If you live without hope you are existing, not living the abundant life mentioned in God’s Word. “And now abide faith, hope and love…but the greatest of these is love.” Faith is what we give to God. Without faith it is impossible to please him. Love comes down to us from heaven, but hope is the expectation that connects us to God’s love. Without hope, it is impossible to keep the faith. Without faith, it is impossible to please God. What is the hope for inheritance and how do we obtain it?
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hope is an essential ingredient in the
life of every human
being without hope you may exist but you
will not live the life that Christ came
to give you according to John chapter 10
it says Christ came to give life more
abundantly and in order for you to live
that life you must be filled with hope
hope is your expectation that the God
who promised you is able to do what he
said he would do when you read the word
of God it says that our God is able to
do exceedingly abundantly above all that
we could ask think or
imagine now for us it might be difficult
to Fathom an individual who could do
anything beyond what we could add ask
think or imagine but when it comes to
God it is impossible for God to
lie Church it is
impossible for God to
lie that means that whatever he’s
promised you he will perform it whatever
he has told you in his word it doesn’t
matter how much time it takes it doesn’t
matter what you go through it doesn’t
matter all of the setbacks you face if
God God said it he has to do it because
it is impossible for God to
lie so how is it that we have a God who
cannot lie and yet we fail to believe in
him it’s because we do not understand
what hope truly
is Hope is essential
yes this is why Paul listed hope in 1
Corinthians chapter 13 He said now
abides faith hope and love but the
greatest of these is love look at this
verse as an equation what connects faith
and
love
hope stuck between your faith and God’s
love is
hope love is the greatest why because
love comes from God the Bible says God
is love the Bible tells us in John 3:16
God so loved the world that he gave his
only begotten son that whosoever
believes in Him should not perish but
have everlasting life God is The Giver
of love it pours out from Heaven faith
is what you give to God from your life
here on Earth Hebrews chapter 11 it says
without faith it is impossible to please
God if you came here today trying God
try
again because you don’t try God you have
faith in
God now when you have faith in God and
you send your faith to heaven the
challenge in your life exists whenever
there’s a distance between what you’re
believing for and what he’s pouring out
in
love and that’s where hope comes
in Hope connects you to that promise
hope is your expectation that God will
perform what he promised he would
perform when he’s ready to perform it in
your life when you’re prepared to
receive
it a lot of people want God to do what
they want to do right
away it’s what I call Are We There Yet
Christians how many of y’all taken that
road
trip you tell your kids we’re going on a
road trip and you ain’t passed the
mailbox and they go Are We There
Yet God’s Got got some kids that are
like
that they find a promise they hear a
word they receive a revelation from God
in their life and the next thing they
start asking is are we there yet are we
there yet are we there yet this is why
Paul tells this church in Hebrews we
have the full Assurance of Hope say that
with me we have the full Assurance of
Hope how do we have a full Assurance
because God said it that’s right plain
and
simple he said it and even still you
hear it and you go how is it impossible
for somebody to lie well you have to
understand this you’re not talking about
a man you’re talking about God you could
go to some of the brightest Minds on
Earth and ask them questions and they
will answer those questions like this I
think
so why because they don’t have full
certainty there’s a margin a measure of
doubt they think that there might be a
chance that could be wrong well guess
what when God answers a question there
is no margin of Doubt there is no error
or chance that he could be wrong he
knows
everything so whenever he says that he’s
going to do something he already has the
power to do what he said he could do and
he already knows that he’s going to do
it so if he knows everything and he can
do everything he cannot tell a lie
because once he says it it has to be
done
yeah this is why Paul begins Hebrews 6
by saying let’s leave behind the
elementary
things he’s saying quit asking God when
we’re going to get
there and just believe that if he said
you’re going it’s already
done he said for when God made a promise
to Abraham he uses Abraham here as an
example why because he’s writing to the
Hebrews
understand that the people he’s writing
to believe in Jesus Christ they have
accepted him as the Son of God they’ve
accepted him as the Risen Savior but
