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Hope of Eternal Life
(From Forerunner Commentary)

Luke 13:3  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) "Perish" means to cease existing. It does not mean to continue living. Life in eternal torment is not what God has decreed for incorrigible sinners! The punishment revealed in the Bible is death—cessation of life forever. Eternal life is something we were not born with. It is a gift of God that He will bestow at the resurrection to those who obey Him. Eternal life and death are contrasted all through the Bible! What Is Hell?

Hebrews 6:18-19  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) Here hope is seen as being external. Even though we carry the thought, the understanding, the knowledge of it in our own minds, and it appears to be internal, it is actually external to those who have it. Our hope is something that we flee to for refuge, and this hope has entered behind the veil for us. This kind of hope, which is used more frequently in the Bible than internal hope, is seen as what stirs us and produces the hope within. This kind of hope is what the Christian's hope—the object, the concept, the idea, the fact—is in. For instance, our hope can be in God or in Jesus or in salvation, as Scripture may say. It can be in God's promises, His Word, eternal life, His steadfast love, His grace, the resurrection from the dead, and sharing the glory of God. Our internal hope is motivated by these aspects of the external hope. John W. Ritenbaugh Trumpets Is a Day of Hope

 

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