in Romans 4, but turn to Genesis
chapter 18. When I bring this message this
morning, I know that there are many people
here who love the gospel of God's grace. But I'm going to preach,
as the Lord enables me, as if there's no one here who's ever
heard a gospel message. And this will be the first gospel
message you've ever heard. So I hope that you'll listen
to it like that. Genesis 18, beginning in verse
9, these angels have appeared unto
Abraham, one of them being the Lord Jesus Christ. And they said
unto him, where is Sarah, thy wife? And he said, behold in
the tent. And he, the Lord Jesus Christ
said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time
of life. And lo, Sarah, thy wife. shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent
door, which was behind him. Now, Abraham and Sarah were old. He was 100, she was 90, and well
stricken in age. And it ceased to be with Sarah
after the manner of women. She had already gone through
the process of menopause and was no longer able to bear children. Therefore, Sarah laughed within
herself saying, after I'm waxed old, shall I have pleasure, my
Lord, being old also? And the Lord said unto Abraham,
wherefore did Sarah laugh? Saying, shall I have assured
he'd bear a child which am old? Is anything too hard for the
Lord? At the time appointed, I will
return unto thee according to the time of life, and Sarah shall
have a son. Then Sarah denied, saying, I
laugh not, for she was afraid, trying to get herself out of
trouble. And he said, nay, but thou didst. life. Now turn back
to Romans chapter 4 if you would. If a man who was 100 years old,
do you all know anybody that's 100 years old? Can you imagine
how feeble that person would be? If a man that was 100 years
old and a 90 year old woman who had already completely gone through
the process of menopause, wanted to have a baby, how much hope
would you have of their success? None. None. I mean, if we met a couple like
that and said, I want to have a baby, and we knew those facts
about them, 100 years old, 90 years old, one had already gone
through the process of menopause, we would say, not going to happen. Well, such was the case of Sarah
and Abraham, but God had told him 25 years before that he would
be the father of many nations. Humanly speaking, by what you
could see, there was no hope for that to take place, wasn't
there? But Abraham had a hope it would take place because of
what God had previously said to him. She shall have a son. Verse 19. Romans chapter four. And being
not weak in faith, faith is believing what God said. He considered
not his own body now dead when he was about a hundred years
old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb. Abraham knew
he would have a child against all hope that he would believed
in hope according to God's word. Look in verse 20 of Romans chapter
four, he staggered not. He didn't waver at the promise
of God through unbelief. Now, if God says something, it
must take place. It must. As a matter of fact,
when he says something, it has taken place before it's taken
place. It becomes past tense before it's even taken place.
That's the supremacy of his word. If he says, Sarah is going to
have a son, you know what? Sarah is going to have a son.
There's no doubt about it. He staggered not at the promise
of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory
to God, being fully persuaded, fully convinced that what God
had promised, he was able also to perform. Abraham, do you really
have any hope that Sarah will conceive? Yes, I do. I know she will. I'm fully persuaded
that she will because God has said that's what's going to take
place. I believe God is able to perform
anything he promised. Now, I've entitled this message,
Against Hope, Believing in Hope. Well, what is hope? First of all, hope's a feeling,
isn't it? It's a feeling. Isn't it wonderful to feel hope?
It's miserable when you feel hopeless. Matter of fact, that's
when people end up committing suicide and things of that nature.
It's because they feel like it's not going to get better. They
have no hope. And what a horrible feeling it
is to feel hopeless. Things are not going to get better.
There's not going to be a brighter tomorrow. I have no hope. Hope is a feeling. And it is
a confident expectation with regard to the future. This thing
of scriptural hope. Now there's all kinds of people that have
hopes. I hope tomorrow's going to be sunny or I hope the weather's
going to be nice. And that doesn't have anything
to do with what the Bible refers to when talking about this blessed
thing of hope. Abraham against hope, believing
in hope. Hope is a confident expectation
with regard to the future. It's believing what you cannot
see. Turn to Romans eight. Verse 24. For we are saved by hope. It is our hope who saves us.
He is our hope. We are saved by hope, but hope
that is seen is not hope. For what a man seeth, why doth
he yet hope for? But if we hope for that which
we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. Now, I have a hope,
something I can't see, but I'm waiting on it. I have a hope.
