In 'Hope in the Life of a Christian Woman', Jason Dohm explores the concept of Christian hope, emphasizing its profound difference from the world's interpretation. The sermon is set within a father-daughter retreat, highlighting the importance of multigenerational teaching. Christian hope is defined as a joyful, confident expectation rooted in God, contrasting with the world's wishful thinking. Dohm underscores the role of hope in sustaining Christians through life's trials, illustrating this with scriptures like Psalm 78 and Romans 5. He stresses the necessity of hope in a Christian's life, especially in the face of tribulations, and discusses its specific manifestations in women who often entrust themselves to others under God. To cultivate this hope, Dohm recommends deepening one's relationship with God through prayer, thoughtful Bible study, and meaningful participation in corporate worship. The sermon concludes with the reassurance that Christian hope is an anchor for the soul, providing stability and certainty in God's promises.

So the title of my talk tonight is, Hope in the Life of the Christian Woman. And I just want to begin by greeting our daughters. We want to spend sort of the weekend saying a couple of things. One is, we love you to death. We love our daughters, and we're thankful to God every day that He's put you in our homes and given us a life together.

And we value you very, very, very highly. And you're our daughters and we'll, If you get to be 30, 40, 50, if God has us alive on the earth, you're still going to be our little girls. Many of you are already our sisters in the sense that if you've repented and believed the gospel, There's a new role as well. We are your dad, but you're our sister when we're your brother in the sense that we're all in Christ having the same father. And as my daughters get older, I'm getting the pleasure of having more kind of brotherhood, sisterhood.

I still am dad. I don't want you to misunderstand what I'm saying. But because we're brothers and sisters in Christ, like we're afforded the great privilege of working together for the kingdom, to advance the kingdom. And this is sweet, Daughters, this is really what we want. We want you to repent and believe the gospel.

We want you to become not just our daughters, but also our sisters in the Lord Jesus Christ. And then we want to spend the rest of our lives figuring out ways to labor together to advance his kingdom. This is really part of what this weekend is about. The theme for the weekend is hope and contentment in the life of the Christian woman. And tonight I'm going to begin by speaking about hope in the life of the Christian woman.

And then Michael will come right on my heels to talk about contentment in the life of the Christian woman. And these two are both vital for Christian girls and women, but it's not really a Christian girl and women, These are not Christian girl and women topics. They're Christian topics. We could preach on hope for a week. We could preach on contentment for a week to a mixed crowd or to men.

All Christians need hope undergirding their spiritual lives and all Christians need contentment undergirding their spiritual lives so these are certainly not unique to women but but there is an expression I think of both hope and contentment that is unique in the way that it's manifested in the life of Christian women. So this is where we're going to hope to sort of get at that this weekend. As I take on the topic of hope in the life of the Christian women, I'm going to spend my time trying to answer effectively three different questions. So that would just be one, two, three questions and I'll be trying to answer them. So as we go to these questions, let's ask the Lord to help us.

Oh God, you who are our great hope, really don't have any hope that is sure and certain outside of you. All of us have been alive long enough to have been disappointed by other things that we've hoped in but you never one time have disappointed us thank you God that you are a sure and firm foundation when our hope is in you it is it will never be disappointed so we pray that you would plant this virtue of Christian hope deep into our hearts and cause us to flourish in it, to advance in it. Pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. Question number one, what is Christian hope?

For the duration of the message, when I say hope, I'm going to mean Christian hope. And the reason I think it's important to start with that distinction even though I'll drop Christian going forward. But I really am, I do think there are distinct things here. The modern usage of the term, in other words the world definition, what the world thinks hope is, well let me give you a couple of examples Mary here's here's Marion Webster, Merriam-Webster This is the primary definition from Merriam-Webster to cherish a desire with Anticipation to cherish a desire with anticipation This is happy thoughts about what you want. Like, think happy thoughts about what you want.

You have these things that you're anticipating, You would like to be in the future and you're just like cherishing these thoughts about it. You're trying to nurture happy thoughts about what you want. It's as close to wishful thinking as you can get without actually saying wishful thinking. The hope of the world has sort of become wishful thinking. Here's another one, Wikipedia.

Here's a Wikipedia definition. An optimistic attitude of mind that is based on an expectation of positive outcome. Let me read that again. An optimistic attitude of mind that is based on an expectation of positive outcome. Think positive people.

