Wrapped in Hope
Harris Creek Baptist Church
Harris Creek
4.8 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In this message from Romans 15:8-13, Nate reminds us that God is both a promise-making and promise-keeping God. Through Jesus’ birth, we see how God fulfilled His promises, not just to the Jewish people but to everyone. As we live our lives, we’re called to hold onto hope in what God has promised, because His faithfulness gives us reason to trust and live with joy and peace.
Scripture shows we have a promise making God
Christmas shows we have a promise keeping God
Our life should show hope in what God has promised
Life Group Discussion:
How do Old Testament promises, such as those to the Patriarchs, enhance our understanding of God's faithfulness? Does your life show hope to others?
How can the Christmas story inspire hope in seasons of waiting or uncertainty? What are things you are hoping for in this season of your life?
How does placing hope in God's promises affect your response to disappointments?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Let's go. |
| 0:02.7 | In middle school, this was my most prized possession in the world because it held all of my sports cards. |
| 0:10.0 | Like, I wasn't just, like, kind of into this thing. |
| 0:11.8 | Like, I was really into this thing. |
| 0:13.7 | Like, I've got pages and pages of basketball cards and baseball cards and football cards because, like like this is what I prized the most. |
| 0:22.3 | And besides like picking up girls with this, obviously, I would go and hang out my two best friends of the world, |
| 0:29.8 | Anthony and Andrew, and I'd pile up in my parents' car with this. |
| 0:33.5 | I'd get dropped off at their house and we'd sit on the floor for hours. |
| 0:37.4 | I don't know how we did this, but we'd sit on the floor for hours and just trade cards back and forward. |
| 0:42.2 | Like I had all my cards in here memorized and I had all of their cards memorized because we just did this day in and day out. |
| 0:50.0 | And this is what we cared about the most. |
| 0:51.7 | So Christmas of 2006, I had one thing that I wanted more than anything else. |
| 0:56.4 | I wanted top's finest basketball cards. |
| 0:59.5 | Here's a picture of what they look like. |
| 1:02.0 | And like this is what I wanted beyond anything else in the world. |
| 1:06.1 | The only issue was making sure my parents understood which one, |
| 1:09.4 | because it's not like I wanted tops cards. |
| 1:11.8 | I wanted tops finest basketball cards. I'm like trying to communicate it to them that this is the |
| 1:17.4 | one that I want. But you never really know if they understood or not until a couple weeks before |
| 1:24.5 | Christmas. I happened to be in one of the closets in our house. |
| 1:30.6 | Yeah, I don't know what I was doing there. I don't know. But I happened to be there. And when I was |
| 1:36.1 | there, I saw what I wanted to see. I saw this box that held packs of top's finest basketball cards. |
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