Wear Your Helmet

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Wear Your Helmet
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Faith, Hope, and Love

• Wheres my hope book?

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• Although the world is full of suffering, it is
  also full of the overcoming of it.
• Helen Keller

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Hope

• Greek
• Elpis (1680) joyful and confident expectation
• Elpizo (1679) to expect trust
• Expect (Websters) - to look forward to
  anticipate or look forward to the coming or
  occurrence of to consider probable or certain
• Hope is our current consolation in knowing what
  is to come.
• We serve a God of Hope (Romans 1513)

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Israels Hope

• The law, unable to produce perfection, brought in
  the hope of a new covenant - Hebrews 719

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We have hope in

• Resurrection of the Dead (Acts 236)
• God (Acts 2426 1 Peter 121)
• Gods promises (Romans 418)
• The Glory of God thanks to Jesus (Romans 52)
• Salvation (Romans 824 1 Thessalonians 58)
• Deliverance from the bondage of corruption
  (Romans 820-21)
• The Risen Christ (1 Corinthians 1519 1
  Timothy 11 1 Thessalonians 13)
• The Destruction of Death (1 Corinthians 15)
• An Incorruptible Body (1 Corinthians 15)
• Consolation (2 Corinthians 17)
• Righteousness by Faith (Galatians 55)
• Godly calling and inheritance (Ephesians 118
  44)
• Lack of shame for preaching Christ (Philippians
  120)
• Heaven (Colossians 15)
• The Gospel (Colossians 123)
• Glory (Colossians 127)
• The coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (1
  Thessalonians 219 Titus 213)
• Eternal life (Titus 12 37)
• An Incorruptible Inheritance that does not fade
  away (1 Peter 13-4)

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Biblical Connotations of Hope

• Joy
• Patience
• Comfort
• Peace
• Consolation
• Grace
• Faith
• Established in work/ work is not in vain
• Steadfastness/Boldness/Freeness

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The Helmet

• and for a helmet, the hope of salvation 1
  Thessalonians 58
• anchor of the soul Hebrews 619
• What would it be like in a battle without a
  helmet?

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We have hope in

• Resurrection of the Dead (Acts 236)
• God (Acts 2426 1 Peter 121)
• Gods promises (Romans 418)
• The Glory of God thanks to Jesus (Romans 52)
• Salvation (Romans 824 1 Thessalonians 58)
• Deliverance from the bondage of corruption
  (Romans 820-21)
• The Risen Christ (1 Corinthians 1519 1
  Timothy 11 1 Thessalonians 13)
• The Destruction of Death (1 Corinthians 15)
• An Incorruptible Body (1 Corinthians 15)
• Consolation (2 Corinthians 17)
• Righteousness by Faith (Galatians 55)
• Godly calling and inheritance (Ephesians 118
  44)
• Lack of shame for preaching Christ (Philippians
  120)
• Heaven (Colossians 15)
• The Gospel (Colossians 123)
• Glory (Colossians 127)
• The coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (1
  Thessalonians 219 Titus 213)
• Eternal life (Titus 12 37)
• An Incorruptible Inheritance that does not fade
  away (1 Peter 13-4)

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Biblical Connotations of Hope

• Joy
• Patience
• Comfort
• Peace
• Consolation
• Grace
• Faith
• Established in work/ work is not in vain
• Steadfastness/Boldness/Freeness

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False Hope

• Is it a God thing or not?
• Giving someone false hope is putting trust in
  something other than God.

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• Tonight
• The Faith/Hope Connection