Eternal Hope

Eternal Hope

“Who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil.” (Hebrews 6:18-19)

Our hope is anchored to God’s promises as put forth in His Holy Word. Hope is not used here as an act but rather as a face. It refers to a solid gift from God. Hope is not a wishful attitude but rather a justified expectation of reviving something promised by God. Our strong faith will certainly cause it come to pass as a good gift from our Father in Heaven.

First, Paul writes to us that our good hope comes from both “our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father” (2 Thessalonians 2:16). Furthermore, such hope is given to us along with “everlasting consolation,” or comfort, which shall last forever. The Father and Son have done this “through grace” which brings eternal salvation wherein lies all hope..

Next, Paul wrote to the Thessalonians; “looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ” (Titus 2:13). This blessed hope can be none other than “our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope” (1 Timothy 1:1). You can certainly know that He will return for His bride (the true church) and have peace of mind in that knowledge.

In the resurrected body of Jesus Christ we have a hope that cannot be refuted. “The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead” (1 Peter 1:3). We who have accepted Christ as our Lord and Savior, have been born again from the dead state of sin. Our proof, if God’s word was not sufficient without qualification, we know that just as surely as Christ has been raised from the dead, for His resurrection accomplished it, we have hope in His promises. Hope without end, through grace, is guaranteed by Jesus Christ: “A better hope . . . by the which we draw nigh unto God” (Hebrews 7:19) than that which was possible under the Mosaic law law. In fact, it is a glorious hope (2 Corinthians 3:11-14) by comparison.

This kind of hope can be “an anchor of the soul.”  For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.  Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ. Know God, know peace Amem BLL 12-24-2018