Jack Graham - Hope On!

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Power Point with Jack Graham | Jack Graham - Hope On! | February 22, 2026

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There is no person that god cannot save!
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There is no promise that god will not keep!
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There is nothing that our god cannot do!
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Take god's word and turn to 1 peter chapter 5.
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We come to the end of the letter of 1 peter. it is an
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Incredible letter. it's god's love letter to the world;
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That's the whole bible. but certainly 1 peter is a message
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Of hope to the world.
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And so we love the scripture. peter would have watched jesus
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Ride into jerusalem on that palm sunday. peter the author
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Of these passages. he, like the others, would have been
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Exuberant and excited as the hosannas rang out, cheers for
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Jesus. hosanna... god saves.
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And yet it all came tumbling down just hours later. as the
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Crowd turned on christ, the cheers turned to jeers and they
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Said "crucify him, crucify him." and the big fisherman,
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Simon peter... he folded like a cheap tent. he denied the lord
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And ran away. but those days later... 8 days later when
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Christ came out of the grave, peter was an eye witness to
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This fact. he was forever changed. and when we read his
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Letters here... 1 peter and then 2 peter... you see the
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Pastoral heart of peter. he loved the lord, and he spent
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The rest of his days telling this good news that christ is
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Alive, and gave us this message of 1 peter. i'm calling this
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Final message "hope on!!", with a couple of exclamation points
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Added to it. hope on!! don't just hang on, but hope on!! add
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Another one... !
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And the reason that i'm giving you these imperatives is
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Because that's how peter wrote in this particular scripture,
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In this final scripture of his letters. it amounts to a
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Summation. his final call, if you will, to the church in that
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Era and to the church every day. and he talks about these
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Imperatives, commands. staccato like commands, one after
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Another, that we are going to see today because these are
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Peter's principles, if you will, of perseverance.
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Remember, the whole message of the book... it's all about a
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Living faith in a hostile culture, in a hostile world.
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And so he gives us this wrap-up in these final verses. and so
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We're going to read them right now. the first 11 verses of 1
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Peter, chapter 5:
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1) so i exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a
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Witness of the sufferings of christ, as well as partaker in
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The glory that is going to be revealed:
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So he's saying i was an eye witness. i was an eye witness
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To the cross and then i was an eye witness to the glory that
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Happened then in the resurrection and that will
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Happen in the future yet to be revealed. and so he writes to
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The pastors of the church.
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2) shepherd the flock of god that is among you, exercising
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Oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as
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God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; 3)
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Not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples
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To the flock. 4) and when the chief shepherd (that's jesus)
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Appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.
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There is a very special crown that is reserved for the
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Shepherds of the churches. it is the shepherd's crown, “the
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Unfading crown of glory.”
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5) likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the
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Elders. clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility...
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(underline those verses)... clothe yourselves, all of you,
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With humility (those words) toward one another, for "god
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Opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble." (and then
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He says) 6) humble yourselves, therefore (another imperative),
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Under the mighty hand of god so that at the proper time
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(kairos) he may exalt you, 7) casting all your anxieties on
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Him, because he cares for you. 8) be sober-minded; be
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Watchful. your adversary the devil prowls around like a
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Roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
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No doubt, peter is seeing some of the suffering and
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Persecution as christians were thrown to the lions, red in the
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Mouths of lions. and so he says “a roaring is prowling about
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Seeking whom to devour”.
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9) resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same
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Kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood
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Throughout the whole world. 10) and after you have suffered a
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Little while... (what a great finish.)... after you've
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Suffered a little while, the god of all grace, who has
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Called you to his eternal glory in christ, will himself
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Restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. 11) to him
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Be the dominion forever and ever. amen.
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Five imperatives i want you to see. we've outlined it this way:
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First of all, respect your spiritual leaders. that's what
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He's saying in the first 5 verses before you. these words
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Were given to instruct the pastors as to how to lead the
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Church. there are 3 titles for the pastor of the church given
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Here. one, is shepherd... that's pastor. another is
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Bishop or over-seer, and the third is elder.
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So in the church you have the spiritual leadership of the
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Pastor who is the shepherd of the congregation. and the
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Bishop who oversees and administrates the leadership of
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The church. and then the elder which speaks of the maturity of
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Those in spiritual leadership; the spiritual maturity of
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Those, regardless of their age, the spiritual maturity of those
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Who lead the church. so he is making the point that the
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Church is to be led by men of integrity and maturity and
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Humility.
