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This morning we are talking about hope.
We are not talking about the world’s version of hope however.
There is a major difference between the way a believer and an unbeliever use the word hope.
When the world speaks of hope they say something like this, “I hope I win the lottery.”
What do they mean.
The chance of me actually winning the lottery are very very small, but I just wish I would get lucky.
The believer’s hope is the exact opposite.
It is a confident expectation that something will come to pass.
This is what Peter is attempting to do for the believers that are scattered across Asia Minor.
Peter writes to a group of mostly Gentile believers and He is attempting to encourage them to continue the process of sanctification in their lives.
Peter was instilling hope in the believers of the dispersion, so that their faith might result in the glory of God.
God has given us a living hope so that our faith might result in His glory.
Why should believers have such a great hope?
There are three elements of hope that God has given to us, so that our faith might result in His glory.
I.
We have hope because of our salvation
A. God’s Mercy
Blessed- In this passage Peter begins and ends with the glory of God.
This is the primary focus of our hope- that God would be glorified.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which or who according to this abundant mercy
God’s mercy is abundant.
Lit the word is many, according to God’s many mercies and the idea is that the magnitude of God’s mercy is abundant or great.
God’s mercy is as infinite as He is infinite.
And it is according to this great magnitude of mercy that God has begotten us again or the idea is that God has caused us to be born again.
We have our salvation, we have been born again because of God’s great magnitude of mercy.
Notice we were not saved according to our own effort, but God choose of His own accord to show mercy on us.
That produces hope in our lives.
God has saved us by his mercy, I now can have a confident expectation that He will continue working in my life in the future.
B. Our Living Hope
Unto a lively or a living hope.
Because of our salvation we do not have simply hope, we have a living hope.
That means that the believer’s hope is genuine it is real it is vital.
Our hope is alive and true, it is not empty or vain.
For those multitudes that have been born again and experienced God’s mercy, ours is a hope that is effectual and alive.
C. Our Confidence in our Hope
Our living hope, is assured unto us by means of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
Why do we have a living hope?
Because the object of our hop is alive!
We serve a risen Savior!
19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
That is our confidence.
Our hope is grounded in our salvation which produces a living hope which is assured based on the resurrection of our Savior.
What a hope that is!
Illustration:
Grandma Ruth- she had a heart attack, even in that darkness there is much hope.
Why do we have hope, because I believe Grandma Ruth knew Christ as her Savior.
She was born again according to mercy of God unto a living hope guaranteed by the resurrection of Christ from the dead.
One day I will see Grandma again.
I too have a hope grounded in my salvation.
I have been born again and will be resurrected with her in the last days.
Refutation:
This hope is only available to those who have been born again.
If you have never experienced God’s mercy in your life, then the offer of salvation is for you.
God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come unto Christ and be saved.
If you are not saved, if you have no hope let us show you today Jesus the hope of your soul.
Application:
How are you doing in the area of you hope?
Would you describe your hope as a living hope?
Is it genuine in your life, is it real in your life?
Is your attitude or your confidence about the future grounded in your salvation?
Do you have hope?
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We have hope because of our inheritance
A. The nature of our inheritance
Our inheritance is tied to God’s mercy in causing us to be born again.
Who according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again
1st- unto a lively hope
2nd- unto an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and unfading.
So if we are saved we have a hope of a future inheritance.
We have a place in heaven awaiting us, we have the privilege of being co-heirs with Christ, we have the privilege of being rewarded by Christ for our faithfulness.
We have an amazing inheritance.
Notice the three part description of our inheritance
Incorruptible- impervious to corruption and death.
Our inheritance cannot be corrupted or killed.
It is sure and cannot be altered or undone.
Undefiled- our inheritance is pure.
It is not tainted by sin or stain or blemish.
VBS- science experiment, iodine into water defiled it, bleach cleansed it to pure water.
Sin cannot taint our inheritance.
Just as much as our Savior is undefiled, so we too have an inheritance awaiting us where we will become undefiled.
Free from all sin, changed forever to be like our Savior.
Unfading- our inheritance will not loose its pristine quality or character.
It will not fade.
I love bow hunting, and I was able to get a really nice bow several years ago.
I loved it, still do.
I shoot it all the time it is accurate and very effective.
But guess what ever year they come out with new bows.
And when the 2017 bows come out some how the joy of my old 2014 bow fads just a little.
I now long for something better.
Our inheritance will never fade, it will never grow old, it will never diminish in quality.
B. The guarantee of our inheritance
Our inheritance is reserved or preserved in heaven for you.
This is a perfect verb in the Greek.
That means your inheritance was preserved for you at some time in the past and God will continue to keep it all the way into the future.
V. 5 states that you are being kept or better guarded by the power of God.
This is a divine passive.
Meaning that you have no part in your own keeping, but are completely protected by God Himself.
How are you guarded?
Through faith unto salvation.
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