▪︎ But God protects us – Prov 4:18; 1Chron 29:15; Ps 39:12; Ezek 34:24-25;
▪︎ He gives us a living hope in Christ – 1Peter 1:3;
▪︎ God projects His hope on to His creation – Rom 8:20; Rom 8:24-25; 26;
▪︎ Hope is continually satisfied for His children – Rom 8:38-39.
▪︎ Hope prevails, if we continue in His word – Rom 15:4, 12-13;
▪︎ God’s word brings hope to us strangers – Ps 119:19-20, 54;
▪︎ God brought Abraham out of an idolatrous past – Heb 11:8, 9-10; Josh 24:3, 6; (full text – Josh_24:2-8
2Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘From ancient times your lived beyond the River, namely, Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, and they served other gods. 3‘Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him through all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants and gave him Isaac. 4‘To Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau, and to Esau I gave Mount Seir to possess it; but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt. 5‘Then I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt by what I did in its midst; and afterward I brought you out. 6‘I brought your fathers out of Egypt, and you came to the sea; and Egypt pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea. 7‘But when they cried out to the LORD, He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them and covered them; and your own eyes saw what I did in Egypt. And you lived in the wilderness for a long time. 8‘Then I brought you into the land of the Amorites who lived beyond the Jordan, and they fought with you; and I gave them into your hand, and you took possession of their land when I destroyed them before you.
); ▪︎ God is the one on whom we’ve set our hope – 2Cor 1:10; 1Tim 1:1;
▪︎ Lessons of hope – Lev 19:34, 25:23; Heb 11:1; John 4:34, 38; 15:16; Ps 119:116; Rom 5:2-3, 4-5, 11; 1Peter 3:5; Exod 23:9;
▪︎ Waiting for the hope of righteousness – Gal 5:5
▪︎ Some hope in Moses , not me – John 5:45;
▪︎ Hope is fueled by God’s provision – Lam 3:21-24; Ezra 9:8;