“Our Hope, and How It Helps”

Nov.27, 2011 Rom.5:1-5  Play AUDIO (32 kbps mp3)

WHAT BOUNDARIES TO THIS-WORLD DESPERATION?

•    “Black Friday” shopping craze threatens family bonds, religious holiday’s meaning
•    without hope of afterlife, resort to passionate lust, eating, drinking
•    secular thought: hope a “temporary illusion”
•    yet the human soul longs for genuine hope

WHAT IS HOPE’S CONTENT?

•    HiGkJ: H___ i_ G__ k______ J____
•    God’s love, redemption, compassions, word
•    NT: resurrection, eternal life, salvation, glory, righteousness

HOW DO YOU GET HOPE?

•    call to mind God’s revealed loving nature, grace
•    accessed by faith
•    worked-out with perseverance

WHAT’S THE EFFECT OF HOPE?

•    security / assurance
•    protection
•    joy
•    further faith
•    endurance
•    self-control, purity
•    piqued interest in, or persecution from, others
•    boldness
•    courage