OUR GREAT

HOPE
Job 13:1-8
 Job 13:1-8
13 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and
understood it.
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What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
3 
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with
God.
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But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
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O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your
wisdom.
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Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
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Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
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Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
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Who built your hope?

Why do I need hope?

What can hope do to me?

Biblical hope is with faith and love?

 1 Corinthians 13:13
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the
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greatest of these is charity.

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Hope is nothing without faith and vice versa

Hope is nothing with love and vice versa

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The Hope they have in the Old Testament
are much greater to the hope we have in
modern times.

- Waiting for the prophesized messiah -

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Our hope today

- The second coming of the messiah whom many

saw it already. or the prophesized messiah -
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T R_ A_ V_ E_ R S_ E
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WITH THE FAITHLESS
1 Low level of advice

What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not

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inferior unto you.

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Lies under disguise

But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no

value.
3 Less important reasoning

O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it

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should be your wisdom.

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Lack of Knowledge
about God

Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully

for him?
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Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
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Is it good that he should search you out? or as one
man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
5 Leveraging God and
man’s favor

He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept

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persons.
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Legalizing error

Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his

dread fall upon you?
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Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies
to bodies of clay.
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Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and
let come on me what will.
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Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put
my life in mine hand?
“Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him:
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but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

He also shall be my salvation: for an

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hypocrite shall not come before him.

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RTU _S _ _ T
TO THE FAITHFUL
 2 Samuel 23:15-17
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And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of
the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!
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And the three mighty men brake through the host of the
Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by
the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would
not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD.
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And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this: is
not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives?
therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty
men.
1 Death is not an issue

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will

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maintain mine own ways before him.

2 Devoted to his cause

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will

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maintain mine own ways before him.

3 Determined Hope

He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall

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not come before him.

 Daniel 3:17-18
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If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us
from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of
thine hand, O king.
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But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not
serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou
hast set up.
“Hear diligently my speech,
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declaration with your ears.

and my

Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know

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that I shall be justified.

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T R_ _I U_ M
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TO THE FAITHFUL
 1 Samuel 17:44-47
44 
And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy
flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.
45 
Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a
sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the
name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom
thou hast defied.
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This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will
smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the
carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the
air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know
that there is a God in Israel.
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And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with
sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD's, and he will give you
into our hands.
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Confidence

Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with

your ears.
 Ephesians 3:9-13
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And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery,
which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who
created all things by Jesus Christ:
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To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in
heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom
of God,
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According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ
Jesus our Lord:
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In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the
faith of him.
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Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you,
which is your glory.
 Hebrews 3:6
But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we
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hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the
end.
2 Confronting

Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I

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shall be justified.
 Romans 5:5
And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love
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of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy

Ghost which is given unto us.
 1 Corinthians 15:19
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of
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all men most miserable.

 2 Corinthians 3:12
Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great
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plainness of speech:
 Colossians 1:5
For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven,
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whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of

the gospel;
CONCLUSION

This hope that cannot be broken even in

the midst of hopelessness

- With Hope , love and faith