You do not often think about it or talk about it to your friends. Yet definite information concerning the future can be obtained in the pages of the Bible. You may think that it does not matter whether you know about the Bible hope or not, so long as you try to follow what are the generally accepted rules of a good life. If so, you are making a grave mistake. The hope set before us in the Bible concerning a future good provided by God has been made known for men to accept with earnestness and sincerity.
Salvation depends upon our acceptance and permanent holding of the hope preached by the apostles.
There is only one hope shown in apostolic teaching, and not several various or conflicting hopes. This one hope is the hope of Israel, or the hope established in the Jewish nation, ages before Christ appeared, by the Promises made to the fathers of that nation. It Presents for faith, the Prospect of certain good things to come, to be hoped for on the strength of the promise of God, whom we honour by believing His word. It includes the hope of eternal life, and inheritance of the Kingdom of God. No better security can be found for future good than the assurances God has given in His Word.