December 2, 2018 · 1 John 3:3

Hope

“This is a very pure hope. This is a hope in Jesus. When you hope in Jesus, you hope in something solid, and this hope it says is threefold. The first one is that we believe and we hope that Jesus is coming back. We have to come back. We trust that we're going to see Him as He really is. We're going to finally see the veil lifted off the universe, and then finally our hope is that we are going to be like Him someday. Or maybe like Jesus someday. … It starts to make us holy. The people in Israel, they approach God's altar. They always have to wash their hands first. This is like a purification. Well the hope in Jesus, hope in His resurrection. This is like a purification process that we're going to read out. This is the ancient people who hope someday they can relate to God even though they were evil. They just hope generally. Now we have this beautiful positive hope in Jesus because hope is audacious. Hope is the fighter's virtue.”