1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,679 Speaker: we're continuing in Romans eight. 2 00:00:01,710 --> 00:00:04,439 Romans eight 17 is where we're starting. 3 00:00:04,439 --> 00:00:11,219 We're picking up where we left off last week and if you know what 4 00:00:11,250 --> 00:00:16,200 movie I got the title of the sermon from, I'll give you brownie points. 5 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:18,689 Kind of. 6 00:00:19,439 --> 00:00:22,349 It's really from a, a different movie, but I like a lot more than 7 00:00:22,349 --> 00:00:24,450 back to the future, but that's okay. 8 00:00:24,834 --> 00:00:24,955 DR. 9 00:00:25,134 --> 00:00:25,224 Four. 10 00:00:27,474 --> 00:00:28,044 No, it's from Penga. 11 00:00:28,044 --> 00:00:30,834 Za Madagascar, which is a great movie. 12 00:00:31,194 --> 00:00:38,244 But anyway, Penga Za Madagascar, you know, when they, anyway, there you go. 13 00:00:39,414 --> 00:00:42,175 Alright, well, Romans eight is where we're gonna be, so make 14 00:00:42,175 --> 00:00:43,584 sure you're there in your Bibles. 15 00:00:43,914 --> 00:00:48,414 Um, and this passage, this passage is kind of long, but what it's got, it's got some 16 00:00:48,414 --> 00:00:53,724 really, really, it's got a lot of weird stuff, a lot of really interesting stuff. 17 00:00:53,724 --> 00:00:54,504 There's, there's a lot of. 18 00:00:54,894 --> 00:00:57,474 Weird beliefs that come out of this passage, but I'm really excited 19 00:00:57,474 --> 00:01:00,834 to talk about it with you because it helps us see what life is 20 00:01:00,834 --> 00:01:04,075 really all about, and it helps us process all the things that happen. 21 00:01:04,075 --> 00:01:08,185 I know, um, you guys might not think about this as much as maybe people 22 00:01:08,185 --> 00:01:12,744 that are older than you, but, um, I was hanging out with my, with Shea's 23 00:01:12,744 --> 00:01:17,575 grandma recently, and my, my grandpa, he lives close by and so we see him a lot. 24 00:01:18,145 --> 00:01:21,835 And, um, something about I, I love hanging out with my grandparents, 25 00:01:21,835 --> 00:01:24,414 but one thing about hanging out with them is it makes me really sad. 26 00:01:25,029 --> 00:01:26,320 Because my grandmas are pretty old. 27 00:01:26,350 --> 00:01:29,260 My grandpa is 96. 28 00:01:29,260 --> 00:01:31,179 He's gonna be, or he's gonna be 90? 29 00:01:31,179 --> 00:01:32,860 Yeah, he's gonna be 96 this year. 30 00:01:33,069 --> 00:01:33,999 No, 97 this year. 31 00:01:33,999 --> 00:01:35,408 He's born in 1929. 32 00:01:36,009 --> 00:01:39,670 Um, and my Shea's grandma is, is like 86 or something, and something 33 00:01:39,670 --> 00:01:42,309 that's really sad when I hang out with them, especially my grandpa. 34 00:01:42,759 --> 00:01:45,670 Is I, I think about the person he used to be, right? 35 00:01:45,670 --> 00:01:48,490 And the things he used to be able to do, like, um, when I was little, like 36 00:01:48,490 --> 00:01:50,679 20 years ago and how active he was. 37 00:01:50,679 --> 00:01:53,348 And now he, he is hard for him to remember things. 38 00:01:53,949 --> 00:01:57,039 And when you hang out with older people, especially older people that are, that 39 00:01:57,039 --> 00:02:02,860 are on their, on their way down, it's a, it's really sad because you realize that 40 00:02:02,860 --> 00:02:07,629 life is filled with so much, so much stuff that just shouldn't be the way it's right. 41 00:02:07,809 --> 00:02:09,459 Like people, there's a country song that. 42 00:02:09,789 --> 00:02:12,700 Um, it's really sad, but it's, it's called, I Wish Grandpa's Never Died. 43 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:14,290 I don't know if you've ever heard that one before. 44 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:16,990 And it's a really sad song and it makes you realize, man, like 45 00:02:17,260 --> 00:02:19,300 the world is messed up, right? 46 00:02:19,390 --> 00:02:21,430 People get old people, people die. 47 00:02:21,430 --> 00:02:23,529 Things happen that shouldn't happen, right? 48 00:02:23,529 --> 00:02:25,990 Even sometimes people your age die, and that's even worse. 49 00:02:25,990 --> 00:02:27,130 I was reading about a guy this week. 50 00:02:27,430 --> 00:02:32,740 He had, um, 11 kids and 10 of them. 51 00:02:32,740 --> 00:02:33,909 He lived a long time ago. 52 00:02:33,969 --> 00:02:34,810 That's why he had so many kids. 53 00:02:34,810 --> 00:02:38,860 But he, uh, had 11 kids and he outlived all of them. 54 00:02:39,940 --> 00:02:42,070 Um, and 10 of them died while they were really young. 55 00:02:42,190 --> 00:02:47,500 So he, he buried all 11 of his children and 10 of them died even, you know, 56 00:02:47,500 --> 00:02:49,120 elementary school age or even younger. 57 00:02:49,180 --> 00:02:50,290 And it's so sad. 58 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:56,530 And our, in our passage, we're gonna see that the Bible 59 00:02:56,530 --> 00:02:58,360 doesn't just sugar coat life. 60 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:01,990 It doesn't tell you that life's gonna be easy and life's gonna be great. 61 00:03:01,990 --> 00:03:04,510 And, and if you trust God, your life's gonna be perfect. 62 00:03:04,510 --> 00:03:06,675 You're never gonna have any problems and nothing's ever gonna make you sad. 63 00:03:07,390 --> 00:03:09,070 That's not how life really is. 64 00:03:09,099 --> 00:03:11,800 Life in this world is hard, and life in this world has a lot of 65 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:14,440 problems, and, and the world is messed up and people are messed up. 66 00:03:14,469 --> 00:03:15,789 You and I are messed up. 67 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:19,990 But what we're gonna see in this life is how to survive suffering. 68 00:03:20,110 --> 00:03:23,170 How to survive all the bad things that happen, all the pain, all the sadness, 69 00:03:23,170 --> 00:03:24,880 all the heartbreak in the world. 70 00:03:24,940 --> 00:03:25,300 Okay? 71 00:03:25,300 --> 00:03:29,589 We're gonna see how to, how to really survive and persevere and trust 72 00:03:29,589 --> 00:03:31,659 God and, and enjoy life even in. 73 00:03:32,035 --> 00:03:35,065 A world that is messed up and, and things don't go the way they're supposed to. 74 00:03:35,065 --> 00:03:37,345 So, look with me, we're gonna start in verse 18 actually. 75 00:03:37,345 --> 00:03:37,495 Okay? 76 00:03:37,495 --> 00:03:38,395 We're gonna look at verse 18. 77 00:03:38,395 --> 00:03:40,255 Romans eight 18. 78 00:03:40,255 --> 00:03:44,875 So Paul, the guy writing this letter, he says, I consider, I'm thinking about, 79 00:03:45,204 --> 00:03:48,985 um, that the sufferings, the hard things that happen of this present time, right? 80 00:03:48,985 --> 00:03:52,105 While we're here on earth, they're not worth comparing. 81 00:03:52,795 --> 00:03:56,995 With the glory that is to that is to be revealed to us. 82 00:03:56,995 --> 00:03:59,515 So he's saying right now, there's suffering happening. 83 00:03:59,515 --> 00:04:02,485 Right now there's pain happening, but one day there's gonna be this thing, 84 00:04:02,485 --> 00:04:06,595 this, this glory, this awesome, this awesome reality, this awesome time 85 00:04:06,595 --> 00:04:08,845 period that's going to be revealed to us. 86 00:04:08,845 --> 00:04:09,985 We're gonna get there and we're gonna see it. 87 00:04:10,015 --> 00:04:13,075 Right now we can't see it, but one day we're gonna see it and he's saying that 88 00:04:13,075 --> 00:04:18,209 it's gonna be so good that it's gonna make this stuff seem not so bad anymore. 89 00:04:19,870 --> 00:04:22,990 It's gonna give us a new perspective about all the bad things that happen, all the 90 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:26,380 the hard things that you're going through, all the bad things you see on the news 91 00:04:26,380 --> 00:04:28,510 that your parents tell you about one day. 92 00:04:28,870 --> 00:04:31,840 If you are God's child, like we talked about last week, if you're someone who 93 00:04:31,840 --> 00:04:35,919 has the Holy Spirit living in you, who's living for God, and you are adopted 94 00:04:35,919 --> 00:04:40,870 by God and you get to inherit what he's gonna give you as his child, you 95 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:43,359 will have, you'll get to be with this. 96 00:04:43,359 --> 00:04:47,380 You'll have this amazing, glorious future and you won't. 97 00:04:47,770 --> 00:04:52,030 Really feel so bad about all the things that seem like such a big deal anymore. 