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THERE IS HOPE
“It’s been said that man can live about 40 days without food, about 3 days without water, and about 8 minutes without air - but only 1 second without hope!”
“The Encyclopaedia Britannica devotes many columns to the topic of ‘love’, and devotes even many more to ‘faith’. But ‘hope’? - poor little hop! It’s not even listed!” (Karl Menninger)
Job 7:6 “My days fly past so quickly...and are spent without hope.”
Someone’s definition of life: “life is hard - then you die!”
Example Song: “The world is a bad place, a bad place, a terrible place to live - but I don’t wanna die…” (honest words, sad words - but little hope!)
Eph. 2:12 “...without Christ...having no hope and without God in the world.”
1 Cor. 15:19 “If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are the most pitiful.”
Note: ‘Hope’ is to do with the unseen and the future (Gk. “favourable & confident expectation”)
“Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless.” (G.K. Chesterton)
“What oxygen is for the lungs, so is hope for the meaning of life.” (Emil Brunner)
Rom. 15:13 “The God of hope”
Psalm 39:7b “My hope is in You”
1 Tim. 1:13 “I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violently arrogant man; but I obtained mercy”
Acts 24:15 “I have hope in God… that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust.”
Romans 5:5a “Now hope (in God) does not disappoint”
Prov. 23:18 “...surely there is a hereafter, and your hope will not be cut off.”
Titus 1:2 “in hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began”
1 Peter 1: 3 “a living hope”
1 Tim. 1:1 “the Lord Jesus Christ our hope”
Titus 2:13 “looking for the blessed hope, and glorious appearing of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ”
1 Peter 1:13 “rest your hope fully upon the grace…of Jesus Christ”
Rom 5:2 “through (Jesus Christ) we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God”
Heb. 6:19 “This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure (safe; certain) and steadfast (firm; secure)”