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Sunday, May 15, 2022

Bible Study with the Cincotti's - Hope Does Not Disappoint - 05/15/2022


 Today's Bible Study, Authored by Arthur Cincotti. 05/15/2022

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Hope does not Disappoint!

 

“And now abide faith, hope, love, …” I Cor. 13:13

 

What is hope?

It seems important to know since right now, and at any given time, we, and everyone listening to my voice is hoping for something.

 

Hope is forward seeking. It’s difficult for us to imagine that Adam and Eve may have lived in a world where hope was unnecessary because they were completely satisfied. Satan dangled a temptation, and opened up a hope in Eve, but it was for something she already had.

Through their disobedience, they lost what they already possessed, started the clock ticking, corruption set in, and they entered the world of hope,”

 

Hope differs from faith in that hope is forward looking, whereas faith is possessed in the hear and now. Rom. 8:24, “but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees?”

 

Our culture is steeped in hope, but it is a distracted hope. Remember the flags with the purple square? I believe that if you asked people what they are hoping for, they wouldn’t know. You may receive a scattered variety of answers focused on very temporal, and pacifying applications.

 

This seems to indicate that there is much to hope for, but begs the question what is of value; world peace? End of suffering? Chicken in every pot? Winning season for the Red Sox?

 

In Ps. 42:9&10, the psalmist identifies his anxiety; the “oppression” and “reproach” of his enemy. His solution is, “hope in God.” vr. 5&11

 

As believers our deepest hope is to see Jesus face to face. Our

I Cor. passage precedes with vr. 12 which says, “For we see now in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face…”

Also, Tit. 2:13, “looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.”

 

But many lesser hopes compel us through this life until that day. Otherwise we may despair, like Job, “My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle. And are spent without hope.” Ps. 71:14 compels us to, “hope continually”.

 

Paul, speaking of Abraham, “who believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”, in Rom. 4:18, says, “who, contrary to hope, in hope believed so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken”.

 

Abraham didn’t even see this in his life time, but he was given a promise, and we see the fulfillment of this which encourages us to hope.

 

We, likewise, have promises from God, and of those promises we       can know what we poses and what lies before us.

In the realm of, “what lies before us” our command is to wait.

 

Ps. 33:18, “Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear Him , upon them that hope in His mercy; To deliver their soul from death…”  Andrew Murray comments, in “Waiting on God”;

“Fear and hope are generally thought to be in conflict with each other, in the presence and worship of God they are found side by side in perfect and beautiful harmony. And this because in God Himself all apparent contradictions are reconciled.”

 

Completing the lesson of Rom 8:25, “But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.”

“Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been pour out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.”

                                                                        Rom. 5:5

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