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Understanding Biblical Hope: A Call to Prepare and Share Your Faith

This reflection delves into the nature of hope from a biblical perspective, grounded in Peter 3:15, which encourages believers to sanctify the Lord in their hearts and be ready to provide answers about their faith. Exploring the meanings of hope in Hebrew (tiqvah) and Greek (Elpis), we discuss its implications—expectation, yearning, and confident certainty rooted in God’s promises. The text highlights key scriptures, including Lamentations and Isaiah, illustrating how hope manifests in our lives and through our actions, emphasizing the unwavering faithfulness of God.

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Understanding Biblical Hope: A Call to Prepare and Share Your Faith

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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. What is HOPE? Greek: Elpis (el-pees) A sense of confident expectation based on solid certainty

  4. What does HOPE look like to us? Our solid certainty is this: WE WILL BE REUNITED WITH CHRIST

  5. 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.”

  6. 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,

  7. 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.’”

  8. 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;

  9. 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,

  10. 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.

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