98 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:56,860 So really, our main idea tonight is I, I want you to put suffering in perspective 99 00:04:57,640 --> 00:05:00,910 because right now, when we're alive on earth suffering, all the bad things 100 00:05:00,910 --> 00:05:02,470 that happen feel like a huge deal. 101 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:05,140 Whether it's small suffering, like, oh, your pet dies. 102 00:05:05,140 --> 00:05:06,550 It's really sad, right? 103 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:10,480 Or you, you something you really wanted, you really wanted to make the team, or 104 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:13,060 you really wanted to, to do this thing, and you didn't, you didn't get to go to 105 00:05:13,060 --> 00:05:14,710 the concert or something happens, right? 106 00:05:15,295 --> 00:05:17,395 Those little sufferings, but even big sufferings, right? 107 00:05:17,395 --> 00:05:21,805 Big sufferings, like something someone you care about passes away or something really 108 00:05:21,865 --> 00:05:25,345 sad happens in your family or something on the news happens and, and it's 109 00:05:25,345 --> 00:05:27,475 really shocking and, and, and horrible. 110 00:05:28,615 --> 00:05:31,795 What our passage is gonna help us do is have the right perspective 111 00:05:31,795 --> 00:05:33,085 about all the bad things that happen. 112 00:05:33,115 --> 00:05:36,625 It's gonna help us see what those things really are and what they're really like. 113 00:05:36,955 --> 00:05:38,635 And it's gonna, we're gonna take 'em seriously, but they're 114 00:05:38,635 --> 00:05:42,025 also not gonna overwhelm us like maybe they would otherwise. 115 00:05:42,925 --> 00:05:44,365 Having the right perspective is really important. 116 00:05:44,365 --> 00:05:45,925 I don't know if you've seen any of these things before. 117 00:05:46,195 --> 00:05:49,465 Um, people draw stuff on the sidewalk and they paint stuff on the sidewalk. 118 00:05:49,765 --> 00:05:54,625 So this is a painting on the ground, but if you look at it from the 119 00:05:54,625 --> 00:05:56,455 right angle, it, it looks real. 120 00:05:56,815 --> 00:05:58,195 And it, uh, pretty close, right? 121 00:05:58,195 --> 00:06:01,945 It looks like, oh, they're standing over a, over a big hole in the ground. 122 00:06:02,305 --> 00:06:05,245 Um, but obviously it's not true. 123 00:06:05,245 --> 00:06:08,785 But when you look at it from the right angle, it looks like, whoa. 124 00:06:09,745 --> 00:06:10,795 That's, that's really cool, right? 125 00:06:10,795 --> 00:06:14,695 Or you see something like this, um, this is the same wall, but they 126 00:06:14,695 --> 00:06:15,805 painted it to look like a train. 127 00:06:16,705 --> 00:06:20,755 And so if you look at it from the right angle, it looks really 128 00:06:20,755 --> 00:06:21,895 impressive and really awesome. 129 00:06:22,705 --> 00:06:23,935 So your perspective really matters. 130 00:06:23,935 --> 00:06:25,765 'cause this is what happens if you look at it from the wrong angle. 131 00:06:25,765 --> 00:06:29,425 So this is what, what you're supposed to see it, and then if you see it from the 132 00:06:29,425 --> 00:06:32,515 other side, it looks really weird, right? 133 00:06:32,515 --> 00:06:34,885 Like the, the building is all messed up. 134 00:06:34,885 --> 00:06:36,205 It is not proportional. 135 00:06:36,205 --> 00:06:37,045 And because this is. 136 00:06:37,675 --> 00:06:40,105 From the way it's supposed to be seen, it looks really cool. 137 00:06:40,284 --> 00:06:43,615 The way it's sometimes seen from other angles doesn't 138 00:06:43,615 --> 00:06:44,665 look that cool anymore, right? 139 00:06:44,725 --> 00:06:46,075 It's all about where you're standing. 140 00:06:46,075 --> 00:06:48,955 It's all about your perspective, and that's kind of like suffering, right? 141 00:06:49,045 --> 00:06:51,865 If you're standing at the wrong angle, if you're looking at all 142 00:06:51,865 --> 00:06:54,745 the bad things that happen in your life the wrong way, sometimes they 143 00:06:54,745 --> 00:06:56,515 can be really big and overwhelming. 144 00:06:57,490 --> 00:06:57,940 They can. 145 00:06:57,940 --> 00:06:59,440 They can make people really sad. 146 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:00,700 They could make you really sad. 147 00:07:00,820 --> 00:07:03,400 Sad enough maybe where you're even depressed or maybe you 148 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:04,539 even want to end your life. 149 00:07:04,539 --> 00:07:08,080 There's really, there's things that if you look at your suffering at the wrong 150 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:11,349 angle, it can overwhelm you because you're suffering and your pain and all 151 00:07:11,349 --> 00:07:13,360 the hardship becomes so big, right? 152 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:17,650 That's why nowadays people are more anxious than they've ever been. 153 00:07:17,650 --> 00:07:21,370 People are more overwhelmed than they've ever been because I think 154 00:07:21,370 --> 00:07:24,235 part of it is the way we look at the world is kind of messed up. 155 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:29,650 But if you look at it from God's perspective, you'll see it the way 156 00:07:29,650 --> 00:07:33,609 you're supposed to see it, and it'll fit into everything that God is doing. 157 00:07:33,609 --> 00:07:34,419 It's not gonna make 'em go away. 158 00:07:35,935 --> 00:07:37,345 But it's gonna help you see it the right way. 159 00:07:37,345 --> 00:07:38,545 It's not gonna be overwhelming anymore. 160 00:07:38,545 --> 00:07:42,115 It's gonna help you to trust God and persevere, and that has a lot 161 00:07:42,115 --> 00:07:44,935 to do with the Holy Spirit and what we've been talking about. 162 00:07:44,935 --> 00:07:46,525 Okay, so we saw verse 18. 163 00:07:46,525 --> 00:07:49,255 Let's back up a little bit and start in verses 16 and 17. 164 00:07:49,255 --> 00:07:49,435 Okay. 165 00:07:49,435 --> 00:07:50,455 We saw this last week, right? 166 00:07:50,635 --> 00:07:51,325 The Holy Spirit. 167 00:07:51,355 --> 00:07:55,345 He lives inside Christians, and what he does is he bears witness, he testifies 168 00:07:55,345 --> 00:07:59,245 like someone in a courtroom, right with our spirit that we are children of God. 169 00:07:59,245 --> 00:08:00,505 So the Holy Spirit, he. 170 00:08:01,495 --> 00:08:03,595 Shows you, oh yeah, I'm a child of God. 171 00:08:03,595 --> 00:08:04,075 How does he do that? 172 00:08:04,075 --> 00:08:04,735 Well, we talked about this. 173 00:08:04,975 --> 00:08:06,235 Remember, he gives you new desires. 174 00:08:06,235 --> 00:08:07,674 He helps you kill sin, right? 175 00:08:07,674 --> 00:08:11,125 The Holy Spirit changes you, and you start seeing, oh yeah, I, I am a child of God. 176 00:08:11,155 --> 00:08:12,355 I am someone who loves God. 177 00:08:12,414 --> 00:08:13,345 I have new desires. 178 00:08:13,345 --> 00:08:14,365 I have new priorities. 179 00:08:14,575 --> 00:08:15,745 I, I, I love God. 180 00:08:15,745 --> 00:08:16,705 Now, I used to not do that. 181 00:08:16,735 --> 00:08:20,125 So he shows you that you're a child of God, and if you're a child 182 00:08:20,125 --> 00:08:21,684 of God, you're an heir, right? 183 00:08:21,684 --> 00:08:22,405 That's what that word is. 184 00:08:22,585 --> 00:08:25,465 You're an heir, which means you inherit something, right? 185 00:08:25,975 --> 00:08:29,335 In the word heir or in the word inherit, you see the word heir, right? 186 00:08:29,635 --> 00:08:29,995 Um. 187 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:32,710 You're an heir, you inherit something, right? 188 00:08:32,710 --> 00:08:35,590 Like a lot of think about back in the day, um, especially if 189 00:08:35,590 --> 00:08:37,150 you were like a prince, right? 190 00:08:37,299 --> 00:08:38,530 I think of Lion King, right? 191 00:08:38,530 --> 00:08:42,370 One day, you know, all the stuff, the light touches is gonna be yours, Simba, 192 00:08:42,429 --> 00:08:44,049 except that dark spot over there, right? 193 00:08:44,740 --> 00:08:46,180 Um, that's his inheritance. 