TNT_Jeremiah-17v5-14_Dr. Gary Hill

HELPS Ministries31min

Dr Gary Hill

00:02

Jeremiah 17 is the text, verses 5-14. He's going to be talking about the subject of hope that's explicitly brought out in this passage in verse 13. We begin with a biblical definition of hope.

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00:27

Yes.

Dr Gary Hill

00:29

It literally means in Hebrew, when something is wound. When you wind around something, and it's wound up. So if you take, for example, a rope, and you only have a single strand, and you put a lot of pressure on it, you have to let go. But if you put a second strand in that's intertwined, wound, then a third strand, a threefold cord is very difficult to break. If you tie it in a granny [knot], it's apt to slip out but, if you tie it in a square knot, the stronger that you pull it, the tighter and stronger the knot becomes and, because it's threefold, it doesn't give way.

Dr Gary Hill

01:13

So on that imagery, Jeremiah gives us three strands of hope, the three primary strands of hope. And how he goes about it is antithetically: He tells you what it's not, [rather] than what it is, three times. And through each stage of the development in Jeremiah five, right here we have, it's going to develop hope. It's going to mature it so that we don't have a superficial hope. I mean, in the world, we say, do you hope for something we just mean it's wishful thinking. [Right]

Dr Gary Hill

01:54

In the Bible, Hebrews 11:1, Faith is the substance of things hoped for. So accounts in the Bible is faith-hoping, hoping driven by what God has said, as we perceive in the soul. Otherwise, you're just leaning on a cobweb. So what Jeremiah is going to do in this passage is, he's going to mature, develop, a biblical definition of hope, of how it's a threefold cord, wound into something strong, getting us, you might say, ready to be pulled into the perfect place that God has [for] us.

Dr Gary Hill

02:37

In Hebrews chapter 6, it says that Jesus resurrected is the anchor of our soul, is our hope. And what they used to do back in the day, is when you went into a harbor, you could crash on either side where the rocks were. So they would take a smaller boat, lower it down, put a big anchor in it with big flukes (those things that dig into the bottom of the ocean). They'd roll that boat into the harbor safely, drop the anchor, it would dig down into the sands of the ocean bottom, and then they would pull the boat in safely. It says Jesus is on the other side, as the anchor of our soul, as our hope, in Hebrews 6. So hope’s got the ability to pull you along, and it doesn't break, but you’ve got to have the right hope, and with the right strands. So let's take a look at it.

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