Definition: Hope

Christ is the actual object of the believer’s hope, because it is in his second coming that the hope of glory will be fulfilled (1 Tim. 1:1; Col. 1:27; Titus 2:13). It is spoken of as “lively”, i.e., a living, hope, a hope not frail and perishable, but having a perennial life (1 Pet. 1:3). In Rom. 5:2 the “hope” spoken of is probably objective, i.e., “the hope set before us,” namely, eternal life (comp. 12:12). In 1 John 3:3 the expression “hope in him” ought rather to be, as in the Revised Version, “hope on him,” i.e., a hope based on God. Source: Easton’s 1897 Bible Dictionary

As God ALWAYS does what he says he will do and Jesus can be believed, the scriptural “hope” is “guaranteed to happen”.

Jesus said it, I believe it, and that settles it! Jesus IS Truth.

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