Hope is a future expectation, called a living hope, based on the confidence that our names will be found in the Book of Life.
What Is Hope?
Hope isn’t just a now thing. It is a transference. God helped me in my spiritual tornado, so He is going to help me the next time Satan asks for me (The Scriptures Last Forever).
The security of the believer is what faith, confidence, hope, and trust is all about. More, this is what the Scriptures are all about (The Scriptures Last Forever).
Our foundation is built on the blessings of faith, hope, peace, joy, comfort, and glory (The Foundation of the Church).
When we make the decision to worship God, we give Him our love and receive love, joy, and hope. We make the decision to live for Him, love, be joyful, and have hope. Then we have to tell others. We worship God and live for Him by wanting to sharing that love, joy, and hope (The Life and Death Matter of Worship).
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When God Teaches Us Hope
If we think about being easily taught, God will teach us humility and patience through trials. The results of the trials should be contentment, submission, gratitude, trust, and hope (Are Disciples to be Docile?).
Fear of our condition can lead us to start searching for God. This could stem from fear of death and punishment. This is coupled with the feeling of inadequacy to fix it ourselves. Believers could still be subject to this fear but to a lesser degree. It is alleviated by the hope and promises found in God (How Does God Adopt Us?).
Solomon said that we need to place our faith and trust in the hope of God’s promise. That promise is rest after we have lived our lives for Him (How Are Disciples to be Rested?).
Hope comes from effort. We have to believe in God. We have to put our faith and trust that His Word is true (How Do We Know We Have Eternal Hope?).
Paul just got done writing that we glory in justification, faith, grace, and peace. Now he is telling us we also glory in suffering. We build faith through building endurance, character, and hope during trials (Staying Strong in God during Hard Times to Build Hope).
If we have the hope — and the faith — we need to be acting on them. We need to be navigating the Sanctification Road. We should be heading toward being steak adults (How Do We Gain Salvation through Hope?).
Hope helps grow disciples of Christ in faith. The product is a life lived in worship (How Else Do We Worship God?).
This living hope fuels our worship. Our thanksgiving bubbles out of us as praise (How Else Do We Worship God?).
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Hope in God Alone
We can see God now. We can see how He satisfies our desires, gives us hope, sustains us through our trials, is correcting us when we sin, is transforming us through sanctification, is fulfilling the promises in His Word, and the peace and the joy that He brings (How Are Disciples Pure in Heart?).
Joy comes because the peace we find in God gives us hope. God also gives us strength to overcome the trials we face (What Are the Fruits of Righteousness?).
Joy comes because the peace we find in God gives us hope. Most of all, we have joy because we have salvation (The Rewards of Faithfulness).
Bottom line, every good comes from God. He gives us life, forgiveness, salvation, guidance through the Holy Spirit, moral excellence, strength, hope, and eternal life (Goodness as a Virtue).
It should be our hope that our trials do not make us thirsty. If we take our focus off God, we will get thirsty (Thirst from the Cross).
How are we to put on Christ? We are to imitate Him. We are to have His character. He is to be our hope (When Is It Time for Salvation after Conversion?).
God said that if we had faith the size of a mustard seed, we could move mountains (Mt. 17: 20). Along with that faith comes hope. Because we have the hope, we believe in the ultimate triumph of Truth. That will be Jesus’ second coming. In this instance, our hope is in eternal life (Are We Proactive or Reactive?).
We only have that hope when we have Jesus as our Savior and Redeemer. We have to be a child of God, not just a creation made in His image (Are We Proactive or Reactive?).
That hope should strengthen our confidence in God. Our hope is in His grace (Are We Proactive or Reactive?).
Luckily, for us, there is hope. God can and will forgive us when we ask Him (Getting Along with Others).
God is going to provide for His people. That is the hope that we have. We have that hope in Him (The Hopeful Family).
It is only through Jesus’ love that we have hope. If Jesus is not Lord of our lives, we do not have hope. If Jesus didn’t justify us, we wouldn’t have hope (Comprehending the Effects of Salvation).
God is going to help us understand, so we will gain peace as He reveals Himself to us. We have all the great words, such as assurance, hope, grace, and provision, to expect God to provide us (Peace Gained through Prayer).
What is evident here is that Jesus is the Hope. Because of Him and what He has done for us, we have hope for not only this life, but the next (How Do We Know We Have Eternal Hope?).