they come from a Jewish
tradition they’re not only Jewish in
their faith they’re Jewish in their
nationality so for them to leave Judaism
for Christianity was a major
jump and when they left they left expec
ing Jesus Christ to come
back why Acts chapter 1 ye men of
Galilee why stand ye here gazing this
same Jesus you will see just as you saw
him go they were waiting for Jesus to
return in their
lifetime they believed that he was
coming back sooner than
later and yet many years have passed and
decades have gone on and those who
didn’t think that they would ever see
death before Jesus came back they’ve
died and those who never thought they’d
be persecuted they’ve been persecuted
underneath Roman emperors and those that
thought it was going to be different it
wasn’t different and they’re wondering
where’s
Jesus Paul says listen
guys don’t get
sluggish don’t give up
hope remain diligent all the way to the
end in the full
assurance and if you find it hard to
believe just look to those verse 12
imitate
those who through faith and patience
inherit the
promises Paul gives these people some
great life advice if you want to be
successful find somebody who’s
successful and imitate
them and the reason I say that is
because there’s a lot of people who are
imitating the behaviors of individuals
who’ve never succeeded it
much they’ve been branded and they’ve
been marketed and they make you think
they’re really good at what they do but
the truth is they’re held up by a bunch
of other
stuff if you want to be successful you
find somebody who’s successful at what
you want to be successful at and just do
what they
do you know I often watch young kids as
they
imitate individuals and you think why
did they do
that and then we’ll get together as a
family and somebody will pop in one of
them old VHS
tapes and I’m on that
tape and I’m like why why did I do
that and thankfully what happens over
time is you grow out of those foolish
and immature things amen
amen and what Paul is telling these
Believers is it’s time for you to grow
out of the foolish and immature
things stop hanging around people who
are complaining about what God’s not
doing and start talking to people who
are praising God for who he is and what
he has
done stop spending your time debating
with people who do not believe and start
standing with people who have the
boldness to declare their faith stop
arguing with others who just want to
argue for argument sake and be the kind
of individual who’s surrounding yourself
with those who grow your faith whenever
you need to see a spiritual breakthrough
go hang out with somebody who’s had a
spiritual breakthrough and then let
their experience encourage you when you
need a healing go find somebody that God
has healed and spend some time with them
and let their faith encourage you when
you need a mountain to move go stand
next to somebody who’s seen mountains
move and say hold my hand while I speak
to that mountain because if two or three
of us coming together in agreement
concerning anything whatever we ask in
jesus’ name he’ll do it child of God
you’ve got somebody in your life who can
pull Heaven Down to Earth on your behalf
go stand with them go walk with them go
talk with them but whatever you do don’t
give up
hope Paul says you look to those people
and you imitate
them because they lived in the full
assurance of
Hope and then he gets very involved in
the details of Abraham’s life in Hebrews
chapter 6 If Abraham wasn’t
enough throughout the rest of the book
of Hebrews we come to the chapter in
Hebrews 11 where he’s talking about the
heroes of the
faith and he gets all the way to the
heroes of the faith and he says for what
more should I say because time would
fail me to tell you how they through
faith and says they subdued kingdoms
they worked righteousness they obtained
promises they stopped Lions they
quenched violence they escaped the sword
out of weakness they were made strong
they received their dead back to
life and then he says but while they got
a
testimony they didn’t obtain the
promise because God provided something
better say that with me God provided
something better for
us Abraham had a testimony but he didn’t
get the promise Moses had a testimony
but he didn’t get the promise Joshua had
a testimony but he didn’t get the
promise David had a testimony but he
didn’t get the promise Daniel had a
testimony but he didn’t get the promise
Elijah had a testimony but he didn’t get
the promise Elisha had a testimony but
he didn’t get the promise how much
farther do I have to go before you
realize that there’s a whole lot of
people that came before you that didn’t
get what you’ve got from from God today
don’t sit here and wonder does he love
me does he care for me what’s he going
to do for me he did it all when he gave
you the
promise as the world around us seems to
take a very dark turn you might ask
yourself is it possible to prosper in
every area of life even in such perilous
