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Introduction
The Power of Hope
What is hope?
Hope is an abstract idea.
A feeling.
An emotion or internal understanding.
Hard to compare to anything visible.
Hope is a sense that things are going to be great or get better.
The desire or longing for things to go our way.
Hope quotes: I hope you feel better soon.
I hope we can get together again.
We hope to grow as a church family.
Hope is a vision for better days that changes us in the present.
High Hope
When we have great hope, and our hope is anchored in something sure and reliable, it changes us.
It motivates us to reach out for what we’re hoping in.
To improve and build.
No Hope
What happens when we don’t have hope?
It is difficult to function.
We don’t have that drive to work for.
Lose All Hope
Losing all hope has a similar but negative effect as high hope.
Losing hope causes us to take stupid risks and not care about the end result.
Self destructive.
There is great power in hope.
Today we begin our Advent journey – the waiting – with hope.
Hope for the better days to come.
We’ll see the basis for our hope and the powerful impact that has on our lives.
Background - scripture ready slide
Abraham – Isaac – Jacob/Israel.
Moved into promised land.
Disobeyed God.
Asked for a king.
Series of good and bad kings.
Eventually the kingdom divided into Israel and Judah.
Holy city Jerusalem in Judah.
Jeremiah – the prophet of hope ministered through the last 40 years of Judah’s history (divided kingdom) to the destruction of Jerusalem in 586.
Jeremiah was appointed by God at 16 in 627 BC.
Jeremiah was appointed by God at 16 in 627 BC.
He reigned under Josiah who was a good king that restored worship in the temple.
Three other short reign kings who were not good, and then finally Zedekiah.
Throughout the good and bad, trials and persecution, Jeremiah always stayed faithful to God and His message.
Jeremiah consistently called the people, priests, and leaders out for idolatry and urged them to return to God.
In chapter 25, he prophesies Israel will be in captivity for 70 years and then return to reestablish the nation.
He told the kings to surrender to Babylon.
Then in 587 BC Jerusalem under siege by Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar during the reign of King Zedekiah.
Zedekiah believes he can beat Babylon.
Zedekiah believes he can beat Babylon.
Jeremiah warns Zedekiah that it’s over.
If he surrenders, he will live.
This is the word of the Lord.
Jeremiah’s basic message was this: Look deeper, king, because this isn’t a military thing; it’s a spiritual thing.
In other words, the people of God have rejected the covenant of God = idolatry, or spiritual adultery.
The other spiritual leaders and prophets were falsely telling the king what he wanted to hear, that he will beat Babylon, so Jeremiah is accused of being a traitor and put in jail.
Isaiah 31:31
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Isaiah 31:33
Isaiah 31:31
In chapter 31, Jeremiah prophesied a new covenant between God and His people – not of law and works written on stones, but of love and faith written in the heart.
Isaiah 31:33
In chapter 31, Jeremiah prophesied a new covenant between God and His people – not of law and works written on stones, but of love and faith written in the heart.
In chapter 31, Jeremiah prophesied a new covenant between God and His people – not of law and works written on stones, but of love and faith written in the heart.
In chapter 31, Jeremiah prophesied a new covenant between God and His people – not of law and works written on stones, but of love and faith written in the heart.
In chapter 31, Jeremiah prophesied a new covenant between God and His people – not of law and works written on stones, but of love and faith written in the heart.
In chapter 31, Jeremiah prophesied a new covenant between God and His people – not of law and works written on stones, but of love and faith written in the heart.
Chapter 32, while Jeremiah in prison another prophecy comes from God that Jeremiah is to buy a field from his cousin as a statement that Jerusalem will be restored after the 70 years of exile/captivity.
Leads to prophecy of restoration, peace, and prosperity.
(Is this like a holy time-out?
A God-given spanking?
Pain, injury, waiting, then restoration)
Leads to prophecy of restoration, peace, and prosperity.
Chapters 30-33 known as the Book of Consolation or Book of Hope.
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Hope Begins With a Promise
V.14 The days are coming when I will fulfill the good promise I made to the people of Israel and Judah.
The days are coming when I will fulfill the good promise I made to the people of Israel and Judah.
Notice that hope, according to the Bible, is a vision for better days: “The days are coming,” declares the Lord.
All throughout the Old Testament there are hints and pictures and clues that say the same thing: Better days are coming.
The clues and pictures are so powerful they should take our breath away.
Hope is based on faith in God and the proof of His faithfulness in keeping His promises.
Faith and hope feed each other.
We hope in the promise, and our faith grows which increases our hope
Faith and hope feed each other.
We hope in the promise, and our faith grows which increases our hope
Hope is based on faith in God and the proof of His faithfulness in keeping His promises.
If the story of Jesus, his birth, life, love, death, resurrection is not true, we have no hope.
We can believe it is true by backtracking to what Scripture tells of God’s promises and fulfilment.
and promises of blessing when they obeyed, curses when they did not.
Not just the obedience but focus.
On God or on idols
(Check out these promises and then also look at , .
Promises to give them the land and make them a great nation.
Also to Abraham.
Etc.)
To Abraham Land, Great Nation, Bless all people through you
We read throughout the Old and New testaments of God’s fulfilment of these promises.
Our hope begins with a promise.
A promise given by the one who is forever true.
A promise of better days to come.
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