# 2 Encouragements to bolster our hope in believing and sharing of the gospel!

# 2 Encouragements to bolster our hope in believing and sharing of the gospel!

Psalm 78: 4 "We will not hide them from their children; we will tell the next generati the praiseworthy deeds of the LORD, his power, and the wonders he has done."

Not only are there blessed promises that God makes to our own children but also to the coming generation. What a stimulant this should be to us in our preaching and evangelism, that God is absolutely committed to saving sinners in all generations. This Psalm doesn’t give us any room for excuses when it comes to sharing the wonders of the One True and Living God! So, what shall we say to these thing? Lets strengthen our resolve and be encouraged to persevere in this blessed labor of the service of the King of Kings!

Our shearing of the gospel should be peppered with the reality that the gospel is the power of God unto salvation to all who believe. Our evangelistic success in winning sinners isn’t because of our winsomeness or our ability to share the gospel but is based on the power God in the proclamation of His truth! We don’t save men, the gospel does!

"It is not your weaknesses that will get in the way of God's working through you, but your delusions of strength. His strength is made perfect in our weakness” (Author unknown)


The Triune God of the Bible is The God of all Hope!! This is true of the sinner and saint alike!

What is biblical hope?
The Biblical understanding of our idea of hope is very different from our normal thinking about hope. We might say to someone: I Hope that your favorite team wins the game tonight? And they say: I don't know; I hope so. In other words, hope, as we typically think about it, is a desire for some future thing which we are uncertain of attaining. That is not the way Paul or Peter, or the rest of the Scriptures’ thinks about hope. And so, that’s not how you and I ought to thing about hope. When Paul says May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing," he does not mean we should desire it and be uncertain of it.

The promises of Christ are a matter of complete confidence for all the writers in the Old & New Testament alike. ( 2 Corinthians 1:20-21 “ For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory.)

Every promise that we uncover in the scriptures should boom within our hearts with a never ending amen!!!!

As we consider the staggering evidence that leaves us no room to doubt, let us run the race with endurance and keep our eyes fully upon Him who is the essence of all of our hope and stay in the present world and the world to come!!

Jesus Christ is worthy that we should place our hope fully upon Him and that is the bottom line. For apart from him there is and can be no hope. (John 14:6)

Philippians 1:6 “Being confident of this very thing, that he which began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ”

ENCOURAGEMENTS TO BOLSTER OUR HOPE IN THE TRIUNE GOD!

Encouragements to bolster our hope in the Triune God!
Psalm 78

This is one of my favorite Psalms. The words contained in this Psalm are a healing balm and for many weary pilgrims has been a blessed assurance to their hope in God for mnay generations! In his Psalm the Gospel is laid out before us clearly and very convincingly. This Psalm was written as a reminder to God’s chosen people and to those throughout every generation to place the full weight of their hope in the God Jacob, the God whose mercies are from ever lasting to everlasting!

It’s an encouragement to bolster our hope in The God whose covenant love will triumph thru all generations because; He is the God of Jacob! It’s and encouragement to bolster our hope in the omnipotent hand of Sovereign God whose power has no limits, in order that we should never; never for one moment forget His works. It’s and encouragement to place our hope steadfastly on the display of the enormous love and longsuffering of God toward His people. For, He is full of compassion and in spite of all our floundering and sometimes week embarrassing faith; He remembers that we are but flesh.

This Psalm is like a musical instrument with a hundred strings ready to play a thousand sermons from its beautiful text but my purpose is to just pluck a few strings from this Psalm to help encourage and bolster our hope and faith. Today we will just pluck one string.

1. Let’s be encouraged in our commitment to the gospel of God which is our hope.
Psalm 78:1-8
Give ear, O my people, to my law; Incline your ears to the words of my mouth. 2 I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old, 3 Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us. 4 We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, And His strength and His wonderful works that He has done. 5 For He established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which He commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children; 6 That the generation to come might know them, The children who would be born, That they may arise and declare them to their children, 7 That they may set their hope in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep His commandments; 8 And may not be like their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that did not set its heart aright, And whose spirit was not faithful to God.

In verses 1-8 God sets before us a gracious command. We are commanded to take those things which we have heard and known and declare it to our children and to the coming generation.

We should be encouraged for what God has commanded He is committed to bless. Oh! how this should strengthen our love for the gospel! The commandments of God should never be grievous to us, but are given to us for our greater good! When God instructed Adam and Eve not to partake of tree of knowledge of good and evil it wasn’t that God was withholding something from them but it was the exact opposite. His command was for there ultimate and eternal good.

How much despair and anguish could we be free of if the commandments of God would become to as us as they were to the Psalmist in Psalm 119:26-32 "My soul clings to the dust;give me life according to your word!26 When I told of my ways, you answered me;teach me your statutes! Make me understand the way of your precepts,and I will meditate on your wondrous works. My soul melts away for sorrow;strengthen me according to your word! Put false ways far from meand graciously teach me your law!30 I have chosen the way of faithfulness;I set your rules before me. I cling to your testimonies, O Lord;let me not be put to shame! I will run in the way of your commandmentswhen you enlarge my heart!

May these truths in these verses encourage us to never lose sight of the blessed promises God makes to us as we declare and teach the gospel to our children. Let us be committed in teaching our children His glorious deeds, His might, and His wonders. Dear Christian lets take this verses with us each time we go to family worship or seek to instruct our children.

May the exhortation from Moses the man of God in Deuteronomy be used in union with

Psalm 78.
Deuteronomy 6:5-9 "You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. 6 " And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. 7 "You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. 8 "You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 "You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Family worship can be difficult at times, but let’s not lose heart for the God Jacob knows our hearts! Brothers, let this gracious command fuel our hearts toward the conversion of our children and pray Proverbs 22:6 daily for our children. “Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.”

May our heavenly Father be pleased to use our children and our childrens childrens for genertions come to until the clounds are rolled back as a scroll