I have a hope right now. It's a confident expectation.
I have a hope that when God sees me right now, he sees somebody
without sin. I have a hope that all of my
sins have been put away by what the Lord Jesus Christ did, and
I have no sin before God. When He sees me, He sees one
who is holy, unblameable, and unreprovable in His sight. I
have a hope that my personal righteousness is nothing less
than the personal righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. Because
the scripture says, he hath made him to be sin for us who knew
no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
I have a hope that when I stand before God in judgment, God's
going to say to me, Todd Nybert, well done. thou good and faithful
servant. And it's not because I feel like
I've done real well. No, if he says that to the Lord
Jesus Christ, will he say that to Christ? Sure he will. He'll say that to me because
I'm in him. That's my hope. And I have a hope that everything
that happens to me between now and then, from this moment all
the way to then, is going to be for my good because the scripture
says all things work together for good to them that love God,
to them who are called according to his purpose. I have a blessed
hope that everything between judgment day and right now is
working together for my good, that God is in control of everything
and there's no bad news. Nothing bad happens. Now is that pie in the sky? That
doesn't mean that there's not very difficult, troublesome things
that happen, but I know this, God sent him for my good. and
his glory in whatever he does is right. And that's the hope
the believer has. Now question, is there anything
that I can see that verifies this? Can I look at myself and say,
yep, got no sin. Can I look at myself and say,
yeah, I see the righteousness of God. Can I look at all the
things that are happening and say, I can tell how that's going
to end up for my good and for His glory? The answer to those
questions is no. I can't verify any of this by
sight, can I? I can't look at myself and know
I'm the very righteousness of God. Look how good my heart is.
Look how righteous I am. Look how holy my life is. I can't
look at myself and draw those conclusions. But I really do
have a hope, a confident expectation that they are because of what
God has said in his word. You see, if I could see it, it
would no longer be something I hope for. But what a blessed
thing hope is. I know what it is by experience
to feel utterly hopeless. I know what that means. You don't
have any hope that things are going to ever get better. Things
are as they are, and this is the way it is, and what a horrible
feeling that is. Hopelessness, despair, no hope
that it will ever be better, but what a blessed thing to be
able to face the present because of the hope, the confident expectation
we have for the future. Hope is one of the three abiding
graces. Remember how Paul spoke in 1
Corinthians 13, 13, 13, now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three,
but the gravest of these is charity. What a blessed thing it is to
experience hope. Now, hope is the product of faith. Turn with me to Romans 15. I
want you to look at this verse of scripture. Hope is the product
of faith. Verse 13. I love this name of
God. The God of Hope. What a name
for God. The God of Hope. You can't know
God and not have hope. Can't be. The God of Hope fill
you with all joy and peace in believing that you may abound
in hope through the power of the Holy Ghost. I love that verse. The God of Hope fill you. with
all joy and peace in believing. Now, believing what? Believing
that what God said is true. Believing that he's able to save
me with no help from me. Believing that salvation is by
his grace. Believing that salvation comes
through his blood, that he actually accomplished salvation. But you
know what? Believing that fills me with
joy. I'm so glad it's that way. I'd
have no joy if I thought salvation would depend on my works in any
way. I'd have no joy. I'd have no peace. But what joy
and peace there is in believing that all God requires of me,
he looks to his Son for. Does that give you joy? Does
that give you peace? Now, the opposite gives me no
joy or no peace, but what joy and peace there is in believing
what God has said. Now, hope is made of three things. It's made of belief, it's made
of desire, and it's made of expectancy. Let me give you some examples. Abraham believed what God said. God said, you're going to have
a son. He believed what God said. He desired what God said. He
wanted to have a son. And he fully expected that what
God said would come to pass and he and Sarah would have a son
just as God said it. He was staggered not at the promise
of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory
to God, being fully persuaded that what God had promised, he
was able also to perform. Now, hope must first be found
in the word of God. That's the first thing I got
to say about hope. If everybody had sometimes has some kind of
hope that things are going to get better. There are many people
who have a hope that they'll be saved, but it's an ill grounded
hope. It's not a hope that's found
in scripture. If I can't go to the scripture to tell why I had
this hope, the hope is no good. So we've got to begin with the
word of God. It's believing what God has said. Now here's an example.
