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Sep 12, 2024 · Unlike the empty, dead hope of this world, this “living hope” is energizing, alive, and active in the soul of the believer. “We live with great expectation,” as the NLT puts it. Our living hope originates from a living, resurrected Savior. Peter’s living hope is Jesus Christ.
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Peter highlights two of them: (1) living hope through the resurrection of Jesus and (2) an inheritance that can never deteriorate. Peter goes on to explain the second of the two blessings, the inheritance, more fully.
Dec 15, 2022 · What is the primary meaning of the term living hope, as opposed to any implied meanings? Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, -1 Peter 1:3.
Apr 5, 2005 · The Christian, however, does not have a dead hope. As Peter tells us in today’s passage, we have a living hope (1 Peter 1:3). This living hope will never end and sustains us as we endure suffering. Ours is a living hope only because its foundation is the resurrection of Jesus from the dead (v. 3).
Living hope is hope that has power and produces changes in life. This is what "living' means in Hebrews 4:12, where it says, "The word of God is living and effective." So Christian hope is a strong confidence in God which has power to produce changes in how we live.
Surely the fact that Jesus did rise gives us reason for a "living" hope. God would not raise a liar, so anything Jesus said about our hope is true - e.g., Jn 11:25. Since Jesus rose from the dead, we have a firm hope that we too will one day rise from the dead - cf. 1Co 15:20-23.
The Nature of our Hope 1. It is called “a living hope.” In what sense is it living? (1) It is the hope of a living man.—A dead man cannot think, cannot wish, cannot hope, neither can a man spiritually dead possess the Christian’s living hope. The carnal man minds earthly things, is more or less absorbed in them; and to be carnally ...
