Hope In God's Word
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Introduction
Introduction
Greetings...
Last week we looked at “Dedication To God’s Word” from as we have started a series of lessons on “God’s Word In ).
Last week we notice the need to be dedicated to God’s wondrous and deserving Word.
We also studied how God’s Word demands we shun sin.
This week we are going to be looking at where we find “Hope In God’s Word.”
With that in mind let us examine our lesson for today.
Hope Answers Critics
Hope Answers Critics
Hoping in God’s Word creates critics.
Hoping in God’s Word creates critics.
It cannot be stated enough, when we hope in God and the light of His Word there will be a response from those in the dark because light exposes those that lurk in the darkness and they do not like that.
Light exposes those that lurk in the darkness and they do not like that.
19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. 20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.
This is why Paul, inspired by God, clearly wrote...
12 Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
21 When they had preached the gospel to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch, 22 strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.
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Hoping in God’s Word answers critics.
Hoping in God’s Word answers critics.
Because walking in the light creates critics from those in the dark we must be ready when they come to give an answer.
15 but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,
Our hope in salvation is the answer to the critics.
41 Let your steadfast love come to me, O Lord, your salvation according to your promise; 42 then shall I have an answer for him who taunts me, for I trust in your word. 43 And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, for my hope is in your rules.
Ps 119:
We must respond to those “who ask for a reason for the hope that is in us” because...
47 for I find my delight in your commandments, which I love.
Summary
Summary
Our hope in salvation “according to God’s promise” should be beaming forth from each of us so much so that those in the darkness are forced to come and respond.
It’s then we are able to answer the critic of God’s Word and that answer is the “hope of salvation in God’s Word.”
This assurance and confidence of “having the answer” should give “us” comfort.
This is why...
Hope Creates Comfort
Hope Creates Comfort
Hope creates comfort in affliction.
Hope creates comfort in affliction.
Yes, the light of God’s Word creates critics against the righteous because of lawlessness’ desire to stay hidden but it also creates comfort in the one “walking in the light.”
49 Remember your word to your servant, in which you have made me hope. 50 This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life.
49 Remember your word to your servant, in which you have made me hope. 50 This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life.
49 Remember your word to your servant, in which you have made me hope. 50 This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life. 51 The insolent utterly deride me, but I do not turn away from your law. 52 When I think of your rules from of old, I take comfort, O Lord.
Knowing we have the “word of life” and hope in heaven allows to have “comfort in our afflictions” or as Paul would state it “a peace that surpasses all understanding.”
51 The insolent utterly deride me, but I do not turn away from your law. 52 When I think of your rules from of old, I take comfort, O Lord.
7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Hope creates comfort in indignation
Hope creates comfort in indignation
The Hebrew word for “hot indignation” means “scorching rage.”
Far too few in the church react to sin with “scorching rage” maybe “watered whimpering” but not scorching rage.
A person who has their hope in salvation should have a scorching rage toward all sin not just those they are discussed by.
We see a lot of people hating the sin of homosexuality and abortion but often have no problem with those that “neglect the assembly of the saints” or those that “bring reproach on the church.”
Why is it that we often don’t react to sin like we should, with the fervor and zeal against it like we should?
Because, it’s uncomfortable for many to feel this way about anything much less all sin.
As we see in having a “scorching rage” toward sin actually brings comfort.
51 The insolent utterly deride me, but I do not turn away from your law. 52 When I think of your rules from of old, I take comfort, O Lord. 53 Hot indignation seizes me because of the wicked, who forsake your law. 54 Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my sojourning.
51 The insolent utterly deride me, but I do not turn away from your law. 52 When I think of your rules from of old, I take comfort, O Lord. 53 Hot indignation seizes me because of the wicked, who forsake your law.
56 This blessing has fallen to me, that I have kept your precepts.
When we have a hatred for sin it will lead us to a comfort only found in God and His Word.
This is a blessin
This blessing or comfort takes place if we hate sin enough to “put it to death” in our lives.
Ps 119:
56 This blessing has fallen to me, that I have kept your precepts.
2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. 5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
Col 3:
15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
This is the only way one could find comfort and understanding in the Word of Christ.
Summary
Summary
The hope of salvation should creates comfort in affliction and in the hot indignation of sin in each of us which Jesus clearly demonstrates in .
8 And when they lifted up their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus only. 9 And as they were coming down the mountain, Jesus commanded them, “Tell no one the vision, until the Son of Man is raised from the dead.”
Like the apostles we have a hope in God and the promises of salvation and this should bring us comfort in affliction.
8 And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire. 9 And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire.
Like the apostle Paul who “shook the dust off his feet” from those
Conclusion
Conclusion
Our “Hope In God’s Word” will create critics and answer those critics and it will create comfort in those uncomfortable situations.
If we “lift up our hands toward God’s commandments, which we love, and meditate on His statutes” we will have blessings from above.
Invitation
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
32 “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.
8 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
1 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.