Romans 10, 13 says, whosoever shall call. upon the name of
the Lord shall be saved. You know, I believe that. I believe
that if I call on his name, even now, if I've been separated all
my life, that if I call on his name, even now, I shall be saved. I believe that. Not only do I
believe it, I desire that. I desire to call on his name.
and I desire to be saved. I call on his name, Lord. What's
it mean to call on the name of the Lord? Is that just some kind
of generic? No, when I call on the Lord,
I'm calling on who He is. I'm saying, Lord, I'm bankrupt,
I'm weak, I'm sinful. Save me as an act of Your will.
Will my salvation because You're all-powerful. If You will, it's
going to come to pass. Save me by Your justice. Make
it to where You're just and save me. Save me by Your grace. Save
me by Your love, by Your mercy, by all Your attributes. That's what I'm doing. Lord,
save me. If you don't save me, I won't be saved. I'm calling
on your name. And in calling on his name, I really believe
I'm saved. I'm saved. There's so many scriptures. By grace are you saved through
faith in that none of yourselves. It's the gift of God. God works
with city, mansion, post. You know, I believe salvation
is by grace. Do you? I really, I believe that. By grace you're
saved. Not only do I believe it, soul. I desire it. I desire it to be
no other way. I want it to be all of his grace
and I fully expect salvation by grace. That's the hope I have.
It's a good hope in grace. Romans eight one says there there's
therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.
Now, I believe that. Do you? I believe that everybody that's
in Christ, there's no condemnation to that person. Their sin has
been put put away. That's what I desire. I desire
to never stand before God on my own in any way, in my own
works. I desire to just not be condemned
for Christ's sake, to simply to be in Him. I desire that. I have a great desire for God
to not judge me for anything but what Christ did. Do you have
a desire of that? Is there anything that you'd
want to stand before God that comes from you? And I fully expect
no condemnation. by being in Christ Jesus. Now, I would like to give you
and myself what the scriptures teach concerning this thing of
hope. Hope, that feeling of encouragement for the future.
What does the scripture teach of this thing of hope? We'll
first turn to 1 Timothy chapter one. Verse one, Paul, an apostle of
Jesus Christ, by the commandment of God, our savior and Lord Jesus
Christ, which is, and if you have a King James version, you'll
see that that which is, is in italics. Uh, that means it was
supplied there by the translators, but it's not in the original.
The Lord Jesus Christ, our hope. The Lord Jesus Christ, our hope. Our hope is in a person. That's so simple, so glorious.
Our hope is in a person. Who he is and what He did. Now, you could have a hope in
me that I'd always do the right thing and never disappoint you
and never let you down, but would it be a well-grounded hope? No,
it would not be a well-grounded hope. I wish it was, but it would
not. I would fail you at some point,
you'd fail me at some point. A hope in a curse is he that
maketh the arm of flesh, his hope and his trust. But my hope
is in the Lord Jesus Christ. He himself is my hope. It's not in me. It's in him,
his ability to do what he says to do. Psalm 130 verse seven
says, let Israel hope in the Lord. For with the Lord, there
is mercy. And do you hear that? With the
Lord, there is mercy. And with the Lord is plenteous
redemption. Oh, let Israel hope in the Lord. Paul put it this way. Turn with
me to second Timothy chapter one. You're already in first
Timothy. Verse 12. Paul says, for the
witch cause, I also suffer these things. Nevertheless, I'm not
ashamed for I know whom I have believed. Now, that's everything
right there. He didn't say, I know what I
believe. Someone says, I know what I believe. My initial response
is, who cares? You know, I mean, as far as I
know what I believe, that's not the point. It's not, what do
you believe? It's, who do you believe? I know
whom I have believed. And I am, Paul says, persuaded. I am persuaded, having been persuaded
by God, I really believe this, it's all my hope. I am persuaded
that He is able to keep that which I've committed to Him against
that day. And right now I'm committing
the very salvation of my soul to Him. If He doesn't do it all,
I won't be saved. You know that? If He doesn't
do it all, it's over for you. It's over for me, but I've committed. You know what you do when you
commit something like when you, when you go to the bank and you put money
in the bank, you commit it to the bank. When you go on an airplane,
you commit yourself to that airplane. It's not up to you to flap your
wings to get the thing off the ground. It flies, and you're
committed to it to get you to the destination. I have committed
the entire salvation of my soul to Him. I have nothing to do
with it. If He doesn't do it all, it's over for me. But I've
committed it all, and I'm persuaded that He is able. I'm convinced He is able. to keep that which I've committed
to him against that day. I'm convinced in his ability. I think of that scripture now
and to him that's able to keep you from falling and to present
you faultless. before his presence, before his
throne with exceeding glory. I really believe that Jesus Christ
with no help from me, but because of who he is and what he did,
he is able to present me faultless, without fault, nothing to blame
me for, nothing to accuse me of. And this is this hope is what
Paul called and Second Thessalonians 2.16, a good hope through grace.