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And then those who are a part of the spiritual family called
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The church are to respect those leaders. and he talks about
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Showing the respect and honoring spiritual leaders. you
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Should be able to have confidence in the leadership of
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Your church, to trust in the godly leadership of those who
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Serve the lord.
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I heard about a mother who walked into her son's room and
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Said, “son, get up! it's time to get to church.” he said,
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“i'm not going today.” she said, “you have to go.” he
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Said, “no” and he turned over. she came back a few minutes
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Later and said, “son, it's time. it's 45 minutes. we need
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To be there and you haven't even showered or combed your
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Hair!” and he just moaned and rolled over. she came back a
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Few minutes later and said, “son, come on now. you've got
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To get up, you've got to get to church.” and he said, “give me
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One reason, good reason that i should go to church today.” and
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She said, “because you're the pastor and they're expecting
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You there!” [laughter]
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Peter says don't serve out of compulsion but as an example.
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Hebrews chapter 13 and verse 17. that's one you should look
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Up and turn and mark in your bibles. hebrews 13, verse 17
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Says: "obey your leaders and submit to them, (talking about
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Spiritual leaders) for they are keeping watch for your
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Souls..." (it's a heavy responsibility to watch over
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Your soul. i will give an account.) ... as those who will
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Have to give an account. let them do this with joy and not
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With groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you."
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Quite a scripture. obey those who have spiritual leadership
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And authority over you. you say, "pastor, are you saying
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That you are a dictator." no, i am not a dictator. if i was a
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Dictator, everyone of you would tithe. [laughter] but i am a
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Spiritual leader and i said early on to our congregation
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When i got here... you know, i said either follow me or fire
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Me, but give me the pulpit, give me the pastoral team and
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The staff and let's go together and see what god can do.
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God has done exceedingly abundantly! what a privilege it
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Is to preach, to grow the church, to advance the kingdom
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Of god, to evangelize, to minister, to serve, to
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Disciple, to feed and lead the flock, to protect the flock.
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But remember this, as far as we are concerned all of us,
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Starting with me, it's never about the messenger, it's
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Always the message! and what sustains us is not the
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Messenger, but the message.
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Jesus said, “i will build my church and the gates of hell
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Will not prevail against it.” we're just the construction
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Workers, and jesus is building his church.
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♪♪♪
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In a time of rage, anxiety, uncertainty, chaos. it is
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Absolutely essential that we go to the source of all truth and
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That is god's word. the bible. during intense persecution in
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The early days of the church, the apostle peter wrote a
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Letter all about hope and encouragement, encouraging
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Believers and giving hope to christians who were navigating
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A world that was dead set against them. this is a message
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That speaks directly to christians in every generation,
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Including our own.
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[announcer] drawing from peter's letter, doctor jack
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Graham's latest book speaks to the challenges every believer
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Faces. how do we live faithfully for christ in a
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Hostile world? today, we want to equip you with jack graham's
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[jack graham] this is not a book about hype. it's a book
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About hope. it's not positive thinking. it is biblical truth.
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It's the living hope, the kind of hope that anchors your soul
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When storms rage and that holds you when you can barely hold
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On. this is the hope that never fades because it's a living
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Hope. this book is for every believer in the midst of life's
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Greatest challenges, and it will encourage you that there
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Is real, lasting living hope that is found in christ and
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Christ alone.
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♪♪♪
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Second imperative that he gives is to reject prideful
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Attitudes, exclamation point. reject prideful attitudes. he
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Says in verse 6... well, formerly in verse 5 he speaks
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Of "clothing yourself with humility." and then verse 6,
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"humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hands of god
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So that at proper time he may exalt you."
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Peter was a boastful man at one point. he was a great man in so
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Many ways but he had to get his ego out of the way. when jesus
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Told the disciples "i'm going to the cross. i'm going to be a
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Different kind of king. i didn't come to overthrow rome
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Or empower you as my disciples, but rather to establish another
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Kingdom; a kingdom that is within you." when jesus said
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These words, peter said, "no, never, lord." and jesus said,
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"i'm telling you... all of you will deny me." and peter,
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Remember what he did? "not me! not me! all these other guys,
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They will deny you, perhaps, but never will i deny you!"
