Jeremiah 33:14-16 | Hope

The days are coming, declares the Lord. When I will fulfill a good promise. I will make to the people of Israel and Judah. In those days. And at that time, I will make a righteous branch and Sprout from David's line. You will make you will do what is just and right in the land. In those days, Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will live in safety.

This is the name by which it will be called the Lord. All right, just savior. We light this candle and hope are confident assurance that the Lord will one day return to his people.

Would you play with me? Our heavenly father. We thank you for the way that we have seen, you work in the lives of your people. Throughout Redemption history. You never change.

You are a constant, your faithful.

And as we read the, the, the Old Testament, the old Covenant, we see you working in ways that are made times even appear different. As you interact with your people and as we prepare chulis, go astray. I bet you your character never changes you are. True. You are Eternal the Creator. God you are righteous in everything. Every decision of yours is, right.

And we confess that we look at the world around us at times and and we wonder how things are going to shake out with what we can see. Sort of in the near future humanistic Lee speak in or humanly speaking.

And so, Lord this morning, I pray that however, Bleak our circumstances may seem that you would help us to continue to look to you. Again, and again, with a confident assurance that every promise of yours is true.

Or we pray that you would help us. As we look at your word now that you would help us to lean in and to see what you have for us this morning in Jesus name, we pray. Amen. Amen, over the next four weeks. We're going to be looking at this Advent season, these themes of Advent, hope, and peace, and joy, and love, hope, and peace, and joy and love the Christian Church. Historically, has used these four weeks preceding Christmas to to intentionally help themselves meditate on or think on the Eternal promises that we have in the Lord. These realities that are true. They've been true for for God's old Covenant people and their true for us today. Right in history. These these these Traditions, if you will, maybe you grew up in a in a church tradition, that is The more liturgical meaning want more more directed or consistent, or the same year to year with different Traditions. You might have followed a lectionary, you know more specifically from year to year that may be familiar to some of you. Some of some of you may have grown up in the in the Free Church tradition, which does not follow those sorts of patterns aside from maybe, you know, Advent and Easter and things like that. So wherever you are in there. There there are times where it's really helpful for us to to sort of latch onto things that have been helpful for the church for our Christian brothers and sisters throughout history that we can use today to help us look too and remember and meditate on who God is and his promises to his people. So the Advent wreath is made of Evergreens and represents the continuity of life from season to season. It represents the newness of eternal life and salvation. That's promise. Through the right chest. Meaning perfect, life of Jesus, and his sacrificial death on the cross. If you think about the circular fashion, that it's woven in it. Is it symbolizes much like our wedding rings that we we're God's unending eternality. Meaning we often think about a turtle meeting from here Forward Forever. I would actually means it's eternally past and eternally future, meaning. God has no beginning. He has no end. And a circle. When you look at it, has no beginning and it has no end. So God, unending, eternal love and his faithful commitment his commitment to his own glory and to the promises he makes to his people. You'll see here. There are three, purple candles and a pink candle, and then a white candle. The three of the four candles that the three pink in the one. That's why the three purple in the one pink. It's just represent a different aspect and different churches, at different times, will focus on different different things, some more focused, on the names of God, someone. Focus on on a variety of things. We're going to be focusing on Hope and peace and joy and love the joy. You might find it interesting to see that candles in a third place, is not at the beginning, is not at the end. Typically Advent begins in this time of darkness and mourning and confusion and bleakness. And we begin that with these purple candles. And then we see this third pink candle, which represents joy in the midst of bleakness joy in the midst of Sorrow. Joy in the midst of pain, And of course, during our Christmas Eve service, we will, as we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, right? Emmanuel, which means god with us would like the the white Christ Candle and everything that represents the character of Christ is, or the character of the Lord is this. Hope find it's called culmination in Jesus Piece. Is fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Joy is found in Christ alone and love is given comes to us from the Lord and enables us to love others as well. So there's a historical intentionality to what we are able to do that. Sometimes families would do this even in their own homes. There been other traditions where they would take to take an Advent wreath like this and then just like 25 candles and just do one candle for each day of the month leading up to Christmas. So they're different ways to do it. There's not one set right way that a family would have to do this or that the church would have to do this. The point is That we would ask ourselves. What can we do? How can we be intentional in reminding ourselves or our children or our grandchildren or even? Just as a couples often when we say the word family? We think young families with children should be doing this. But really every Christian family husband and wife together, whether you're younger or older to find ways to help remind yourself to clean to the promises of a lord to think on his character and what he's doing in our lives and in Redemption history. This morning, we're looking at a word from the Prophet, Jeremiah the word of Hope and so you can flip their in your app if you want to or it's on page 622 Bible near you. One of the black Bible is there and if you don't know where Jeremiah is, its typically about 2/3 or 3/4 away back in your Bible or with no shame just go to the table of contents and look up, Jeremiah in the Old Testament. So no shame. They're so what brings you hope it's coming up in the near or Distant future. I'm curious. What are the things you get excited about? What are the things that you long for that we were in the Oklahoma this week for Thanksgiving.