Like cheer up about it. And like it has a power of positive thinking vibe like don't go negative or you might ruin everything. This has become our definition of the hope and I just want to declare that Bible usage is different. That's modern usage and it really is. When you hear people out in the world talk about hope it really has the flavor of Merriam-Webster and what Wikipedia has said.

It's sort of, it's wishful thinking it's like have a power of positive thinking vibe like you really want this for the future so kind of make these things happen. Bible usage is very different. The Old Testament was written in Hebrew, the New Testament was written in Greek, And so there are a variety of words that get rendered hope in the Bible. But when you search out all those words, here's a summary of what you find. Christian hope is a confident expectation rooted in God.

Okay, this is Christian hope. It's far away from wishful thinking or positive thinking kind of vibe as you could get. It is a confident expectation. It is a knowing that you know because it is rooted in God. And actually when you then begin to fold in the Greek words that get rendered hope, there's an additional sense which is joy.

So it has those two elements as well that the Old Testament Hebrew words have of confident expectation, rooted in God, but the Hebrew words also fold in joy. So it's a joyful, confident expectation that is actually founded on something that doesn't come and go. It's founded in God, so it has its feet on rock. It is as far from wishful thinking because it is rooted in God. It is a joyful, confident expectation of help and support and salvation and ultimate good because he is who the book says he is.

So you can know that you're going to get help and you're going to get support and you can have salvation if you repent and believe and that there will be ultimate good for you. Now I say ultimate good because this book doesn't promise that there won't be bumps in the road. In fact this book promises us tribulation, right? So hope doesn't mean happy thoughts that we'll never encounter tribulation. No, the book tells us we're going to have tribulation if we're faithful at all.

And it's our ultimate good that is in view, that is our hope. I say this with confidence but also it makes me happy to say it. Christians have a right to look to the future with joy and confident expectation of ultimate good because we know God. OK, you have a right to this. A hope is your birthright.

A joyful, confident expectation of a future of good is the birthright of the Christian because we know God and who He says He is and that He's promised good for His people. Turn to Psalm 78. There are two texts that I think shed a lot of light for us about hope. And the first is Psalm 78. So turn there.

Psalm 78. This is a contemplation of Asaph. Asaph wrote I think 12 of the Psalms, so he's actually written quite a few Psalms. He was the chief musician appointed by David. I'll be reading Psalm 78 verses 1 through 7.

I'm going to read the whole thing and then I'll go back and comment. Psalm 78, a contemplation of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law. Incline your ears to the words of my mouth. I will open my mouth in a parable.

I will utter dark sayings of old, which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of the Lord and His strength and His wonderful works that he has done. For he established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel which he commanded our fathers that they should make them known to their children. The degeneration to come might know them, the children who would be born, that they may arise and declare them to their children, that they may set their hope in God and not forget the works of God but keep His commandments. Daughters, this is why we're here.

Your fathers want to speak to the next generation that God is great and God is good. That's why we have a father-daughter retreat. We want to speak to you of the goodness and greatness of God because we have tasted ourselves in our lifetime over and over and over again of the goodness and the greatness of God and we want you to know it. God says to fathers and grandfathers and great-great-grandfathers in this text tell them about me Tell them what I've done. Tell them about my ways And Why okay, why does God?

Want us to tell our children and grandchildren that He's great and that He's good? It's all in verse 7. Verse 7 is really the payoff here that gives us the reason for multigenerational teaching about God. That they may set their hope in God. That our children or our grandchildren may have a joyful, confident expectation that God is who He says He is and will do what he says he will do because he did that for us.

He did it for us. And hopefully he did it for our parents. I don't know how far upstream you can look, but we want our grandchildren to be able to look way upstream and know what God did for Grandpa. To know Him is to love Him and to love Him is to obey Him. And all this is intertwined with hope.

All this is intertwined with you, daughters, acquiring a joyful, confident expectation that God is who He says He is and has done what the Bible says he has done. Listen to what we're supposed to be teaching you. The praises of the Lord, His wonderful works, His testimony, His law, All the things that He's revealed to us about Himself, what He's like, what His faithfulness to His people, His laws were to teach you so that you will have a joyful, confident expectation that God will do you good through the course of your life till you take your last breath. So we're here at the father-daughter retreat to declare that if you've repented and believed the gospel, God is going to be faithful to you and do you good till you draw your last breath. And we know that because for such a long time He's been doing us good.

