What is it necessary to be saved (Part 6).

[Leonardo Von]

What is it necessary to be saved (Part 6).

6 – Hope:

•    “For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?” (Romans  8:24)

And in what should we have hope? The hope of our calling (Ephesians 4.4), which it was proposed to us through the gospel:

•    “If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the *hope of the gospel*, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister” (Colossians  1:23).
•    “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy *hath begotten us again unto a lively hope* by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,” (1Peter 1.3).

But  what is this hope?  The hope that Creator’s glory will dwell in us through Jesus and His body will bring us salvation from the sin:

•    “To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; *which is Christ in you, the hope of glory*:” (Colossians 1.27)
•    “Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:  5:2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and *rejoice in hope of the glory of God*.” (Romans  5:1).

•    “But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and *for an helmet, the hope of salvation*.” (1 Thessalonians  5:8).

In other words, our hope is the eternal life (Titus 1.2; 2.13), to wit, to know and to be known by the Father and Jesus (John 17.3; Gal 4.9), so that we can turn again to be like Him (1John 3.2,3).

Of course, we need to hope with patience, that is to say, resting in Jesus (Psalms 37.7):

•    “Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;” (1 Thessalonians  1:3)

One of the mistakes that we commit is don’t concern about the things that Creator prepared for those who love Him (1Co 2.9):

•    “The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,” (Ephesians  1:18).

And this hope is so great that it was what motivated the first apostles to preach the gospel boldly:
 
•    “For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious. Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:” (2 Corinthians  3:11,12).

Not to mention that it is this hope that keep our soul anchored in the intimacy with the Creator:

•    “That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:  which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;” (Hebrews  6:18,19).

Once that all creation hope to be freed of the  corruption (Romans 8.19-22), it is inadmissible that we hope in Christ only in picayune things (for example, in the things of this world - 1Cor 15.19).

So let’s be free to experiment in ourselves the love of Jesus joining hearts inside us (2Co 3.1-3), so that we can confirm all the Word of the Creator (Mark 16.20; Heb 2.5).

Have a great day going over this. Tomorrow we will continue.