My sister and her family live down there. And so we had the opportunity to go down there and spend Thanksgiving with her, which is wonderful. And and then late last night. We were hoping for home. All right. I mean, we travel with two children and so they're the stops were many. And my wife might even say that I like the stops as much as the boys do maybe not be true. But at any rate, it takes a significant longer to drive home and it does my sister. She's like a road trip professional. So but anyway, we were hoping for him when you are home, is there? And we were asking the Lord to get us there and we were plotting along steadily and a little bit of time for Christmas break coming up, right? Until you get your Christmas break. Others are beginning to see, maybe now, maybe in the next couple weeks, more presents that are beginning to pile up under the tree. And and you're looking at up, and you're wondering if you've learned, if your younger sibling, maybe learn some tricks from your older siblings on how to Well, we'll just keep moving on but some of you can't wait, right? You don't know how to wait until you want to get a little sneak peek or whatever, but don't do that. Don't do that. You'll ruin what's coming. Some of you may be hopeful to see your family, just expectantly waiting to see your family farmers are are maybe looking for a break and ready for some some rest. Now that the head is heavy busy season is over or at least waning, you know, in some way. So you might find yourself, you might find yourself feeling or believing that there is no hope. When you hear messages that say they're really truly is hope but you may wrestle to believe that that's true. You may wrestle to find your emotions. Agreeing with what? Others tell you should be true or that, you know, is true. But you just having a hard time. Hard time getting there, emotionally where ever, you find yourself on that Spectrum. God has a word for each of us, right? Jeremiah was the name of the son of a priest named hilkiah? Know, if you've heard that name before, and it's going to be a little bit of History along the way here, but Imma Try Not to delve into it too much as our time is limited. But but he was the son of hilkiah, which is not the high priest, who discovered the book of the law, but he grew up in a small village and its which was about three miles Northeast of Jerusalem. So that's about the distance from here to to downtown Shellsburg. Right? In other words. He lives close enough to know what was going on in far enough to be able to feel free to cast in his opinion on what's happening in in town at any given. Right. He was a prophet who had a difficult life. He was called to be a profit. While you still dependent on his parents. He still lived with his parents and he followed the Lord obediently as a prophet. No, one of the things we're going to notice, is that a prophet's life was not an easy life. Sometimes. I think it was easy to just say, hey, Laura told me to say this of you who, who look just kind of like to speak freely, right? Just like to tell it how it is like, oh, yeah, I could totally dig life of a profit of word to be given to his people in a certain situation.

and if you've ever shared the truth with someone,

if you've ever share the truth with someone, you know. people don't always like, To hear the truth from you. Have you ever noticed that you say something? You know, you're sure it's true and no matter how true it is. It just some people just don't want to receive it. They just don't want to hear it. And this was Jeremiah's context. This was Jeremiah's contacts. So, we get the sense that as he's writing right. There is speed ramps that are being built on the wall of Jerusalem. There's Impending Doom coming. The Lord says, this is not going to end well for you in the immediate future and so the armies are coming at the beginning of this chapter, 30, 31, and back in 32. They tell us that zedekiah had basically heard enough bad news. And so he threw his prison is locked and I was like, I'm tired of this. I'm a lock you up. So the worst is still to come for God people and everyone can see that this impending doom is coming to the city. Some of his profits is our art had already come true, but there are more coming that are going to be coming through until in the middle of these already not good, or you might call them horrible circumstances. The Prophet Jeremiah finally has a word filled with hope for his people, for God's people, and that's what he said. David read it, read it for us this morning when he said the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will fulfill the promise I made to the house of Israel, into the land of Judah, know, the days are coming. The days are Coming. That's important. The emphasis the days are surely coming rest in it. Be confident about it, always keeps his promises. They may seem slow to us. We look long relief for the day that Jesus will come to take his people home. We cannot wait to be able to worship Jesus with all of our heart and soul in mind, but without the Troubles of our sickness without the Troubles of our flesh.

