Confident Expectancy

HOPE — confident expectancy.

Romans 4:18 AV

18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.

HOPE — confident expectancy.

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1 Corinthians 9:10 AV

10 Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.

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Colossians 1:5 AV

5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;

1 Peter 1:3 AV

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

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Biblical hope is very different from what we can call popular hope.

We use hope to express wishful thinking.

I Hope there is no que at the shops, i hope they find cure…

But biblical hope is very different.

Biblical hope is a firm assurance about things that are unseen and still in the future.

Biblical Hope is knowing that something will happen, and waiting expectantly for it to happen.

Romans 8:24–25 AV

24 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? 25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

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Hebrews 11:1 AV

1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Hebrews 11:7 AV

7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

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Another Stricking Difference between popular hope and Biblical Hope is the thing hoped for.

Popular Hope is based in OUR desires or wishes. In other words, we hope for the things we want.

Biblical Hope is based entilery on God Himself.

Psalm 39:7 AV

7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.

Biblical Hope is fixed not on my will, but on God’s will.

Hope: A privledge to God’s People

Hope distinguishes the Christian from the unbeliever, who has no hope.

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Ephesians 2:12 AV

12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

1 Thessalonians 4:13 AV

13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

The unbeliever’s future is the hands of watver unforseen disaster happens next.

I hate to break it to you: But the Universe does not care about you, the universe is not a conscieness.

Mars, jupiter, karma - none of these things are real. They are made up forms of hope.

The Unbeliver is totally at the mercy of what happens tomorrow, and they have nothing to look forward too.

But the Christian has wonderful Hope.

Indeed, a Christian is one in whom hope resides.

1 Peter 3:15 AV

15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

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1 John 3:3 AV

3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

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So what does the Christan have hope in?

Christian hope comes from God.

Romans 15:13 AV

13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

And Our Primary Hope is Found in our Calling.

Not a calling in a ministariel sense, but our calling as God’s Children.

Christian hope comes from God () and especially His calling (; ),

Ephesians 1:18 AV

18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

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Ephesians 4:4 AV

4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

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The Christian hope, assurance is that God has called us out of darkness into His marvelous light.

We have the Hope, the confident assurance that The work of Jesus Christ is applied to our lives by faith and we are washed in the precious blood and that when we die, though our bodies die, we shall live - for we have everlasting Life

Titus 1:2 AV

2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

We live in Hope that every Promise of God in His Word will come to pass.

Romans 15:4 AV

4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

Perhaps the Christians most expectant hope is the Return of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Bible calls this, the Blessed Hope:

Titus 2:13 AV

13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

The return of Jesus Christ is both the blessed hope and the best illastration of Biblical Hope.

Acts 23:6 AV

6 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.

Acts 26:6–7 AV

6 And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: 7 Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope’s sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.

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First: Jesus Promised he would return:

Hope is directed toward God (; ) and Christ (; ).

John 14:2–3 AV

2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

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Its appropriate objects are eternal life (; ), salvation (), righteousness (), the glory of God (; ), the appearing of Christ () and the resurrection from the dead (; ).

However, he told us that we would not know the day or the hour of his return:

Matthew 24:36 AV

36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

But he told us to live in constant expectation of his return:

Matthew 25:1–13 AV

1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. 2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. 3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: 4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. 5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. 6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. 7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. 8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. 9 But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. 10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. 11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. 12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. 13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.

Conclusion

Are you living in hope for his coming? Are you prepared today for the trumphet to call?

If not, this is the day of salvation.

There is so much that we as God’s people have hope for, we know what will happen, we have a future and we have hope.

Amen.