Now turn to Romans chapter 5. Romans chapter 5 also throws so much light on this topic of hope. So Psalm 78 tells us we should be studying God, knowing God so that we'll have, we'll be blessed with this confident expectation. Our children and our grandchildren will be blessed with a confident expectation filled with joy. Here's what Romans 5 says.

I'll be reading Romans 5, 1 through 5 again all the way through and then commenting. Paul writes, therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only that but we also glory in tribulations knowing that tribulation produces perseverance and perseverance character in character hope. Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. Now what do we have in these verses?

Well we don't have a lot of punctuation so this is like Paul. There's a lot of phrases here that are chained together so let's sort them out. One thing I noticed right away when I read through this a couple times is faith faith faith hope hope hope okay there's a repetition these verses are about faith and hope and it tells us a little bit of how they relate to one another. Faith a complete transfer of trust that's how I want you to think of saving faith, it is a complete transfer of trust. You used to trust in this host of other things, all of them are doomed to fail and you transfer, wisely transfer all of your trust from those things to Christ alone.

Okay, this is saving faith. This is how we lay hold of the work of Jesus Christ. Jesus went to the cross and you can have the result of him bleeding and dying by taking all your trust and placing it in that work. And hope is our confidence in where that leads. So faith has you laying hold of Jesus' work and hope is our confidence that that is taking us to somewhere good and glorious.

And we see this hope gives us a joyful confident expectation of where all the ultimate outcome of all this will be. So, here's what we have in Romans chapter 5. Verse 1, look again at this great declaration. We having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. The war is over.

We've been declared just because of Jesus' work by faith. We laid hold of justification by faith and now there's peace where there used to be war against an almighty God. This is good news. Verse 2 says, in that state, in that state of peace with God, we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. In other words, we're made happy because we have a confident expectation that God is glorious and is glorifying himself and we get to share in it.

This state of peace with God, this justified state, gives us a right to be happy and confident and expect that God is glorious and is glorifying Himself and He's going to bring us into that glory. In verse 4, we're told surprisingly that tribulations produce hope. What? Like what? Tribulations produce hope?

No, no, no. Hardship is supposed to erode our wishful thinking. Well that's the thing, the Bible doesn't consider hope wishful thinking. If your hope is the world's hope and it is a positive thinking vibe, Good thoughts about the future or wishful thinking, then hardship is just going to erode that eventually down to nothing. 31 But if it's a confident expectation that God is who He says He is and does what He says He will do, then tribulations actually increase and fortify your hope because you find yourself sustained by God in the middle of hardship and He's keeping His promises.

Right? And it makes your hope rise, not fall. Then in verse 5, verse 5 is really the climax here. Let's read verse 5 again. Now hope does not disappoint.

Now Think of what I've already said about all these other hopes in life. Here's what we know about them for sure. In the end they will disappoint. There's only one hope that delivers and it's hope. It's only a confident expectation in the Lord Jesus Christ and that He has the power to cleanse sinners that hope will never disappoint.

Now hope does not disappoint because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. Here's what I think this means. Christians don't have to wait. In other words, our ultimate hope of glory and participating in His glory is future. If this is heaven I'm a little disappointed.

I like the Templetons and all but I had something else in mind. And so yes and ultimately the fulfillment of our joyful, confident expectation is future, but we can experience this still in a very full way now. The Holy Spirit has been poured into our hearts. So what is it exactly that's said here? Now hope does not disappoint because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

All who repent and believe the gospel are given the Holy Spirit and He just pours the love of God into your heart. It's teaching us that we don't have to wait to experience the object of our hope, our joyful confident expectation that God is going to do us good like we can experience it in a rich way now even though the ultimate fulfillment is still a ways off. This is Christian hope. It's so different from all the other things that the world hopes in and the way in which they hope in those things. So that was question number one, what is Christian hope?

Here's question number two. Why is hope so important in the life of a Christian? What's the big deal? Well it is important, isn't it? Does the term hopeless Christian make any sense to you?

It's like it makes no sense to me. Christians are those who by definition have declared their complete trust in an almighty Savior. Amen? I mean isn't this how it works? Like we say, I know I can't hope in those things anymore so I completely trust an almighty Savior.