And we wonder what Jesus ever come back. When will it happen? Come Lord Jesus, but then right on the heels of that, we begin to think. How about people that we know that have yet to come to Salvation and price and we, we want to pour out our lives to invest in those around us to care for those around us with, they might hear and believe the gospel of Jesus. And so there's a, there's a tension here. We want to go home now. And yet, there are those that we care for that. If the Lord came back today, they would spend an eternity in hell.

And we don't want that for anyone. And so we we look longingly for the hope when Jesus will come back for his people. And yet, we cling to the task that God has set out for his people to, to be about the days are coming. They may be slow or seem slow to us, but God will fulfill every promise So Hear God's promises as good as the day of judgment. Or I'm sorry the good at it, as good as the day and the night. If you think about what he says down here versus really 19 + 322. Basically, the Lord looks back to creation and says, look what I made when you go to bed at night, you know. As sure as the day is long, at the Sun is going to rise in the morning. As soon as out the day that the Lord comes back. But if everything is normal in life, that the Suns going to rise tomorrow, and you're going to get however, many days of daylight we get and then two sons going to sets as sure as the sun will rise. And as sure as Heaven and Earth are established, you can expect that. God will fulfill his promises. That isn't mean, we can sort of do a grab bag of God's promises that we see in scripture and randomly claim them for ourselves. This means the promises that we understand that God has made to his people in particular context and sometimes that context is applied directly to us. And so we want to be careful about that, but God is faithful and his promises will never be broken. Sometimes when we see Darkness. We see difficulty around us. I mean, we've had plenty of that recently.

Societies always had plenty of difficulty, plenty of Darkness. Plenty of storms weather, proverbial or literal.

Like Jobe were tempted to question God's purposes and I wish I had more time to go into this now, but but but about two-thirds of the way through Joe May begins to set up and list all of his righteous living. He has a self righteous. attitude, even though, He was an incredibly righteous God-fearing man. He had reached the end of what he felt like he can handle. He starts telling the Lord. I don't know why you're doing this to me. I've done this. I've done this. I've done this. I've done this and I mean, I literally can I started looking at where to put that in my notes this morning. And like I can't stop there. I can't stop there. I can't stop there. So I had to just read a couple chapters to you. It's the first time sake we won't do that. But here's the Lord's response when God the challenge is and he says I'm dope 3812. And again, I'm taking one verse, this goes on for chapters. He said, have you commanded the morning since your days begin and caused the dawn to know its place. Just pause? And let's just ask yourself this question. It is there an area in your life where you would question God's decisions?

I do. I'm not standing here saying you should do it the way that I've done it question, God's decisions. What I'm saying is in all honesty and humility. We question the Lord's decision and how the Lord rules the universe. And the Lord's response.

Did job have you commanded the morning since your days? Begin a good question to ask yourself when you're challenging, God?

I mean, did you tell the sun to rise or rather? Spin the Earth on its orbit, so that the Sun appears to be rising for going to get technical.

Have you done that by strategy tragedies of this Babylonian exile when God's people were queer moved from Judah Jerusalem to babilonia was the end of David's Dynasty. We've seen many times, the promise that God would always have a people from David's lineage. To Reign on the throne and for nearly four hundred years. Descendants of David head had occupied, the Throne of Judah and dotted promised that it would always be. So But this people has been devastated by lost lost and Jeremiah's Prophecy in the midst of this confusion, offers. Hope the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will fulfill the promise I made to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah for himself, and he really does it in faith, right? It doesn't seem ridiculous that if you know, a massive storm is coming your way tomorrow that you would say, I think I'm going to go by that house or that piece of land. That is right in the line of the storm. And what are you saying? Is that whatever happens. Whatever comes our way. The Lord is faithful. And I'm going to invest in the hope and in The Confident insurance that I have that God is 3215 of Jeremiah. The Lord says that says, the Lord of hosts, the god of Israel, houses and Fields and Vineyards. Again, shall be bought in this land. When God makes a promise about the way that we're to live our life. Do we say the Lord said it, I know who God is and therefore, it must be true and I'm going to bank my life on it. I'm going to make my decisions on it. I'm going to I'm going to run my finances accordingly. I'm going to live my relationships, according. I'm going to prioritize my relationships accordingly. My job is it is really a venue, is really an opportunity to minister to others, to live as a child of God in my workplace for God's glory because I know that that's why God has called me to live. He's not called me to set up a little kingdom here.

