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message three: christourhope
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease;
as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but
when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a
child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up
childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part;
20 December 2015
then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
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So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:8-13
FROM THE PROPHET ISAIAH
“The Root of Jesse will spring up, one who will arise to rule over the nations; in him the
Gentiles will hope.” "
Isaiah 11: 10
FROM THE APOSTLE JOHN
“See how great a love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called children
INTRO:
Today we have lit the 4 candle of our advent celebration, and it is the candle of hope. We
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have done so because the impact of Christ’s coming for us is that he has completed our
hope. By His sacrifice on the cross for our sins, he who knew no sin has taken his
righteousness and covered us. He has become ours, so that our hope, our trust, our
confidence has been met in Him.
of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not
know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we
shall be. We know that, when He appears, we shall be like Him, because we shall see
Him just as He is. And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as
Now the words that are translated for us in our Bible, both from the Hebrew language and
the Greek are many, In fact the Bible is filled with them. And in looking at these words we
gain a Biblical understanding of God meant when he gave us His word regarding our
hope.
He is pure.
1 John 3: 1-3
Today I want us to look at some of these passages, and leave us with a working definition
FROM THE APOSTLE PAUL
of what we mean we say – Merry Christmas, Christ is my hope.
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our
Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in
which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice
in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces
character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because
WE USE HOPE TO DESCRIBE THINGS WHICH ARE UNCERTAIN
God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to
us.
Romans 5:1-5
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may
abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Romans 15:13
1.
We use it to express a wish or desire that something might be: “I hope it rains”
2.
Then we use it to express our understanding that what is wised for or desired is
our only chance – like “our only hope is that it rains.”
THE BBLES USES THE WORD HOPE TO DESCRIBE SOMETHING WHICH IS
CERTAIN
And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
1.
To hope in God means to trust in Him today
Hebrews 11:1 ESV
“The Root of Jesse will spring up, one who will arise to rule over the nations; in
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
him the Gentiles will hope.” "Isaiah 11: 10
Psalm 39:7 ESV
“And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in you.
Romans 15:13 ESV
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the
Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
Romans 5:2-5 ESV
Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and
we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings,
knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and
character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has
been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
3.
To hope in God means to trust Him for victory over
death
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you
2.
To hope in God means to trust Him for tomorrow
may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and
rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV
until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel,
give you a future and a hope.
Psalm 9:18 ESV
For the needy shall not always be forgotten, and the hope of the poor shall not perish
forever
1 John 3:3 ESV
and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we
who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the
Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore encourage one
another with these words.
1 Thess. 4:13-18
4.
Our hope (trust, waiting, confidence) in God will last
into the heaven
1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.