Title: Hope without shame
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Title: Hope without shame
Bible: Romans 5:5-11
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This time, we would like to share a message with the title of “Hope not ashamed.”
Dr Victor Franklin, in his book The Human Search for Meaning, published the results of a study of the survivors of 6 million Jews dying in concentration camps.
He testified that through that study, those who did not lose hope survived to the end than those who gave up hope in their hearts.
They also say that those who encouraged despairing colleagues to have hope were also able to survive the torture.
If you lose hope, eating well, dressing well, and living well are meaningless.
But if there is hope, we can survive even when the environment is painful and difficult.
Through the text, Paul testifies how precious our existence is.
The reason is not to show that we are insignificant, but to remind us that we are not at the level of salvation.
In other words, we can do nothing about salvation, but God has given us hope.
When we look at a person's work, it is said that when we expect and disappoint, we feel disillusioned and wretched.
But our hope in God is never disillusioned or wretched.
The reason is that God wants us to work in difficult times.
If we look at verse 5,
“Hope Does Not Shame Us”
There is a saying, which means when we are strong in God.
But on the contrary, the times when we are ashamed of our hopes are when we are weak, when we are sinners, when we are enemies.
But the important thing is that God worked so that our hope would not be ashamed even in times like these.
May God's grace be with us today to overcome despair in any situation.
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If so, how has God worked so that our hopes are not to be put to shame?
First, God pours out love on us.
The Swiss theologian Karl Barth lived in the United States before his death.
He was asked a question at a meeting.
“What is the greatest discovery you have ever made as a theologian?”
The questioner expected a profound theological answer, but Barth's answer after pondering for a while was rather simple.
“It is the fact that Jesus loved me as a sinner, and I know that love.”
Barth confessed the love of Jesus and confessed that he knew him.
We, too, must confess clearly that we are living because of the love of Jesus.
When God's love for sinners is poured out, a worthless existence is changed into a valuable existence.
Shameful beings are transformed into beautiful beings, and unrighteous beings are transformed into righteous beings.
This is verse 5 of the text.
“For the love of God has been poured out in our hearts”
Believe that God's love has been poured into our hearts.
The text testifies that God demonstrates His love by the death of Jesus when we were already sinners.
Although the atonement of Jesus Christ ended with the crucifixion, God's love for us continues to be poured out even today.
Please believe that our hope will never be ashamed because that love is poured out.
Confidence in God's love for us is power and comfort.
I hope that you will become believers who believe that our hope will not be ashamed because of God's love.
Second, God has given us salvation.
If we look at the words of verse 9,
“Moreover, now that we have been justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
Says.
The text clearly presents what was justified.
It is through the blood of Jesus that we have been justified, and the way to be saved as sinners is not through our own efforts and merits, but through the blood of Jesus shed on the cross.
According to 1 Peter 1:18-19,
“You know that it was not with perishable things like silver or gold that you were redeemed from the vain deeds inherited from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, the Lamb without blemish or spot.”
I did.
The blood of Jesus Christ made us sinners righteous.
Please believe that we, who were sinners before God, were cleansed by the blood of Jesus and at the same time saved.
The blood of Jesus justifies us and makes us saved.
I hope that we will become believers who clearly realize that our hope is never to be ashamed of because of the salvation of Jesus Christ.
Third, God has given us reconciliation.
This is verse 10 of the text.
“For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we had reconciliation.”
The words enemy and reconciliation here are contrasting words.
In other words, we who were enemies with God have become reconciled to God.
How can we, who are sinners, be reconciled to God?
That reconciliation with God means freedom from sin because Jesus paid the price for that sin.
In the text, the word “rejoicing” means to run wild with joy.
Verse 3 of the text testifies to the extent of that joy as follows.
“Not only this, but he rejoices in tribulation”
What do you mean?
This verse means that the people who have attained reconciliation through faith in Jesus will be able to overcome all the hardships and tribulations they face in the world willingly.
Because of this, the Lord's reconciliation gives us hope and makes us not be ashamed of our hope.
Ladies and gentlemen, we must enjoy reconciliation through the grace of the Lord and become saints who fulfill it.
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Organize your words.
God loves us so that our hope is not to be put to shame.
And he saves us.
He also works to achieve reconciliation with God.
Therefore, all of us who are saints must become saints who live in hope for God.
So, I pray in the name of the Lord that you will become all the blessed saints who live victoriously in every moment of life with hope that is not shameful no matter how difficult or difficult it is.