1.By first making me understand what it feels like to be without it.

Hebrews 12:16

• … lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.”

Ephesians 2:12

•  ”…that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.”

Proverb 11:7

•When a wicked man dies, his expectation will perish, and the hope of the unjust perishes.

2. By revealing the truth and helping me see the unseen.

3. By giving me a plan of salvation which includes a way to keep me saved.

1 John 1:7

• But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

Romans 8:1

• There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Romans 8:4

• “Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin.”

4. By giving me a family with whom to share this hope.

5. By making it clear that Jesus is my one and only hope.

One-Hope Parables

• 1. Matthew 18:21-35• 2. Luke 10:25-37• 3. Luke 11:5-8• 4. Luke 18:1-5• 5. Luke 15:11-24• 6. Luke 18:9-14

6. By providing hope when I will need it most.