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Know the Believers' Living Hope. 1 Peter 1:3-5 A living hope means that it is not a probable hope; it is not the kind of hope that may or may not come to pass. The hope that God gives is a living hope, a hope that is real and true, that actually exists. A living hope is active and functioning; it acts and works both within the heart of the believer and within heaven apart from the believer. Eternal life is a living hope because it is reality; it is a life that really exists in another world, the spiritual world, that is more real than the world in which we live. The believer's hope for eternal life lives, acts, and works within the believer now, even while he is on earth. HOW TO BE SECURE THROUGH SUFFERING: KNOW THAT YOU ARE SAVED 1. The source of the hope: The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (v.3).2. The inheritance of the hope (v.4). 3. The assurance of the hope (v.5). Simply stated, the person who truly believes in Jesus Christ gives all he is and has to the Lord Jesus Christ: he gives all that he is and has to spread the love of Christ around the world. True faith is a real commitment that obeys and follows Christ and that trusts the power of God to deliver him through all the trials and temptations of life. This is the kind of faith that keeps a person. The person who has this kind of faith has the assurance that he will receive eternal life and the promise of the inheritance. God gives the true believer this kind of assurance. "That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life" (John 3:15).