times the answer is yes are you trusting
him to lead the way and show you what
steps to take next in him you have the
ability to prosper to help you grow in
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storm and what was that
promise Hebrews chapter 12 it says
looking unto
Jesus Jesus was the
promise Jesus was the promise God gave
gave us something better it was Jesus
Christ looking unto Jesus the author and
the finisher of our faith what did he do
just like Abraham endured Jesus endured
just like Moses endured Jesus endured
just like David endured Jesus endured if
you’re wondering why you have to endure
in your life because if Jesus did it you
will
too but what did he receive once he had
endured his
inheritance he endured the cross he
despised the shame and the verse says he
sat
down at the right hand side of the
father he said I waited and I worked and
I did what you sent me to do and now
I’ll receive what you said I could
have and Paul tells us back in Hebrews
chapter 6
he says ‘ if you don’t have this full
Assurance of Hope if you don’t have
faith and patience you will not inherit
the
promise you say well I don’t read that
in my Bible Well if he says faith and
patience is how you inherit if you don’t
have faith and patience guess what you
don’t
inherit why because there’s a danger
when you don’t take God at his word
verse 13-9 I know I read a lot of
scripture today probably more than some
of yall y read in a
month Paul is underneath the power of
the Holy Spirit telling God’s children
how God makes a
promise and he begins by saying that
whenever God makes a promise he promises
by himself because he cannot find anyone
greater have you ever made a
promise and somebody wanted validation
that you were going to do what you
said remember when we were kids and
somebody say really you go oh Scouts
Honor
you didn’t even have to be in the scouts
if you could just hold up three fingers
it was like Scouts
Honor but it says when God is looking
for something that he can put the
substance of an oath in he makes The
Oath by him because he can’t find
anything greater than
him and so what he’s saying is when you
treat me god with the same suspicion
that you do other
men you let go of
Hope and you you don’t get my promise
and you don’t get your inheritance in
your
life it’s not that you’ve cut God’s
power off it’s that you disconnected
yourself from God’s
power read in the gospels where it says
that when Jesus went to Nazareth he
could do no Mighty works there it didn’t
say he couldn’t do
work it said because those people didn’t
believe who he was and what he was he
couldn’t do the work because they
disconnected themselves from the
power so when God makes you a promise
he’s making the promise based on
himself and when you look at him and go
really do you really mean
it
promise prove to me you mean
it God just says
no if I’m not good
enough and if my word is not good
enough and my immutability which means
my unchanging he says go check me all
the way back to Genesis and follow me
all the way to Revelation and see where
I shifted and turned I haven’t moved I’m
the same yesterday today and
forever if all of that is not
enough then you’re
disconnected you lose what I promised
you you but I still have the power and I
still have the
promise and so God shows
us Verse 18 that by two immutable things
his word and his
will it is impossible for God to
lie that we might have strong
consolation what kind of consolation
strong consolation
strong consolation why is it strong
consolation you know whenever you’ve had
a bad day it’s one thing for a friend to
come by and go hey man it’s going to get
better I appreciate that that’s
encouragement but it’s all together
different when I’ve had a bad
day and Dad reaches
out and he puts his hand of consolation
on my life and he says son I believe in
you it’s going to get better it’s going
to get better it’s going to get
better father God through his word and
through his will he gives us fatherly
consolation this is not just somebody
this is the one and
only who’s wrapping his arms around you
and saying I’ve got you I’ll keep you I
know you I pray promised you I get you
when nobody else does I get you when you
don’t get me don’t let go of my word
don’t let go of my promise keep holding
on to Hope because I promise you this
you’re going to make it my word will
come to pass what I said I would do I
will do hope in me don’t let go of me he
wraps his arms around you and he gives
you the consolation that only a father
can give and it gives you the ability to
say I can do all things through Christ
who gives me
strength and then if that don’t beat
all in verse 19 he says because this
hope we have as an anchor of the
soul and then he describes where our
soul is is
anchored it’s sure and it’s
steadfast and it enters the presence
behind the
veil now remember he’s talking to people
who understand
Judaism if he’ have wrote this to
