THE HOPE!
When man confesses Jesus as Lord and believes in his heart that God raised him from the dead he is born again, he receives the gift of holy spirit and from that moment he has hope.
Our hope is the return of the Lord Jesus Christ. We cannot believe for Jesus Christ to come back immediately because it is not available to believe for him to come back immediately. He will return when God is good and ready to send him. It is a future event to which we look forward with patience and great expectation. It is our hope.

1 Thessalonians 4:13
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
Those who are not born again have no hope because they have no spirit. They are men of body and soul, without God and without hope.
We were all in that dire situation at one time.

Ephesians 2:11,12
Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;

That at that time ye 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:


When man confesses Jesus as Lord and believes in his heart that God raised him from the dead he is born again, he receives the gift of holy spirit and from that moment he has hope.


1 Thessalonians 4:14-18
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent [precede] them which are asleep.

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

1 Corinthians 15:51
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep [die], but we shall all be changed,

At the return we shall not all be dead. Some of us are going to be alive when he comes back. If he came back right now, I would still be alive and so would you. After the dead are raised, then we which are alive and remain will be changed and meet him in the air.

1 Corinthians 15:52
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.


At the time of this change we will receive a new body, an eternal spiritual body like Jesus Christ's resurrected body, and it will be ours for eternity.


Philippians 3:20,21
For our conversation [politeuma - citizenship] is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working [energeia - energising] whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

1 John 3:1-3
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
When Jesus Christ was raised from the dead, he received a new spiritual body, and we will be getting one like his at the return.

Romans 5:9
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

1 Thessalonians 1:10
And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

We have been delivered from the wrath to come. It's part of our hope. When Jesus Christ returns for us, we get a new body, we meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with him. Our hope is part of the Mystery.


Colossians 1:27
To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

The hope of glory is part of the Mystery. It is something we look forward to with great expectation, patience and desire. One day Jesus Christ will come back for us and we will meet him face to face and be with him forever.
Romans 8:24,25
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

Titus 1:1,2
Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;

In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
1 Peter 1:3,4
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 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,

1 Corinthians 15:43
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.


When Jesus Christ comes back to gather us and we meet him in the air we will be in our new spiritual bodies. We will not be taking these earthly bodies with us. These natural bodies will be raised a spiritual body.

1 Corinthians 15:50-54
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.


One day Jesus Christ is coming back to get us and we will leave earth to meet him in the air. Those who have died will be raised from death in their new spiritual body, and then those of us who are still alive will be changed and put on immortality.
Those of us who have the gift of holy spirit, that Christ in us which is our eternal life, those of us who are of the family of God, born again of his seed will be gathered when Jesus Christ returns in the clouds. Those who have died will remain dead until that time. At the return, which could be at any moment, those who have died with holy spirit will be raised from death, and then those of us who are still alive will be changed and put on immortality. We will all get a new spiritual body similar to the body Jesus Christ was raised with. When we leave to meet our Lord in the air, the Age of Grace, the Administration of the Mystery will end and the Revelation Administration will begin.