If we put our hope in this world, it is a dying hope. This world will be destroyed. Those who put their hope in this world will remain spiritually dead. Their story doesn’t end well (How Do We Know We Have Eternal Hope?).
We get to the point where we have confidence in our hope. We know our hope is valid because of in Whom we place our trust (God’s Love as the Foundation of Hope).
We are putting our hope in Sovereign God, the Creator of the universe (How Do We Gain Salvation through Hope?).
We are putting our faith and hope in the Sovereign Lord’s promises that Jesus’ death paid the penalty for our sins. We are expecting His rewards in the end (How Do We Gain Salvation through Hope?).
A major element of hope is waiting. It is about earnestly expecting what has been promised will come to be exactly as promised regardless how long it takes (How Do We Gain Salvation through Hope?).
Waiting for hope does not put limits on it. God’s love and power knows no limits. Neither does the Hope we have in Him (How Do We Gain Salvation through Hope?).
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Hope in Salvation
Our foundation is built on the blessings of faith, hope, peace, joy, comfort, and glory. It is only through Jesus’ love that we have hope (How Do We Know We Have Eternal Hope?).
Our trust, love, and hope show how much we believe in His love and provision (How Do We Know We Have Eternal Hope?).
Because we have the hope, we believe in the ultimate triumph of Truth. That will be Jesus’ second coming (How Do We Know We Have Eternal Hope?).
Paul may have had the Pharisee’ belief in resurrection before. Now he had belief because of hope (How Do We Know We Have Eternal Hope?).
Jesus’ resurrection was just a portion of the hope. This hope had been present throughout the Old Testament and included salvation and the establishment of God’s kingdom (How Do We Know We Have Eternal Hope?).
Our living hope is the inheritance. He argued it is all wrapped up in salvation and sanctification (How Do We Know We Have Eternal Hope?).
No, we are not called to sit here and twiddle our thumbs. We can’t just ride along on the hope train, thinking we’ll be good. We have to work the sanctification progression from conversion to righteousness. We have to grow from milk babies to steak adults (How Do We Know We Have Eternal Hope?).
Even if we don’t understand everything (which we won’t), we have to believe it is true. We have to earnestly expect God’s Word to be true. That is where the hope comes into the equation. In order to have hope, we need to be justified. In order to be justified, we have to have faith. We get faith through grace (How Do We Gain Salvation through Hope?).
Hope in Relation to Other Churchy Words
We gain assurance, which comes from God as we grow closer to God. It leads to hope (The Promise of Forgiveness).
As our faith grows, hope grows in tandem. They are holding hands in the process (How Do We Gain Salvation through Hope?).
Faith gives us peace and hope because it takes away the censure that we have for our sins. When we ask God to forgive us, He does (What Is Hope in God to a Disciple of Christ?).
Things hoped for” means it doesn’t have substance now. But faith is “… the substance of things hoped for …” (Heb. 11: 1 KJV). Faith makes the things we hope for in the future tangible now. It switches them from hope to reality (Faith in the Unseen).
Grace gave us access to salvation. Salvation purified us. It not only gave us unlimited opportunity to be in God’s presence, it also gives us hope in this life (How Do We Benefit from Being God’s People?).
Because grace has given us faith and justification, it has also given us hope and peace (Comprehending the Effects of Salvation).
Grace gives us eternal hope (How Do We Know We Have Eternal Hope?).
In order to have hope, we need to be justified. In order to be justified, we have to have faith. We get faith through grace. Let’s look at all of those elements (What Is Hope in God to a Disciple of Christ?).
There is hope for us because God is rich in mercy (Eph. 2: 4). Mercy comes out of God’s love, which is His character (I Jn. 4: 8) (How Are Disciples Merciful?).
Patience has the tenacity because it also has an element of hope (Patience as a Virtue).
Poor in spirit has aspects of humility, contentment, submission, gratitude, patience, and trust and hope in God (Fulfilling Scriptures).
Confidence is about having certainty in something. In churchy words, we say we believe in God. We have to have faith and trust. Faith is the belief that the doctrines stated in God’s Word are true, even if we do not understand all aspects of them. Trust is assurance that the promises of God are true. Assurance is another good word. It talks about certainty, too. Assurance leads to hope (How Are We to be Children of God?).
There is a progression of hope that come from navigating the Sanctification Road. It goes from new birth to a living hope to inheritance (How Do We Know We Have Eternal Hope?).
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