Now I'm hopeless. That makes no sense. Now I'm not saying that when you're hopeless it proves you're not a Christian. Anyone familiar with the Bible stories know that's not true. Know that real live breathing, even Christians who have been brought to maturity sometimes despair when they shouldn't.

So that is true. Please don't go away saying well you know I feel hopeless sometimes that probably means I've never been born again. I mean you might not have been born again but that's not the proof of it. You're in good company if you despair sometimes. But the point is despair is inconsistent with our Christianity.

Not consistent with it. And hope is so needed because the Bible teaches from cover to cover that we live amidst a clash of kingdoms. Kingdoms, kingdoms, kingdoms, kingdoms. Coming into conflict over and over every day of your life pretty probably every hour of your life so we need hope because the world the flesh and the devil never sleep right I mean they're always thinking of ways to discourage us and bring us down. We need a confident expectation that this thing is going to end well.

So we can press forward and persist and remain faithful. If Christians can't keep their eyes on the prize 27 And have a joyful, confident expectation that God is who He says He is 28 and will do what he's promised to do. You're going to get gobbled up. You have to have hope. You have to have a real joyful confident expectation that is rooted in God.

This isn't rooted in I know I can make it. This isn't even rooted in, there's a lot of things associated with the Christian life that are helpful. So I do have some good aids to get me through. No, no, no. All that is set to the side and we say our hope is in God.

He'll be faithful to me. When I'm not what I should be, He'll be faithful to me. He will always be what He should be. Even when all the helps and the tools, I don't make use of them or they don't seem to be working. Like God is in the right time, in His own wise timing and way, is going to break through at the right moment and rescue me so I'm keeping going.

Now, Is this unique in any way to being female? After all Genesis 1.27 says that God made us male and female and this means very profound things. And I think the answer to that question is yes, there are particular manifestations of hope in the life of the Christian woman. Hope is important to all and in many ways it applies in the same ways so that you don't have to preach a gender specific sermon. You can preach about hope and this resonates with all of us because we all need it And there are many ways in which it applies in exactly the same way whether you're male or female.

But I do think some aspects are especially true in the life of females, women and girls. Here's one of them. Christian females entrust themselves to others under God to a greater extent. Christian females entrust themselves to others under God, meaning it's the plan of God. It's really their submission to God that has them entrusting themselves to other humans in particular ways that are specific to being female and this is to a greater extent.

And if daughters, okay listen, okay listen, if your hope is in those humans that the Bible has called you to entrust yourself to. So follow me here, you're doing what the Bible calls you to do in entrusting yourself to those humans, but if your hope is in those humans, Your hope is on shaky ground indeed. So don't confuse the Bible saying it's right for you to entrust yourself to this human or that human as saying your hope should be in this human or that human. They're not the same thing. And if you confuse it and begin to put your trust in the humans, your hope is on shaky ground, and your father or your church leaders or your husband, maybe one day you'll have a husband.

Most of you will, statistically. They mean well, bless their pea-picking hearts, but they're human and they're going to disappoint you. They are. You're here, I'm assuming you have a Christian father. I hope you have Christian church leaders.

May the Lord give you a Christian husband. Have you ever been disappointed by your father? Have you ever been disappointed by me or James? Give it five minutes. You're going to be disappointed by your husband and more profoundly than the rest by your husband because you're closer with your husband.

Ask your mother. They're Christian but they're just human and they will disappoint you at times. First Peter 3 talks about how Sarah entrusted herself to this husband that God gave her to Abraham but her hope wasn't in that husband and she's commended for it in 1 Peter 3. Go look at it. Sarah followed him everywhere.

He didn't even know where he was going. He kept saying, Say you're my sister. And he jeopardized her in doing that. It was sinful. He disappointed her.

But this didn't bring down Sarah Because her eyes were on her God. Her joyful, confident expectation wasn't in Abraham. It never was in Abraham. It was in God so she could follow him around from place to place and they didn't know where they were going. 07 And he made mistakes, but she kept her faith.

She kept moving forward. She persisted to the end. She endured. She persevered. Here's another way.

Many of you will one day become mothers. 31 And that means that you'll be bringing children into a sin sick world. 32 You know the people of the world, they've stopped having babies. 33 And one of the reasons they've stopped having babies, they have very few babies, is like I don't want to bring people into this world. There's so much perversion and pain.

