Faith’s Least Used Substance Hope for the Unobtainable Hope in the Invincible Hope that is Unalterable Hope that is Immovable

1. Shakespeare-
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Life without God is a colossal waste.
Even a Christian can lose sight of the hope given him.
Deut 32:18
Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed
thee.
Job 7:6
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Isa 57:20-21
But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up
mire and dirt.
21 There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

2. Eph 2:12
That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of
Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, havingno hope, and without
God in the world:
1Thess 4:13
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are
asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
There is one ingredient a Christian has
that a lost man cannot manufacture –
A sure and steadfast Hope.
They may have Erratic Excitement
Or Passing Pleasure
But they have no anchor for the soul.
Faith’s Least Used Substance
HOPE
HEBREWS 11:1
Faith’s Least Used Substance
Heb 11:1
1) Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
-Hope-
Rom 4:18-20

3. Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many
nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
against hope- of probability
believed in hope- of promise
19) And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he
was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb:
20) He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in
faith, giving glory to God;
Faith’s Least Used Substance
HOPE FOR THE UNOBTAINABLE
Hope for the Unobtainable
Heb 6
14) Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
15) And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
Patiently Endured-
-NapoleonBonaparte-
“The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue;
courage is only the second virtue.”

4. Faith’s Least Used Substance
HOPE FOR THE UNOBTAINABLE
HOPE IN THE INVINCIBLE
Hope for the Unobtainable
Hope in the Invincible
Heb 6:
16) For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an
end of all strife.
Men know the pinnacle of greatness is in two names, God and Jesus Christ.
No man attempts to exhibit force by saying, “ByBuddha I will do this or
that...,”
and no one says, “Mohammed damn it.”
The reason is, Buddhaand Mohammed have no power.
17) Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the
immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
Heb 6:13
For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no
greater, he sware by himself,
Deut 32:40
For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.

5. Faith’s Least Used Substance
HOPE FOR THE UNOBTAINABLE
HOPE IN THE INVINCIBLE
HOPE THAT IS UNALTERABLE
Hope for the Unobtainable
Hope in the Invincible
Hope that is Unalterable
Heb 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:
Immutable- no mute button
Two Immutable Things- Heb 6:14 “Saying” His word; Heb 6:17 “by an oath”
His Word.
Strong Consolation- Superior Comfort, Relief
Hope set before us- we onlyhope for that on which we have set our affections;
it is set before us if you cant see it you are looking the wrongdirection.
19) Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which
entereth into that within the veil;

6. Faith’s Least Used Substance
HOPE FOR THE UNOBTAINABLE
HOPE IN THE INVINCIBLE
HOPE THAT IS UNALTERABLE
HOPE THAT IS IMMOVABLE
Hope for the Unobtainable
Hope in the Invincible
Hope that is Unalterable
Hope that is Immovable
Heb 6
19) Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which
entereth into that within the veil;
God made a solemn promise to Abraham which seemed, humanly, impossible.
Nevertheless, Abraham relied on the promise, and found,
what God’s people find repeatedly,
the impossible with men is possible with God.
To believe God’s word brings hope.
The more confident the faith the more assured the hope.
Both reveal their real value, when subjected to a stormysea.
Acts 27:40-41
40) And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the
sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made
toward shore.
41) And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the
forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with
the violence of the waves.

7. Many want Christ for nothing more than safety from their spiritual peril.
Ezek 18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die…
Christ our sanctuary, is a provision for present enjoyment, and an inspiration to our
hope.
1Chr 22:19
19) Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God…
We have an anchor.
You can feel an anchor when the line strains under a gale or a tide.
A Danforth anchor will dig deeper every time a strain is put on it.
A little boy was out in a field holding a ball of string in his hand. A passerby said,
“Little boy, what are you doing?”
He said, “I’m flying my kite.”
The man looked up and saw nothing in the air; the clouds were at a low level and no
kite was visible. “I don’t see how that can be,” said the man, “I don’t see any kite up
there.”
“Oh, but it’s up there, sir,” said the boy. “I can feel it PULLIN’.”
We know what’s on the other end of the line: “the Forerunner.”
Heb 6:20
Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever
after the order of Melchisedec.
1Pet 1:3-4
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his
abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of
Jesus Christ from the dead,
4) To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away,
reserved in heavenfor you,
Rom 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.
Titus 2:13-14
Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our
Saviour Jesus Christ;
14) Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify
unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.