Good morning everyone and welcome back to another mornings with the Masters. For devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

We are picking back up with new morning mercies,

I'm just going to take from here.

It says this, we use the word hope in a variety of ways. Sometimes it connotes a wish

about something over which we have no control at all. We say I sure hope that

train comes soon or I hope it isn't rain on the day of the

picnic these are wishes for things but we wouldn't bank on them. The word hope

also depicts what we think should happen.

We say, I hope he will choose to be honest this time,

or I hope the judge brings down the guilty verdict.

Here, Hope reveals an internal sense of morality or justice.

We also use hope in a motivational sense.

We say, I did this in the hope that it would pay off in the end,

or I got married in the hope that he would treat me in marriage the way he treated me in courtship.

All of this to say that the word hope is used in a variety of ways.

It is important for us to understand how this word is used in scripture or in a gospel sense.

biblical hope is foundationally more than a faint wish for something.

biblical hope is deeper than moral explanation. than a motivation for a choice or action, although it is that as well. So what is biblical hope? It is a confident expectation of a guaranteed result that changes the way you live.

Let's pull this definition apart.

First, biblical hope is confident. It is confident because it is not based on your wisdom, faithfulness, or power, but on the awesome power love and faithfulness, grace, patience, and wisdom of God.

Because God is who he is, and will never ever change, hope in him is hope well placed

and secure.

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