"Salvation is of the LORD." -Jonah 2:9

“… Ch rist in you the hope of glory” -Colossians 1:27 [KJV] What is a true Christian hope? 1. A firm expectation of all promised good things as long as they give God His glory. Most especially it is the hope of salvation and happiness in heaven where we shall be completely conformed to Christ the Son of the Living God. 2. This hope is founded on the grace, blood, righteousness and intercession of Christ alone, and the earnest of the Holy Spirit, and unchangeable truth, and Almighty power of God, which always agree with the Word.   3. This hope is different than worldly hope. Its object ( Christ ) is Excellent, True, Faithful, Steadfast and Sure. The God who cannot lie will never deceive or disappoint our hopes. He does all things to prove Himself as a living hope to each of His own. Paul wrote in II TIMOTHY 1:12 - ‘I know WHOM I have believed.’ 4. This hope which is in the living Lord has a cleansing effect- I J OHN 3:3 . - Gospel report by preacher Ed

"Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ." -I PETER 1:13 [KJV] Hope chiefly regards  "the end;" — for that is "better than the beginning," the crowning consummation of all that faith believes, hope expects, and love enjoys. But through what dark and gloomy seasons has hope often to look before this end comes, being sometimes sunk so low as almost to despair even of life! How it has in these low spots to muster all its evidences, look back to this and that Ebenezer, this and that hill Mizar, this and that deliverance, manifestation, and blessing; how it has to hang upon the word of promise, cry out for help, and that mightily, as if at its last breath, and hope against hope in the very face of unbelief, infidelity, and despair. An end must come to all our struggles, trials, exercises, afflictions, and conflicts. We shall