HOPE

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HOPE
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Hope Differs from Faith

• 1 Cor. 1313 And now these three remain faith,
  hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

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Definition Pastor Jack Hayford

• Strong 1680 Hope, not in the sense of an
  optimistic outlook or wishful thinking with out
  any foundation, but in the sense of confident
  expectation based on solid certainty. Biblical
  hope rests on Gods promises, particularly those
  pertaining to Christs return. So certain is the
  future of the redeemed that the NT sometimes
  speaks of future events in the past tense, as
  though they were already accomplished. Hope is
  never inferior to faith, but is an extension of
  faith. Faith is the present possession of grace
  hope is confidence in graces future
  accomplishment.

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Hope is NOT a wish

• I hope I win the lottery.
• I hope Dad will give me a new convertible sports
  car for my 16th birthday.
• I hope Kay and I can take a three month world
  tour this year.

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How Hope Differs from Faith

• Primarily in the future where faith is in the
  present.
• Hebrews 111,  1 Faith is the confidence that
  what we hope for will actually happen it gives
  us assurance about things we cannot see.(NLT)
• Hope is a prophetically true statement.

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Old Hymn

• My Hope is Built on Nothing Less
• My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus
  blood and righteousness
• I dare not trust the sweetest frame, But wholly
  lean on Jesus name.
• On Christ, the Solid Rock, I stand All other
  ground is sinking sand, All other ground is
  sinking sand.

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Contrast Those who have NO Hope

• Eph. 211-12 Therefore, remember that formerly
  you who are Gentiles by birth and called
  "uncircumcised" by those who call themselves "the
  circumcision" (that done in the body by the hands
  of men)remember that at that time you were
  separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship
  in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the
  promise, without hope and without God in the
  world.

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John Gill quote from Philo

• hence it is manifest that one without hope is not
  reckoned a man, but a beast in an human form
  since he is destitute of hope, which is the
  property of the human soul''
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Contrast Our Hope IN Christ

• Eph 213 But now in Christ Jesus you who once
  were far away have been brought near through the
  blood of Christ.
• Eph 1 17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord
  Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you
  the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you
  may know him better. 18 I pray also that the eyes
  of your heart may be enlightened in order that
  you may know the hope to which he has called you,
  the riches of his glorious inheritance in the
  saints, 19 and his incomparably great power for
  us who believe.

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 Seven (7) parts of the Hope that we have in
Jesus.

• 1. Personal Return of Jesus
• John 14 1"Do not let your hearts be troubled.
  Trust in God trust also in me. 2 In my Father's
  house are many rooms if it were not so, I would
  have told you. I am going there to prepare a
  place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place
  for you, I will come back and take you to be with
  me that you also may be where I am.

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2. Resurrection of our Bodies

• 1 Peter 1 3 Praise be to the God and Father of
  our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has
  given us new birth into a living hope through the
  resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 and
  into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil
  or fadekept in heaven for you, 5 who through
  faith are shielded by God's power until the
  coming of the salvation that is ready to be
  revealed in the last time.

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• Revelation 20 6 Blessed and holy are those who
  have part in the first resurrection. The second
  death has no power over them, but they will be
  priests of God and of Christ and will reign with
  him for a thousand years.
• Acts 23 6hen Paul, knowing that some of them
  were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, called
  out in the Sanhedrin, "My brothers, I am a
  Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. I stand on trial
  because of my hope in the resurrection of the
  dead."

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3. Restoration of Loved Ones in Christ. 1 Thess
413-18

• 13 Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant
  about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like
  the rest of men, who have no hope. 14 We believe
  that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe
  that God will bring with Jesus those who have
  fallen asleep in him.
• 15 According to the Lord's own word, we tell you
  that we who are still alive, who are left till
  the coming of the Lord, will certainly not
  precede those who have fallen asleep.

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Restoration of Loved Ones in Christ (continuted)

• 16 For the Lord himself will come down from
  heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of
  the archangel and with the trumpet call of God,
  and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After
  that, we who are still alive and are left will be
  caught up together with them in the clouds to
  meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with
  the Lord forever. 18 Therefore encourage each
  other with these words.

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4. Fellowship with the Saved.

• . 1 Thess 219 For what is our hope, our joy, or
  the crown in which we will glory in the presence
  of our Lord Jesus when he comes? Is it not you?

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5. We are Presented to God.

• A) Spotless Eph. 5 27and to present
  her(church) to himself (Jesus) as a radiant
  church, without stain or wrinkle or any other
  blemish, but holy and blameless. 
• B) In Glory-Col. 1 27 To them (the Saints) God
  has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the
  glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ
  in you, the hope of glory.

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6. Our Hope is Eternal Life-To Know Him

• A) Know God John 173 Now this is eternal life
  that they may know you, the only true God, and
  Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
• B) 1 Cor. 13 12 Now we see but a poor
  reflection as in a mirror then we shall see
  (HIM) face to face. Now I know in part then I
  shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

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7. Our Inheritance in Heaven

• 1 Peter 13 Praise be to the God and Father of
  our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has
  given us new birth into a living hope through the
  resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 and
  into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil
  or fadekept in heaven for you, 5 who through
  faith are shielded by God's power until the
  coming of the salvation that is ready to be
  revealed in the last time.

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The Holy City The New Jerusalem

• Revelation 21 1Then I saw a new heaven and a new
  earth, for the first heaven and the first earth
  had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.
  2I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming
  down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride
  beautifully dressed for her husband. 3And I heard
  a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the
  dwelling of God is with men, and he will live
  with them. They will be his people, and God
  himself will be with them and be their God.

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Revelation 214

• 4 He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There
  will be no more death or mourning or crying or
  pain, for the old order of things has passed
  away."
• NO MORE No Tears, No Crying, No Pain, No
  Sickness, No Stress, No Problems, No Worries, No
  Weakness, No Sin, No Temptation, No
  Death. THAT IS MY HOPE!!!!!!!!!! AND IT IS ALL
  IN JESUS!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Two Scriptures in Conclusion

• Jer. 2911 For I know the plans I have for you,"
  declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not
  to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
  12 Then you will call upon me and come and pray
  to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek
  me and find me when you seek me with all your
  heart.

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• Ps 31 24 Be strong and take heart,        all
  you who hope in the LORD.