Like I just don't, like This is how the world thinks. Well Christian parents bring their children into the same world. And it's not that we're not aware that the world is sin sick and that there's pain here. What are you gonna do when God gives you children? Are you gonna hope in your techniques?

I'm gonna homeschool like that's the silver bullet. You know you'll grow wiser as you see more. Are you going to hope in the environment, the pristine environment that you're able to create? If you put your hope in those things you are a fool. You have not learned anything from the scriptures.

If God gives you children when you have those children your hope better be in God. That God will do good to those children. These are some of the reasons why hope is so important in the Christian life. It's war here, and it's going to be war here until the day we die. We need a confident expectation.

And this is not wishful thinking. This is rooted in a faithful God 26. Who we can look back millennia, thousands of years and say God was faithful to him and him and him and him and him and him and him And even people we know in this lifetime and God's been faithful to me up to this point. 22 And so I have a joyful, confident expectation. Like I'm made happy by knowing God and His faithfulness.

This is the nature of hope. Question three. How can we cultivate hope? How can we cultivate it? So we've defined it and we've established that we need it.

So how do we get more of it? How do we cultivate it? Cultivating is a gardening term. How do we pick out the weeds and fertilize it and make sure it gets enough water so that it grows and flourishes in our lives? Well, we've already been told in Psalm 78, right, teach this to your children and your grandchildren, teach them my praises, teach them my mighty work, my testimonies, my laws.

The answer is you cultivate it by getting to know God. If you want a joyful, confident expectation, get to know God. That is all that is required to cultivate hope in your life. It is good and right to know about Him, but don't stop short of knowing Him. Meaning we should study the Bible.

Like wear it out. But don't say that's all there is. We, like we can, He's alive. He's alive. We can have fellowship with the Lord Jesus Christ through His Spirit.

His Spirit indwells believers. This is what the Bible teaches. So we can know Him and experience Him, not just about Him, but we can know Him. Let me give you four practical ways in which we cultivate hope. Number one, make sure you've laid hold of Jesus Christ by faith.

You play Monopoly? Everybody play Monopoly? You know when you get the jail card what does it say go directly to jail do not pass go do not collect $200 like You're not allowed to pass go and collect the $200. You've got to stop and backtrack. This is that move in monopoly.

There's no point talking about Christian hope without being a Christian. Let me stake the obvious. Make sure you have laid hold of Jesus Christ by faith. And I ask you this question, who owns you? Who owns you?

Because this really gets to the heart of it. Because to lay hold of Jesus Christ by faith is to fully transfer your trust. I used to trust in those things, I used to hope in those things, but now I only hope in one thing. It is Jesus Christ. I entrust myself to you Jesus okay and at that point self ownership ends who owns you not do you believe that Jesus Christ was the Son of God yes you should believe that not Do you believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross for sinners?

Yes, you should believe that. But does He own you? Does He own you? 2. Wear out your Bible in a certain way.

Wear out your Bible in a certain way. Why do I say in a certain way? Because I've done lots of unprofitable Bible reading in my life. Now I'm sure it was more profitable than mowing the grass or shooting hoops or watching TV, but it was not nearly as profitable as it could have been, or it should have been, because it was not done before the Lord prayerfully. Now I'm not saying you have to read the Bible on your knees.

I never read the Bible on my knees, but I want to use it as a figurative term. Read the Bible on your knees. Maybe not physically, But figuratively that you would be before the Lord and reading prayerfully. Maybe even praying as you read. George Mueller said this revolutionized his morning times with the Lord.

He said, I used to get up and pray and I just never could get my mind to focus. But when I started getting up and reading the Word of God prayerfully, meaning I'd read a little bit and I would say, Lord, I see what you're saying here. Like establish this in my life, Lord. Reading it prayerfully, he said, it changed my prayer life and it changed my Bible study life. And we should do the same, okay?

We should change our prayer lives and we should change our Bible study lives by figuratively reading the Bible on our knees. Before the Lord, prayerfully. Like wear out your Bible that way. Number three, cultivate a life of private prayer, private prayer. This is Matthew chapter 6.

Go into your room and shut the door. Nobody knows, like What's going on in there? Everybody else is thinking, why all the private time? You're in there and the door is shut, nobody knows, and you're pouring out your heart to your father. Cultivate a life of private prayer.

