ROMANS 8:24-25
Sunday Morning: May
28, 2006
Text: Romans 8:24-25 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is
seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? 25 But
if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Romans 8:24 For we
(brethren, v.12) are saved [aorist
passive, we were saved] by [dative,
to the] hope: but hope that is seen [present passive] is not hope: for what a man seeth
[present active], why doth he yet hope
[present active] for?
GOD’S
WILL
1 Timothy 2:4 Who
will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge [epignwsiv, experiential knowledge] of the
truth.
JAILER
SALVATION
Acts 16:30-31 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? 31 And
they said, Believe [aorist active
imperative (not faith)] on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved (an event), and thy house.
COMMON
SALVATION
Jude 1:3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write
unto you of the common salvation, it
was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should
earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
BORN
INTO THE FAMILY
John 3:3 . . . Except a man be born again [from
above], he cannot see the kingdom of God.
JAILER’S
HOPE OF SALVATION
Acts 16:32-33 And they
spake unto him the word of the Lord [God], and to all that were
in his house. 33 And he took them the same hour of the night,
and washed their stripes; and was baptized, …
SO
GREAT SALVATION
Hebrews 2:3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the
Lord, (Mat 3:2 Repent ye: for the kingdom
of heaven is at hand)
HIS
NAME
Revelation 19:13 And he was clothed with a vesture
dipped in blood: and his name is
called The Word of God.
THE
WORD OF GOD
Luke 8:10-11 And he said, Unto you it is given to know (the
seed) the mysteries of the kingdom
of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and
hearing they might not understand.
11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
PHILIP’S
MESSAGE
Acts 8:12 But when they believed Philip preaching the
things concerning the kingdom of God,
and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized...
SALVATION
IN CHRIST
2 Timothy 2:9-10 Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even
unto bonds; but the word of God is
not bound. 10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation
which is in Christ Jesus with eternal
[age-lasting] glory.
THE
HOPE NOT SEEN
Romans 8:24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what
a man seeth [present active],
why doth he yet hope for?
SCRIPTURES
GIVE HOPE
Romans 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime
were written for our learning, that
we through patience and comfort [exhortation] of the
scriptures might have hope.
HOPE
OF GLORY
Romans 5:2 By whom also we have access by faith into
this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in
hope of the glory of God.
SAVED
THEN CALLED
2 Timothy 1:9 Who hath saved
us, and called us with an
holy calling, …, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world [ages]
began,
ONE
HOPE
Ephesians 4:4-5 There is one body, and one Spirit,
even as ye are called in one hope of
your calling; 5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
HOPE
OF AGELASTING LIFE
Titus 1:2 In hope
of eternal [age-lasting, kingdom
age] life, which God, that cannot lie, promised
before the world began;
CALLED
UNTO HIS KINGDOM
1 Thessalonians
2:12 That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called
you unto his kingdom and glory.
WAITING
FOR ETERNAL LIFE
Romans 8:25 But if we hope [present active] for that we see [present active] not, then do we with patience [upomonh, abide under] wait [present middle] for it.
HEIRS
ACCORDING TO HOPE
Titus 3:7 That being justified by his grace,
we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal [agelasting, kingdom age] life.
LAY
HOLD ON THE HOPE
Hebrews 6:18 That by two immutable things, in which it
was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have
fled for refuge to lay hold upon the
hope set before us:
LAY
HOLD ON AGE-LASTING LIFE
1 Timothy 6:12 (Man of God) Fight the good fight of
faith, lay hold on eternal [age-lasting
kingdom] life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good
profession before many witnesses.
HOLD
FAST THE HOPE
Hebrews 10:23 Let us hold
fast the profession of our faith
[hope] without wavering; (for he is faithful
that promised;)
THAT
WE MIGHT RECEIVED THE PROMISE
Hebrews 10:35-36 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward (the
promise verse 36). 36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye
have done the will of God, ye might
receive the promise. (reward)
THE
PROMISE
1 John 2:25 And this
is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal [age-lasting] life.
THE
AGE NOT SEEN
Mark 10:29-30 And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say
unto you, There is no man that hath left
(all) house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or
children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, 30 But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this
time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world
[age, millennial kingdom] to come
[the one coming] eternal
[age-lasting] life.
JOINT-HEIRS
WITH CHRIST
Romans 8:17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God,
and joint-heirs with Christ; if so
be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
HOLD
FAST THE HOPE
Hebrews 3:6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose
house are we, if we hold fast the
confidence and the rejoicing of the
hope firm unto the end.