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-	<blockquote>	+	<blockquote>'''Romans 12:11-12''' </blockquote><blockquote>
-	'''Romans 12:11-12'''	+	Never flag in zeal, be aglow with the Spirit, serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
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	Today we begin to answer the last question in our series of <u>messages on Christian hope</u>. Until now we have asked four questions:		Today we begin to answer the last question in our series of <u>messages on Christian hope</u>. Until now we have asked four questions:
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	*the promises of God in his Word (Romans 15:4).		*the promises of God in his Word (Romans 15:4).

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	4.  What is the content of Christian hope? What are we hoping for?		4.  What is the content of Christian hope? What are we hoping for?
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	*sharing the glory of God (Romans 5:2), and		*sharing the glory of God (Romans 5:2), and
	*inheriting eternal life (Titus 1:2; 3:7).<br>		*inheriting eternal life (Titus 1:2; 3:7).<br>
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	Now we will pose one more question and, Lord willing, spend the four Sundays of July answering it. The question is: What is the fruit of our Christian hope? What comes from hope? Does hope produce anything in daily life?		Now we will pose one more question and, Lord willing, spend the four Sundays of July answering it. The question is: What is the fruit of our Christian hope? What comes from hope? Does hope produce anything in daily life?

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	This simply leaves us now with the question: Does this tree bear fruit? The answer of the New Testament is a resounding Yes! And we are going to look at four of these fruits of hope.		This simply leaves us now with the question: Does this tree bear fruit? The answer of the New Testament is a resounding Yes! And we are going to look at four of these fruits of hope.
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-	#Hope bears the fruit of joy.	+	#Hope bears the fruit of <u>joy</u>.
	#Hope bears the fruit of<u>love.</u>		#Hope bears the fruit of<u>love.</u>
	#Hope bears the fruit of <u>boldness.</u>		#Hope bears the fruit of <u>boldness.</u>
	#And hope bears the fruit of <u>endurance.</u>		#And hope bears the fruit of <u>endurance.</u>
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	Or to say it another way, without Christian hope my life and your life cannot yield Christian joy or love or boldness or endurance. There are kinds of joy and love and courage and endurance that people have who don't hope in God, but these are not the Christian graces that glorify God and give evidence of his saving work in the soul. Joy and love and boldness and endurance that do not grow on the tree of hope in the ground of grace and truth are of no spiritual or eternal value.		Or to say it another way, without Christian hope my life and your life cannot yield Christian joy or love or boldness or endurance. There are kinds of joy and love and courage and endurance that people have who don't hope in God, but these are not the Christian graces that glorify God and give evidence of his saving work in the soul. Joy and love and boldness and endurance that do not grow on the tree of hope in the ground of grace and truth are of no spiritual or eternal value.

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	#Can this joy be commanded?		#Can this joy be commanded?
	#How can we obey the command? How do joy and hope relate to each other in practical experience?<br>		#How can we obey the command? How do joy and hope relate to each other in practical experience?<br>
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	==== 1. What Is Christian Joy? ====		==== 1. What Is Christian Joy? ====

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	One of the practical reasons that this is important to know is that it warns us against a false joy. There is a natural joy even in spiritual things which many mistake for a spiritual joy. For example, from the parable of the four soils Jesus gave this interpretation of the seed sown on rocky ground:		One of the practical reasons that this is important to know is that it warns us against a false joy. There is a natural joy even in spiritual things which many mistake for a spiritual joy. For example, from the parable of the four soils Jesus gave this interpretation of the seed sown on rocky ground:
-	<blockquote>As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately he falls away. (Matthew 13:20) </blockquote>	+	<blockquote>As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately he falls away. (Matthew 13:20) </blockquote>
	Here is a joy in the word of God that is not a spiritual joy and is no evidence that a true conversion has taken place. It is not the work of the indwelling Spirit of God. It does not have the character of Christ's joy. It vanishes like the dew when the hot sun of affliction rises in the sky.		Here is a joy in the word of God that is not a spiritual joy and is no evidence that a true conversion has taken place. It is not the work of the indwelling Spirit of God. It does not have the character of Christ's joy. It vanishes like the dew when the hot sun of affliction rises in the sky.