Please call me to invest it is eternal Kingdom. So after this it it seemed like everything was in disarray, right? The the Babylonians. They destroy David City. They burn Solomon's Temple. They took David tears into Exile and a promise of God seemed to have come to an end. And so passages, like this were interpreted to be speaking about the coming of an ideal ruler. Even see passages in the early New Testament where Jesus has followers. Oh, this is the one who's come to set up set up an Earthly Eternal Kingdom. Ready, right now? In Jesus says, I'm not about building this Kingdom right here, and now I'm about, Coming to redeem a people.

God's righteous branch is Jesus our Messiah? In the days, in those days. And at that time, I will cause a righteous Branch to spring up for David and he shall execute Justice and righteousness in the land. And those days Judah will be saved in Jerusalem with well securely. And this is the name by which it is called. The Lord is our righteousness. Righteous Branch will spring up. There's a, there's a word of Hope here but not, it's not a naive. Hope there's a word of hope that's Bank on the character of God, on the reality. That God has fulfilled promises in the past and he will in the future. As we're in this in-between. We're in an already, not yet season, and we are reading an Old Testament. Passage where God's people were living in darkness and doom, and gloom. We look not to the coming of our Lord. Jesus Christ in his birth. As we know that that's already happened. We look back and recognize what God has already done. As we look forward forward to the future reality. That Jesus will come for his people.

Jeremiah is not looking through rose-colored glasses and we shouldn't be either. We want to look through biblical lenses. Remember, as judah's or Jeremiah is is is writing about this. He is in prison. He's imprisoned at this point.

Because you kept prophesying about the Doom and Gloom that would be coming. So, he speaks about the restoration of the line of David, A righteous Branch or a righteous shoot will Sprout from the line of David Isaiah says this. And there shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse and a branch from its roots. Shall bear Fruit. Shoot is not what comes off of a regular brands that we would see. It's what comes out of the stuff, right? Sometimes you'll see a shoot growing right, right near the ground and it's coming off in there. Sometimes it. It's been sitting there for a while. It may even come up for the trip, toward the middle or the outside of the oven stopped but really off and it comes right off the side. And, and if so, what are you saying is I am going to make this happen, The Echoes Jeremiah 23. 5 behold. The days are coming, is in fact, it's very, very, very similar declares the Lord. When I will raise up for David A righteous branch and he shall reign is a king and he will deal wisely. And shall execute Justice and righteousness in the land, in his days. Judah will be saved and Israel with well securely. And this is the name by which he will be called. The Lord is our righteousness. Another word of God appointed. Descendant of David is to be the mediator of justice and righteousness, and salvation. We're reminded hear that. The Lord is our righteousness. There is no man, that would be righteousness for us, save Jesus Christ, but here the term, the Lord, our righteousness, or the Lord is our righteousness is applied to the city.

The city receives the name and assume the identity of its mediator. This descendant of David will execute Justice and righteousness in the land. Is the one who came four hundred years after the Silence of the Old Testament was concluded or or at rather. I should say, after the Old Testament was concluded. There was 400 years of Silence. And then Jesus. Brakes on the scene. As God gives God begets, his son while Israel, waited for a messiah. We have seen Jesus Christ who executed Justice on the cross. Want to turn. I'm not going to have this passage on the screen, but I want to return the Romans chapter 3. If you have your body, when you want to turn there, you can Romans 3:21 the beginning of of Romans chapter, 3 as a passage in Romans that we we all know quite well.

In Romans 3, 9. Pause asked the question. What then are are? Are Jews any better off? We'll know. Not all for. We all have been ready. We have already been charged that both Jews and Greeks are under skin as it is written. None is righteous. No, not one. No one understand. No one seeks God all have turned aside together. They become we're worthless. No one does good. Not even one in the passage go on to just explain the depravity of mankind and I want you to see what God does in his kind and patient endurance.

