Anchored
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2 We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;
3 Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
4 Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.
16 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
Hope is
++The activity of Patience
++Centered in Christ
++The Anchor of the Soul
1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Faith makes hope a reality.
Hope makes faith a possibility.
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.
God sent his son
++As the message of Hope
++That we may have Hope
++That faith would arise
1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
God had a plan
God had a plan
9 The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of hosts: And in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts.
There was a promise
++A greater glory
++An unfading glory
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
This treasure
++Is in us
++Is the proof of God’s authority
++Is not our possession
++is God’s power released
8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
Faith will only thrive in the right atmosphere.
Faith will only thrive in the right atmosphere.
6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
To walk in faith we must be in Christ
To walk in faith we must be in Christ
In Christ
++We are fruitful
4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
In Christ
We are fruitful
++We are confident
1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
In Christ
We are fruitful
We are confident
++We are transformed
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
To walk in faith
We must be in Christ
++We must love one another
34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
12 And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
To walk in faith
We must be in Christ
We must love one another
++We must change the atmosphere
1 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, And the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.
2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, And gross darkness the people: But the Lord shall arise upon thee, And his glory shall be seen upon thee.
3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, And kings to the brightness of thy rising.
It will not change
++Unless we arise
++Unless we shine
++Until God’s glory is seen
16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.