Hope

Our Last Journey

Job 16:22

… We must each serve God personally and each have a good hope through Divine Grace worked in his own soul. Will men never think of this till they …

Earth's Vanities and Heaven's Verities

Psalm 39:6-8

… And you observe, lastly, on this point, that he is a man whose hope is in God. "My hope is in You." I have no earthly expectations, but …

Life And Walk Of Faith

Colossians 2:6

… Oh, I hope, dear Friends, you have that blessed appropriating faith which says, "Yes, He is not another man's Christ, He is my Christ," I hope you …

"The Tender Mercy of Our God"

Luke 1:77-79

… When the Lord visits us, it is as the dayspring, because he brings us hope of greater glory yet to come. The first coming of Christ has not …

God in the Covenant

Jeremiah 31:33

… I protest, before God, I have not a hope beyond this promise. “O,” say you, “you have a hope of heaven.” Ay, I have a hope of heaven …

An Awful Premonition

Matthew 16:28

… Now, dear Brethren, if you are so far convinced of the unreasonableness of each of these efforts to solve the difficulty by feigning a sense, I shall hope …

A Last Look-Out

2 Timothy 4:6

… away to the throne of him whose cross first gave me life, and light, and hope. I am away to the very bosom of my Savior, where I …

Who Found It Out?

2 Kings 7:3-7

… They had a little hope and on that hope they acted like sensible men. You remember how the people of Nineveh humbled themselves before God with nothing to …

Beauty for Ashes

Isaiah 61:3

… Truly, some of God's best servants have been most often through the furnace and have been so long in the heat that strength fails them and hope …

Sin Subdued

Micah 7:19

… Do you think one ungodly man, in his senses, would remain what he is and where he is while there is a hope of being renewed if it …

Rain and Grace—a Parallel

Job 38:25-27

… See, then, my dear Friends—I hope you all do—our absolute dependence upon God for all spiritual blessings. A farmer may do all he likes with his …

The Secret Spot

Deuteronomy 32:5

… Hope is our anchor, but what is the use of an anchor if it has nothing to lay hold upon? "I hope," said one, when he heard of …

Our Hiding Place

Isaiah 32:2

… But if Immanuel's face appears, My hope, my joy begins! His name forbids my slavish fear, His Grace removes my sins." The very fact that God has …

Receiving the Kingdom of God as a Little Child

Luke 18:17

… But, Brothers and Sisters, if it comes to a matter of insignificance, who among us can hope to win the Divine attention? If we think that children must …

Christ’s First and Last Subject

Matthew 4:17

… I am a living witness that repentance is exceeding sweet when mixed with divine hope, but repentance without hope is hell. It is hell to grieve for sin …

Our Omnipotent Leader

Matthew 28:18

… And of the love which you have to all the saints, for the hope which is laid up for you in Heaven, whereof you heard before in the …

Vanity Deprecated

Psalm 119:37

… Do not you feel the same? I hope you do not, but I often do, and I am afraid you often do, even the best of you. And …

Folly of Unbelief

Luke 24:25

… Had they compared the testimony of the holy women with the prophecies of the Old Testament, they would have obtained ground of hope. The women reported that the …

The Victory of Faith

1 John 5:4

… There is a hope for you; you shall be rich, you shall be great.” But, faith says, “I have a hope laid up in heaven; a hope which …

The Faithful Saying

1 Timothy 1:15

… There is no hope for any sinner unless the Son of God, Himself, saves Him! You may safely measure the depth of the danger by the Glory of …

The Bridgeless Gulf

Luke 16:26

… Sinner, if you are not fit for Heaven now, have you any right to hope you ever will be? If you die without God and without hope, where …

Early Pastoral Epistles

… Let me indulge the hope that our church shall become as Scriptural in its order as in its doctrines ; and let me go further, let me hope that …

Storming the Battlements

Jeremiah 5:10

… Clap your hands, O Britons! Rejoice, ye sons of Albion! there is hope that your swords may yet be sheathed, that your men shall not be mown down …

A Hearer In Disguise

1 Kings 14:6

… I have more hope of you occasional hearers—I know that when my Master has helped me to cast the net on the right side of the ship …

He Ran, and He Ran

Mark 5:6

… But what, perhaps, may appear to you to be even worse is that you seem to be "afar off as to any hope of salvation by Christ. It …

The Eternal Name

Psalm 72:17

… Concerning that one thing we hope to speak to-night, if God will enable me to preach, and you to hear. “His name shall endure for ever.” First …

Fresh Grace Confidently Expected

Psalm 92:10

… He does not say, "I hope I shall be anointed with fresh oil and I have a pleasing expectation that it may be so." But he speaks of …

The Covenant

Psalm 111:5

… For God to make a gracious Covenant with us is so great a gift that I hope everyone here is saying within his heart, "Oh, that the Lord …

The Whole Gospel In A Single Verse

1 Timothy 1:15

… Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope. Christ is our hope. We have not …

The Young Soul-Winner at Waterbeach

… I made up my mind how to act, so I smiled, and said, “Yes, thank you; I am quite well, I hope you are the same.” Then came …

Judgments and No Repentance— Repetance and No Salvation

Revelation 16:9

… O dear Friend, I hope that you have not yet reached such a fearful state of mind. I hope you are not bent on war with the Almighty …

Rejoice Evermore

1 Thessalonians 5:16

… As for you who are swift of foot, I hope that you will not say an unkind word of poor Mephibosheth who is lame in both his feet …

The Ship on Fire—A Voice of Warning

Genesis 19:17

… This is the only period God has allotted to you, take care that you use it, lest when your to-days are past, and you hope to see …

If So—what Then?

1 Peter 4:18

… The help of men and angels joined Could never reach my case, Nor can I hope relief to find But in Your boundless Grace!" Do you not, dear …

What Christians Were and Are

Ephesians 2:3

… And yet, instead of sitting in these seats at this moment, rejoicing in the good hope through Grace, we might have been there! Yes, and without any very …

My Restorer

Psalm 23:3

… They have believed in Christ, let us hope. Let us hope, also, that their faith produces enough good works to prove itself to be a living faith. But …

A Psalmist's Question and Answer

Psalm 130:3

… Even if you have sunk very low in your own esteem, till not a ray of hope seems left to you and you are shut up in the …

Sowing in the Wind, Reaping Under Clouds

Ecclesiastes 11:4

… We know people who go into a horrible temper, every now and then, and all the hope we had of them is blown away like sere leaves in …

The Church—the World's Hope

Acts 27:24

… It had been the subject of his prayer, so that he was cheered not only with the prospect of himself prophesying at Rome, but with the hope of …

A Homily for Humble Folks

Proverbs 30:2

… I will have a word, first, with those who say, "We cannot hope to be saved because we cannot reach the heights of other men." You have marked …