You might say, what about public prayer? Here's what I'm arguing. If you do that, get alone with the Lord behind a closed door, and you're cultivating a life of doing that frequently, pouring out your heart to the Lord, the public prayer will take care of itself. But the reverse is not true. We can come into public prayer, we can sound great, and no one else in the room knows that we're grandstanding.

But it's foolish. You feel the foolishness of your grandstanding in private prayer, don't you? I do. Like, well, what am I even saying this? Like, I have got to really pour out my heart to the Lord here.

Like, there's nobody to fool here. There's only God who knows. You ever had that thought when you had private prayer? I have. Cultivate a life of private prayer.

Hey, this makes substantial people, substantial Christians. Many Christians are paper thin. Paper thin. There's no substance there. And it's because there's no private prayer.

There's no going to be alone with the Lord to pour out your heart before God. This is what makes us substantial Christians. Number four. Double your corporate worship. Double it.

Not in quantity, in quality. If you're gonna do it in quantity, you have to find another church to go to that has services at a different time so you can just like sort of double the number of hours. That's not what I'm suggesting. I'm saying that if we go about our business, and I'm saying our business is worshipping God, If we go about our business more intentionally, more proactively, before, during, and after our corporate worship, we'll double it. We'll double it.

If beforehand, If we're not just running into God's presence chewing gum with our hats on, that's also figurative language, right? It's like, rush in and your hat's on and like, okay, I'm here to worship. That always ends well, doesn't it? That always makes for rich corporate, a time of corporate worship. But hey when when we've taken Saturday evening and and made better use of it to make our hearts ready to join together with our brothers and sisters, Sunday morning is different.

It is. When we're more careful with the minutes on Sunday morning before we get there, just with a sense of desiring to be ready, really ready to join into corporate worship. If we're careful with our minutes on Sunday morning, we're doubling our corporate worship, okay? We're making it more earnest, more intense, more sweet, more rich, more full. This is what we want for our times of corporate worship that we've been serious about making ready for this time We treat it like it matters.

We treat it like it's important because it matters and it's important and And during the time of public worship we bring intensity We come with expectation that we're going to meet with God, that we're going to hear from God, and we're intense. Like we're in a competition to get the most in the room out of the corporate worship to worship God more wholeheartedly than anybody else in the room. Now it's not really like that. We're not really trying to beat out the other one. It's a sense of like I want more.

I want more wholeheartedness in this worship. I want to receive more from God in this worship. So I'm coming with all the intensity that I can muster and I'm praying God bless it. God use it. God work through this time to shape me.

Give me progress. And after, after worship, I just, being better about reflecting on the time and trying to just cement what came from it, what came from the preaching. It is the lifelong pursuit of God that cultivates Christian hope. He is Chase God. He is the lifelong pursuit of God that cultivates a joyful, confident expectation.

To know Him is to have a joyful, confident expectation. In closing, I'll leave you with Romans chapter 8, 31 and 32. Listen to Romans 8, 31 and 32. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

He who did not spare his own son but delivered him up for us, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things." Here's the argument Paul was making. God gave Jesus His only son whom He loved and was pleased to crush Him but now He's withholding good from you. That's messed up. That makes no sense. He's saying, no, if God gave Jesus how will he withhold any good thing from you?

No. You can be sure you can have a joyful confident expectation that God is going to dump rivers of blessing and goodness on you across the course of your life always being faithful to you, never leaving you or forsaking you. If he sent Jesus for you, Why would he ever hold back anything? It's all yours in his Son. The author of Hebrews calls this an anchor of the soul.

Listen to Hebrews 6 verse 19, then we'll close in prayer. This hope we have as an anchor for the soul, both sure and steadfast. In Hebrews 6 he's talking about God and His promise to send a Redeemer which was fulfilled in Jesus Christ. And then this verse, this hope, this hope that God fulfilled all the promises that he made about the Messiah in Jesus. This hope we have as an anchor of the soul.

It keeps your soul from drifting away. It just anchors it both sure and steadfast. God, thank you that you have left us with hope. Ephesians 1, we have the description of the unbeliever without hope, without God in the world, but now in Christ it is our birthright to have a joyful, confident expectation that you will always do good to your people ultimately you will include us in your glory we thank you for it in Jesus name Amen