God appointed His Son Jesus Christ unto a living hope for the nations. Jesus Christ is a living hope for all the people, who believed, believe, and shall believe in God’s Son. As the Father appointed His Son unto a living hope, so are the people that believe and identified themselves with Christ’s death and resurrection from the dead and are clothing with Him, unto a living hope in the world.
Christians are born again unto a living hope
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 (living hope) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time (1 Peter 1:3-4)
God restored through His Son Jesus Christ, the peace between God and man that was broken, and the authority and life that man lost through Adam’s sin, to everyone that believes.
Everyone that believes in Jesus Christ and through faith repents, and be baptized in water and receives the baptism with the Holy Spirit becomes a son of the living God (this applies to both males and females) and belongs to God again.
All people that are born again in Christ are no longer sinners, but have become saints.
Believers have laid down their old life as sinner, through the death of their flesh in Christ, and are raised from the dead in newness of life (a.o. Romans 4:25; 6:4-11; 7:6).
In Christ, they received the life of God anew and live in the New Covenant that is sealed with the blood of Jesus. They are born again unto a living hope.
Together, the believers are the Church of Christ; the Body of Christ on earth.
The believers are clothed with Christ and are His reflection on earth
The believers are clothed with Christ and are His reflection on earth. From their renewed sonship (both males and females) and restored position, they walk by faith in the authority of the Son Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit in obedience to the will of God (a.o. Romans 8:29; 12:2; 15:13-19; Colossians 3:10; Ephesians 6:6; Hebrews 10:36; 1 Peter 4:2-19; 1 John 2:17).
Just like Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Jesus was the reflection of God and walked by faith in the authority of His Father in the power of the Holy Spirit in obedience to the will of God (a.o. John 4:34; 5:30; 6:38; 8:19; 10:30-38; 14:7; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Colossians 1:15; Hebrews 1:3).
Jesus’s life belonged to God, whereby He yielded to the Father and walked in obedience to Him. Jesus spoke the words of His Father and did the things of His Father (a.o. John 8:38; 10:25-38; 14:10).
And so Jesus walked by faith in holiness and righteousness in the authority of His Father and did all in His Name.
Jesus was (and is) the living hope for the house of Israel
Jesus was the fulfillment of the Father’s promise and the living hope for the people of Israel. The Son of the promise was the living hope for all the sheep, including the sick and lost sheep of the house of Israël
Jesus was circumcised on the eighth day. When Jesus was approximately 30 years of age, He was baptized (washed in the water) and filled with the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit led Jesus into the wilderness, where He was tempted by the devil, the ruler of the world and the adversary of God, for forty days.
After His victory, Jesus returned in the power of the Holy Spirit to Galilee, where He preached the gospel of the Kingdom of God and taught the truth of God in the synagogues.
As Jesus spoke the words of the Father, He became the voice of the living God on earth. Jesus preached and revealed the Kingdom of God and called the people to repentance. (a.o. Matthew 4:17; Mark 1:15; Luke 4:14-16)
Jesus preached the Kingdom of God and established God’s Law
Jesus didn’t annul the Law of Moses, but He fulfilled the Law, by doing the will of the Father. The Law was connected to a King and a Kingdom, in this case, God and God’s Kingdom.
Jesus confirmed and established the will of God and His righteousness and the (moral) laws of God’s Kingdom on earth.
Jesus showed through His walk that God is not the God of sin, death and the dead, but of righteousness, Life and the living, the true God and the eternal King (a.o. Jeremiah 10:10; Daniel 6:26; Matthew 22:32; Mark 12:27; Luke 20:38).
The justification through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ
Doing the will of the Father was Jesus’s first priority in life. In contrary to God’s first son Adam, who put his will above the will of the Father and lost his life through his disobedience to God and caused his seed to become corrupt, God’s Son Jesus put the Father’s will above His own will, whereby He also lost His life, but through His obedience to God and His blood, He justified and quickened (made alive) many that believe and are born again in Him (a.o. John 14:27-31; Romans 1:16; 4:25; 5; 6; 8:10-17; Ephesians 1:7; Colossians 1:20; Revelation 1:5-6).
Jesus Christ, the Son of God and the Son of man, took the guilt upon Him. The guilt, that was on the whole human race through the disobedience (sin) of the man Adam.
Jesus died, so that everyone that believes in Him and accepts His sacrifice and be cleansed with His blood, be saved.
In Christ, we have the redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sin and are justified. (a.o. Romans 5:1-19; Galatians 1:4; 1 Corinthians 6:11; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Ephesians 1:17; Colossians 1:13-14)
Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the Kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God (1 Corinthians 6:10-11)
Jesus Christ brought deliverance from the devil and reconciliation with God
Through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and through His blood, you are reconciled with God and healed. You have been made righteous and are sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, Which is the down payment of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of His glory (a.o. Acts 20:28; Romeinen 8:23; 2 Corinthians 5:5; Ephesians 1:13-14).
Through the identification with Christ through the baptism in the water of separation, you are separated from the world (death of the flesh) and reconciled with God (the resurrection of the spirit from the dead) and have peace with God. You are death to the world and alive unto God (a.o. Acts 26:18; Romans 5:1; 6:5-11; Ephesians 2:13; Philippians 3:10-21; Colossians 1:20-23).
Through the blood of Jesus, you have boldness to enter into the holiest, by a new and living way, which He has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say His flesh (Romans 5:1-2; Hebrews 10:19-20).
Through regeneration in Christ, you are appointed unto a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God, and a living hope for the people (a.o. Romans 12:1; 1 Peter 1:14).
Jesus is the living hope for all people
Jesus is still the living hope for people and the Savior of mankind. He is the living God, the living Word, the living Water, the living Bread, the living Stone, and the living voice that still speaks and sounds in the hearts of the born again believers, who live in a world of deep darkness (a.o. John 4:10-11; 6:51; 7:38; 1 Peter 2:4).
As Jesus was a living hope for the people through His birth on earth, and through His death and resurrection from the dead, is still a living hope for the people, so are the believers in Christ, through the death of the flesh and the resurrection of the spirit from the dead, a living hope for the people on earth, that testify of the blood and the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit (1 Peter 3:18)
Through the new birth, believers are not appointed unto a death hope but unto a living hope for the people.
They bear this living hope in them through the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, walking, as witnesses of Jesus Christ as sons of God in the new life on earth in righteousness, keeping the Law of the Spirit of life, bearing the fruit of the Spirit, and expecting an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled that fades not away, reserved in heaven.
Christians are witnesses of Jesus Christ and the hope that is in them
They are the true witnesses of Jesus Christ and the hope that is in them on earth. They are the light that shines in this dark world.
Every Christian that believes and through regeneration in Christ is made unto a living hope, possesses the truth and is expected to proclaim this truth in the power of the Holy Spirit to the people. So that, they also be given the opportunity to believe and be delivered from the power of devil, sin, and death, and by faith and the new birth in Christ be saved from hell and reconciled with God and receive eternal life
Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God; Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, Who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel
2 Timothy 1:8-10
‘Be the salt of the earth’
