We have HOPE if we have GOD. 

God lifts us up and comforts us through our Hope in Him.

“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, 

plans for welfare (to prosper you) and not for evil, 

to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29:11

Your future Hope is secure in God alone. 

All other hope, 

if it is not rooted and grounded in the hope of God

 for you and for your family will somehow disappoint you with the outcome. 

 Hope is found in GOD’s love for us and His goodness.

God says it is impossible to be separated from the love of God.

God will always love us throughout eternity because He is love. 

He cannot deny who He is. 

We will live forever because we are spirit and GOD is Spirit who created us.

Most people start their journey with GOD by repeating 

the sinner’s prayer but it is so much more than just that. 

After inviting Christ into your heart and after being born again, 

the beginning of our Hope can now become real and be made manifest in Him.

 The door through Christ body is open to GOD the Father

 the moment we are born again.

To be born again is a one -time experience… 

but to be saved is a life long process. 

And we are always being saved from something. 

God is faithful.

The Bible says If (conditional) we live in Him 

in this lifetime by allowing God to enable us to persevere to the end, 

we shall be (present progressive ) saved.

Obedience is a lifestyle that has to be developed now 

before we die and is tied to doing His will. 

Even after we are in Heaven, we have the possibility to sin against GOD.

The Bible says in eternity we will be like the angels in Heaven. 

We think of this in terms of marriage,

 in that we will be married to Christ and forbade to have sexual relationships

 just like the angels who did not fall were required to keep their first estate.

But they had a choice. Everything God creates has a choice to love Him, to serve Him and to obey Him… or not.

Lucifer had a choice…no one tempted him…

he simply chose to let pride get the best of him 

and He chose to sin against GOD by wanting to be GOD. 

We do the same thing today when we want to be our own god 

and do what we want instead of what GOD says.

Everything involving GOD is conditional with an if …if we do this… 

or if we don’t … it is the outcome of choice.

Throughout the Bible in the scriptures in general and the ones about salvation... 

it uses words like: we shall be saved … or we may be… 

or we should be … or we will be saved…but it doesn't say we are saved, 

without an if or a condition involved, 

either in the same verse or the ones right before or right after.

Our being in the process of being saved is not a place 

of allowing ourselves to become lukewarm or placid 

in our response to Him, but quite the opposite. 

It is through the Holy Spirit forever moving forward through us in intensity, 

that will insure we make it to the end.

The process of salvation requires us to love Him with all our heart, 

have ongoing repentance in areas we have sinned,

 a hunger for Him by making Him our first love, 

a hunger and thirst for righteousness, 

a lifestyle of obedience to His Word and His spoken voice, 

and a willingness to do His will verses our own in every area of our lives...

and it is all based on our love for Him

 and receiving His ability by our dependence on Him.

Our greatest hope is in the faith we have in GOD 

and the promise of eternal life which is based

 on a vibrant and alive relationship with Jesus Christ now…

 The making Him our first love continues long after we are born again 

and follows us into eternity and into His presence forever.

Being born again is just the beginning to everything else GOD has for us…

including salvation.

Here are just a few scriptures on being saved, salvation and becoming born again:

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John 3:3-5

“Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily

 (which means pay attention, listen) I say unto thee, 

except a man be born again, he cannot see 

(not enter…just see) the kingdom of GOD. And Nicodemus saith unto Him,

 how can a man be born when he is old? 

Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born? 

Jesus answered, verily, verily, I say unto except

 (conditional) a man be born of water (water baptism and the washing of the water

 of the Word) and of the Spirit (the Holy Spirit), 

he cannot enter into the Kingdom of GOD. 

(Even if he is born again and can see the kingdom of GOD…

there is still something he must do to enter in).

John 5:16…

“If (conditional) anyone does not “remain in Me”, 

he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers: 

such branches are picked up , thrown into the fire and burned.” 

(we no longer “remain in Him… if we remove ourselves from Him, 

a possibility if we do not maintain the relationship in oneness with Him)

In eternity, God will not allow rebels to rule and reign with Him. 