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How did that work out for simon peter? he was a rock but he was
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An unstable rock at this point and he denied the lord; he
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Failed miserably and he went away sorrowful, figuring it was
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All over. christ died. but then something changed peter's life,
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And that was the cross and the resurrection. he was an eye
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Witness, he said, to this glory. and he was an eye
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Witness to all of us that it's real.
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He uses the phrase "clothe yourselves with humility." and
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It's an unusual word. it's the only time this word is used in
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The new testament, and it means to put on a wrap or put on an
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Apron, as the wrap or the apron of a slave, of a servant. it's
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What jesus did, when he stripped down his outer
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Clothing and girted up with a towel and washed the feet of
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Those disciples. why? because for the savior and those who
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Follow him, the steadfast, sacrificial love, servant
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Leadership, no task... even washing feet... is too menial,
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To lowly for the humble servants of god.
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And so paul would later say, "i am what i am by the grace of
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God." we know we are who we are because of god's grace, not
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Ourselves. all that we have comes from god. all that we do
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Is because of him and before him, our gifts, our talent, the
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Very breath in our lungs. c.s. lewis said, that "humility is
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Not thinking lowly of yourself; it's just not thinking of
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Yourself." when peter said, "clothe yourself...", he said,
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Put on the overalls of humility. be willing to do
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Anything for the cause of christ.
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We should never think "i'm too good for this" or "this role is
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Beneath me". jesus never thought that way. he said,
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"humble yourself under the mighty hand of god." the hand
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Of god... his mighty hand was marked by nails. and so the one
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Who holds us, the one who keeps us, we are under his hands. he
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Guides us.
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Life is not a series of circumstances or conjunctions,
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Unplanned or unprepared for his children. no! his nail-pierced
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Hands lead us. and that brings me to the next imperative which
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Says we should release anxious thoughts, therefore... release
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Anxious thoughts. look at verse 7 once again. verse 7 tells us
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To "cast all of your cares upon him because he cares for you."
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All your anxious cares... give it to him. pray, and give it to
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Him.
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When we have problems and struggles and battles and
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Burdens that we fight, we can cast them to him. and the word
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Cast here... again, peter's using some vivid imagination by
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The holy spirit here. it means a word... it's a word that
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Means to throw it down. and even to throw it down with
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Violence. throw it down. so god says, take your cares, take
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Your concerns, take all your anxieties and pray them down,
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Throw them down. give them to me. because either you will
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Carry them or he will carry them. and the one who carried
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The weight of the world on his shoulders, the one who carried
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The cross, can carry your burdens and your concerns.
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Maybe one of your silent anxieties is to worry: does god
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Really care for me? i'm going through this trial, this
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Suffering, this pain. does god... god. does god care for
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Me? i hear these testimonies about god's care and god's
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Concern, but maybe you're secretly wondering and worrying
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And even fearfully doubting does god care for me? look at
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The cross. go there! and god says, "i love you; i care for
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You this much."
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Throw them down; give them to him. no. you're worried about
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Something... if it's big enough to worry about, it's big enough
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To pray about.
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So i assure you that there are four words... four words when
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You are worried, when you are anxious, when you are fretful,
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When you are afraid... four words: "god cares for you". he
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Does. he's not forgotten you; he's all in on you. so release
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Those anxieties. put the weight of them at jesus' feet where
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They belong. anxiety produces a divided mind. the word worry
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Actually means a distracted, divided mind. you know how you
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Lose your concentration and become so obsessed with some
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Fear or some anxiety. you just can't get by it. james said,
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James 1:8 "a double minded man is unstable in all his ways."
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And when we have divided minds... no, give your life to
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Christ. "cast all your anxieties upon him." this means
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That god will take your problems and settle your life
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And give you peace. he cares for you. trust him completely.
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And then the next imperative is resist satanic enemies. we are
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A part of a resistance movement in the world. he tells us that
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We have an adversary. verse 8: “be sober-minded; be watchful.”
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The word sober-minded, that means not to just not be drunk,
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But it means to be self-disciplined in your mind.
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Be sober-minded. be thoughtful, be watchful. why? because your
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Adversary the devil “prowls around like a roaring lion”.
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The devil is not down in hell waiting for you to go there.
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The devil is on the earth. he's alive and well and moving
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Throughout the earth like a roaring lion. again, peter
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Would have imagined the mouths of lions eating up those
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Christians and they would have known of these terrible,
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Murderous evil in the world. and so he's saying, “you do
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Have an enemy”.
