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    Collected Writings On ... Exploring Biblical Hope
    Collected Writings On ... Exploring Biblical Hope
    Collected Writings On ... Exploring Biblical Hope
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    Collected Writings On ... Exploring Biblical Hope

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    This book explores hope from a Christian perspective, including the hope of the risen Lord, how we are called to possess God's hope, how we should have a persevering hope, a review of the hope of a future rapture, the concept of hope deferred, the hope for the Christian of future reward for service, the contrast between gloom and sunshine, the hope that relates specifically to Israel, and looking at what type of hope should have a purifying effect on us.  The book concludes with a section of poems on the subject of hope.

     

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHayes Press
    Release dateNov 1, 2016
    ISBN9781540139313
    Collected Writings On ... Exploring Biblical Hope

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      Collected Writings On ... Exploring Biblical Hope - Hayes Press

      CHAPTER ONE:  THE HOPE OF THE RISEN LORD

      The land in which I am currently writing is one shrouded in darkness and the shadow of death. Having no hope and without God in the world is an apt description of so many of its people. Why is it so? One main reason is because they follow leaders who are dead. Against such a sombre background the hope of the Christian shines so brightly, for we serve a living Saviour. Why seek ye the living among the dead? questioned the angels on that most glorious first day of the week, He is not here, but is risen. Therein lies the believer’s hope. It springs from an empty tomb and is centred in a risen Lord.

      The bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus lies at the foundation of our faith, for if Christ hath not been raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins (1 Corinthians 15:17). But now hath Christ been raised from the dead (verse 20). Oh, the glorious certainty of it! This fact flooded the lives of the early Christians, giving them new purpose and hope and empowering all their service. They lived in the expectation of the return of their risen Lord.

      Recalling his work among the Thessalonians, Paul wrote to them, ye turned unto God from idols, to serve a living and true God, and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus (I Thessalonians 1:9,10). They turned, to serve and to wait, and their waiting was no vain hope. The empty tomb was their assurance that He would return. And so it is still. We have been begotten again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead (1 Peter 1:3). Hope looks back to an empty tomb, upward to an occupied throne, and onward to the return in glorified body of the Man who sits upon it.

      We hoped that it was He which should redeem Israel, said the two disconsolate disciples as they communed with the Stranger on the Emmaus road. But when their eyes were opened and they knew Him, hope blazed afresh and they returned that very night to Jerusalem with their glad message, The Lord is risen indeed.

      The Promise of His Return

      Where is the promise of His coming? cry the mockers of whom Peter warned us. There is no lack of such people today, who treat the word of God as a plaything, for that is the thought behind the word mockers. But the taunts of the unbelieving only serve to strengthen the believer’s faith. If I go ... I come again, and will receive you unto Myself, said the Master Himself. And He did go, for as they were looking, He was taken up; and a cloud received Him out of their sight (Acts 1:9). So surely will He return. This Jesus, which was received up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye beheld Him going into heaven, said the angels to those wondering disciples.

      And to the testimony of the Lord Jesus and the angels is added that of the apostles. The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God (1 Thessalonians 4:16). Could words be plainer? They leave no room for doubt. A threefold cord is not quickly broken. He that cometh shall come, and shall not tarry (Hebrews 10:37). In happy confidence we rest upon His word, looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ (Titus 2:13).

      The Manner of His Return

      Four interesting Greek words are used by the Spirit of God to describe the Lord’s return.

      (a) His presence (Greek: ‘parousia’) is the most common. It denotes not only the arrival of a person but also his continuing presence. Paul uses the word in Philippians 2:12 of his presence among the saints, in contrast to his absence from them. Our Master is absent now as to His bodily presence. He has gone away, and our hearts warm at the prospect of His soon coming again. His parousia includes His coming to the air for His saints, and His presence with them from that moment to the time when He returns with all His saints to commence His reign on earth.

      (b) Another Greek word used, particularly by Peter, is ‘apokalupsis’, translated at the revelation of Jesus Christ (1 Peter 1:7,13). It is used both in connection with His coming to the air and His coming in judgement to the earth (2 Thessalonians 1:7). It literally means to uncover (‘apo’, from, and ‘kalupto’, to cover). At the revelation of His glory also ye may rejoice with exceeding joy (1 Peter 4:13). Then He will be unveiled and we shall see Him, whom not having seen, we love, and our wondering hearts will exclaim, I had heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth Thee (Job 42:5).

      "Our Lord’s coming draweth nigh,

      His long-sought unveiling:

      Let us Maranatha cry

      With a faith unfailing."

      (c) The third Greek word, ‘epiphaneia’, is literally a shining forth. It is used of His first coming in grace, when the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and also of His second coming, both for His saints to the air and with His saints to the earth. That thou keep the commandment, without spot, without reproach, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Timothy 6:14). What a shining forth that will be!

      (d) A fourth Greek word, very similar to the above (for it comes from the same root, ‘phan’, shining) is ‘phaneroo’, to be manifested, to make visible. And when the Chief Shepherd shall be manifested, ye shall receive the crown of glory that fadeth not away

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