Sunday Worship Service Livestream


November 30, 2025
  • Welcome and Announcements
  • Prayer of Invocation
  • Advent Hymn (Watching Waiting Longing)
  • Sing We The Song Of Emmanuel
  • Scripture Reading: Romans 5:1-11
  • Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus
  • In Christ Alone
  • Pastor's Message - Hope Has a Name
  • Emmanuel



Romans 5:1-11

  • 1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
    2 through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God.
    3 And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance;
    4 and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;
    5 and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
    6 For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
    7 For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die.
    8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
    9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.
    10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
    11 And not only this, but we also exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.


SERMON NOTES - Hope Has A Name

INTRODUCTION
  • Today is the first Sunday of Advent 2025 and the theme or focus on this first Sunday of Advent is hope.

THE FLAW OF MISPLACED HOPE
  • Hope can be disappointed when placed in an unreliable source.
  • When we come to the word of God however, hope takes on a different meaning. It retains an outlook of anticipation and expectation, but it is far more significant than wishing for something to happen.

THE FOUNDATION OF GENUINE HOPE
  • "having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God. And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance; and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope; and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us." - Romans 5:1-5
  • He mentions hope three times, all the same word and notice that in verse 2 it is the hope of the glory of God.
  • What is the glory of God? As an attribute God's glory is both who He is in His essence and how He reveals Himself. God's glory is the radiant display of His infinite worth, holiness, and perfection, the visible manifestation of His intrinsic majesty and excellence.
  • It is the ultimate hope and destiny of believers: sharing in God's presence, perfection, and eternal life.
  • Paul says we hope for the glory of God and that hope is not uncertain, but certain even to the point of being able to boast (which is what the word exult means) about that certainty. This is not boasting in a bad sense but boasting in a good sense.
  • Christianity is not a "hope so" faith but a "know so" faith.
  • Your eternal destiny is not decided at a future judgment. It is decided here and now.
  • "And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life. These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life." - 1 John 11-13

THE FUTURE OF GUARANTEED HOPE
  • There are three truths about Jesus as our hope I want to consider.
  • Jesus is hope that has come.
  • Jesus is the hope that is here.
  • Jesus is the hope that is coming again.