Now, if my hope is not founded in grace, it's not a good hope. And what do I mean by a hope
being founded in grace? I would say every religious institution
in Lexington, Kentucky would say they believe in salvation
by grace. I'd say everyone, doesn't matter
what denomination, what Protestant, Catholic, they all would say,
yeah, sure, I believe in salvation by grace. What does grace mean? Grace means unmerited favor. Now, when people say, I believe
in salvation by grace through faith, what they mean is I believe
in salvation by faith through the help of grace that God offered
me. And I take that grace and improve it. It enables me that
grace. I take that grace and I use it
to help me to believe. God helped me with it. But I
believe salvation is by faith through grace. But that's not
what the Bible says. The Bible says salvation is by
grace. The unmerited favor of a holy
God, an all-powerful God. Salvation is by grace. Now when the Bible speaks of
salvation being by grace, it's talking about every aspect of
salvation is what God does. Let me tell you why I'm saying
this. I love electing grace. God chose
me by His grace before I was ever born and determined my salvation. Now, that's grace. I didn't deserve
it. He didn't look at me and say,
well, I foresee He's going to be a preacher, and He's going to
really help out my cause, and He's going to be a... No! No. God
determined the salvation of everybody He saves by His grace. And if
you don't believe in election, you don't believe in grace at
all. There's no such thing as believing in grace, not believing
in election. God's electing, predestinating grace. God's electing
grace. Paul called it the election of
grace in Romans chapter 11. Salvation by grace. I believe
in justifying grace. This is my hope that he justified
me. I said in the last couple of weeks, I hope I never preach
a message without talking something about justification. I hope I
don't. He made it to where I am not guilty without sin in his
sight. Justifying grace, redeeming grace,
where he actually pays for my sin. In this thing of redeeming
grace, and this is so important regarding the redemption of Christ
Jesus. Jesus Christ did not redeem everybody, because if he did,
everybody would be redeemed. Everybody would be saved. Everybody,
their sins would all be gone. If you told me He redeemed everybody
and some of those people wind up in hell anyway, you've taken
away the only hope I've got. The only hope I have is that
Christ died for me and that He actually redeemed me and put
away my sin. The only reason I'm preserved
is because He keeps me by His grace. The only way I'll be glorified
is for him to just glorify me. I mean, you see, he's given us
a good hope through grace, through God's unmerited favor. And if
any part of salvation is dependent upon you in any way, it's doomed
for failure. It will not work. You will not
be saved. If any part of salvation is dependent
upon something you do, you won't be saved. Thank God salvation
is not dependent on what you or I do because salvation is
by grace. Acts chapter 15, 11 says, Peter
said, we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ,
we should be saved even as they. Now, if you read the New Testament,
there are five adjectives used in the scriptures to describe
this thing of hope. Five adjectives. I've already
used one of them, a good hope. a good hope through grace. You
know, there are a lot of hopes. Everybody at some time or the
other has some kind of hope that they're, they're hoping in, but
it's not necessarily a good hope. If your hope has something to
do with you doing something, I can tell you right now it's
a bad hope. And I hate the thought of somebody living all their
life with this ill-grounded hope and then waking up on judgment
day and hearing Christ say, depart from me, you that work iniquity.
I never knew you. I don't want that to happen to
me. I don't want that to happen to you. I want to have this good
hope of grace. But the scripture also uses this
phrase in Ephesians chapter four, verse five, there's one hope.
