know you never use very this means a lot to me that you

would I love to be behind the pulpit I love to be under the word of God. I love to be before God's people and so I don't

take for granted the privilege of standing before this precious body of Christ that Louis loves so much and God loves more.

So let's pray again that God would come and help me and you connect in the word.

So Father, I ask now that as we are in this series of hope has a name and the

name is Jesus that you would deepen and intensify and strengthen and release hope in every heart in this place. And that the upshot of that hope, according to this

text, would be a kind of compassion and a kind of courage that is willing to suffer for the name.

So come, I pray, and do that deep, hard, glorious, beautiful Christ exalting work.

I ask, through Christ, amen.

So as I understand the text we're going to be looking at, the theme over our time together

will be the connection between hope and courage or hope and compassion or hope and love or hope and

sacrifice all those pieces go together hope and joy, courage, sacrifice, love, compassion. That's all one package when Christ comes into your life. I know that I was listening to the message from last week and

Louis said we want to shift our language from Hope Forward to hope in and that is hoping a person not hope for a

successful year nothing wrong with a successful year it's just the wrong

priorities a bad strategy he said, and he and I know both and you know that when you hope

in Jesus as the ground of your future, he's also what you hope for.

Louis not denying that. He's just saying there's a lot of stuff to hope for that can preempt Jesus

underneath and on the top and in front

So when you hear me today talk about hope no I'm saying amen

Amen hope in rooted in Jesus our only hope you know when talk a ball game you can say let's go back a generation

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