FULL ASSURANCEON THREE SHIPS
Part 3Jack Davis
HOPE’S HEIRSHIP
“We desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises” – Heb. 6:11-12.
“Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! O what a foretaste of glory Divine! Heir of salvation, purchase of God, Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.”
“Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward” Heb. 10:35. Oh, “the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him!” Thank God for His Holy Spirit who makes us KNOW what things are freely given to us of God. We, like Abraham, can be “strong in faith, giving glory to God; and being fully persuaded that, what He had promised, He was able also to perform” – Rom. 4:20-21. We can KNOW that God is making all things work together for our good. “For we KNOW that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an House not made with hands, eternal in the heavens” – II Cor. 5:1. “We KNOW … we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is” I John 3:2.
“THE FULL ASSURANCE OF HOPE” is a full conviction that our hope will be realized, a certainty that we will secure full possession of what God’s Word has caused us to expect. In Acts 27:20-25,29-36 we see that “all hope … was taken away.” Oh, how Paul’s writings prepare us for the storms and preserve us from many a storm. “Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me,” Paul could say, “I am acquainted with the Author, and ought to KNOW.” When we are not eating as we should, the assurance of our hope cannot be very full – Acts 20:32. Here he spoke assurance of the Word of God’s grace that is powerful to do an effectual work, building and enriching.
