"The Hope of God"
* Love/hate relationship w/ Christmas
- Love the focus on birth of Christ
- Hate the wordly trappings
* Prov13:12: "Hope deferred makes the heart sick"
* Christmas is the beginning of our hope
- Hope not same as wish (e.g. "I hope I get an iPod for Christmas")
- Hope = Heb11:1 --> Faith and conviction
* Christ ushered in era of hope -- He answered people's hope for Messiah
* Rom5:1-10
- First 4 ch. establish depravity of man
- Hope through Christ the Messiah
* Suffering produces hope
- Forces us to rely on God & the hope of His salvation
- "God is in the business of redeeming suffering."
- Lord provides hope that doesn't disappoint
* Lam3:19-24; Eph1:18-19; Titus3:4-7
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