There's one hope. There's not two hopes. There's
one hope. Every believer has the precise
same hope. There's not a shade of difference
in their hope. Every believer has the precise
same hope. A question I quite often ask
people when I'm talking to them, it seems like if the Lord opens
up a door to preach to them or witness to them, and I ask this
question, I'll say, What would you say to God if he said, why
should I let you into heaven? It's a good question, isn't it?
What would you say to God if he said to you, why should I
let you into heaven? Now let me give you a hint. If your first word is because
I, you're not going to be granted admittance. I can tell you that
right now. Well, because I believed, because
I repented, because I did this, because I did that. That is not
the hope of the believer. If I is in your hope, it's not
the hope of the believer. Here's the hope of the believer.
Turn with me to Romans 8. Verse 31, what shall we then
say to these things? If God be for us, who can be
against us? He that spared not his own son,
but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also
freely give us all things? Who shall lay anything to the
charge of God's elect? It's God that justifies. Who
is he that can condemn? It's Christ that died, yea, rather,
that's risen again, who's even at the right hand of God, who
also maketh intercession for us. Now, there's the believer's
one hope. It's Christ that died. And that's why, let me repeat
that again, a preacher that says Christ died for everybody, he's
not preaching the gospel, because if he can die for everybody and
some of those people he died for end up in hell, he's taking
away the only hope the believer has. Our hope is Christ. It's Christ that died. And that's,
I need no other argument. I need no other plea. It is enough
that Jesus died and that he died for me. Every believer has the
same hope. And then in Titus chapter two,
verse 13, this hope is called a blessed hope. A blessed hope. I love the word blessed, don't
you? There's several words. You love the name of Jesus. You love the Lord Jesus Christ. You love the word grace. You
know, I love the word blessed. Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that
mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they
shall inherit the earth. Don't you love the word blessed?
And the believers hope, oh, blessed. That blessed hope. How blessed I am if God has given
me hope. How blessed it is to know that
the Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in them that hope
in his mercy. And then this hope is called
a living hope. Blessed be the God and father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy
had begotten us again by a living hope, by the resurrection of
Jesus Christ from the dead, a living hope, as opposed to a dead hope. And any hope that was not created
by the divine beginning and the resurrection of Christ from the
dead is a dead hope. And then in Hebrews 7, 19, here's
the fifth word that's used to describe this hope the believer
has. Better. Better. It's a better hope. A better hope. The bringing in of a better hope.
Now, the hope of the gospel is always a better hope than the
hope of works, isn't it? It's just better. It's better than anything else.
Now, there's several reasons. Do you know that there's never
been a time that a believer has ever left the Lord Jesus Christ?
It's never happened. No believer, no true believer
has ever left the Lord Jesus Christ. And there's several reasons
for that. One is because they're kept by
him, kept by the power of God through faith and to salvation.
They have a new nature. that can't leave a new nature
that always comes to the Father through the Son. They're unable
because of their nature, that new nature that they're given
to leave Christ. Now, their old man would leave
him, and they realize it. They sing that song, prone to
wonder, Lord, I feel it, prone to leave the God I love. Here's
my heart. Oh, take and seal it. Seal it
for thy courts above. But here's another reason why
no believer will ever leave Christ. Nothing is better than the hope
they have in him. Nothing's better. You know, I think of when that
big crowd left the Lord, 5,000 people left, and he looked at
the 12. They were the only ones left. He watched all those people
leave after he preached that message. Paul read out of John
chapter six. The Lord watched them leave,
and one of the solemn things about that is he didn't ask them
to come back. He watched him leave. He didn't say, maybe you
didn't understand that. Let me say it in a different
way. And I can even think of the disciples saying, did he
have to speak this way? I mean, look, we had some, we're
getting some momentum here and all these people seem to believe
and now they're all leaving. But he looked at his disciples
and he said, will you also go away? There's the door. You know how
Peter answered? Lord, To whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal
life. We believe and are sure that
thou art that Christ, the son of the living God. There's nothing
better. Why would I leave? Go back to works? Go back to
the world? There's nothing better. Now let me tell you something
else this hope does. Turn with me to 1 John chapter
3. Verse 1. Behold, what manner of love the
Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the
sons of God. Therefore, the world knoweth
us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons
of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be. But we know
that when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall
see him as he is. Oh, how we look forward to that.