Where's 21 but now?

Ian. I'm saying that as though I'm reading it so want to clarify. Well, let me just read it. But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law.

although the law and the prophets bear witness to it, the righteousness of God that through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe For there is no distinction for all. Have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and are justified by his grace. As a gift through the Redemption that is in Christ. Jesus whom God put forward as a propitiation, which not a word we use everyday. In other words. God, became the sacrifice the sin sacrifice that all of God's Rock rats words in was poured upon right? Think about this for a parent, sometimes, sometimes as a parent or sometimes in the community or in a family or even at church, sometimes somebody offends us. And we get really, really angry about it as we're offended. Our sense of what is right? And wrong is offended. Our sense of justice has been offended and for all of us that we're all wired a little bit differently, but but but but there's some level of like rats that we want to pour out on people. Write hitting me, not in a slow and steady burn, it may be inside, you may not let it out, but it's there at some level. That's something you don't try to keep it in you, just like, let it out and that raft comes out in that same. Since God is right. He's righteously. Music means perfectly good in his anger towards sin because he's holy. It's okay. If God were not to pour out his anger on sin. He would cease to be God, he would cease to be holy. But he cannot, it's not just a decision that he makes it's who he is. It's what happened is on the cross, Jesus became the recipient of all of God's Wrath towards sin. I just let that sink in for a minute. Every sin that every one of us in this room has ever committed and will ever commit God is right to be angry over and he pours all that anger out. Not on you. Put on Jesus's son. And the benefit of the of that is received by all those who acknowledge that they cannot work their way to heaven. They cannot live up to the law. As Paul talks about more here in Romans chapter 3. Okay, so then he continues. And he says, and are justified by faith is a gift or by Grace has a gift Redemption that is in Jesus Christ, who got put forth as a propitiation by his blood to be received by faith that listen to this next two verses. 3 versus this was to show God's righteousness because in his Divine forbearance, he passed over former sins. That means all of the Old Testament Saints also had send that required a death penalty. And God because he is kind, does not just permanently Passover sins.

Meaning he doesn't just say, you know what? I really like her. I'm just going to let this one slide. He can't.

You know, he tries to be good to people most of the time. He's pretty most of people riding like him. I was going to let this one slide. He can't. Because he's a God, who executes righteousness and justice.

In his Divine patience. He had passed over former sins. Meaning Old Testament, Saints weren't eternally killed there on the spot forever because God is patient. God has made a way through faith for even Old Testament Saints to be saved through faith, not through fulfilling the law. Not through for filling sacrifices day after day, week after week, year after year.

Those sacrifices, those offerings were a a picture of what's to come. And has come in Jesus. It was to show his righteousness at the present time so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. I love this next first. Then What Becomes of our boasting? It's excluded. By what kind of lost by a lot of work snow? But by the law of faith for we hold, that one is justified by faith. Apart from the works of the law.

And as we just saw in a season that was for Jews, that was for gentiles.

God says Everyone by faith the laws to show us our need for a savior.

Even as Joe went went to the Lord. And said, I've done this, I've done this, I've done this and he laid out his list of righteousness. The largest said, you're not God. You're not perfect. You're not, holy, you're not righteous.

The Jewish people in that day. Look forward. To the Messiah coming. and similarly, And I'll be at differently. We look forward to the return of Jesus for his people. Woodland win in 1st Thessalonians 4. In fact, we included on the email that we sent out about or part of it about Diana's passing away this morning. He says, but we do not want you to be in an uninformed Brothers about those who are asleep that you may not grieve as others. Do who have no? Hope one of the saddest things. I see that you see at times is when somebody grieve the loss of someone in their family and they know as best as a person can know that they weren't a Believer. I've told the story may be several years ago with a friend I have when I live back in Maryland, in in the mid-90s and

I worked with him and share the gospel with him on many occasions. And one day, I just was sure that he was going to come to the Lord. I was sure I was ready for it. I was almost giddy in fact. and, And we talked about the gospel again. We went to work, went out to dinner, came back. We're hanging out at my place, and we share the gospel with him again. So we talked about it for a long time and he was ready and when I mean ready, I'm not kidding you. We are out. There were no seats where we were but we're out and kind of our Green Room between the house and and and the pool and and he got on his knees. And we were ready to pray the prayer. I mean like, you know, we are going to seal the deal.

