Hope

The Last Words of Christ on the Cross

Luke 23:46

… Have you any hope?" "Hope, Sir? Hope, Sir? No, I have no hope! Of course I have no hope, Sir." "Ah, then!" replied the other, "despite the fears …

Free Grace a Motive for Free Giving

2 Thessalonians 2:16

… The coming of the Lord is the most grand hope of the Church and it is an evidence of the extreme power of error to poison and pervert …

The Holy Spirit—the Need of the Age

Micah 2:7

… Do you not sigh, "Alas, I cannot take my Sunday school class today with any hope of teaching with power! I am so dreadfully dull and heavy. I …

Life's Inevitable Burden

Galatians 6:6

… I hope it will become more and more a burden to you, for the more burdensome it becomes, the more likely are you to conquer it! But you …

Prepare To Meet Your God

Amos 4:12

… We shall, however, hope as fully as possible to illustrate the natural sense of the text, in the hope that such earnest and solemn words may awaken in …

Cambridge Life and Letters, 1850-1851

… Leeding gives me every attention, and I hope to progress rapidly. Our lecture to-night was on, ‘ Having loved His own,… He loved them unto the end.’ Give …

Brought Up from the Horrible Pit

Psalm 40:1-3

… It is a very accurate picture of the way in which sinners are raised up from despair to hope and salvation, and of the way in which saints …

I Know That My Redeemer Liveth

Job 19:25-27

… It was that he could say, “I KNOW”—“I KNOW that my Redeemer liveth.” To say, “I hope so, I trust so,” is comfortable; and there are thousands …

The Blood-Shedding

… Meet a Legalist; he says, “I hope they will be forgiven;” but he does not pretend they are. No one ever gets even a fancied hope apart from …

Kicking Against The Pricks

Acts 9:5

… Angry feeling is better than no feeling, and enmity to the Truth may be looked upon with more hope than indifference! Now what a goad to some men …

A Consistent Walk for Time to Come

Colossians 2:6

… If anybody asks him whether his father will give him this present or not, he says, "Well, I—I hope so. I trust so." Now, there is his …

Prayer 9 — Glorious Liberty

… Deliver them from any hope in their own abilities, but keep them low. Bring them out of any hope of salvation by their own prayers or their own …

Corn in Egypt

Genesis 42:1

… We discover here man’s hope. His hope lies in that Joseph whom he knows not, who has gone before him and provided all things necessary, that his …

Plain Words With the Careless

Luke 8:28

… We may know, and know, and know and so increase our responsibility without bringing us at all into a state of hope. Beware of resting in head-knowledge …

Jesus Only

We cannot, too often or too plainly tell the seeking soul that his only hope for salvation lies in the Lord Jesus Christ. It lies in him completely …

Washed to Greater Foulness

Job 9:30

… Is this consistent with your usual prudence? I should have good hope for some of you if I could make you sit for one hour alone, and think …

Consolation From Resurrection

Hosea 13:14

… This very morning, I hope, is ordained to be a resurrection morning to you. Before you leave this House of Prayer I hope the silver trumpet of the …

Consolation Proportionate to Spiritual Sufferings

2 Corinthians 1:5

… Must ye swim through seas of blood, and shall I hope to ride to heaven wrapped in furs and ermine? Did ye endure suffering, and shall I be …

"My Beloved Is Mine"

Solomon 2:16

… It seems too good, too great, too glorious a claim to come from their lips! They sometimes hope, but they as often fear. They make a dash for …

The Hope of Future Bliss

Psalm 17:15

… This sentence follows a description of the great troubles which the wicked bring upon the righteous, wherein he consoles himself with the hope of future bliss.; As for …

Fearing to Believe

… You will be the first against whom he has shut the door of hope. Friend, don’t cross that bridge till you come to it! When Jesus casts …

Things That Accompany Salvation

Hebrews 6:9

… Faith, Hope, and Love—say sinner, hast thou these three? Dost thou believe that Jesus is the Son of God? Dost thou hope that through the efficacy of …

The Profit Of Godliness In The Life To Come

1 Timothy 4:8

… She feels an innate nobility that will not allow her to be numbered with the beasts of the field, to die as they must do without a hope …

Psalm 146

Psalm 146

… Hallelujah! Whose hope is in the LORD his God. He is happy in help for the present and in hope for the future, who has placed all his …

The Strait Gate

Luke 13:24

… Little hope have I for deathbed repentances. Never trust to them, I beseech you! Such a vestibule as a deathbed you may never have. To die in the …

The Blind Man'S Earnest Cries

Mark 10:47

… I almost wish that some of you did not! Oh, that you would but kick against the Truth of God! Then I might have some hope for you …

"So It Is"

Job 5:27

… But if it is true, well, it is true and nobody need hope about it." So it was. The boy used good logic. The Scripture says, "He that …

The Test of Taste

1 Peter 2:3

… You tell me that you trust Christ—trust Him again, my Brothers and Sisters! "He is all my hope." Hope in Him yet more! "He is my joy …

Everlasting Love Revealed

Jeremiah 31:3

… Then she saw with amazement that notwithstanding all the heavy chastisement which the Lord had sent her and notwithstanding all her backslidings, there was still a hope of …

'Where Are the Nine?' Where?

Luke 17:17

… Until conviction of sin brings us down on both knees—until we are completely humbled, until we have no hope, no merit, no proud boasting left—we cannot …

God Incarnate, The End Of Fear

Luke 2:10

… The angel said, "Fear not," as though the times of fear were over, and the days of hope and joy had arrived! "Fear not." These words were not …

The Fainting Soul Revived

Jonah 2:7

… Do I, then, hold up his case before your eyes to comfort you? Nay; but let me hope that you will apply the bitter rebuke to your own …

Later Literary Works

… This little book began to be issued in 1857; the first one was entitled, The New Park Street Almanack, and the Editor thus explained his object and hope …

A Vivid Contrast

John 7:53

… We must cry with David, "Renew a right spirit within me," and go to our God in prayer in the hope that we may be quickened in His …

A Traveller’s Letters Home (Continued)

… I hope now to get home in time for Sunday. My soul loves you, and longs to see you. Paris.—In the hope that one more letter may …

The Watchword For Today—"Stand Fast"

Philippians 3:20

… The Glory to be revealed even now casts a light upon our path and causes sunshine within our hearts! The hope of this happiness makes us even now …

The Problem of the Age

Mark 8:4

… Let us come, then, to our question with the hope that it may be sanctified to holy ends. "How can a man satisfy these men with bread here …

The Life-look

Isaiah 45:22

… I hope to do so, if life is spared, many more times. It was about 26 years ago—twenty-six years exactly last Thursday—that I looked unto …

Three Crosses

Galatians 6:14

… and their faces were not ashamed." Men who, because they thought there was no hope for them, would have desperately continued in sin, have read that word, "hope …

Their Desired Haven

Psalm 107:30

… Oh, I would have hope in preaching to such a congregation, even though none of you knew Christ, if you did but truly desire Him! You would then …