What is Your Christian Hope?

[Rachael1448]

PROPHECY AND CHRISTIAN LIVING


[SIZE="3"]What is Your Christian Hope? Can you put it into words?
Dr. David R. Reagan

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In 1 Corinthians 13:13 the apostle Paul wrote that there are three cardinal Christian virtues "faith, hope and love." As I was thinking about this statement one day, it suddenly occurred to me that I had heard hundreds of sermons on faith and love, but hardly any on hope.


What about you? Can you remember hearing a single sermon about hope? How would you articulate your hope? How would you define it? How would you put it into words?

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[Paula W.]

This one is always my favorite because it gives me so much hope! :celebrate

And I did read this many times even tho I didn't read as usual, it is in my heart! :bounce :praise

[Rachael1448]

amen Paula and we need hope in today's world. Rach :)

[Doobie56]

Jeramiah 29:11
A Hope for our Future ...I really enjoyed what you had here written here Rachael..thanks for sharing that!

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PROPHECY AND CHRISTIAN LIVING


[SIZE=3]What is Your Christian Hope? Can you put it into words?
Dr. David R. Reagan




In 1 Corinthians 13:13 the apostle Paul wrote that there are three cardinal Christian virtues "faith, hope and love." As I was thinking about this statement one day, it suddenly occurred to me that I had heard hundreds of sermons on faith and love, but hardly any on hope.


What about you? Can you remember hearing a single sermon about hope? How would you articulate your hope? How would you define it? How would you put it into words?

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Rachael, Hi & welcome to our board.

Hate to start off like this but they don't call me the Queen of Copyright fer nuthin'! :nails

Now I need to point out our Rules (http://www.prophecyfellowship.org/rules.php), specifically the one regarding copyright. (http://www.prophecyfellowship.org/faq.php?faq=rr_rules_clarification#faq_rr_rules2_copyright)

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We'd appreciate ya reading them :thankyou

[Rachael1448]

Rachael, Hi & welcome to our board.

Hate to start off like this but they don't call me the Queen of Copyright fer nuthin'! :nails

Now I need to point out our Rules (http://www.prophecyfellowship.org/rules.php), specifically the one regarding copyright. (http://www.prophecyfellowship.org/faq.php?faq=rr_rules_clarification#faq_rr_rules2_copyright)

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We'd appreciate ya reading them :thankyou

OIC ...Understand ..so sorry about that. :) I'll be sure to observe the rules in the future. Apologies once again.

Rach.

[Abba'sLil'Girl]

Hebrews 11:1

1Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

What we are sure of, hope for and are certain of . . .

Hebrews 10

1The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. 2If it could, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. 3But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins, 4because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

5Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said:
"Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,
but a body you prepared for me;
6with burnt offerings and sin offerings
you were not pleased.
7Then I said, 'Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll—

I have come to do your will, O God.' " 8First he said, "Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them" (although the law required them to be made). 9Then he said, "Here I am, I have come to do your will." He sets aside the first to establish the second. 10And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

11Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God. 13Since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool, 14because by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.

15The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says:
16"This is the covenant I will make with them
after that time, says the Lord.
I will put my laws in their hearts,
and I will write them on their minds." 17Then he adds:
"Their sins and lawless acts
I will remember no more." 18And where these have been forgiven, there is no longer any sacrifice for sin. 19Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, 20by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, 21and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. 23Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. 24And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. 25Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

26If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, 27but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. 28Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? 30For we know him who said, "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," and again, "The Lord will judge his people." 31It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

32Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you stood your ground in a great contest in the face of suffering. 33Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated. 34You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions.

35So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. 36You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. 37For in just a very little while,
"He who is coming will come and will not delay.
38But my righteous one will live by faith.
And if he shrinks back,
I will not be pleased with him." 39But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are saved.

Because of Jesus Christ, and our faith in Him, what we hope for is a comforting thing. Not only will we see Him face to face one day, but we have the hope that we will see our brethren and loved ones in Christ. Death has not won. Life - in perfect peace - lives on.

Grace and Peace to you.

[penbrat]

Dr. Regan is amazing

[Rachael1448]

Dr. Regan is amazing

Amen to that! :)