Pick Your Question on HOPE! Name one thing you either HOPE will happen to you or you will get to do this year. What do you HOPE will be different about life 5 years from now?

Luke 24:12-35

LUKE 24 14 They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. 15 As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; 16 but they were kept from recognizing him. 17 He asked them, “What are you discussing together as you walk along?”

LUKE 24 They stood still, their faces downcast LUKE 24 They stood still, their faces downcast. 18 One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, “Are you the only one visiting Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?” 19 “What things?” he asked.

LUKE 24 “About Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied LUKE 24 “About Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people. 20 The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him; 21 but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel.”

How would you define HOPE? Hope: a positive expectation or certainty of good that is yet to come.

What is the relationship between hope and the character or actions of someone?

LUKE 24:21 “…but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel.”

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Eager, patient, expectant, grace-filled faith experiences with Christ Galatians 5:4 & 5 Eager, patient, expectant, grace-filled faith experiences with Christ “You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. 5 For through the Spirit we eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope.”

Faith & love…. Colossians 1:4 & 5 “We have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all God’s people— 5 the faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for you in heaven…. “

Endurance in the work of Christ I Thessalonians 1:3 Endurance in the work of Christ “We remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Strength to labor and strive in ministry I Timothy 4:10 Strength to labor and strive in ministry “…we labor and strive, because we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all people, and especially of those who believe.”

I Corinthians 15:14, 17, 18 14 And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.  17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. 18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost.

I Peter 1:3, 4 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade.

Hebrews 6:16-19 16 People swear by someone greater than themselves, and the oath confirms what is said and puts an end to all argument. 17 Because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of his purpose very clear to the heirs of what was promised, he confirmed it with an oath. 

Hebrews 6:16-19 18 God did this so that, by two unchangeable things [His nature & His word] in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be greatly encouraged. 19 We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. 

“What in your life needs to be grounded more in Jesus?”

Are YOU anchored in Jesus Christ?

EPHESIANS 1:18—that they “may know the hope to which he [God] has called them….” 4:4--“There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called….”   1:12--“…who were the first to put our hope in Christ… so that we “might be for the praise of his glory.”

Proverbs 13:12 “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.”

Romans 15:13 “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.”