194 00:08:46,210 --> 00:08:49,960 He gets all this stuff one day when he grows up because of who his dad is. 195 00:08:52,135 --> 00:08:55,615 If you're a Christian one day, you get a lot of stuff 196 00:08:56,064 --> 00:08:57,985 because your dad is God, right? 197 00:08:57,985 --> 00:08:59,755 Your father is God. 198 00:08:59,755 --> 00:09:03,775 You've been adopted by him, and so you get to inherit best of all, you get him. 199 00:09:03,985 --> 00:09:04,885 You're an He of God. 200 00:09:04,885 --> 00:09:05,785 You get God, right? 201 00:09:05,785 --> 00:09:06,535 We've talked about this before. 202 00:09:06,685 --> 00:09:09,085 The best part about being a Christian is that you get God. 203 00:09:09,415 --> 00:09:12,475 It's not that you get heaven, it's that you get God right? 204 00:09:12,475 --> 00:09:18,895 You get to inherit God, and you are actually a fellow heir with Christ. 205 00:09:19,450 --> 00:09:23,920 In the sense of Christ earned a spot in heaven for you, and he 206 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:26,230 earns your status as God's child. 207 00:09:26,710 --> 00:09:31,240 So you get to be, and this is kind of weird, you, this sounds a little Mormon, 208 00:09:31,270 --> 00:09:39,580 but you in a sense are Jesus's sibling because you've been adopted by God, and 209 00:09:39,580 --> 00:09:44,410 so you get to inherit all the things that Jesus as God's son would inherit. 210 00:09:46,270 --> 00:09:52,270 So you get to inherit the status of God's son just like Jesus did. 211 00:09:52,270 --> 00:09:53,709 Now, you don't become God. 212 00:09:53,709 --> 00:09:55,540 You don't become divine. 213 00:09:55,540 --> 00:10:00,010 You don't get to do this amazing, you know, you don't get to to be God and 214 00:10:00,010 --> 00:10:03,925 do miracles and stuff, but you get to inherit all the privileges of being 215 00:10:05,375 --> 00:10:10,000 God's son and the Bible it talks about, you'll be able, and we can talk about 216 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:13,870 this more another time, but it talks about how you get to rule the world. 217 00:10:14,275 --> 00:10:16,314 With Jesus, you reign with Christ. 218 00:10:17,064 --> 00:10:19,675 If you are a Christian, you get these amazing privileges. 219 00:10:21,594 --> 00:10:24,324 So what's happening here, right? 220 00:10:24,324 --> 00:10:27,564 This is right before we talked about the suffering, right? 221 00:10:27,594 --> 00:10:29,005 Verse 18 comes right after this. 222 00:10:29,545 --> 00:10:32,125 And so what Paul is saying is he's saying, look, you're gonna 223 00:10:32,125 --> 00:10:36,714 inherit all this amazing stuff, and hopefully what that does is that 224 00:10:36,714 --> 00:10:37,969 puts your suffering in perspective. 225 00:10:39,579 --> 00:10:43,089 Hopefully what it does for you is it shows you, you know what? 226 00:10:43,150 --> 00:10:45,880 I'm temporarily suffering now, right? 227 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:46,870 Life is hard now. 228 00:10:46,900 --> 00:10:50,740 There's bad things that happen, but one day where I'm going is so much better. 229 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:53,589 And so the first thing that you can do to put your suffering in perspective 230 00:10:53,860 --> 00:10:55,870 is look forward to the future. 231 00:10:56,680 --> 00:10:57,400 And that's point number one. 232 00:10:57,670 --> 00:10:58,870 Look forward to the future. 233 00:10:59,829 --> 00:11:03,640 Think about if you're a child of God, what does God have in store for me? 234 00:11:09,475 --> 00:11:14,335 Imagine you are on your way to the most amazing vacation you 235 00:11:14,335 --> 00:11:15,445 could ever think of, right? 236 00:11:15,445 --> 00:11:18,085 Let's say, I don't know, let's say you're gonna Disneyland or you're 237 00:11:18,085 --> 00:11:21,355 going somewhere really cool, um, that you've always wanted to go to, and 238 00:11:21,355 --> 00:11:23,695 you get to be there for like months. 239 00:11:24,055 --> 00:11:25,705 You don't just have to be there for like a day or two. 240 00:11:25,915 --> 00:11:27,115 You get to be there for months. 241 00:11:27,115 --> 00:11:28,705 You get to be there for maybe even a whole year. 242 00:11:29,065 --> 00:11:30,295 You get to live there for a year. 243 00:11:30,295 --> 00:11:31,105 It's gonna be awesome. 244 00:11:33,099 --> 00:11:37,990 But the car ride is like 30 minutes and you have to double 245 00:11:37,990 --> 00:11:38,890 buckle with your sibling. 246 00:11:41,020 --> 00:11:44,050 You have to share the seat and share the seatbelt, and you're crammed in there. 247 00:11:44,290 --> 00:11:46,569 And the air, air conditioning in the car doesn't work. 248 00:11:46,810 --> 00:11:50,740 And they forgot to work to put on deodorant and it smells awful. 249 00:11:50,770 --> 00:11:53,140 The worst 30 minute car you can ever think of, right? 250 00:11:53,140 --> 00:11:54,880 And you're, you're hungry, you're tired. 251 00:11:55,930 --> 00:11:56,530 It's horrible. 252 00:11:59,050 --> 00:12:00,729 That's only 30 minutes though, right? 253 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:01,930 Those 30 minutes. 254 00:12:02,485 --> 00:12:04,075 They're gonna stink literally, right? 255 00:12:05,035 --> 00:12:09,175 But one, eventually, right after 30 minutes over, you're gonna reach your 256 00:12:09,175 --> 00:12:13,135 vacation and you're gonna be there for months and it's gonna be awesome. 257 00:12:14,635 --> 00:12:17,365 That's kinda like what we're talking about here, except instead, the 258 00:12:17,365 --> 00:12:19,435 vacation's not gonna end, right? 259 00:12:20,035 --> 00:12:23,455 The whole point is, yes, your life, there's gonna be hard things 260 00:12:23,455 --> 00:12:25,525 that happen, there's gonna be really bad things that happen. 261 00:12:26,065 --> 00:12:29,275 But if you're in Christ, if you're someone who trusts Jesus, if 262 00:12:29,275 --> 00:12:31,555 you've been adopted by God, you. 263 00:12:31,945 --> 00:12:36,265 Have this amazing future in store for you that is way better and way 264 00:12:36,265 --> 00:12:38,665 longer and totally worth it, right? 265 00:12:38,785 --> 00:12:42,685 You would definitely sign up for the 30 minute car ride if you knew, 266 00:12:42,685 --> 00:12:45,505 oh yeah, I'm gonna have, you know, a 12 month vacation after this. 267 00:12:45,895 --> 00:12:46,675 Of course I could do that. 268 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:50,620 Even when you're in the car and it's been 10 minutes and you're like, oh, 269 00:12:50,620 --> 00:12:52,210 I still have 20 more minutes left. 270 00:12:52,210 --> 00:12:53,170 How am I gonna do this? 271 00:12:53,530 --> 00:12:54,550 And you want to complain? 272 00:12:54,550 --> 00:12:55,390 Maybe be like, you know what? 273 00:12:55,780 --> 00:12:56,350 I can do this. 274 00:12:56,350 --> 00:12:56,830 I can make it. 275 00:12:56,830 --> 00:12:57,160 You think? 276 00:12:57,160 --> 00:12:59,680 Maybe you just think about, man, it's gonna be so great when I get there and 277 00:12:59,680 --> 00:13:02,620 I finally get outta this car and I get to be there and do all the fun things 278 00:13:02,620 --> 00:13:06,100 and ride all the rides and sleep in the fancy hotel and do all the cool stuff. 279 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:10,240 That's what God has in store for his children. 280 00:13:10,660 --> 00:13:12,790 He has an amazing future in store for them. 281 00:13:14,470 --> 00:13:14,680 And. 282 00:13:15,820 --> 00:13:20,770 That is one way, one resource he gives you to look forward to, so you don't have 283 00:13:20,770 --> 00:13:25,270 to, um, lose hope as you suffer right now. 284 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:27,040 Now, here's the thing. 285 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:32,110 If you're not a Christian, you shouldn't look forward to the future because this 286 00:13:32,110 --> 00:13:33,640 is the best your life is ever gonna be. 287 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:38,680 If you're not a Christian, this is the best experience you'll ever 288 00:13:38,680 --> 00:13:41,140 have is your 30 minute car ride. 289 00:13:42,700 --> 00:13:46,270 Because you're gonna live forever under God's wrath. 290 00:13:47,140 --> 00:13:51,730 You're gonna live forever apart from God's goodness, right? 