Faith, Hope, and Love: A Divine Interconnection
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We always thank God the father of our Lord Jesus Christ when we pray for you, having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints so we've heard these two things, and then comes the because clause, because of the Hope laid up for you in heaven. [00:11:34]
The hope referred to here is the hope of God's grace, the hope of forgiveness, the hope of being in his kingdom, the hope of getting an inheritance with him, the hope of glory summing it all up, and we refocused our question to be okay given that understanding of Hope as an objective reality outside ourselves. [00:144:20]
Faith is an act of the human soul. You have faith; this is something your soul is doing. It is trusting, believing, embracing Christ Jesus. You are doing this. Similarly, love is an event in the human soul then worked out in our behavior. You love the Saints, so we are doing this in our souls. [00:225:84]
The first thing that happens in my mind when I try to think that through is, well, wait a minute, isn't it the other way around? Not we have faith in Christ Jesus because of Hope laid up for us in heaven, but rather, because we have faith in Christ Jesus, therefore there's a hope laid out for us in heaven. [00:302:16]
This hope laid up for us in heaven is the ground of Faith. Let me show you. It says that you heard, you heard of this hope in the word of Truth, The Gospel. So what if I paraphrased it like this: I've heard of your faith in Christ Jesus because you have this Faith because of what you heard in the gospel. [00:358:91]
Faith is the substance of things hoped for. Now, the other key place, the two other places, but here's the one for me is key, where this word translated substance here by me and the old King James Version is found in 1 3. He is the radiance, Christ is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his same word, his substance, his nature, his essence. [00:475:50]
When the human soul is offered glorious things in the gospel that our future faith tastes glimpses the essence of that reality, and it is so compelling in its taste and its beauty that Faith Embraces now what is hoped for and that present taste and Glimpse and embrace empowers all kinds of obedience. [00:549:77]
By faith, Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, so he rejects all those privileges, choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting faith. Can see this is fleeting, all these privileges of being Pharaoh's family are fleeting rather than enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. [00:603:77]
Moses saw the reward, he saw the glory, he saw the beauty, he saw the Wonder of being with God, accepted, loved, forgiven, happy with God forever, and he tasted that hoped-for reality, and that taste, that Glimpse, that enjoyment, that Embrace freed him to say no to all the pleasures of this Pharaoh household and embrace obedience to God. [00:690:72]
When the hope of the grace of God and the hope of the Forgiveness of sins and the Kingdom and The Inheritance and the glory, when all of that hope is presented to us in the gospel, there is a taste, a glimpse, a compelling sight of that beauty which awakens this Faith, this faith in Christ as the sum and ground of all that Grace and all that Glory. [00:747:95]
Everything beautiful and compelling and delicious about this hope awakens becomes the ground of this faith in Jesus Christ. Now I can't prove that that is exactly what Paul was thinking here when he wrote this because, and so let's wait to make our final judgment and ask, okay, if that's the relationship between Faith and Hope here. [00:797:83]
Hope laid up is a real ground for the coming into existence of this Faith. Let's ask about how this faith and this hope relate to love, and then we might be in a position to say what we think Paul really is meaning. [00:823:01]
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The hope referred to here is the hope of God's grace, the hope of forgiveness, the hope of being in his kingdom, the hope of getting an inheritance with him, the hope of glory summing it all up, and we refocused our question to be okay given that understanding of Hope as an objective reality outside ourselves. [00:144:20]
Faith is an act of the human soul. You have faith; this is something your soul is doing. It is trusting, believing, embracing Christ Jesus. You are doing this. Similarly, love is an event in the human soul then worked out in our behavior. You love the Saints, so we are doing this in our souls. [00:225:84]
The first thing that happens in my mind when I try to think that through is, well, wait a minute, isn't it the other way around? Not we have faith in Christ Jesus because of Hope laid up for us in heaven, but rather, because we have faith in Christ Jesus, therefore there's a hope laid out for us in heaven. [00:302:16]
This hope laid up for us in heaven is the ground of Faith. Let me show you. It says that you heard, you heard of this hope in the word of Truth, The Gospel. So what if I paraphrased it like this: I've heard of your faith in Christ Jesus because you have this Faith because of what you heard in the gospel. [00:358:91]
Faith is the substance of things hoped for. Now, the other key place, the two other places, but here's the one for me is key, where this word translated substance here by me and the old King James Version is found in 1 3. He is the radiance, Christ is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his same word, his substance, his nature, his essence. [00:475:50]
When the human soul is offered glorious things in the gospel that our future faith tastes glimpses the essence of that reality, and it is so compelling in its taste and its beauty that Faith Embraces now what is hoped for and that present taste and Glimpse and embrace empowers all kinds of obedience. [00:549:77]
By faith, Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, so he rejects all those privileges, choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting faith. Can see this is fleeting, all these privileges of being Pharaoh's family are fleeting rather than enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. [00:603:77]
Moses saw the reward, he saw the glory, he saw the beauty, he saw the Wonder of being with God, accepted, loved, forgiven, happy with God forever, and he tasted that hoped-for reality, and that taste, that Glimpse, that enjoyment, that Embrace freed him to say no to all the pleasures of this Pharaoh household and embrace obedience to God. [00:690:72]
When the hope of the grace of God and the hope of the Forgiveness of sins and the Kingdom and The Inheritance and the glory, when all of that hope is presented to us in the gospel, there is a taste, a glimpse, a compelling sight of that beauty which awakens this Faith, this faith in Christ as the sum and ground of all that Grace and all that Glory. [00:747:95]
Everything beautiful and compelling and delicious about this hope awakens becomes the ground of this faith in Jesus Christ. Now I can't prove that that is exactly what Paul was thinking here when he wrote this because, and so let's wait to make our final judgment and ask, okay, if that's the relationship between Faith and Hope here. [00:797:83]
Hope laid up is a real ground for the coming into existence of this Faith. Let's ask about how this faith and this hope relate to love, and then we might be in a position to say what we think Paul really is meaning. [00:823:01]
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