The Certainty of Hope [Sermon]

Anush A. John
May 31
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Baltimore, Maryland, USA

June 2025

The Certainty of Hope

June 1, 2025, 9:00 – 10:00 AM EDTBaltimore

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1.0 What is Hope?

Hope (Websters): to cherish a desire with anticipation : to want something to happen or be true.

Hope is the promise of actual goodness

for the present and the future,

based on actions in the past and the present.

2.0 The Need For Hope And Its Basis

2.1 The Need For Hope

2.2 The Need For The Basis Of Hope

Isaiah 29:7-8 …shall be like a dream, a vision of the night. As when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he is eating, and awakes with his hunger not satisfied, or as when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he is drinking, and awakes faint, with his thirst not quenched…

3.0 Hope Offered in Some Worldviews

4.0 The Christian Hope and Its Basis

4.1 The Christian hope

Hope is the promise of actual goodness for the present and the future, based on actions in the past and the present.

What is Christian hope? It is a confidence of (God’s) actual goodness for the present and the future, based on (God’s) actions in the past and in the present.

Rom 8:28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Eph 3:20 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us

Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus

John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

4.2 Basis of the Christian Hope

John 2:19-22

Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” But he was speaking about the temple of his body. When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.