291 00:13:51,730 --> 00:13:56,590 This earth with all its problems is the closest you're ever gonna get 292 00:13:56,590 --> 00:13:58,030 to heaven if you're not a Christian. 293 00:13:59,920 --> 00:14:01,540 And so you don't have this future to look forward to. 294 00:14:01,540 --> 00:14:06,550 And that's why so many people in our society gets so sad apart from God because 295 00:14:06,550 --> 00:14:08,260 they realize, oh, this is the best. 296 00:14:08,605 --> 00:14:09,685 This is the best I've got. 297 00:14:09,715 --> 00:14:13,015 And then I, then I and their world be right, and then I disappear and I'm done. 298 00:14:13,915 --> 00:14:15,415 And they think, man, this is all there is. 299 00:14:18,025 --> 00:14:20,755 But if you're a child of God, right? 300 00:14:20,755 --> 00:14:24,175 If you're a Christian, you have this amazing future to look forward to. 301 00:14:24,204 --> 00:14:26,155 This is the worst your life is ever gonna be. 302 00:14:27,715 --> 00:14:29,995 This 30 minute card is the worst your life is gonna be. 303 00:14:29,995 --> 00:14:32,215 And then one day it's gonna be gone and you're, you're gonna be in this 304 00:14:32,665 --> 00:14:34,555 with God, it's gonna be amazing. 305 00:14:36,055 --> 00:14:37,855 This is the closest to hell you'll ever be. 306 00:14:38,830 --> 00:14:39,520 You're a Christian. 307 00:14:39,970 --> 00:14:40,960 This is the worst. 308 00:14:41,230 --> 00:14:43,180 The worst things that can happen to you are temporary. 309 00:14:44,740 --> 00:14:46,390 The best things that can happen to you last forever. 310 00:14:47,620 --> 00:14:51,010 If you're not a Christian, the best things that happen to you last a little bit. 311 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:53,470 If you're not a Christian, if you're living for the world, 312 00:14:53,470 --> 00:14:54,340 you're living for yourself. 313 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:56,680 The best things that happen to you are very short. 314 00:14:56,920 --> 00:14:59,800 You get these great feelings from cool things you buy, or fun 315 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:04,420 things you do, but they go away. 316 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:06,130 And the worst feelings. 317 00:15:06,850 --> 00:15:07,630 Are gonna last forever. 318 00:15:07,660 --> 00:15:09,100 'cause you're gonna be apart from God's goodness. 319 00:15:11,500 --> 00:15:16,660 So God gives us this, this great future to look forward to if you're in Christ and we 320 00:15:16,660 --> 00:15:21,310 see that there's, there's a couple things that we see here that right you get God. 321 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:24,640 And I hope for you if, if you say you're a Christian, I hope that 322 00:15:24,700 --> 00:15:27,130 inheriting God is the best part for you. 323 00:15:27,550 --> 00:15:30,220 I hope that, that you don't want heaven and not God. 324 00:15:31,750 --> 00:15:35,020 I hope that you'd be disappointed if you got to heaven and Jesus wasn't there. 325 00:15:36,610 --> 00:15:39,910 Because that's basically saying, God, I'd rather have heaven than you. 326 00:15:41,410 --> 00:15:43,780 I'd rather have your stuff than you, which we've talked about. 327 00:15:43,780 --> 00:15:45,400 That's really just sin, right? 328 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:47,140 Sin is, God, I love you. 329 00:15:47,439 --> 00:15:49,090 I love your stuff more than I love you. 330 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:50,110 That's what sin is. 331 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:57,460 So the the best part is that you get God, you get to be with God, but 332 00:15:57,460 --> 00:15:59,350 also the fellow heirs with Christ. 333 00:15:59,350 --> 00:16:00,040 Well, what does that mean? 334 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:02,470 You can, you can do some more study on this and we can talk 335 00:16:02,470 --> 00:16:04,240 about this more, but, um. 336 00:16:04,525 --> 00:16:07,944 For now, all we have time for really is the fact that Christ, he, he's 337 00:16:07,944 --> 00:16:08,964 gonna king, he's gonna be the king. 338 00:16:08,964 --> 00:16:13,555 He's gonna rule the world, and you get to reign along with him, which 339 00:16:13,555 --> 00:16:15,415 is wild when you think about it. 340 00:16:15,415 --> 00:16:16,255 It's crazy. 341 00:16:16,555 --> 00:16:22,584 If you're a Christian, you will inherit the world, which hopefully helps you be 342 00:16:22,584 --> 00:16:27,234 content and not worry about when you lose worldly status or worldly possessions. 343 00:16:27,835 --> 00:16:31,615 Or if you lose money, you can say, well, one day with Jesus, 344 00:16:31,615 --> 00:16:32,575 I'm gonna own everything. 345 00:16:33,355 --> 00:16:35,214 It's not just, not just for me, right? 346 00:16:35,335 --> 00:16:37,194 But I'm gonna own everything. 347 00:16:37,525 --> 00:16:38,845 I can lose some stuff now. 348 00:16:38,994 --> 00:16:39,535 That's okay. 349 00:16:40,765 --> 00:16:43,915 And you inherit his, his honor, his status, right? 350 00:16:43,944 --> 00:16:47,185 One part of being saved isn't just that, right? 351 00:16:47,305 --> 00:16:50,365 The big part is you get your sin paid for and you get to, so you've got it. 352 00:16:50,365 --> 00:16:55,974 Part of it is you just takes away your shame and he gives you his honor, right? 353 00:16:56,155 --> 00:16:59,754 He, he takes away your, your dishonor and your. 354 00:17:00,399 --> 00:17:00,609 Right. 355 00:17:00,609 --> 00:17:03,099 You're, you're, if you think about like your bad reputation and he gives 356 00:17:03,099 --> 00:17:08,800 you his good reputation, so God gives you things to look forward to, right? 357 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:11,470 He, he, to help you, um, endure the suffering. 358 00:17:11,500 --> 00:17:14,138 'cause you realize these things last forever, right? 359 00:17:14,138 --> 00:17:16,329 These things, being with God, that's gonna be forever. 360 00:17:16,540 --> 00:17:17,858 No one can take that away from you. 361 00:17:17,950 --> 00:17:19,118 No one, it's never gonna end. 362 00:17:19,118 --> 00:17:19,930 It's never gonna get boring. 363 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:22,898 It's never gonna be disappointing, right? 364 00:17:22,898 --> 00:17:26,050 You've ever been really excited about something and then. 365 00:17:26,723 --> 00:17:28,314 It wasn't everything you wanted it to be. 366 00:17:28,794 --> 00:17:29,514 We were really excited. 367 00:17:29,514 --> 00:17:30,625 Oh, this thing's gonna be awesome. 368 00:17:30,745 --> 00:17:31,284 It's gonna be great. 369 00:17:31,284 --> 00:17:32,185 Maybe it was a concert. 370 00:17:32,185 --> 00:17:33,504 You're like, oh, this person's gonna be so fun. 371 00:17:33,504 --> 00:17:34,195 I'm gonna see them live. 372 00:17:34,195 --> 00:17:34,824 They're gonna sound great. 373 00:17:34,824 --> 00:17:37,254 And then you get to the concert and you have horrible seats, right? 374 00:17:37,284 --> 00:17:38,514 There's no horrible seats in heaven. 375 00:17:39,715 --> 00:17:40,945 It's not gonna let you down, right? 376 00:17:40,945 --> 00:17:42,205 God is not gonna let you down. 377 00:17:42,504 --> 00:17:44,334 It's gonna be actually better than you thought it was gonna be. 378 00:17:44,965 --> 00:17:47,845 So that's one thing that God gives you. 379 00:17:47,845 --> 00:17:49,915 He gives you himself, but he also gives you a bunch of stuff, right? 380 00:17:49,915 --> 00:17:53,425 He, you get to inherit all that he has for you. 381 00:17:55,930 --> 00:18:01,600 But what our passage also does is it shows us that suffering is real. 382 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:04,990 And it's not just, oh yeah, not a big deal. 383 00:18:04,990 --> 00:18:05,710 Don't worry about it. 384 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:07,210 It says suffering is real. 385 00:18:07,210 --> 00:18:11,919 And it actually explains that Christians will suffer, even if you 386 00:18:11,919 --> 00:18:14,950 are God's child, you will suffer. 387 00:18:14,950 --> 00:18:17,139 And you see that here at the end of verse 17. 388 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:21,370 We inherit this stuff, but provided. 389 00:18:21,910 --> 00:18:23,080 That we suffer with him. 390 00:18:24,340 --> 00:18:29,590 The way to heaven is a path of suffering. 