There Is a Hope…
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Groaning isn’t something that needs to be taught. It can be heard from the nursery school to the nursing home! Find out how the groaning of Christians—and even God’s creation—differs from worldly despair. Study along with Alistair Begg on Truth For Life.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm going to be. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm going to be. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm going to be taught. |
| 0:30.2 | We know how to groan from nursery school all the way to the nursing home. |
| 0:35.1 | And today on Truth for Life, Alistur Begg explains |
| 0:38.0 | what makes the groaning of God's people |
| 0:41.0 | and the groaning of creation itself |
| 0:43.9 | different from worldly despair. |
| 0:47.9 | We're looking at the book of Romans |
| 0:49.4 | chapter 8 and beginning today with verse 22. |
| 1:01.0 | Okay. 8 and beginning today with verse 22. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the |
| 1:06.8 | present time. |
| 1:07.9 | Not only so, but we ourselves who have the first fruits of the spirit, |
| 1:12.0 | grown inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. |
| 1:17.4 | For in this hope we were saved, but hope that is seen is no hope at all. |
| 1:22.8 | Who hopes for what he already has? |
| 1:25.9 | But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. |
| 1:32.0 | Now we're going to stop at verse 25, or sooner, depending on how the time goes. But you will notice |
| 1:37.4 | that there is a third groaning that begins there and is recorded in verse 26. To that we will |
| 1:42.4 | come later on. But in this section, between 18 and right through 27, |
| 1:48.8 | Paul is identifying the location of this groaning. To groan, says the dictionary, is to utter a deep, |
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