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One Hope of Your CallingOur Hope is Heaven
Ephesians 4:1-62 Corinthians 4:16-5:1
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The Value of Hope
• Hope reaches into the future, attaching itself onto the thing or idea that we both desire and expect to receive. 1 Cor. 15:55-57
• Hope is not affected by externalities, and is a mental persuasion that even in the face of active persecution or intense pain, remains strong and active. 1 Cor. 15:58
• Hope fights sorrow, discouragement, failures, frustrations, even death itself. John 14:1-3
• Hope is the “Anchor of the Soul.” Hebrews 6:19,20
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Two Necessary Ingredientsof Hope
• If I desire a thing I can never receive, there is no hope.
• If I expect a thing that is not desirable, there is no hope.
• If I desire a thing and have a warm expectation to receive it, that is hope. 1 Pet 3:15 “the hope in you”.
DesireExpectation
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What Hope Does• Keeps Me on Course, focused like a Homing
Signal. I can see the journey’s end! It directs my vision. Titus 2:11,12
• Lightens My Load. Makes me unaware of the hardest burden, because of the light at the end of the way! 1 John 3:3
• Intensifies My Desires. I can achieve the goal, so hope becomes my second wind to finish the run! Heb 11:1 – It’s connected to faith.
• Provides Confidence. 2 Pet 1:4. His promises provide balm for the weary.
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Hope is Our Connection to Heaven
The days of our years are threescore years and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore years; yet is their pride but labor and sorrow; for it is soon gone and we fly away.
Psalm 90:10
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Our Hope is Heaven
• Gathered to My People– Gen 25:8, Abraham was– Genesis 25:17, Isaac was– Gen 49:29,33, Jacob was– Deut 32:50 comp’d to Deut 34:6 - Moses
and Aaron were
• Be with My Children, 2 Sam 12:23• Be with Each Other, 1 Thess 2:19• Be at Home with Loved Ones, 1
Thess 4:13,14
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Our Hope is Heaven
Will I Be Recognizable as Me? – At the Transfiguration, Moses and
Elijah were known. Mark 9:2-8– In Torment, the Rich Man recognizes
Lazarus and Abraham in Comfort. Luke 16:19-31
– Still, God will give me a changed, spiritual body. 1 Cor 15:51,52 and vs 44
– The Lord will clothe me with a body He has prepared, Phil 3:21
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Our Hope is a Powerful Force
We Will See Him as He Is I John 3:2,3
1 Pet 1:21 What a Powerful Incentive for Godly People:
Heb 11:24-272 Tim 4:6,7 esp. v 8
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What is the Hope of Your Calling
Eph 4:1-6
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You Were Called
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of His calling . . . Eph 1:18
Wherefore brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling . . . Heb 3:1
Give diligence to make your calling and election sure . . . 2 Pet 1:10
Him who called us by glory and virtue by which we have been given great and precious promises . . . 2 Pet 1:3b,4
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Your Calling
Greek “Klaysis” means “Invitation”This One Comes from Heaven and God
Himself Heb 3:1
How Were You Called? 2 Thess 2:14
So this is the “Hope of the Gospel”
Col 1:23
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Terms for the Hope of Your Calling
• 2 Thess 2:16 • Titus 2:13 • 1 Pet 1:3 • Col 1:27 • 1 Thess 5:8 • Col 1:5
• Sound, Useful• Happy• Breathing, Living• Splendor, Exalted State• Deliverance, Safety• Reserved, Awaiting
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Terms for the Hope of Your Calling
• 2 Thess 2:16 • Titus 2:13 • 1 Pet 1:3 • Col 1:27 • 1 Thess 5:8 • Col 1:5
• Sound, Useful• Happy• Breathing, Living• Splendor, Exalted State• Deliverance, Safety• Reserved, Awaiting
“Inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading . . .”
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Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. According to His great mercy, He has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you . . .
1 Peter 1:3-4