391 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:30,730 That's what Jesus said. 392 00:18:30,730 --> 00:18:32,110 Take up your cross and follow me. 393 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:32,830 Right? 394 00:18:32,830 --> 00:18:34,930 He didn't say, take up your recliner and follow me. 395 00:18:35,110 --> 00:18:37,540 He didn't say, take up your couch and follow me. 396 00:18:38,110 --> 00:18:42,460 He didn't say, take up your, you know, your, your fancy hotel room and follow me. 397 00:18:42,460 --> 00:18:44,410 He said, take up your cross. 398 00:18:44,410 --> 00:18:46,825 You're gonna have to suffer to follow Jesus. 399 00:18:47,875 --> 00:18:52,165 That's the pathway to being glorified with him to, to being in heaven with Jesus. 400 00:18:52,165 --> 00:18:58,165 And so the Bible is very clear, very, very clear that life as a Christian is hard. 401 00:18:58,345 --> 00:19:00,085 And so our second point, very simple. 402 00:19:00,085 --> 00:19:01,405 Expect life to be hard. 403 00:19:02,605 --> 00:19:06,264 The Bible wants you to expect the right things. 404 00:19:11,365 --> 00:19:14,725 I don't know if you've ever, um, signed up for a class that you 405 00:19:14,725 --> 00:19:15,955 thought was gonna be super easy. 406 00:19:16,780 --> 00:19:18,970 And then it ended up being like really hard. 407 00:19:19,930 --> 00:19:23,560 Um, this happened to me in, well, so I, I used to be really good at math. 408 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:26,170 Like in elementary school, middle school, I was like super good 409 00:19:26,170 --> 00:19:27,700 at math and I was doing great. 410 00:19:28,180 --> 00:19:31,570 And then progressively math got harder and harder for me. 411 00:19:31,630 --> 00:19:35,140 And I remember when I got to high school, I was, I was in math class and 412 00:19:35,140 --> 00:19:36,220 there was a point where I was just. 413 00:19:36,850 --> 00:19:39,010 I am in way over my head here. 414 00:19:39,070 --> 00:19:43,690 Like I, I had like a, I, I remember my mom asked me, she was like, do we need 415 00:19:43,690 --> 00:19:45,070 to like pull you out of this class? 416 00:19:45,130 --> 00:19:46,840 And for me, I was like, devastated. 417 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:49,000 'cause I was always like, good at school and all this stuff. 418 00:19:49,420 --> 00:19:52,390 And I was, she, when she asked me that, I was like, heartbroken. 419 00:19:52,390 --> 00:19:53,800 I was like, oh man, I'm such a failure. 420 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:55,570 Like I can't do this anymore. 421 00:19:56,050 --> 00:20:01,390 Um, and the whole point is I had always expected math to be easy, so 422 00:20:01,390 --> 00:20:03,400 I never learned how to study math. 423 00:20:04,044 --> 00:20:06,985 I never had to as an elementary schooler, and so I never learned 424 00:20:06,985 --> 00:20:10,554 how to actually like study math and learn it when it was hard. 425 00:20:11,034 --> 00:20:13,135 And so then when it got hard, I was like, I don't know what to do. 426 00:20:13,195 --> 00:20:13,885 I don't know how to do this. 427 00:20:13,885 --> 00:20:15,385 I can't study, I don't know how this works. 428 00:20:15,385 --> 00:20:19,135 And I was just like, I ended up actually repeating the class the next year, 429 00:20:19,524 --> 00:20:22,554 my sophomore year, the junior year, I did the same math class my junior 430 00:20:22,554 --> 00:20:24,325 year because I was so bad at it. 431 00:20:24,835 --> 00:20:29,125 And I thought, man, math is gonna be easy for my whole life. 432 00:20:29,125 --> 00:20:31,825 And so I never learned how to study it, and then I got smacked in the face. 433 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:37,540 In my math class in my sophomore year, and I had to redo it, the Bible. 434 00:20:37,630 --> 00:20:40,210 And God doesn't want that to be you as a Christian. 435 00:20:40,300 --> 00:20:42,520 He doesn't want you to become a Christian, be like, oh, my life's gonna be great. 436 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:43,720 I'm a Christian now. 437 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:45,490 Uh, all my problems are gonna go away. 438 00:20:45,490 --> 00:20:46,840 I'm gonna get everything I want. 439 00:20:46,930 --> 00:20:50,170 I'm gonna, maybe you think, oh, I'm gonna have all these great friends and 440 00:20:50,170 --> 00:20:53,110 I'm gonna never have any problems and God's gonna help me with everything. 441 00:20:53,110 --> 00:20:53,830 Everything's gonna be easy. 442 00:20:53,950 --> 00:20:55,330 That's not what God wants you to think. 443 00:20:55,330 --> 00:20:58,120 When you become a Christian, God doesn't want you to become a Christian and 444 00:20:58,120 --> 00:21:00,910 then be like, oh wait, life is hard. 445 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:03,130 I didn't sign up for this. 446 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:04,960 God wants you to know what you're getting into. 447 00:21:05,410 --> 00:21:10,690 Um, as a Christian, every Christian must suffer. 448 00:21:11,020 --> 00:21:13,360 Every Christian goes through hard things. 449 00:21:13,780 --> 00:21:14,980 That's part of being a Christian. 450 00:21:15,550 --> 00:21:18,490 If you're a Christian and bad things happen to you, you shouldn't be like, 451 00:21:18,730 --> 00:21:19,990 oh, no, where did this come from? 452 00:21:19,990 --> 00:21:20,920 How did this happen? 453 00:21:21,940 --> 00:21:24,370 You should expect those things to happen. 454 00:21:24,670 --> 00:21:28,935 You should expect to have resistance as a Christian from the world, from yourself. 455 00:21:29,710 --> 00:21:32,230 Your own emotions, your own desires should resist you. 456 00:21:32,230 --> 00:21:36,640 If you're a Christian, there should be friction there and from, if 457 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:39,670 you're a Christian, you are signing up to be opposed by the devil. 458 00:21:39,670 --> 00:21:43,360 We're gonna learn about this on Sunday, uh, with Pastor pj, but you're going 459 00:21:43,360 --> 00:21:47,470 to see that if you're a Christian, you are putting on a jersey and now the 460 00:21:47,470 --> 00:21:48,730 other team is gonna try to kill you. 461 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:50,740 The other team is gonna try to take you out. 462 00:21:50,740 --> 00:21:52,360 Satan is going to try to take you out. 463 00:21:52,360 --> 00:21:56,680 If you become a Christian, you should expect opposition as a Christian. 464 00:21:58,150 --> 00:22:02,170 But also you should expect this world to let you down. 465 00:22:02,830 --> 00:22:05,020 You should expect this world to be messed up. 466 00:22:05,020 --> 00:22:06,790 We're gonna briefly just kind of look at some of these 467 00:22:06,790 --> 00:22:08,890 verses here in verses 20 to 22. 468 00:22:08,890 --> 00:22:11,620 I want you to see that words I highlighted in the red, they're not good words. 469 00:22:11,770 --> 00:22:13,900 These are not fun, exciting, happy words. 470 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:15,460 So the creation, right? 471 00:22:15,460 --> 00:22:17,290 All the world was subjected. 472 00:22:17,350 --> 00:22:20,110 That's kinda like, um, when you subject someone to something, it's 473 00:22:20,110 --> 00:22:21,730 like you put them through it, right? 474 00:22:22,090 --> 00:22:25,660 Um, so the creation was put through futility, which means that. 475 00:22:26,020 --> 00:22:27,910 Stuff isn't the way it's supposed to be. 476 00:22:27,940 --> 00:22:29,170 Stuff lets you down. 477 00:22:29,350 --> 00:22:31,840 Stuff isn't how it's supposed to be. 478 00:22:32,110 --> 00:22:34,510 There's something that doesn't work how you want it to, right? 479 00:22:34,510 --> 00:22:34,900 Futile. 480 00:22:34,990 --> 00:22:35,650 It doesn't work. 481 00:22:35,860 --> 00:22:37,540 It's not going the way it's supposed to work. 482 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:41,320 The creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, right? 483 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:45,160 Creation didn't choose to be messed up, but because of him 484 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:46,690 who subjected it, that's God. 485 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:47,920 Remember Adam sinned. 486 00:22:48,010 --> 00:22:49,780 God cursed not just. 487 00:22:50,169 --> 00:22:51,610 People, but he cursed the ground. 