And he I mean, I literally and I'm not, I'm not making this up. You can't make this up. I'm like taking a prayer. I mean, taking a breath to pray for him. I deleted him in a prayer that goes, I got one question.

Do you mean to tell me?

That my Uncle John.

Isn't hell.

And this friend of mine is steamed this Uncle of his. So highly. And this Uncle of his was a professed atheist.

And he in that moment revealed. But he esteems the good works and the character of his. Godless uncle. More than being willing or able to see the grace of Jesus.

And we spent the next two hours, discussing arguing fighting crying praying. And he walked home that day. An unsaved, man. Believing in his own righteousness.

We talked on the phone every couple of years and he's still empty. Looking for hope. Trying to buy hope. Trying to earn enough money. Trying to be good enough to those around him, but he is empty. By The Works of the law. No, man. No woman. No, boy, no girl. Will ever come. The Salvation only through. The one who executes righteousness and Justice and his name is Jesus Christ.

I think if he were to pass away anytime that I knew it, I think I would weep. in a way that Would be felt differently.

As Christians, we don't, we don't grieve as those who have no hope when we know another believer has gone to be with the Lord, for since we believe that Jesus Christ, died and rose again, even so through, Jesus. God will bring with him. Those who have fallen asleep for this. We declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we are. I'm sorry that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord will not proceed. Those who have fallen and sleep for the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of the Archangel and with the sound of the trumpet of God, and a dead in Christ will rise first, then we who are alive who are left will be caught up together with him in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words. Concerning the end times and the seasons Brothers. You have no need for anything to be written to you. For you yourselves. Are fully aware that the day of the Lord, will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying there is now, peace, and security, then sudden destruction, will come upon them as labor. Pains come upon a pregnant woman, but they will not Escape, but you are not in darkness, Brothers for that day to surprise. You like a thief. As believers who look to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. We don't look as those who who wonder if it will come. We live expectantly making decisions day-in-and-day-out, not perfectly. Of course. But striving to live with the reality that my next day. My next year. My next decade is not promised to me. I need to live with the reality that Jesus may come tomorrow.

For you are all children of light Children of the day, which is another way of saying you were children. Who live righteously who strive to follow the lord in faith. Children of the day, we are not of the night or of the darkness. So then let us not sleep as others do. But let us keep awake and sober, let us be people who are filled with hope looking longingly for the return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. And letting that affect. How we live, how we buy, how we relate? How we relax in everything that we do let us be a people who are filled with hope.

Words like, Jeremiah come to us at a time when we're living in a season where there may be great lost some summer, always losing their jobs, of course, there's security or insecurity from a, from a financial standpoint, maybe insecurity of a home physiological problems. Write a drug and alcohol problems. Families are breaking up under all the stress. There's, there's spousal abuse, their child abuser. Corrupt governments around the world men are hungry and even with the help of churches and governments, many are still hungry. So that's not a surprise but it's not something that we should take lightly. We could go on and on there are no invading armies by armies around our walls, like there were in Jeremy's at Jerry. Jeremiah's day. But now, it seems like even our own government is.

Is often plotting against us and discreet ways. Their underhanded. There are, no, there are no seeds ramps on our properties, but

Not to make too much of it, but to be aware that we don't put our trust in our government.

Like Jeremiah, What lands are you by? Knowing that God's word is sure. And if I invest myself, if I invest my life for God's Eternal purposes.

I will never be disappointed.

As we have the privilege of taking communion at this point. This is a good time to reflect. This is a good time to to ask. Am I filled with hope at the coming of Our Lord?

So do I know with a confident assurance that he will come back?

That he will restore his people. That he will take us into Everlasting Joy. You may not be sure about that. What I want to encourage you of his is not to fake it if you're not sure.

But come talk with me, Pastor, Brian. One of the elders. We love nothing more than to, to talk through this with you, though. Maybe help you lead you to the Lord, to Search Your Heart. where you'll find a God, who is just righteous and eternally kind.

We'll have a couple smokes up front and a couple in the back and and as I mentioned last week, we have some gluten-free communion as well if you need that, and so that's there to serve you as well. Would you pray with me? Only father? I thank you for our time together. I thank you Lord, for four passages in your word. That seem difficult for us to grasp that are difficult to grasp.

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