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1 Peter 3:15. But sanctify the LORD God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the HOPE that is in you, with meekness and fear. What is HOPE ?. Hebrew: tiqvah ( teek-va ) Literal meaning: cord (Joshua 2:18)
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1 Peter 3:15 But sanctify the LORD God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the HOPE that is in you, with meekness and fear
What is HOPE? Hebrew: tiqvah (teek-va) Literal meaning: cord (Joshua 2:18) Figurative meaning: expectation; something yearned for; eager anticipation; something for which one waits
What is HOPE? Greek: Elpis (el-pees) A sense of confident expectation based on solid certainty
What does HOPE look like to us? Our solid certainty is this: WE WILL BE REUNITED WITH CHRIST
What does HOPE look like to us? Numbers 23:19 “God is not man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind.”
What does HOPE look like to us? Lamentations 3:19-24 “Remember my affliction and roaming, the wormwood and the gall. My soul still remembers and sinks within me. This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope. Through the Lord’s mercies we are note consumed,
What does HOPE look like to us? Lamentations 3:19-24 “Because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. ‘The LORD is my portion,’ says my soul, ‘Therefore I have hope in Him.’”
What does HOPE look like through us? Isaiah 61:1-3 1 The Spirit of the LORD GOD is upon Me, because the Lord has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
What does HOPE look like through us? Isaiah 61:1-3 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, And the day of vengeance of our God; To comfort all who mourn,
What does HOPE look like through us? Isaiah 61:1-3 3 To console those who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; That they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.