Living Hope and Promised Inheritance
Background
Designer of our salvation
By His Great Mercy
By the Resurrection of the Son
By the Guarding Power of the Father
See, heaven is kept for us, and we are kept for heaven. Heaven is prepared for us, and we are prepared for heaven. There is a double action of God’s grace thus working in us and working for us unto bliss eternal.
Description of Our Salvation
Our Living Hope
A “living hope” is one that is genuine and vital, in contrast to a hope that is empty and vain
Their hope, in other words, is the hope of resurrection, triumph over death; hence, whatever happens to them in this world is trivial compared to the blessing of the future resurrection.
Our Promised Inheritance
There is a place in heaven for me that none of you could fill. There is a harp that no fingers can strike but mine and a crown that no brow can wear but this. And so with each of you—you shall have your own appointed inheritance. He has begotten each one of you again. You are as truly begotten as any other believer. You have the same hope, and you shall as surely stand in your lot at the end of the days.