Hope Filled Living In A Hopeless World

HOPE FILLED LIVING IN A HOPELESS WORLD

I PETER 1:13-16

“Hope is the _______________ that God will change _____, _________, or _____.”

1.       Control your ________________.

“Therefore, prepare your minds for action.”

“Gird up the loins of your mind.” KJV

“Controlling your thoughts must become a _________________.”

Proverbs 23:7

Romans 12:1

Ephesians 6:14

“The thoughts of a man _________ his _________.”

Jim Elliot

II Corinthians 10:3-5

2.      Don’t be controlled by ___________ _______________.

“Be sober.”

“We live in a world that is ___________ at best; hateful and ___________ at it’s worst.”

“Our temptation is to use ____________, ______________, and _______________to fill up the _________ spot and deaden the ______________ spot.”

3.       Know that , one day, you will be totally and permanently ________________.”

“Fix your hope completely upon the revelation to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.”

\THE BAD NEWS- No person, place, thing, or event, on this earth, will ______ you _______________, _______________ satisfaction.

THE GOOD NEWS- No person, place, thing, or event, on this earth, will ______ you from ____________, _____________ satisfaction.

Psalms 16:10

4.      Have desires that are ___________ yet _________________.

“As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior, because it is written, ‘you shall be holy for I am holy.’”

“Desire, in and of itself, is not wrong.

“Often, one of the reasons, we sin is that we are not ______________ in Jesus.”

“Holiness is not simply a matter of life, but heart.”