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What Hope Does for the Believer

What Hope will do for the Believer:

Hope will be an anchor in the storms of life.

Hope will be a comfort in the sorrows of life.

Hope will help us to be steadfast in our service.

Hope will give purpose in our trials.

Hope creates character in our sufferings.

Hope makes us expectant in our living.

Hope Causes US to meditate on the promises.

"HOPE"

INTRODUCTION:

When these three words are found together in the New Testament; they summarize the Christian life.

What is faith?

Faith is trust that rests upon evidence and leads to action.

Faith possesses the past by laying hold upon Calvary and making it real in my life.

Faith is looking unto Jesus in every area of life.

This is the foundation of our relationship with God.

What is hope?

Hope is confidence in the future, an expectation of something better, based upon the promises of God.

Hope claims the future, and looks beyond into glory.

It is not a vague guess, but an absolute, confident assurance.

What is love?

Love is Jesus Christ living through the Christian’s life

It dominates my life now.

This is Christian living.

Faith says Jesus Christ came to save me; hope says He is coming again to take me to be with Him.

Love says He abides in my heart today.

These three abide; life here and hereafter progressive.

Faith goes on possessing God more fully.

Hope never ceases to catch new glimpses of His glory in the wonder of eternity, and our love will increase as they reach out.

Today I want to deal with this one word: hope.

"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expec­tation of something better tomorrow."-Marden

"The first thing a girl hopes for from the garden of love is at least one carat."

"Take from a man his wealth, and you hinder him; take from him his purpose, and you slow him down.

But take from man his hope, and you stop him.

He can go on without wealth, and even without purpose for a while.

But he will not go on without hope."

Gilbert Beenkeen

Other men see only a hopeless end, but the Christian rejoices in an endless hope.

God of Hope.

Living Hope.

I Pet.l:3

All men outside of Christ are without hope.

They may have a false hope, but they are hopeless.

How sad when the doctor says, "There is no hope."

The awful feeling of futility - why go on - all hope taken away.

The Bible has much to say to the believer about hope, the future.

Hope must be kept alive, sus­tained, in order to jive the Christian life victoriously.

The book of Hebrews was written to suffering Jews tempted to turn back because of all the persecution they have encountered.

Heb.10:23,32-37

Hope to the end.

What hope will do for the believer:

I. HOPE WILL BE AN ANCHOR IN THE STORMS OF LIFE

Adversity, reverses.

1.

Does It Pay To Serve God?

2. God Is Not Unrighteous To Forget.

3. God Will Bless As He Has Promised Even Though It Seems He Has Forgotten.

An anchor - not carried off in floods.

Job: "I know that my redeemeth liveth."

There is hope.

Hope of eternal life.

II.

HOPE WILL BE A COMFORT IN THE SORROWS OF LIFE

A. Greek Thought In That Day.

Theocritus (3rd Century B.C.) - Hopes are among the living; the dead are without hope.

Moschus (Contemporary) - Speaking of plants in the garden: "Alas, alas these live and spring again in ano­ther year; but we, when we die, deaf to all sound in the hollow earth, sleep a long, long endless sleep that knows no waking.

Catullus (Roman poet) Last century B.C. "Suns may set and rise again, not we; when once our brief light goes down, must sleep an endless night."

Lucretius - "No one awakes and arises who once has been overtaken by the chilling end of life."

Evolutionists, reincarnation, oblivion-wail on mission fields at funerals.

B. Christian Reality - Songs of Hope, Praise, Glory.

1. Sorrow-not as others which have no hope.

The solid Rock-page 394

2. Hope of the Gospel.

III.

HOPE HELPS US BECOME STEADFAST IN OUR SERVICE

Our attitude toward this world.

1.

If In This Life We Have Hope.

2. If After The Manner of Men. 1 Cor.15:32

3. Sometimes Errors of the foolish and Unsaved distract us from seeing that which God is doing.

Psalms 73-Read

4. Moses Was Able To Take the Long Look and Choose.

5. Paul Says - Resurrection, Life Beyond -

Therefore.

But now is Christ risen from the dead.

IV.

HOPE WILL GIVE PURPOSE IN OUR TRIALS

1. Peace at the Cross.

Rom.5:1

2. Glory in the Future.

Rom.5:2

3. The Interim Between Has Purpose - Not

Accident.

Rom.5:3,4

4. Leads to Love of God.

Rom.5:5

A. May be from the hand of Satan.

Job

Rom.8:35-37

B. May be from hands of brethren.

Joseph