Romans 8:24; "For we are saved by hope:..."
1./ WHAT EXACTLY DOES THIS MEAN ?
digression a./ HOPE IS NOT FAITH - THEY ARE 2 SEPARATE THINGS
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
digression b./ BIBLICAL HOPE COMES FROM / ARRISES UP OUT OF THE GOSPEL
Colossians 1:23;
[ If ] ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
SAVING HOPE is the result of God's Divine WORD-FAITH-HOPE-GOSPEL MECHANISM !!!!
TAUGHT BY GOD HIMSELF - GOD IS THE DOER OF THE WORKS ( nothing else is )
1 Kings 19:12
And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
Job 32:8; But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
Job 33: 14-16;
14For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.
15In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
16Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction,
Jer. 29:11; For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Matthew 10:18-20
18And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.
19But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.
20For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
M't. 16:17; And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
Luke 12:12
For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.
Jn. 6: 45; It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.
Jn. 14:26; But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
Ro. 1:19; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
Romans 10:8
But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
1st Cor. 2: 9-11, 13;
9But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
10But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
13Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
2nd Cor. 3:3; Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Philp. 2:13; For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
2nd Tim. 3:16; All scripture is given by inspiration of God,...
Heb. 8: 10 & 11;
10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
11And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
Heb. 10: 15 & 16;
15Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
16This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
Heb. 12:25; See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
1st. Pet. 1:11; Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
2nd Pet. 1: 21; For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
1st Jn. 2: 20, But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things
1st Jn. 2: 27;
But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
THUS, IT IS WRITTEN.........
John 6:44
No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 6:65
And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.
Matthew 18:14;
Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
1 Timothy 2:4
Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
John 6:37
All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
2 Corinthians 8:12
For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
1 Peter 3:21
The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
2./ Titus 1:2
In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