And every man that hath this hope in him, in the Lord Jesus
Christ, in himself, because Christ has put it there, Christ in you,
the hope of glory, every man that hath this hope in him purifieth
himself, even as he is pure. Now I want you to listen to this
very, very carefully. I do not believe for a second
that this hope will make a man indifferent towards purity. Don't believe that for a second.
And this hope has nothing to do with my works. This has, this
hope has nothing to do with anything that I do. Does that make me
indifferent toward this thing of purity? No, it does not. Every man that has this hope
in him purifies himself. You see, sin has a defiling dirty
quality. We sin and we defile ourselves. We're dirty. When you're dirty,
what do you want to do? You want to take a bath. You
want to be clean. You want to be cleansed. Now, if you have a new nature, a holy
nature, and that's what God gives in the new birth, a divine nature,
born of the Spirit of God. You have a holy nature that hates
that evil nature that you still possess. You hate it. Sin. It's defiling. It's marring. It's besmearing. It makes you dirty. You're unclean. And here's what you want. You
purify yourself. You put to death, you crucify
the flesh with the affection, you mortify, you put it, and
this is something that goes on every day, every hour. Now, if you feel like I've got
myself cleaned up, you just never have seen sin in the first place.
You don't even know what I'm talking about. Well, I've got
rid of that one, now I'm going to the next thing. No, every
believer is a continual process of purifying himself, cleansing
himself. Now, how do you go about doing
that? The only way you go about doing it is by him doing it for
you. If we confess our sins, He is
faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and to cleanse,
wash, purify us from all unrighteousness. You can't have this blessed hope
of grace and be indifferent about this thing of purity. If your
hope makes you not want to purify yourself, it's not the hope of
the scripture. Last scripture I want to look
at is 1 Peter 3. Verse 15. But sanctify the Lord God in
your hearts. Now, how in the world do you
go about sanctifying God? It means in your very heart of
hearts, you regard him as holy. Our father who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name. You regard him as holy. And whenever anybody truly regards
him as holy, they see the sinfulness of their own lives. You can't
see his holiness and not see your own sinfulness. You regard
him as holy in your heart. I remember one time I was reading
a message by a guy on the Lord's Prayer and he said, we say, let
your name be glorified. No, it is glorified. His name
is holy. Reverend and holy is thy name. sanctify, regard as holy the
Lord God in your hearts. Now that tells us he regards
his people as holy. By the witch will we are sanctified. We are regarded as holy because
we are holy by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once
for all. And you regard as holy. Don't be careful the way you
use the Lord's name. Don't use the Lord's name in
vain. Don't don't say Lord this or Lord that. Don't do that.
Holy and reverend is his name. And what's he say next? And be
ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you a
reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear. Well, I'm going to pretend that
somebody said, give me a reason for the hope that's in you. You
asked me that question. You've got a hope. Give me a
reason for the hope that's in you. Well, first of all, it's
in the scriptures. Got to begin there. I'm giving
you a scriptural reason for my hope. And here's the reason for
the hope that's in me. Christ died for me. And you know, if Christ died
for me, I know I'm accepted before God. I must be accepted. I am
accepted. I've been accepted. So it's in
scripture, it's in Christ, it's the hope of grace. Because God's grace really is
unmerited. If he had to look for anything
in me to give me what I got because of me meriting it, I would have
no hope. But oh, what a hope we have in
his grace. Amazing grace, how sweet the
sound that saved a wretch like me. And notice how he told us
to give this reason of hope with meekness and with fear. Beloved, This hope is for you. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
and thou shalt be saved. Let's pray. Lord, how we thank you for the
sure hope that we have in your son. And Lord, those that have
never hoped in him before, we ask that you would give them
the grace to hope even now. Lord, enable all of us to confess
with our mouth the Lord Jesus and to believe in our hearts
that you raised him from the dead, having accepted what he
did as all that's needed to make us clean in your sight. Bless this message for the Lord's
sake. In his name we pray. Amen. There's a lot of hymns
that I thought of, but