another group of believers they would
have needed
explanation but because he’s writing to
Children of Abraham and he’s writing to
those who grew up in the law of Moses
they understand what behind the veil
means
when God wanted to live with his
children he told Moses how to design the
Tabernacle and the Tabernacle was God’s
blueprint for his presence to come be
with his
children this is where the Bible says in
his presence is the fullness of
joy David said I was glad when they said
unto me let us go into the house of the
Lord why because in the house of the
Lord that’s the temple that’s the
Tabernacle there’s God’s
presence so he begins to describe to
them the veil and what he’s talking
about is a pathway that leads from the
beginning of the outer Court into the
inner Court into the holy place and then
into the holiest of holies behind the
veil now only on certain
days could the high priest go into the
holy of holies and if he came at the
wrong time or if he came at the wrong
way a sinful man in the presence of a
holy God would be
killed it was just the Holiness of God
that would strike him
dead they would actually tie a rope
around the high priest’s foot with a
bell on it and if the Bell quit ringing
they’d start dragging him out and they’d
look at the associate pastor say it’s
your
Sunday You Preach Today
God took Holiness
seriously and so what he is saying
Paul is that the way that you know even
if the consolation of your father isn’t
enough and the fact that God is not able
to lie isn’t enough the way that you
know that the promise of God is real and
it’s going to come to pass is that it is
the anchor of your
soul and the way that the anchor of your
soul got behind the
veil is that jesus carried the burden of
your soul to a place called
Calvary and when he got to Calvary and
he said it is
finished he tore down that Veil that
kept you from the presence of God and he
took every promise that was in the word
of God for your life and he anchored it
right behind the anchor of God God’s
promises and he said as long as you have
faith in God and you hold on with
expectation to hope you may drift and
you may toss and you may turn and you
may seem like you’re getting a long way
from where you started but if you’ve got
a hold of Hope sooner or later that hope
is going to pull you back to the Anchor
that you’re solid in to the word that
has never failed you to the thing that
God has promised you you don’t have to
give up today because God’s Got You just
hold on in hope it doesn’t matter what
you go through you’ve got an anchor that
says you can go through a storm of
sickness and you’re anchored to a Healer
you can go to a place of need and you’re
anchored to a provider you can go to a
place of loneliness and you’re anchored
to a friend that’s closer than a brother
and then whenever you start to pull on
this rope you don’t get farther away
from him when you start to pull on this
rope he brings you back into his
presence where there is the the fullness
of joy and at the right hand there are
Pleasures everm more I don’t know who
I’m talking to here today but somebody’s
holding on to the rope and they’re
hoping that God’s going to come through
Don’t Let Go God’s Got You God’s Got You
God’s got you he cannot lie he will not
lie if he said it he’ll do it give the
Lord a hand clap of praise
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this is why we used to sing my hope is
built on nothing less than Jesus blood
and
righteousness I dare not trust the
sweetest
frame but wholly lean on Jesus
name I have an
anchor and it’s on Christ the solid rock
I
stand it doesn’t matter how strong
strong The Winds of Life blow I have an
anchor it doesn’t matter how hard the
waves hit the side of my boat I have an
anchor it doesn’t matter what they
predict for the weather oh don’t go
sailing today it’s not going to be
smooth Seas out there in the economy it
don’t matter I’ve got an
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anchor and my anchor cannot
lie and my anchor knows everything
thing and my anchor can do
everything therefore who am I to say
what hope do I
have my hope is in God and God
Alone would you stand in his
presence father today we thank you for
the solid rock of of your truth of your
word of your grace and your
mercy we thank you that every promise is
yes and
amen in Christ
Jesus that there isn’t one thing that
you’ve ever promised that you failed to
perform so for every promise that you’ve
made we Rejoice that it is already
kept for everything that we’ve asked for
we believe in faith that we should
receive because we ask in faith
believing doubting nothing knowing that
With God all things are
possible we thank you for this in the
mighty name of Jesus our lord and our
savior amen and amen could you imagine
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given us that the Gates of Hell cannot
Prevail and that we have authority on
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