Name: 艱難地學習希望｜史蒂文-富迪克牧師 (Learning Hope The Hard Way | Pastor Steven Furtick)
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You are sitting in one of 56 Christmas Eve worship experiences that we're hosting in

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physical locations, and what a privilege to minister the Word of God to you today.

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It's completely coincidental that this is my eleventh Christmas sermon as the pastor

of Elevation Church and my text happens to be Isaiah 11.

This is the coolest Christmas Scripture you've never heard.

You've probably never heard this little verse of Scripture, and I know you've never heard

I had not either, so I decided to preach it.

Don't worry if you don't see what it has to do with Christmas right when I read it, but

Isaiah 11:1: "A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will

It is a very promising prophecy that Isaiah delivers to a people who have been cut down

One of my favorite country preachers used to have a saying.

He would say, "When you're down to nothing, God is up to something."

Elbow your neighbor and tell them, "God is up to something in your life."

Even if you can't feel it, even if you can't see it, even if you can't discern it with

your natural senses, I want you to know that God is up to something in your life.

If you've had a banner year or a barren year, God is up to something in your life.

He was up to something in the nation of Israel.

They had placed their hope in other gods, and yet the promise of redemption echoes over

700 years before the birth of Christ through the prophet Isaiah.

He says, "A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear

Let me back up and read that one more time, because I think I see Jesus in this text.

"From his roots a Branch will bear fruit."

Could it be that the branch Isaiah speaks of is the baby that was born in the town of

Could it be that the eagle-eyed prophet is seeing through seven centuries into our present

The author of Hebrews calls it an "anchor for our souls."

We celebrate this season that hope has come.

Let the Devil hear you say it, because he's been messing with you and you've had a hard

year, but let him know you're still standing by the grace of God and you have a hope.

I saw Holly watch a movie a few years ago.

I don't know anything about the movie, but I know the title isn't accurate, because real

It doesn't float on the surface of your situation, but it gets down to the bottom and holds on

Paul is the New Testament apostle who took the gospel to the Gentiles.

He says something instructive in Romans, chapter 8.

He wants to talk about the nature of hope.

When he goes to talk about it, he says in Romans 8:24, "For in this hope we were saved.

But if we hope for what we do not yet have..."

If we can hold on and hold out and hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently,

My subject for this Christmas is Learning Hope the Hard Way.

What Isaiah's stump that has been cut down and Paul's theology, Christology, and pneumatology

of the Spirit of God that lives on the inside of you all have in common is they describe

Not the kind of hope that you might have as a Panthers fan.

I hope the Clemson Tigers beat the Ohio State Buckeyes, as do all Christians.

The word hope means very little, because the fact of the matter is it won't bother me much

A bunch of boys in some Spandex aren't going to keep me up at night.

I am not so worried as to really say, "I hope."

I didn't come to talk to you on Christmas Eve, when you could be doing a lot of other

I'm talking about a certain kind of hope, a hope that has to be learned the hard way.

How many have ever had to learn something the hard way?

If your husband isn't raising his hand, maybe you could raise it for him, if he doesn't

Some things you have to learn the hard way.

Some things can only be developed the hard way.

I was talking to a campus pastor, and they asked me about my preparation, and I told

I said, "I prepare a lot before I preach.

The reason I over-prepare is because one time 13 years ago I went to speak at an event.

I got lost on the way, so I started getting angry.

I was a little flustered when I got there, and I got up in front of the event, and it

I've never been more unprepared for anything in my life.

I didn't know it was a mother/daughter banquet.

I didn't have anything to say to the mothers and daughters.

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