Titus 1:2 “In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;”
Our Christian “hope” is our confident expectation of what “God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began”. In this Biblical context, the word “hope” does not allow any element of doubt. It is possible for a person in a moment of distress to doubt their part in what “God” has “promised”, but a “born again” (John 3:1-8) Child of God knows of certainty that what “God” “promised” will without fail come to pass for those that He “hath promised” it to. This blessed “hope” securely rests in our God-given “faith”; for, “faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1). Drawing from judicial processes, we judge that “God” will keep His Promises because the “faith” that He gives us provides us the “substance” and “evidence” whereby we know of a certainty that “God” will keep what He “hath promised us, even eternal life” (I John 2:25). Similarly, the word “predestinate” declares the surety of what “God” “hath promised” and decreed; that is, He Sovereignly set the destiny of His “elect” (Titus 1:1) Children. For example, “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.” (Romans 8:29), “Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,” (Ephesians 1:5), and “In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:” (Ephesians 1:11). Thus, it is certain that all the Children of “God” will “be conformed to the image of his Son” (made sin-free and perfect), be irreversibly adopted as Eternal Children of “God”, and the Children of “God” “have obtained an inheritance” by the Sovereign choice and work of “God”. Thus, we joyfully declare “Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;” (Hebrews 6:19) and sing, “My hope is built on nothing less Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness” (Edward Mote)!