Sermon Tone Analysis

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All right, so weird.

My sermon this morning is on.

Hope.

That's the first candle.

That was lit for our Advent season, and I forgot to mention.

I'm going to excuse the children downstairs Day for Sunday School.

Before we get started this to Roberta's back there.

Awesome.

So it's going to be on hoping to the title of my sermon.

This morning is The Audacity Of Hope in, if you follow politics at all, you'll know that that is a campaign slogan from our former president, President Obama, and I was when I was in Bible College and starting in 2010, he was our president and I had to write a paper on Hope.

In Bible College and you know, The Audacity Of Hope has his campaign slogan.

And so it was out and about.

And so as I begin to process what I was going to write my paper, I decided that I would use his research.

What is how he found came up with this campaign?

Slogan, The Audacity Of Hope.

And he even came out with the book after his presidency entitled, The Audacity Of Hope.

And he says that a pastor that 2020 years prior.

He listened to this sermon from this, pastor 20th, power called the audacity to hoping in that sermon.

The pastor was talking about a painting written by George W and 1886, not written, but painted in 1886 called hope and discernment.

The sermon was going to intertwine with that painting and President, Obama listened to that.

And then so he took the audacity to Hope.

He took that into The Audacity Of Hope was his campaign slogan, and his first mention of it.

It was his b.c.

Begin to rise to National prominence was in the 2004 Democratic National Convention.

He was a Senator there.

He was giving the keynote speech and he used first, use this language and he started off or in his speech.

He started off to say, is quoting Hebrews 11:1.

So now Faith is the reality of what is hope for.

In the proof of what is not seeing.

And so he use this first to launch into his platform and what he desired.

We might his party affiliation is desired and his speech that kind of brought him to National prominence.

Prominence of beginning with this Audacity Of Hope, audacity means to be almost arrogant or bowls to have hope in spite of the circumstances.

That's more of a wish right to have hope just to have hope And so you use Hebrews 11 of the faith is the reality of what is hope for the proof of what is not seen and then he launched into I believe we can get middle-class relief and providing work families.

And I wrote opportunity that we can provide jobs to the jobless home.

So the homeless and reclaim young people in cities Across America from violence in despair of relieved that we have a righteous wind at our backs in that we stand on the crossroads of history and we can make the right choices and meet the challenges that face us.

And so he used Hebrews 11:1 to launch into what mankind can do with a political system can do.

As we continue to read Hebrews chapter 11, we know that that was completely taken out of context because he was chapter 11 begins to the point us to the reality of what we need to put our Faith and Hope in the snot and Mankind.

It's not in the political system, but it's a lot of what we can put our Faith and Hope in it, but it was we can place our Faith and Hope in is what the writer of Hebrews.

Wanted to convey to us in.

So if you continue to read Hebrews chapter 11, you immediately see that?

Do you see a three by faith?

We understand.

Right.

Verse 1 says, faith is reality.

What is hope for the proof of what is not like that scene and he says by faith.

We understand that the Universe was created by the word of God.

So that what is seen was made from things that are not visible.

The writers Hebrews points us to place our Faith and Hope in God.

And not man and Mankind systems biblical.

Hope biblical.

Faith is placing our faith and trust in God and his promises to write a few written in Hebrews.

In the 11.

He gives us a list of all the people as many people in the Old Testament, all of them, but many people in the Old Testament that place their Faith and Hope in God and his promises.

That was the intention of Hebrews chapter 11.

The right of Hebrews disable and Enoch and Noah and Abraham, and Sarah, and Isaac and Rahab and Joseph.

All trusting in spite of what they were seen.

With her eyes place in their faith and trust in God.

And his promises and not what they were seeing and not in the political system or anything like that, but placing their faith in the Hope in God alone.

It's not what we place our faith in, but as Christians who we place our faith in that brings us, hope.

Our faith in God and what God has promised, we have hoping this Advent season.

We have a remarkable opportunity in 2021 to be in the midst of God's revealed Plan of Salvation is his rescue mission is in progress and we have the ability to look back in hindsight and see God coming through it.

Just as the people in Hebrews chapter 11, right believe.

And trust in God, we have to look back and see God working in human history and fulfilling fulfilling.

His promise is time and time again, including the Messianic prophecies of Jesus, the Messiah.

That was to come.

We can see that God fulfilled, those things and we can celebrate what Christmas is about truly is about the arrival.

The coming of the Messiah.

The Lamb of God.

You came to seek and to save those who are lost the Lamb of God, who will take away the sins of the world.

And we can celebrate that he is, in that regard, but we also have this unique opportunity to know that.

We also have nothing to look forward to.

The second arrival.

Jesus is coming back for his church.

Jesus is coming back.

Not in the Trib, as a baby is coming back as king of kings and Lord of lords.

He's coming back to consummate his kingdom.

And as Christians as people who follow an encounter Christ, in the saving way, that is what we place our faith in God's promise.

That Jesus will return.

Jesus is coming back.

Then, that is where we find Our Hope in spite of what's going on around us.

That's the the hope that we have.

The Jesus is coming back.

But we we celebrate what God has done in the past and and so our faith that we place in God and his promises is not a blind.

Faith is mini.

That's two are outside.

The church would think it.

Is it just something blindly.

We just trust because it's in the book know it was in the Old Testament.

We see many Prophecies of pointing to the Messiah.

That would come at eight hundred years of fifteen hundred years before Jesus arise in the same.

God Sent His prophets to declare that prophetically.

How and when, and who this Messiah would be that I'm just going to mention three.

There's many Our faith that we place in the promises of God is not a blind faith.

It is a faith.

That is based on fact historical reality.

Isaiah, 750 years prior to Jesus Being born and arriving on the scene, proper size of that.

This Messiah would be born from the line of David, Isaiah 29. 6 and 7 for a child, will be born for us.

A son will be given to us in the government will be on his shoulders and he will be named.