My Hope in Christ

Biblical faith rests on the trustworthiness of God to keep His promises. Confidence in its fulfillment through Jesus Christ.

I. Living Hope 1Pet. 1:3

1 Peter 1:3 NKJV

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Matthew 12:21 NKJV

And in His name Gentiles will trust.”

Luke 24:21 NKJV

But we were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, today is the third day since these things happened.

Expectation/outlook

A. Hope for the future - Salvation

Recap and summarize Hope’s definition: An expectation or belief in the fulfillment of something desired.

Present hurts and uncertainty over what the future holds create the constant need for hope.

Media generated fear and terror and destruction create a longing for something better. Many have concluded that there is no reasonable basis for hope and therefore to hope is to live with an illusion. Scripture relates being without hope to being in the world without God.

Ephesians 2:12 NKJV

that at that time you 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.