A rebel may not be who we think is a rebel …

a rebel is one who does not do the will of GOD.

 And the Bible says they cannot enter into the Kingdom.

 God will not allow anyone to create havoc in Heaven 

like they did on the earth nor allow someone to enter into Heaven 

who is not going to obey Him. 

Those that have the privilege to be the bride of Christ 

and rule and reign with Him will only be those 

that make Him their first love and obey what He says…

I Corinthians 15:2… 

Paul said, By the gospel you are saved, if (conditional) 

you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. 

Otherwise, you have believed in vain. 

(In other words, you have deceived yourself through 

vain imaginations that you are ok with GOD).

2 Corinthians 7:10 … 

For it is Godly sorrow that worketh (brings us to) 

repentance (leading ) to salvation (the process of being saved) 

not to be repented of (because it produces life) but the sorrow (sin)

 of the world worketh death…(but continued repentance worketh life unto salvation.)

Matthew 10:22 … 

He that endures (continues – present progressive) 

to the end shall be (present progressive) saved.

Matthew 7:13-14… 

Enter ye in at the strait gate (keep your focus on Him

 and turn not to the left or right) for wide is the gate, 

and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, 

and many there be which go in there… 

because strait is the gate and narrow is the way, 

which leadeth to life, 

and few there be that find it (few means not many…

and narrow means constricted with pressure 

meaning one must be determined to continue 

making God the most important goal in life…

anything else is not acceptable to Him)

John 3:15 … 

Whosoever believeth “in Him” 

(means that it is “in Him” we live and move and have our being…

we exist only “in Him” and He is our eternal life…) 

and it doesn’t say those that believe “on Him”…”

on Him” is different from” in Him” …on Him means we know about Him, 

and we may know Who the Bible says He is …

but do we actually in reality know Him through relationship…

and are we known of Him…that’s different).

John 3:16 … 

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, 

so that everyone who believes (to believe in Hebrew means adheres to, 

depends on, and relies on and is found in the Amplified Bible Translation) 

in Him (not on Him) might (conditional) not perish, 

but may (conditional – have the right to) have eternal life.

God is looking for truth in our inner man. 

When He looks at you or me is wants to see a reflection of His Son in us.

Titus 1:1-2

“Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, 

for the sake of the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth 

(Truth is a person. Jesus said I am the Truth, the Way and the Life), 

which is after godliness, in hope of eternal life, which God ,

 who cannot lie, promised before the ages began. “ 

God has made an eternal covenant to protect 

and provide for you forever. No one else can make that kind of claim but God.

We are always trying to believe that God loves us…

we hope He does. 

But GOD cannot lie. 

God is Love. He not only speaks truth…He is Truth itself.

So often we think we were only created to love GOD….

but we go beyond hope to the fact that God created you just for Himself 

so He could love us.

Hope is our connection to GOD and 

after being born and by faith, we shall receive the promise that Hope keeps alive.

Hope is not only based in faith, 

but it is the love we receive from Him 

that is a reflection of His unconditional love for us.

You were created for Hope to love you… 

and for Hope to manifest through you…Hope is a person. 

Everything we need is found in Him being our source, 

so that being justified by His grace (the divine influence on the heart,

we have the ability to change and the power to overcome so) 

we might become (present progressive) the sons and daughters of GOD.

Because of the Love you receive “from God” and you store in your heart, you now have Hope eternal Hope in GOD.

Hope is a street for us to travel on our journey…now and into eternity.

We all need to accept God’s love for us, once and for all, not because we feel it or not, but because we believe it.

It is His love that enables us to change and become who we are destined to be, 

and fufill the plans He created us to complete.

Hope is knowing Him and His unconditional Love 

and experiencing God for yourself …the One that will be your strength 

to you overcome.

Because God is for you, who can be against you?

No one can stop GOD from answering the hope you place in Him. 

Hope inside of you is the person of Hope living through you.

Acts 2:26 KJV …

“Therefore, did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad: moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope (in Christ).”

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