488 00:22:51,669 --> 00:22:54,250 Remember he said, Adam, you're gonna work really hard and there's gonna be 489 00:22:54,250 --> 00:22:57,189 thorns and thistles, and it's gonna be really hard for you to do the things 490 00:22:57,189 --> 00:22:59,740 you're supposed to do now because the world is gonna be messed up. 491 00:23:00,189 --> 00:23:00,310 Right? 492 00:23:00,310 --> 00:23:02,800 That's the reason that work is really hard. 493 00:23:02,860 --> 00:23:05,919 Whether it's homework, whether it's real work, whether it's work in general, 494 00:23:05,949 --> 00:23:11,590 it's, it's hard because the world is messed up, but he didn't subject it. 495 00:23:12,159 --> 00:23:13,270 Just be like, all right, forget it. 496 00:23:13,300 --> 00:23:14,199 I'm done with the world. 497 00:23:14,350 --> 00:23:19,179 He, God did that in hope that the creation itself will be set free, so. 498 00:23:19,510 --> 00:23:23,470 There's a, we're, we're in the, the down part of the rollercoaster, 499 00:23:23,470 --> 00:23:24,310 but it's gonna get better, right? 500 00:23:24,310 --> 00:23:28,270 It's going up pretty soon, but right now it's in bondage. 501 00:23:28,270 --> 00:23:30,160 It's in slavery to corruption, right? 502 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:30,850 Things die. 503 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:33,700 The world does not get better and better and better, right? 504 00:23:33,700 --> 00:23:36,400 The world gets worse and worse and worse things you have to 505 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:37,450 keep repairing things, right? 506 00:23:37,450 --> 00:23:41,050 In the science classes called, um, entropy, right? 507 00:23:41,530 --> 00:23:42,940 Um, things get worse. 508 00:23:43,420 --> 00:23:44,320 That's how life goes Thing. 509 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:45,460 Like your shoes wear down. 510 00:23:45,850 --> 00:23:46,360 Right. 511 00:23:46,390 --> 00:23:47,980 Your car, you have to keep repairing it. 512 00:23:48,490 --> 00:23:51,280 Your body as you get older, starts breaking down. 513 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:55,300 Things hurt, things are sore, things don't work the way they're supposed to, right? 514 00:23:55,300 --> 00:23:55,990 You get sick. 515 00:23:58,120 --> 00:24:03,670 So the creation is messed up and, but one day it's not going to be one day. 516 00:24:03,970 --> 00:24:07,450 Um, we're gonna be free from, from that corruption and we're 517 00:24:07,450 --> 00:24:12,130 gonna fully realize all the stuff that, that God has promised us. 518 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:15,610 In the meantime, we know the whole creation has been growing together 519 00:24:15,610 --> 00:24:17,170 in the pains of childbirth until now. 520 00:24:17,170 --> 00:24:18,160 So these are all bad things, right? 521 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:20,350 Futility, corruption, pain, right? 522 00:24:20,350 --> 00:24:22,030 These are all hard things, right? 523 00:24:22,030 --> 00:24:24,730 They're all things that aren't fun, that aren't enjoyable, right? 524 00:24:24,730 --> 00:24:26,020 You can ask any of the moms in here. 525 00:24:26,050 --> 00:24:27,730 This is not fun, right? 526 00:24:27,730 --> 00:24:30,280 This is, this is very, very not fun, not enjoyable. 527 00:24:32,725 --> 00:24:34,300 The world is messed up, right? 528 00:24:34,300 --> 00:24:36,580 God wants you to expect the world to let you down. 529 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:41,620 This is actually a helpful warning for you not to put your hope in the world. 530 00:24:42,490 --> 00:24:46,090 One of the reasons God tells us stuff like this is because he doesn't want 531 00:24:46,090 --> 00:24:50,890 you to fall for the trap that says, Hey, this world is gonna be great. 532 00:24:51,790 --> 00:24:53,230 You should want this forever. 533 00:24:54,610 --> 00:24:56,950 He doesn't want you to fall for the trap that you should. 534 00:24:56,950 --> 00:24:59,170 You should chase after the things that the world offers. 535 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:01,340 'cause what he's telling you is those things are gonna let you down. 536 00:25:01,899 --> 00:25:03,940 Those things actually are gonna hurt you, right? 537 00:25:04,120 --> 00:25:07,360 You can have the, the, even the best human friendships, right? 538 00:25:07,360 --> 00:25:10,750 The best you could have, the best marriage, you could have the best 539 00:25:10,750 --> 00:25:12,970 house, the best job, best career. 540 00:25:13,090 --> 00:25:14,320 You could have your life on earth. 541 00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:18,460 Go exactly the way you want it to, and it would still let you down and it would 542 00:25:18,460 --> 00:25:23,620 still not be enough, and there would still be really bad things that happen, right? 543 00:25:23,620 --> 00:25:25,899 People are still gonna die, people are still gonna get sick. 544 00:25:25,899 --> 00:25:28,240 Things aren't gonna go the way you want them to go. 545 00:25:28,930 --> 00:25:30,040 The world is messed up. 546 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:31,070 And part of that is God says, I don't. 547 00:25:31,780 --> 00:25:35,350 He's saying that, 'cause I don't want you to fall for the trap that this 548 00:25:35,350 --> 00:25:36,580 world is all you should live for. 549 00:25:37,120 --> 00:25:39,820 He wants to take your hope and and put it somewhere else. 550 00:25:42,100 --> 00:25:45,879 And that's the point is of all this bad stuff, he's also talking 551 00:25:45,879 --> 00:25:46,810 about all the good stuff, right? 552 00:25:46,810 --> 00:25:50,800 Verse 23, 1 day it's gonna be fixed. 553 00:25:51,100 --> 00:25:52,120 Everything's gonna be fixed. 554 00:25:52,270 --> 00:25:55,090 So that's the analogy of childbirth, right? 555 00:25:55,090 --> 00:25:55,840 It's, it's hard. 556 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:58,720 There's just all this painful stuff that's happening, but one day it goes away and 557 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:00,129 you have this awesome kid that you love. 558 00:26:01,375 --> 00:26:02,185 Hopefully, right? 559 00:26:02,485 --> 00:26:05,125 So not only the creation, but we ourselves who have the first 560 00:26:05,125 --> 00:26:06,205 fruits of the spirit, first fruits. 561 00:26:06,205 --> 00:26:08,365 That's like, think like appetizer, you know, like the guy at 562 00:26:08,365 --> 00:26:11,485 Hutchins who's standing outside with the free samples, right? 563 00:26:11,575 --> 00:26:12,955 That's like this, right? 564 00:26:12,955 --> 00:26:13,764 First fruits of the Holy Spirit. 565 00:26:14,215 --> 00:26:16,465 So in a sense, right, first fruits of the spirit. 566 00:26:16,915 --> 00:26:18,385 That's that's us. 567 00:26:18,940 --> 00:26:22,510 We are the, the first signs of the new creation. 568 00:26:22,750 --> 00:26:23,440 You ever think about that? 569 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:25,090 If you're a Christian, you're a new creation. 570 00:26:25,090 --> 00:26:26,230 God has changed you. 571 00:26:26,290 --> 00:26:27,580 He's given you new desires. 572 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:28,990 He's given you new priorities. 573 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:30,130 He's given you new heart. 574 00:26:30,310 --> 00:26:33,850 That's kind of like the, the free samples at Hutchins of what he's gonna do. 575 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:36,190 'cause one day you're not just gonna have new desires, you're gonna 576 00:26:36,190 --> 00:26:39,040 have completely perfect desires. 577 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:40,630 You're gonna always want the right things. 578 00:26:40,750 --> 00:26:44,770 You're gonna always love to do what you should love to do. 579 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:46,810 You're gonna never have to. 580 00:26:47,245 --> 00:26:48,445 Even resist sin. 581 00:26:48,445 --> 00:26:50,875 'cause there won't be any sin in you to resist. 582 00:26:50,875 --> 00:26:52,254 So, right. 583 00:26:52,254 --> 00:26:55,045 It's like instead of having just the little piece of barbecue or a little piece 584 00:26:55,045 --> 00:26:57,385 of brisket, right, you're gonna have the whole brisket when you get to heaven. 