Hope of Jesus
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Rise above in Faith, Hope, and Love.
Rise above in Faith, Hope, and Love.
Rise Above.
These are words that our Father is calling us to this year of 2023.
Our Father is one who rises above, so we do not have to rise above alone. He is with us and we will rise above.
Hope:
Hope:
Luke 1:26–38 (NASB95)
26 Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city in Galilee called Nazareth,
27 to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the descendants of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.
28 And coming in, he said to her, “Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you.”
29 But she was very perplexed at this statement, and kept pondering what kind of salutation this was.
30 The angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; for you have found favor with God.
31 “And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name Him Jesus.
32 “He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David;
33 and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and His kingdom will have no end.”
34 Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I am a virgin?”
35 The angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; and for that reason the holy Child shall be called the Son of God.
36 “And behold, even your relative Elizabeth has also conceived a son in her old age; and she who was called barren is now in her sixth month.
37 “For nothing will be impossible with God.”
38 And Mary said, “Behold, the bondslave of the Lord; may it be done to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.
“Greetings Favored One!”
“The Lord is with you.”
Hope is implanted in you what you are in His presence and you are aware He is in you.
How would Jesus introduce you to others?
That is your identity.
Hope of Elizabeth is different that Hope of Mary.
Elisabeth was getting her desires fulfilled in many ways.
Elisabeth’s world was finally coming together for her.
After Zacharias was able to talk again their lives were filled with long term desires and expectations being fulfilled.
Mary had hope growing in her while the rest of her world was falling apart.
Proverbs 13:12 (NASB95)
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, But desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
What does hope deferred mean to you?
Hope living in you is different than having a wishful hope for something to happen.
Hanging around hope changes you from the inside.
When we hang out with Hope:
The disciples hung out with Jesus and began to have hope that their problems were going to be fixed by Jesus.
They hoped for things like being saved from the oppression of the Romans.
They hoped for being set free from the controlling hypocrites in the temples.
After being with Jesus for while their focus and questions began to change. They began to have hope about being greater.
Who will be the best?
Who gets to sit at your side?
Doubt is the substance of hearing and believing lies even if the evidence says those lies are true.
When Jesus was killed all their old questions and concerns came flooding back to them.
But After Jesus rose from the dead their entire paradigm changed from then on.
Have you ever been around someone who just has hope no matter what happens?
When your around that kind of person their hope grows now matter what is happening on the outside.
The delay of His promises and the sudden fulfilment of His promises grow Hope in our hearts when we stay in love, faith, and hope.
Psalm 42:5 (NASB95)
Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him For the help of His presence.
Acts 2:26 (NASB95)
26 ‘Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue exulted; Moreover my flesh also will live in hope;
Like Jesus growing in Mary’s tummy, so to is Hope growing inside you.
Hope that does not disappoint can only come and grow as Christ in you.
Not as a distant promise that will not fully satisfy anyways.
Let us not complain how what we want is not happening anymore.
Let us instead focus on how hope is alive in us.
Christ in you really is the hope of His glory being displayed for all to see.
A growing hope inside you is what will change our world.
Activation:
Jesus, let your hope grown inside of me?
Jesus, what do you want me to do to allow your hope to grow more in my life?
Other recourses:
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.
Hope:
Psalm 62:5–8 (NASB95)
5 My soul, wait in silence for God only, For my hope is from Him. 6 He only is my rock and my salvation, My stronghold; I shall not be shaken. 7 On God my salvation and my glory rest; The rock of my strength, my refuge is in God. 8 Trust in Him at all times, O people; Pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us. Selah.
24 For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees? 25 But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it.
13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
27 to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
hope
Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon 1680 ἐλπίς
1680 ἐλπίς [elpis /el·pece/] n f. From a primary elpo (to anticipate, usually with pleasure); TDNT 2:517; TDNTA 229; GK 1828; 54 occurrences; AV translates as “hope” 53 times, and “faith” once. 1 expectation of evil, fear. 2 expectation of good, hope. 2A in the Christian sense. 2A1 joyful and confident expectation of eternal salvation. 3 on hope, in hope, having hope. 3A the author of hope, or he who is its foundation. 3B the thing hoped for.
The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary Hope (NT)
HOPE (NT). Even if the noun “hope” (Gk elpı́s) is not found at all in the Gospels and the verb “to hope” (Gk elpı́zein) is found only five times in the Gospels—with the OT sense of “to trust” (Matt 12:21; John 5:45) or with a purely secular and nonreligious sense (Luke 6:34; 23:8; 24:21)—the idea of hope as confidence in God “whose goodness and mercy are to be relied on and whose promises cannot fail” (Barr 1950: 72) is everywhere presupposed in the NT (see also TDNT 2:517–35 and LTK 5: 416–24).
In the Synoptic Gospels the notion of hope is conveyed through the sense of “expectation” (Gk prosdechomai) generated by Jesus’ preaching of conversion in the face of the imminent arrival of the kingdom of God.