The Groaning Church Saved In Hope
Rev. Cornelius Hanko expounds Romans 8:23-25 to explain how believers, indwelt by the Holy Spirit, experience both the present comfort of salvation and the groaning anticipation of future glorification. The sermon emphasizes that even creation itself groans in expectation of Christ's return and the redemption of our bodies, teaching that Christian hope sustains believers through their earthly pilgrimage with patience and assurance.
Rev. Cornelius Hanko (no date given) And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it (Rom. 8:23-25). The apostle Paul emphasises in this chapter the fact that as long as we are...