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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Jesus: The Believer's Hope, Pt. 3

What is the relationship of the believer’s hope to his faith?

“And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end, so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.” – Hebrews 7:11-12

Hebrews 6:11-12 shows that the believer has hope enables him to have faith. Faith is placing one’s complete confidence in a object – Jesus Christ our hope. Because of the trustworthiness of this Hope, He is deserving of our absolute confidence in the face of all trials and temptations.

“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for…” – Hebrews 11:1

Hebrews 11:1 substantiates this by stating that faith is the assurance of what is being hoped for. In Hebrews 11:13, the author tells us that the Old Testament saints died in faith; they had not seen the promises fulfilled, but they had seen them, were persuaded of them, embraced them, and acted on them (hope). Hebrews 11:39 further records that these faithful people had not received the promise, but they still obtained a good report through faith.

Today, the believer’s hope in Jesus Christ his superior Priest enables the believer to exercise faith in Jesus Christ. Our faith is not an idealistic concept separated from facts or experiences. It is confidence in our Priest who has sensibly and rationally acted in a way that demands our absolute confidence.

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