1. “Hope Does Not Disappoint”
Romans 5

2. Miriam Webster 2a : desire accompanied by expectation of or belief in fulfillment “came in hopes of seeing you also” expectation of fulfillment or success “no hope of a cure when they were young and full of hope” b : someone or something on which hopes are centered our only hope for victory c : something desired or hoped (see hope entry 1) for great hopes for the coming year

3. HOPE REQUIRES A PROMISE

4. There are hundreds of scriptures and prophecies fulfilled by Jesus while on earth. The Virgin Birth (Genesis 3:15, Luke 1:35) Genesis 14:18...A priest after Melchizedek...Hebrews 6:20 Genesis 22:8...The Lamb of God promised...John 1:29 Genesis 49:10...The time of His coming...Luke 2:1-7; Galatians 4:4 Exodus 12:46...Not a bone of the Lamb to be broken...John 19: Psalms 16: Was to arise from the dead...John 20:9

5. Jesus is the promised one You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. -Romans 5:6

6. Jesus is the promised one but the promise didn’t end with His coming in Bethlehem

7. Some (not all) of the Promises
Some (not all) of the Promises *That he prepares a place for us -John 14:2 *That he would be with us until the end of the age--Matthew 28:20 *That he would give us life -John 10:10 *That we are secure John 6: *Promise of the Resurrection-John 6:39

8. TRIBULATIONS(TRIALS) WILL COME
TRIBULATIONS(TRIALS) WILL COME * From Quarrels James 4:1-3 1What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you? 2You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

9. TRIBULATIONS(TRIALS) WILL COME
TRIBULATIONS(TRIALS) WILL COME * From those who hate God 18 “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. – John 15:18

10. TRIBULATIONS(TRIALS) WILL COME
TRIBULATIONS(TRIALS) WILL COME * Our Own Desires Romans 7: Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. 21So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22For in my inner being I delight in God's law; 23but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our LORD! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.

11. Tribulation
Perseverance

12. Tribulation
Perseverance
Character

13. Tribulation
HOPE
Perseverance
Character

14. Doesn’t Disappoint
HOPE

15. Doesn’t Disappoint
HOPE
WHY?

16. -the love of God has been poured out by God in our hearts
WHY?
-the love of God has been poured out by God in our hearts

17. Jesus asked the Father to send the Holy Spirit
How-
Jesus asked the Father to send the Holy Spirit
If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. 16And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever— 17the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.…
-John 14:16

18. The Abiding Gifts of the Spirit Include Love
How-
The Abiding Gifts of the Spirit Include Love
Corinthians 13: but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

19. The Question: What would you do if you were the only believer in Jesus Christ?

20. The Question: Would you worship?

21. The Question: Would you share?

22. The Question: Would you love?

23. Would you?