585 00:26:57,445 --> 00:26:57,925 Right? 586 00:26:57,985 --> 00:27:01,615 But in the meantime, the Holy Spirit in your life is evidence that one 587 00:27:01,615 --> 00:27:02,785 day the rest of it's gonna happen. 588 00:27:03,295 --> 00:27:03,504 Right. 589 00:27:03,565 --> 00:27:05,095 And the rest of it's gonna be really good. 590 00:27:06,145 --> 00:27:12,475 So the whole creation, the whole Earth along with us, we're waiting 591 00:27:12,475 --> 00:27:14,785 for God to finish this one day. 592 00:27:14,995 --> 00:27:15,145 Right? 593 00:27:15,145 --> 00:27:16,825 He's given us the Holy Spirit, but one day he's gonna. 594 00:27:17,215 --> 00:27:18,145 To fix everything. 595 00:27:18,235 --> 00:27:22,225 The world's not gonna be messed up anymore, and so we're gonna fully 596 00:27:22,225 --> 00:27:23,605 experience all this stuff, right? 597 00:27:23,605 --> 00:27:25,135 Your, your body's gonna be perfect. 598 00:27:25,495 --> 00:27:27,025 Your body's not gonna want to sin anymore. 599 00:27:27,025 --> 00:27:28,825 Your body's not gonna let you down. 600 00:27:28,825 --> 00:27:29,815 Your body's not gonna get hurt. 601 00:27:29,815 --> 00:27:31,105 You're not gonna feel pain anymore. 602 00:27:31,105 --> 00:27:33,325 You're not gonna have bad emotions, you're not gonna be anxious, you're not gonna 603 00:27:33,325 --> 00:27:34,795 be angry, you're not gonna be impatient. 604 00:27:35,635 --> 00:27:37,254 Everything's gonna be like it's supposed to be. 605 00:27:40,210 --> 00:27:43,690 Even though you expect life to be hard one day, God is going to fix it. 606 00:27:43,690 --> 00:27:44,770 And that's what we put our hope in, right? 607 00:27:44,770 --> 00:27:46,090 We don't put our hope in this world. 608 00:27:46,270 --> 00:27:47,260 We put our hope in God. 609 00:27:47,260 --> 00:27:50,800 And that's our third point, is find hope while you wait. 610 00:27:54,010 --> 00:27:57,670 So while you live the hard life of being a Christian, of following Jesus, of denying 611 00:27:57,670 --> 00:28:01,420 yourself, taking up your cross, being opposed by the world, being opposed by 612 00:28:01,540 --> 00:28:04,090 your flesh, being opposed by the devil. 613 00:28:04,450 --> 00:28:11,080 God gives you what you need to be encouraged, to be joyful and to survive 614 00:28:11,230 --> 00:28:16,420 really, to not be depressed, to not be anxious, to not be overwhelmed 615 00:28:16,540 --> 00:28:18,460 by all the bad things that happen 616 00:28:21,820 --> 00:28:22,930 verses 24 and 25. 617 00:28:22,930 --> 00:28:23,860 Talk a lot about hope. 618 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:24,400 You see that word? 619 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:24,940 Hope a lot. 620 00:28:25,180 --> 00:28:27,610 And when you receive hope in the Bible, I don't want you to think of 621 00:28:27,610 --> 00:28:30,490 like, oh, I hope it rains tomorrow. 622 00:28:30,970 --> 00:28:32,980 That's not the hope that we're talking about in the Bible. 623 00:28:33,129 --> 00:28:36,460 Hope in the Bible is like confidence. 624 00:28:36,639 --> 00:28:40,480 I want you to think of like confident assurance when I like, rather than saying, 625 00:28:40,540 --> 00:28:45,250 oh, I hope it rains, of like, oh, I hope that Lewis finishes preaching this sermon. 626 00:28:45,310 --> 00:28:45,460 Right? 627 00:28:45,460 --> 00:28:47,350 You know it's gonna happen eventually, right? 628 00:28:47,350 --> 00:28:50,409 You're confident Lewis is gonna stop preaching at some point, right? 629 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:55,930 So you're confident this is gonna happen rather than, oh, it might happen. 630 00:28:55,930 --> 00:28:56,320 It might not. 631 00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:59,050 So whenever you see hope, that's what you're trying to think of. 632 00:28:59,709 --> 00:28:59,889 Alright. 633 00:28:59,889 --> 00:29:00,639 It's like the difference. 634 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:01,935 Yeah, I already explained that. 635 00:29:01,935 --> 00:29:02,620 I don't need to explain it more. 636 00:29:02,770 --> 00:29:06,909 So, in a sense, hope is just future looking faith, right? 637 00:29:06,909 --> 00:29:09,760 Hope is just faith that looks forward to something else that's gonna happen. 638 00:29:09,879 --> 00:29:10,695 So it's not too different. 639 00:29:13,149 --> 00:29:14,770 So what we need to do now, right? 640 00:29:14,770 --> 00:29:18,340 To, to not be anxious or depressed or sad or angry about all the bad 641 00:29:18,340 --> 00:29:21,970 things that happen is God gives us things to hope in things, to put our 642 00:29:21,970 --> 00:29:25,419 trust in things, to, to latch onto, grab onto and say, you know what? 643 00:29:25,419 --> 00:29:27,940 This is going like, God is gonna work this out. 644 00:29:28,629 --> 00:29:31,360 God is going to keep me safe, right? 645 00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:35,530 God is going to fix all the problems in the world. 646 00:29:36,385 --> 00:29:38,515 And the first thing right is what we've been talking about is 647 00:29:38,515 --> 00:29:39,805 that one day God is gonna fix it. 648 00:29:39,805 --> 00:29:40,945 He gives us his word. 649 00:29:40,945 --> 00:29:44,635 He gives us his promises that he is going to get rid of all the sin in the world. 650 00:29:44,965 --> 00:29:47,305 All the bad things that have ever happened, he's there. 651 00:29:47,305 --> 00:29:47,905 He's gonna stop him. 652 00:29:47,935 --> 00:29:48,715 They're not gonna happen anymore. 653 00:29:48,775 --> 00:29:50,755 Even things like natural disasters, right? 654 00:29:51,055 --> 00:29:51,805 They're not gonna happen anymore. 655 00:29:51,835 --> 00:29:52,795 People aren't gonna get sick anymore. 656 00:29:52,795 --> 00:29:54,445 People aren't gonna be sad anymore. 657 00:29:54,445 --> 00:29:59,695 People aren't gonna be impatient or gossip or, um, embarrass each other anymore. 658 00:30:00,055 --> 00:30:01,465 God's gonna get rid of all of that. 659 00:30:02,335 --> 00:30:05,665 He's gonna fix everything and it's gonna be the way it's supposed to be. 660 00:30:07,135 --> 00:30:09,175 And then also, right, he gives you, like we talked about, that 661 00:30:09,175 --> 00:30:11,155 inheritance you get to be with God. 662 00:30:11,875 --> 00:30:15,235 You don't have to put your hope and your happiness in, in these short 663 00:30:15,235 --> 00:30:16,525 term things to make you happy. 664 00:30:17,035 --> 00:30:19,615 You can put your hope in God and you get to be with him forever. 665 00:30:21,475 --> 00:30:24,775 So he gives you an incomparable reward, right? 666 00:30:24,775 --> 00:30:27,385 He, he's, he's saying, don't worry about about these, 667 00:30:27,385 --> 00:30:28,765 these little prize right here. 668 00:30:29,185 --> 00:30:30,865 Focus on the grand prize, right? 669 00:30:30,865 --> 00:30:32,125 You don't have to worry about the little stuff. 670 00:30:32,125 --> 00:30:36,805 You can get the best thing, but also he gives us help and that's where we're gonna 671 00:30:36,805 --> 00:30:38,815 finish right here at verses 26 and 27. 672 00:30:39,235 --> 00:30:41,725 So we're hoping, right? 673 00:30:41,755 --> 00:30:44,875 We're putting our confidence in God, but we're not very good at that. 674 00:30:45,625 --> 00:30:46,014 Right some. 675 00:30:46,044 --> 00:30:48,865 'cause sometimes we don't know what God wants us to do. 676 00:30:48,865 --> 00:30:51,595 We don't know exactly how God wants us to live sometimes. 677 00:30:51,804 --> 00:30:54,625 And sometimes we don't even know what we're supposed to pray for, or we 678 00:30:54,625 --> 00:30:57,925 don't even have the ability maybe to do the things that we're gonna do. 679 00:30:57,925 --> 00:31:00,985 And sometimes you're not sure, oh, is God really gonna work this out? 680 00:31:01,284 --> 00:31:01,465 Right? 681 00:31:01,465 --> 00:31:04,405 This really bad thing happened is, is God really gonna make this work? 682 00:31:04,435 --> 00:31:04,735 Right? 683 00:31:05,034 --> 00:31:06,835 Um, my best friend moved away. 684 00:31:06,835 --> 00:31:09,625 Is that really gonna be, am I really gonna be okay? 685 00:31:10,135 --> 00:31:13,195 Or, oh my, my parents are having a really hard time. 686 00:31:13,195 --> 00:31:14,245 Are we gonna be okay? 687 00:31:14,815 --> 00:31:18,385 Or this person I really cared about died or am I gonna be okay? 688 00:31:18,985 --> 00:31:24,175 God gives us help to trust him and trust his plan in those situations, 689 00:31:24,175 --> 00:31:25,645 and that help is actually a person. 