HOW TO FIND HOPE

WHEN I NEED TO START OVER

I Peter 1.3-4

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade – kept in heaven for

you … I Peter 1.3-4

Starting Over in life begins with an encounter with God.

…he has given us new birth …  1 Peter 1.3

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council. He came to Jesus at night and said, "Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him."  In reply Jesus declared,  "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again." John 3.1-3

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  John 3.16

An encounter with God gives us hope to live a new life.

…into a living hope …1 Peter 1:3

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!  2 Corinthians 5.17

I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh.  Ezekiel 11.19

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.  John 10.10

This new life is made possible only through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

…through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead …1 Peter 1:3

God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.  2 Corinthians 5.21

… if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10.9