TWO
HOPES CONTRASTED
CENTRAL THOUGHT FOR BOTH
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always
to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason
of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: (1 Pet.
3:15)
THE
HOPE OF THE CHURCH
For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because
we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men,
specially of those that believe. (1 Tim. 4:10)
And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant,
for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken
after; But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house
are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing
of the hope firm unto the end. (Heb. 3:5,6)
And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours
only, but also for the sins of the whole world. (1 John
2:2)
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access
by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in
hope of the glory of God. (Rom. 5:1,2)
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God
our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope; (1
Tim. 1:1)
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, (1 Pet. 1:3)
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and
hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto
you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; (1 Pet. 1:13)
For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof
ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;
(Col. 1:5)
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, (Eph. 1:18)
Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from
generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: 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: (Col. 1:26,27)
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that
we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs;
heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that
we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
(Rom. 8:16,17)
It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we
shall also live with him: If we suffer, we shall also reign
with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us: (2 Tim.
2:11,12)
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my
throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my
Father in his throne. (Rev. 3:21)
And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and
with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his
Father’s name written in their foreheads. …
These are they which were not defiled with women; for they
are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever
he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the
firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. (Rev. 14:1,4)
THE HOPE OF THE WORLD
And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed
will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto
the LORD, who appeared unto him. (Gen. 12:7)
And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy
children shall come again to their own border. (Jer. 31:17)
Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall
they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy
dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out
the dead. (Isa. 26:19)
And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle
of
David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the
ruins thereof, and I will set it up: That the residue of
men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon
whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these
things. (Acts 15:15-17)
Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which
all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall
come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection
of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection
of damnation. (John 5:28,29)
For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection
of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall
all be made alive. (1 Cor. 15:21,22)
Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause
you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the
land of Israel. (Ezek. 37:12)
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless
thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that
curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth
be blessed. (Gen. 12:2,3)
And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they
shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. They shall
not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and
another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my
people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their
hands. (Isa. 65:21,22)
And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel,
and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them;
and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof;
they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no
more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them,
saith the LORD thy God. (Amos 9:14,15)
But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his
fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth
of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it. (Micah 4:4)