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I've spoken to you many times about spiritual battles and
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Spiritual warfare. i've written a book called unseen, all about
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The supernatural world that is around us, and how we are to be
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Alert to satan's attack. because, look, he is a roaring
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Lion. he's seeking whom he may devour. and you are on the
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Menu! so be alert! this is why we teach, this is why we
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Preach. to be forewarned is to be fore-prepared. and so be
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Vigilant, be alert. keep your head on a swivel. because he's
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A subtle foe, he's a dangerous foe. the word devil means
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Slanderer.
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So peter... he knew well the tests and the temptations that
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Came and just the slaughter that was going on among
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Christians because satan's on the move. i think back to
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October of 2023 when hamas came against the jewish people in
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Israel. what was that all about? satanic attack! we see
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The violence and the murder and the mayhem in our world. i see
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Some of the crazy psychotic kinds of behavior in the world,
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The drug addiction, the alcohol addiction, the struggles that
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People are having in every way. and you know... you know the
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Root of that... you know the cause of that? satanic powers
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And influence at work! it's all around us! so be wise! be
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Alert! and know that "greater is he that is in you than he
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That is in the world."
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Revelation 12:11 says: “they overcame him, they conquered
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Him (satan), by the blood of the lamb and the word of their
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Testimony, and they loved not their lives unto death.”
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So resist him. how? by standing firm in the faith. not your
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Faith, but in the faith of the lord jesus christ, the faith of
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The son of god. we are no match for satan on our own. don't
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Underestimate the power of the devil. but we have the word of
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God which is the sword of the spirit. we have the truth of
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God's word.
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So this is what we're doing. we are a part of the resistance
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Movement. we overcome evil with good. we resist the works of
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The enemy, not only personally but corporately as the church.
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God... satan has abused god's people everywhere and we need
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To be ready for our own protection. in terms of people
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Around the world, let's get our minds off ourselves and
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Remember the brothers and sisters around the world who
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Are standing firm against the enemy even today.
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One final... i wish i had more time for this one but this is
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The last imperative, and that is to renew your eternal
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Hope... renew your eternal hope. look at verses 10 and 11:
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"and after you have suffered a little while..." somebody needs
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This today! "after you have suffered for a little while..."
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You've been suffering a while now and you're wondering if
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It's ever going to end. the promise is it's a little while;
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It's temporal. even if it's not this side of heaven, the end of
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Your suffering is coming. "after you've suffered for a
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Little while, the god of all grace..." his grace saves; his
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Grace strengthens; his grace sustains; his grace is all
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Grace. "who has called you to his eternal glory (that's hope)
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In christ." hope has a name; his name is jesus! "...who
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Himself (watch these words) restore, confirm, strengthen
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And establish you."
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To restore you... i wish i had the time to amplify these
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Verses; these four words give us hope every day. you can
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Underline this verse and memorize these words. what does
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God promise to do for you... this is your eternal hope that
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Is to restore you. what satan may have stolen from you, god
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Can restore you. what the devil could have taken from you; god
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Will give you back. he will restore you. he will strengthen
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You. in other words, you'll have the strength to meet
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Life's demands. you may not think you do. you may think "i
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Don't know if i can go another day" but there's strength for
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Every day. as your days are, so will your strength be. to
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Strengthen you. strength for today and bright hope for
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Tomorrow.
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And then settle you which means to lay a foundation. this is
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Life on the rock, this is life in jesus. faith in christ
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Building your life, builds and increases your hope. we don't
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Live... because of christ and the resurrection... with an
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Hopeless end in mind, but an endless hope!
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And then he says steadfast which speaks of a foundation;
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To lay a foundation.
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And why does god do all this? because he's the god of all
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Grace... because he's the god of all grace. none of us
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Deserve it. we've not earned it. it's what he does. he has
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An unlimited supply of his grace and whatever kind of
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Problem you have, there is grace enough and more. and if
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You are weak, he has grace for you. if you're sick and you're
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Dying, he has grace for you. if you're struggling in your
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Relationships, he has grace for you. grace, grace, much grace,
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To save, to heal, restore, forgive and to strengthen.
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So live in hope and never give up.
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Build your life on the hope that is in christ. “on christ
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The solid rock i stand. all other ground is sinking sand.”
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Build your life on jesus and your hope will live because
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Jesus lives. so hope on, dear people!!! exclamation point,
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Exclamation point, exclamation point.
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♪♪♪
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Jack Graham - Hope On!

February 22, 2026 | 27:29

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