11.20- Hope is the anchor to our soul.

 11.20-

Hope is the anchor to our soul.  All who believe in Jesus are taught to be baptized to show their public confession of Jesus in a connection to the death and resurrection of Jesus.  God promises salvation to all who believe in Jesus and who take Him as their teacher and guide through life.

Hope is the anchor for our souls through the storms of life.

Priscilla J Owens wrote:

1. Will your anchor hold in the storms of life,
   When the clouds unfold their wings of strife?
   When the strong tides lift and the cables strain,
   Will your anchor drift, or firm remain?
   • Refrain:
     We have an anchor that keeps the soul
     Steadfast and sure while the billows roll,
     Fastened to the Rock which cannot move,
     Grounded firm and deep in the Savior’s love.
2. It is safely moored, ’twill the storm withstand,
   For ’tis well secured by the Savior’s hand;
   And the cables, passed from His heart to mine,
   Can defy that blast, through strength divine.
3. It will surely hold in the straits of fear,
   When the breakers have told that the reef is near;
   Though the tempest rave and the wild winds blow,
   Not an angry wave shall our bark o’erflow.
4. It will firmly hold in the floods of death,
   When the waters cold chill our latest breath;
   On the rising tide it can never fail,
   While our hopes abide within the Veil.
5. When our eyes behold through the gath’ring night
   The city of gold, our harbor bright,
   We shall anchor fast by the heav’nly shore,
   With the storms all past forevermore.
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Mark 16.

14 Later He appeared to the eleven disciples themselves as they were reclining at the table; and He reprimanded them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who had seen Him after He had risen from the dead. 15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. 16 The one who has believed and has been baptized will be saved; but the one who has not believed will be condemned. 17 These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues; 18 they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not harm them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

19 So then, when the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. 20 And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them, and confirmed the word by the signs that followed.]]

[[[d]And they promptly reported all these instructions to Peter and his companions. And after that, Jesus Himself also sent out through them from east to west the sacred and imperishable proclamation of eternal salvation.]]

Hebrews 6.

17 [n]In the same way God, desiring even more to demonstrate to the heirs of the promise [o]the fact that His purpose is unchangeable, [p]confirmed it with an oath, 18 so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to hold firmly to the hope set before us. 19 [q]This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and reliable and one which enters [r]within the veil, 20 where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.