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Well, good morning.

Good to see you all today.

My info on the morning.

Pastor is here.

If you want to open up your Bibles to Hebrews chapter 6, it's where we're going to be this morning.

We are concluding today.

Our series looking at this idea of being resilient disciples.

Followers of Jesus who regardless of the circumstances around us are are learning to stay faithful learning to trust that even when difficult times,, even when their struggles, even when maybe we live in a world like we do today, that's not like the world.

We lived in two years ago that our faith is actually strong.

Our faith is strengthened because we have a God who is in control regardless of the circumstances.

That's who we belong to you.

And so as we have have gone through this journey, we have looked at the importance of of trusting.

God that when we build a life characterized by trust in God, really ourselves in God in relationship with God, where like trees planted by the water.

When we don't we find ourselves like bushes in the desert.

That aren't getting what we need it and we blow away.

And and we shrivel up.

We looked at the importance of ridding ourselves and got through through, practice is through building relationship with him, through studying, scripture to know, God and prayer filous and responding to God In Worship by giving our lives in service to him serving others.

The way we live out, this love that we have forgot.

It is through through serving others.

And maybe even just learning to sit still.

To be quiet.

Listen.

Until you tell the let ourselves experience God's love for us.

It's probably one of the things that we overlooked more than anything else is just being still.

And being with God.

Imagine what your relationships would be.

Like, if you're married, imagine what your relationship with your spouse would be like, if they never stopped to take time and to just be with you.

It wouldn't be a very deep relationship with it.

And so often with our relationship with God, we are always on the Move.

We're the ones always doing the talking.

We're working hard to give to do for.

Has to come out of what we're receiving as we stopped to spend time with and we talked about this time and time again.

As we hear Living Hope think about what it means to be a disciple of Jesus, a follower of Jesus.

It's it's three things.

We're choosing to be with Jesus.

That's first and foremost be with Jesus so that we can become like Jesus.

That is the goal.

Paul talks about it in Galatians that he says.

It's like he feels like a mother in labor who is working to give birth to these people who are filled with the fullness of Christ or Christ is fully formed in them to become like Jesus, so that we can do the kinds of things that Jesus would do.

If he was living the lives, they related and we can't LeapFrog over any of those.

It has to start with being with Jesus.

And so we're going to conclude today, in Hebrews chapter 6:11, read verses 13 through 21 going to hit some of the verses before this as well.

But this will give us a good framework when God made his promise to Abraham since there was no one greater for him to swear by he swore by himself saying, I will surely bless you and give you many descendants.

And so after waiting patiently, Abraham receive what was promised people swear by someone greater than themselves.

And the old confirms what is said and puts an end to all argument because God wanted to make the enchanting nature of his purpose.

Very clear to The Heirs of what was promised.

He confirmed it with an oath.

God did this so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God.

To lie.

We who had fled to take hold of the Hope set before us may be greatly encouraged.

We have this hope as an anchor for the soul firm and secure.

It enters.

The inner Sanctuary behind the curtain.

Where are 4Runner.

Jesus has entered on our behalf.

He is become a high priest forever in the order.

Of milk is a deck.

So, the writer of Hebrews starts out this section by talking about Abraham, and he's doing it because he's wanting to encourage his readers, that regardless of what they're facing in their lives, the winds, the storms, the waves, all of these things, this metaphor, for all of these things in our lives that can rear up and toss us all over the place.

All of these different things that can can shake us up.

That way, we can be encouraged.

To continue in our faith, to keep going deeper into relationship with God.

To keep trusting him more more and Abraham.

He says is a great example.

Abraham is somebody who lived a life of Faith, who lived a life of trust of deep trust and he had bumps and valleys.

Okay, maybe like mountains and valleys.

God made a promise to him that he would be the father of a great nation.

and at the time,

He was about 80 years old.

His wife was 80 years old and I think actually he was about 100, which I don't know how much you know about science.

But that's past the age where you normally are able to get pregnant and have children.

They didn't have any kids yet.

They actually had to wait twenty years for God to fulfill that promise.

And actually, one of the things that is synonymous with faith.

That's synonymous with trust is just that patiently waiting and Abraham's an example of that, but he trusted God because God made a promise.

And I can't lie.

And so Abraham continue to trust to continue to obey continued to persevere and he's an encouragement for us, Abraham.

Had hope.

He had this hope that God would fulfill his promises.

That God would be faithful.

So Abraham, left everything behind.

To trust God.

The Orion his life in relationship to Yahweh, God.

And trusting that God would fulfill his promises.

But what is Hope?

Hope is more than wishful thinking.

Like I hope that we don't have any more snow or I hope that I get a pony for Christmas.

I don't know.

I don't really want a pony just in case anybody want don't ever for it.

Dallas Willard just defined hope this way, especially the biblical type of hope.

Hope is in anticipation of an expected.

Good.

Hope in the scriptures is this anticipation?

In fact, it's a confident anticipation that there is something good that is going to happen.

Now about this hope, hope acknowledges, the truth of the situation.

There are elements of optimism in Hope, but hope isn't just this frolicking through the daisies.

Blindly ignorance to the problems in the struggles.

Hoping knowledge is the truth of the situation.

But it helps us to show up and to work through the hard stuff.

Believing that something better is impossible.

What are the things that psychologists have been talking about even more in the last year-and-a-half is our need for hope?