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Introduction
Greetings...
Last week we looked at “Dedication To God’s Word” from as we have started a series of lessons on “God’s Word In ).
Last week we notice the need to be dedicated to God’s wondrous and deserving Word.
We also studied how God’s Word demands we shun sin.
This week we are going to be looking at where we find “Hope In God’s Word.”
With that in mind let us examine our lesson for today.
Hope Answers Critics
Hoping in God’s Word creates critics.
It cannot be stated enough, when we hope in God and the light of His Word there will be a response from those in the dark because light exposes those that lurk in the darkness and they do not like that.
Light exposes those that lurk in the darkness and they do not like that.
This is why Paul, inspired by God, clearly wrote...
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Hoping in God’s Word answers critics.
Because walking in the light creates critics from those in the dark we must be ready when they come to give an answer.
Our hope in salvation is the answer to the critics.
Ps 119:
We must respond to those “who ask for a reason for the hope that is in us” because...
Summary
Our hope in salvation “according to God’s promise” should be beaming forth from each of us so much so that those in the darkness are forced to come and respond.
It’s then we are able to answer the critic of God’s Word and that answer is the “hope of salvation in God’s Word.”
This assurance and confidence of “having the answer” should give “us” comfort.
This is why...
Hope Creates Comfort
Hope creates comfort in affliction.
Yes, the light of God’s Word creates critics against the righteous because of lawlessness’ desire to stay hidden but it also creates comfort in the one “walking in the light.”
Knowing we have the “word of life” and hope in heaven allows to have “comfort in our afflictions” or as Paul would state it “a peace that surpasses all understanding.”
Hope creates comfort in indignation
The Hebrew word for “hot indignation” means “scorching rage.”
Far too few in the church react to sin with “scorching rage” maybe “watered whimpering” but not scorching rage.
A person who has their hope in salvation should have a scorching rage toward all sin not just those they are discussed by.
We see a lot of people hating the sin of homosexuality and abortion but often have no problem with those that “neglect the assembly of the saints” or those that “bring reproach on the church.”
Why is it that we often don’t react to sin like we should, with the fervor and zeal against it like we should?
Because, it’s uncomfortable for many to feel this way about anything much less all sin.
As we see in having a “scorching rage” toward sin actually brings comfort.
When we have a hatred for sin it will lead us to a comfort only found in God and His Word.
This is a blessin
This blessing or comfort takes place if we hate sin enough to “put it to death” in our lives.
Ps 119:
Col 3:
This is the only way one could find comfort and understanding in the Word of Christ.
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The hope of salvation should creates comfort in affliction and in the hot indignation of sin in each of us which Jesus clearly demonstrates in .
Like the apostles we have a hope in God and the promises of salvation and this should bring us comfort in affliction.
Like the apostle Paul who “shook the dust off his feet” from those
Conclusion
Our “Hope In God’s Word” will create critics and answer those critics and it will create comfort in those uncomfortable situations.
If we “lift up our hands toward God’s commandments, which we love, and meditate on His statutes” we will have blessings from above.
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