690 00:31:25,645 --> 00:31:27,265 It's the Holy Spirit that we've been talking about this whole time. 691 00:31:27,655 --> 00:31:30,055 Likewise, the Spirit helps us in our weakness, right? 692 00:31:30,055 --> 00:31:30,805 We're we're weak. 693 00:31:31,405 --> 00:31:33,595 If you're a Christian, if you've been a Christian for any length of time, 694 00:31:33,595 --> 00:31:37,555 you know that you're not able to do all the things that you wish you could do. 695 00:31:38,305 --> 00:31:40,375 You're not able to trust God like you want to. 696 00:31:41,275 --> 00:31:42,205 You're not able to. 697 00:31:42,925 --> 00:31:45,685 Do all and obey God all the ways you want to. 698 00:31:45,955 --> 00:31:48,955 You're not able, you can't even have the energy to do all the 699 00:31:48,955 --> 00:31:50,455 things you'd want to do for God. 700 00:31:51,355 --> 00:31:54,475 And hopefully you're, you know that because you actually want 701 00:31:54,475 --> 00:31:55,165 to do those things, right? 702 00:31:55,165 --> 00:31:57,475 If you're a Christian, the Holy Spirit gives you these new desires and you're 703 00:31:57,475 --> 00:31:58,645 like, oh, I wanna do these things now. 704 00:31:58,645 --> 00:32:00,085 I wanna do all these things for God, and I can't. 705 00:32:00,265 --> 00:32:02,545 I want to kill all this sin in my life, and I can't kill all of it. 706 00:32:02,545 --> 00:32:03,235 I can kill some of it. 707 00:32:03,235 --> 00:32:05,875 I, I'm experiencing some victory, but I can't do all of it. 708 00:32:06,805 --> 00:32:11,335 The Holy Spirit helps you, and one way he helps you is he helps you pray. 709 00:32:11,845 --> 00:32:14,125 He helps you pray for the things that you're supposed to be praying for. 710 00:32:14,125 --> 00:32:15,475 And that's what this is talking about. 711 00:32:15,475 --> 00:32:20,395 The spirit himself intercedes, that's like someone interceding, um, talking 712 00:32:20,395 --> 00:32:22,045 on behalf of someone else, right? 713 00:32:22,045 --> 00:32:26,004 Like, imagine you were really scared of me and you're like, you know, um, Lewis 714 00:32:26,004 --> 00:32:28,225 is really scary, but Shaa is really nice. 715 00:32:28,225 --> 00:32:31,105 So I'll talk to Shaa and I'll ask Shaa to talk to Lewis for me. 716 00:32:31,285 --> 00:32:31,555 Right? 717 00:32:31,735 --> 00:32:34,375 That would be Shea interceding for me, right? 718 00:32:34,465 --> 00:32:35,905 Or for you Anyway. 719 00:32:36,535 --> 00:32:40,764 So the Holy Spirit, he helps us pray the things we wanna pray. 720 00:32:42,220 --> 00:32:42,430 Right. 721 00:32:42,430 --> 00:32:44,200 Sometimes you don't know what you wanna pray for. 722 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:47,560 You don't know how you're supposed to pray because you don't know what God's will is. 723 00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:49,360 You're like, God, I'm not sure what you want to do. 724 00:32:49,420 --> 00:32:50,920 I don't know where you want me to go to college. 725 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:54,400 I don't know if you want me to to date this person or not. 726 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:55,900 I don't know what you want me to do. 727 00:32:57,250 --> 00:33:02,950 The Holy Spirit will help you ask God to do his will, right? 728 00:33:02,950 --> 00:33:06,845 The Holy Spirit is there to help you know what God's will is and to help God. 729 00:33:08,365 --> 00:33:13,254 To help you see, God is accomplishing His will in your life, right? 730 00:33:13,254 --> 00:33:15,445 And that's what we see in verse 27, the Holy Spirit. 731 00:33:15,445 --> 00:33:16,405 He knows your heart. 732 00:33:17,784 --> 00:33:21,145 Oh God knows your heart, and, and God knows the Holy Spirit, because the 733 00:33:21,145 --> 00:33:22,794 Holy Spirit is talking to God for you. 734 00:33:23,185 --> 00:33:26,215 And he's making sure that everything is working out for God's will. 735 00:33:26,215 --> 00:33:28,434 And that's what we'll see next week in verse 28, right? 736 00:33:28,434 --> 00:33:31,825 All things work out for the will of God for those who love him, right? 737 00:33:33,250 --> 00:33:36,070 You can trust that God is working all things, all these 738 00:33:36,070 --> 00:33:37,720 bad things for a good purpose. 739 00:33:37,750 --> 00:33:39,370 We talked about this at winter camp, right? 740 00:33:39,550 --> 00:33:42,189 All the, the hard things that happen, all the things that don't make sense, 741 00:33:42,189 --> 00:33:44,919 all the things that you're not sure God, are you really using this? 742 00:33:44,919 --> 00:33:45,700 Are you really there? 743 00:33:45,700 --> 00:33:46,870 Why would you let this happen? 744 00:33:47,919 --> 00:33:50,500 The Holy Spirit can help you. 745 00:33:50,500 --> 00:33:52,060 Trust God to know, you know what? 746 00:33:52,060 --> 00:33:55,570 God is working this out for good, this really bad thing that happened, this 747 00:33:55,570 --> 00:33:57,250 really sad thing, this really hard thing. 748 00:33:58,000 --> 00:33:59,890 You can trust God. 749 00:34:00,999 --> 00:34:02,800 He is given you the Holy Spirit to help you do it. 750 00:34:03,519 --> 00:34:04,780 You say, God, I wanna trust you. 751 00:34:05,350 --> 00:34:10,149 He says, I'll help you, which that's so awesome, right? 752 00:34:10,179 --> 00:34:12,309 Because you don't know what God's will is all the time. 753 00:34:12,309 --> 00:34:13,600 I don't know what God's will is all the time. 754 00:34:13,779 --> 00:34:15,938 I don't know why God lets certain things happen and why 755 00:34:15,938 --> 00:34:17,289 he doesn't do certain things. 756 00:34:17,978 --> 00:34:19,839 I don't know why God doesn't save this person. 757 00:34:19,839 --> 00:34:24,339 I don't know why God doesn't do this thing or that thing, but I can say, God, 758 00:34:24,339 --> 00:34:27,489 I trust you and I want to trust you. 759 00:34:28,435 --> 00:34:32,185 I know the Holy Spirit will help God help me, right? 760 00:34:32,875 --> 00:34:34,165 And help me trust God. 761 00:34:35,364 --> 00:34:41,935 So as you face all the bad things that happen, right as you, hard things happen 762 00:34:41,935 --> 00:34:46,255 to you, sad things happen to you, I want you to remember that these things are 763 00:34:46,255 --> 00:34:49,135 temporary, but life with God is forever. 764 00:34:49,945 --> 00:34:53,094 And that in the meantime, before you get there, God will help you. 765 00:34:53,980 --> 00:34:58,029 Trust him and help you rejoice even when bad things happen to you. 766 00:34:58,120 --> 00:34:58,359 Okay? 767 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:00,580 Let's pray and we'll talk about that more in small groups. 768 00:35:02,950 --> 00:35:09,549 Father, we are amazed that you, um, help us to follow you. 769 00:35:09,850 --> 00:35:13,000 You don't just tell us to figure it out. 770 00:35:13,420 --> 00:35:18,549 You don't just want us to try and, and see how we do. 771 00:35:18,670 --> 00:35:20,620 Um, but you actively have. 772 00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:25,540 Come into our lives through your spirit to help us live for 773 00:35:25,540 --> 00:35:27,340 you if, if we really are saved. 774 00:35:27,340 --> 00:35:30,730 And so I pray for the people in this room who are Christians who are 775 00:35:30,730 --> 00:35:35,140 following you, that you would, um, help them to have, um, just deeper 776 00:35:35,259 --> 00:35:38,200 trust in you, more confident assurance and your goodness, and your, your 777 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:39,820 sovereignty, your control over everything. 778 00:35:40,630 --> 00:35:43,810 I pray for the people in this room who don't know you, who don't 779 00:35:43,810 --> 00:35:48,100 have your Holy Spirit, I pray that you would, um, help them see that 780 00:35:48,100 --> 00:35:49,100 this world will let them down. 781 00:35:49,765 --> 00:35:56,154 Help them to turn away from the temporary things the world has to 782 00:35:56,154 --> 00:36:01,794 offer them and embrace you to be their treasure and their joy forever. 783 00:36:02,095 --> 00:36:03,024 We pray this in Jesus name. 784 00:36:03,595 --> 00:36:03,955 Amen.