They know that they have sinned, they know that they should be burning in hell, they know they have no proper or right standing on their own apart from Christ. To have a relationship with God, they've accepted that they're Extra Ordinary in fact they are disqualified from having a relationship with God entirely by their sin.
Read MoreThis word "hope: You know we hope for a lot of things. We hope for good weather you know, we hope that we get to Al Pastor before they run out of their tacos. We hope our kids turn out well, we hope for a lot of things, but that kind of a hope is wishful thinking hoping. That's not the biblical definition of the Word that Paul is using here.
Read MoreIn first Thessalonians, Paul tells us that we're to pray continually. How do we do that? Well, the simplest way I can describe continual prayer is not the folding of the hands and the closing of the eyes, and kneeling, and having a prayer list. That's a part of Prayer, that's a valuable part of prayer, but praying continually is just having an ongoing dialogue with God because he's our friend and because he's our Savior, and because we have a life in front of us every day.
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