Recognizing the key role that hope plays in our lives, we encourage each other by saying, “Keep your hopes up!” We also realize that a situation is lost if someone gives up hope. With so many difficulties in our lives, we need hope to keep going. In I Peter 1:3-12, God calls his people to be a hopeful people, but not based on wishful thinking but on his own work for us.
The church in Thessalonica not only followed worthy examples but also became one itself.
Because humans were dead in our sins, the only possible solution was for God to make us alive because of his grace.
God used the sinful actions of humans to fulfill his will to provide the innocent one to take the place of the guilty.
