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| Sheila Walsh: Choose Hope This Year | 5 Minutes with Jesus | January 8, 2026
- When you and i have placed our trust in christ,
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- Life doesn't always go the way we thought or hoped it might.
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- But we have a rock solid ticket to the bank, assurance
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- That god is with us,
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- And that the promise that he will work
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- Everything out for our good according to his purpose.
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- That is not wishful thinking.
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- That is an absolute promise
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- In chapter
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- Five of the letter that paul wrote to the believers in rome.
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- He writes this.
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- We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials,
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- But we know that they help us develop endurance,
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- And endurance develops strength of character
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- And character, strengthens our confident hope.
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- A salvation.
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- And this hope will not lead to disappointment.
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- Hope. it's an interesting word.
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- The strength of hope is grounded in what,
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- In where or in whom you are placing it.
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- You know,
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- I remember as a child
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- Jumping out of one of the windows of our home
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- After seeing the movie mary poppins.
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- I had an umbrella, and i fully believed, like mary,
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- I would fly gently to the ground.
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- I did not.
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- Think about your own life.
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- What have you hoped for?
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- You know,
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- I have a friend who desperately wants to get married.
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- She believed if she just lost weight
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- And got a makeover, that would change everything.
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- But i'll never forget the heartbreaking evening
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- I spent with her after she'd been able to reach those goals.
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- But there was no prince charming on the horizon.
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- So what's wrong with me now?
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- She asked.
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- She had hope to overcome what she saw as obstacles.
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- Their path would clear the way.
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- And honestly, it was devastating when it just didn't.
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- If you watched the daily barrage of commercials on tv
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- And social media,
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- But promised a lot and so often it just don't deliver.
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- But when paul writes to the church in rome,
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- He says this hope will not lead to disappointment.
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- So what is the hope that paul is writing about
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- In strong's greek?
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- The word used here for hope is peace.
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- It portrays hope as a god given certainty
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- Anchored in jesus christ, nurtured by scripture,
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- Tested through suffering, shared within the church.
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- Hope in scripture is not wishful thinking,
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- But a confident, spirit wrought expectation
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- That god will fulfill every promise he has made in christ
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- Because it rests on the character of god.
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- We read in hebrews chapter six, so god
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- Has given both his promise and his oath.
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- These two things are unchangeable
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- Because it's impossible for god to lie.
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- Therefore,
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- We who have fled to him for refuge can have great confidence
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- As we hold onto the hope that lies before us,
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- And our hope is secured
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- By the resurrection of jesus christ.
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- The first peter, chapter one, verse three.
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- We read this.
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- Praise be to the god and father of our lord jesus christ.
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- In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope
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- Through the resurrection of jesus christ from the dead.
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- If we were hoping for something, but then later find
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- That we were never going to get it,
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- Then that hope would be put to shame or disappointed.
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- But the hope of our salvation will never be put to shame.
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- We will never be disappointed or find that we have rested
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- On a false confidence because of the finished work of christ.
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- When you and i have placed our trust in christ,
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- Life doesn't always go the way we thought or hoped it might.
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- But we have a rock solid ticket to the bank, assurance
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- That god is with us,
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- And that the promise that he will work
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- Everything out for our good according to his purpose.
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- That is not wishful thinking.
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- That is an absolute promise you can stick your life on.
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- Let's pray.
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- Father, i just want to thank you today for your promises.
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- I want to thank you
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- That the hope we have in you is not wishful thinking.
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- That it's based on who you are and that you are not man.
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- That you should lie.
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- So today, lord, we choose to place our hope
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- In you, knowing that that hope,
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- That hope will never disappoint.
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- In jesus name, amen.
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