Hope is Poised Trust

Hope is poised trust. It is knowing something good is about to happen. Hope is unquestionable assurance of love. “⁷ Love always bears up, always trusts, always hopes, always endures,” (Complete Jewish Bible, 1 Cor. 13:7).

Yeshua, which means salvation, is the expected hope, the one sought after, the one waited for, the prophesied Messiah of the God of Israel. The Son of God. God.

In this world, there is tribulation. Sometimes we are confronted with difficult circumstances bringing with it despair, fear, and anxiety. However, “⁸ …God is love,” (1 John 4:8). He gives us hope founded in love producing strength, comfort, and protection. This love embraces us with a strong hug and hovering mantle of great encouragement for a better future. “¹¹ ‘For I know what plans I have in mind for you,’ says Adonai, ‘plans for well-being, not for bad things; so that you can have hope and a future. ¹² When you call to me and pray to me, I will listen to you. ¹³ When you seek me, you will find me, provided you seek for me wholeheartedly;” (Jer. 29:11-13).

Who do you say that I am?  The disciples responded:

“¹³ When Yeshua came into the territory around Caesarea Philippi, he asked his talmidim, “Who are people saying the Son of Man is?” ¹⁴ They said, “Well, some say Yochanan the Immerser, others Eliyahu, still others Yirmeyahu or one of the prophets.” ¹⁵ “But you,” he said to them, “who do you say I am?” ¹⁶ Shim‘on Kefa answered, “You are the Mashiach, the Son of the living God,” (Matt. 16:13-16).

Yeshua’s mission was and is still to proclaim the message of salvation and eternal life by telling us that the kingdom of heaven is near; therefore, turn from your sins and put your trust in God.  Yeshua carried His mission through His teachings, His appointed Times, actions, and His death.  He left the Ruach Hakodesh (Holy Spirit) as counselor. He charges all that come to trust in Him to spread the good news of His love and salvation through the scriptures: The Tanakh, The Haftara, and The Brit Hadashah. Yeshua existed to transform lives and to see all Israel be saved.

Here at Beth Hatikva–meaning House of Hope–we put our hope in Yeshua HaMashiach, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel. It is our great hope that you too will find hope in Yeshua the Messiah through the study of God’s Word.

“⁶ For while we were still helpless, at the right time, the Messiah died on behalf of ungodly people. ⁷ Now it is a rare event when someone gives up his life even for the sake of somebody righteous, although possibly for a truly good person one might have the courage to die. ⁸ But God demonstrates his own love for us in that the Messiah died on our behalf while we were still sinners. ⁹ Therefore, since we have now come to be considered righteous by means of his bloody sacrificial death, how much more will we be delivered through him from the anger of God’s judgment! ¹⁰ For if we were reconciled with God through his Son’s death when we were enemies, how much more will we be delivered by his life, now that we are reconciled! ¹¹ And not only will we be delivered in the future, but we are boasting about God right now, because he has acted through our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, through whom we have already received that reconciliation.

“¹² Here is how it works: it was through one individual that sin entered the world, and through sin, death; and in this way death passed through to the whole human race, inasmuch as everyone sinned. ¹³ Sin was indeed present in the world before Torah was given, but sin is not counted as such when there is no Torah. ¹⁴ Nevertheless death ruled from Adam until Moshe, even over those whose sinning was not exactly like Adam’s violation of a direct command. In this, Adam prefigured the one who was to come.

^“15 But the free gift is not like the offence. For if, because of one man’s offence, many died, then how much more has God’s grace, that is, the gracious gift of one man, Yeshua the Messiah, overflowed to many! ¹⁶ No, the free gift is not like what resulted from one man’s sinning; for from one sinner came judgment that brought condemnation; but the free gift came after many offences and brought acquittal. ¹⁷ For if, because of the offence of one man, death ruled through that one man; how much more will those receiving the overflowing grace, that is, the gift of being considered righteous, rule in life through the one man Yeshua the Messiah!

^“18 In other words, just as it was through one offence that all people came under condemnation, so also it is through one righteous act that all people come to be considered righteous. ¹⁹ For just as through the disobedience of the one man, many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the other man, many will be made righteous. ²⁰ And the Torah came into the picture so that the offence would proliferate; but where sin proliferated, grace proliferated even more. ²¹ All this happened so that just as sin ruled by means of death, so also grace might rule through causing people to be considered righteous, so that they might have eternal life, through Yeshua the Messiah, our Lord,” (Rom. 5:6-21).

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