Message Notes for August 6, 2023
Series: Real Hope
Title: Hope Gives Meaning to a Broken World

The essential aspects of hope that God provides give purpose to our days, secure our future, release our burdens and propel us forward toward our best life and divine calling.

Without hope our pessimism will consume us to nothingness.

Hebrews 6:19-20 We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, 20 where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

Romans 15:13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

1 Peter 1:3-6 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, 5 who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials…

The effects of a living hope:

• Change in our lifestyle!

• Change in our desire!

• Change in our anxiety and fear!

• Change in how we view perishable and imperishable! 1 Peter 1:23-35

• Changes where we throw our anchor of hope! Romans 8:31-38

Family/Study Group Notes for August 6, 2023
Series: Real Hope
Title: Hope Gives Meaning to a Broken World

• Share with your family/group some of the things that you hope for in life. Why are these important to you?
  
  

• When you think about the things you hope for, what is the source of that hope? Would you say that source is reliable, stable, fragile, weak, strong, other? Why?
  
  

• Read 1 Peter 1:3-9. What stands out most for you in this passage? Why? Where does this living hope come from? How did God cause us to be born again? How does being born again give us a living hope? What is this living hope in?
  
  

• In vs. 4, Christians have an inheritance. What is it? What does it mean to say that this inheritance is imperishable, undefiled and unfading? How is it guarded and by who? How does your faith come into play in this living hope?
  
  

• In vs. 6, how are trials and struggles seen against the backdrop of this living hope? How can we now approach these trials and struggles? Why? How can Peter talk about such joy in the midst of trials?
  
  

• Read Hebrews 6:17-20. What is God’s unchangeable character? How does this character give us assurance of hope? How can this character of God be an anchor for your soul? How does that affect your hope in things now and things to come? Do some research and discover what it means to say that this hope comes from the inner place behind the curtain and from the order of Melchizedek. How does this discovery shed light on some attributes of Jesus?
  
  

• Gather with your family/group and pray for each other and this living hope that Jesus has given to you.