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	#Second, it is not superficial and flimsy, but deep and firm.		#Second, it is not superficial and flimsy, but deep and firm.
	#Third, it is not natural, but spiritual. <br>		#Third, it is not natural, but spiritual. <br>
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	Now in view of all this we turn to our second question:		Now in view of all this we turn to our second question:

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	So let's consider Romans 5:2–5.		So let's consider Romans 5:2–5.
-	<blockquote>Through him [i.e., Christ] we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of God. 3) More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4) and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5) and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us. </blockquote>	+	<blockquote>Through him [i.e., Christ] we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of God. 3) More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4) and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5) and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us. </blockquote>
	In verse 2 Paul says that he does the very thing that he commands in Romans 12:12: he rejoices in hope, specifically, hope in the glory of God.		In verse 2 Paul says that he does the very thing that he commands in Romans 12:12: he rejoices in hope, specifically, hope in the glory of God.

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	Matthew Henry put it like this:		Matthew Henry put it like this:
-	<blockquote>The joy and peace of believers arise chiefly from their hopes. What is laid out upon them is but little, compared with what is laid up for them; therefore the more hope they have, the more joy and peace they have . . . Christians should desire and labor after an abundance of hope. (Commentary on Romans 15:13) </blockquote>	+	<blockquote>The joy and peace of believers arise chiefly from their hopes. What is laid out upon them is but little, compared with what is laid up for them; therefore the more hope they have, the more joy and peace they have . . . Christians should desire and labor after an abundance of hope. (Commentary on Romans 15:13) </blockquote>
	But how does this hope and joy in Romans 5:2–4 relate to the work of the Holy Spirit? This is what Paul tells us in verse 5: "And hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us."		But how does this hope and joy in Romans 5:2–4 relate to the work of the Holy Spirit? This is what Paul tells us in verse 5: "And hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us."

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	Third, let us set our minds on the biblical expressions and evidences of God's love for repentant sinners. For example:		Third, let us set our minds on the biblical expressions and evidences of God's love for repentant sinners. For example:
	<blockquote>Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, </blockquote><blockquote>		<blockquote>Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, </blockquote><blockquote>
-	"For thy sake we are being killed<br>all the day long;<br>we are regarded as sheep<br>to be slaughtered."<br>	+	"For thy sake we are being killed<br>all the day long;<br>we are regarded as sheep<br>to be slaughtered."<br>
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-	No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.	+	No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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	And so, finally, when the love of God has filled us with hope in the glory of God, we rejoice in that hope, and again I say to you, REJOICE!		And so, finally, when the love of God has filled us with hope in the glory of God, we rejoice in that hope, and again I say to you, REJOICE!

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'''Romans 12:11-12'''
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Never flag in zeal, be aglow with the Spirit, serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.<br>
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Today we begin to answer the last question in our series of <u>messages on Christian hope</u>. Until now we have asked four questions:
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#What is the definition of Christian hope?

Answer: a confident expectation of good things to come (Hebrews 6:11).
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    2.  What is the ground of Christian hope?
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*the sovereign grace of God (2 Thessalonians 2:16), and
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*the good news that Christ died for sinners (Colossians 1:23).
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  3.  What is the cause of Christian hope in the human heart? What brings it about and sustains it?
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*the work of God in regeneration (1 Peter 1:3), and
*the promises of God in his Word (Romans 15:4).

 4.  What is the content of Christian hope? What are we hoping for?
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*the appearing of Jesus Christ (Titus 2:13),
*the redemption of our bodies (Romans 8:23),
*the consummation of our righteousness (Galatians 5:5),
*sharing the glory of God (Romans 5:2), and
*inheriting eternal life (Titus 1:2; 3:7).<br>
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Now we will pose one more question and, Lord willing, spend the four Sundays of July answering it. The question is: What is the fruit of our Christian hope? What comes from hope? Does hope produce anything in daily life?

==== Hope as a Tree ====

Let's use a picture to try to see what we have been doing over these weeks. Picture hope as a tree.

The ground from which hope can grow is the grace of God and the gospel of Christ.

The sprouting of the tree, the beginning of hope, happens in regeneration, or new birth.

The nutriment that sustains this new hope and makes it grow strong is the Word of God, especially the promises.

The strong fibers of the wooden trunk are the confident expectation that someday we will meet Christ face to face, we will have new bodies that never get sick again, we will be totally free from the struggle with sin, we will share in the glory of God, and we will never be threatened with loss because the new life will last forever and ever.

This simply leaves us now with the question: Does this tree bear fruit? The answer of the New Testament is a resounding Yes! And we are going to look at four of these fruits of hope.
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