Faint Hope
Good Hope
Substantial Hope
Religious Hope
- 1 Peter 1:3
- 1 Corinthians 15:19
- 1 Peter 1:3
- John 3:7
C.S. Lewis
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people
often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I
don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man
who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. … Now it seems to me obvious that He was neither a lunatic nor a fiend: and consequently, however strange or terrifying or unlikely it may seem, I have to accept the view that He was and is God.”
- John 5:24
- 1 Peter 1:4
Imperishable
Undefiled
Unfading
- 1 Peter 1:5
- John 10:28
- John 10:29
- Romans 11:29
“Heavenly Father, I admit that I am weaker and more sinful than I ever before
believed, but through your Son, Jesus, I can be more loved and accepted than I
ever dared hope. I thank you that he lived the life I should have lived, and paid
the debt and punishment I owe. Receive me now for his sake. I turn from my sins
and receive him as Savior. I want to be a disciple of Jesus. It’s in Jesus’ name I
pray, Amen.”