Sermons About Eternal
Real Hope
As believers, our hope is not the possibilities of life, but the promises of God revealed in Jesus Christ and resulting in faith.
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Justice and Eternal Punishment
Even though messages about Hell are often labelled 'offensive' or 'antiquated' or 'irrelevent', God's word is clear about the reality that those without the righteousness of Christ will eternally experience God's justice because of their condition of rebellion against God.
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Taking Hold of Eternal Life
Paul charges Timothy to take hold of the eternal life he has been called to. Although we receive eternal life as the gift of God through faith in Christ, living in that life is something we must daily take hold of.
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God is Supreme
Before we can understand the power and fullness of the flow of God's grace and mercy to us, we have to get our head around the supremacy of God. That He is self-existent. Eternal. Self-sufficient. And, as part of the Trinity, in joyful community with Himself. He doesn't need us for anything.
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The Rising Power: God's Word
God's Word is almighty, effective, condemns, offers grace, guides, the truth, and eternal. The Rising Power series continues with The power of God's Word. It is an amazing promise, and spoken clearly through the Prophet Isaiah: "The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.'
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Kingdom - Now and Later
Is the message of Jesus about another world, or about life in the here and now?
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Luke 18:1-8 - The Right Kind of Faith
For a church to become a biblical community and make biblical disciples, the members need to cultivate an eternal prepsective and a right view of God's gracious actions. In this passage Jesus exhorts his disciples to endure, after rebuking and warning the pharisees about his second coming at the end of chapter 17. This explicitly sets the context of the passage on the second coming of Christ (not a secret rapture). The basic questions that is being asked is "Will God Find faith on earth when he comes again? Will the warnings of Jesus to remember Lot's wife, to keep the heart fixed on Christ, and to not love the world secure the faith of the disiciples? Will they endure to the end?" How can we endure to the end and don't become like Lot's wife - who was too much in love with this world to go all the way with Christ? Jesus tells His disciples not to loose heart but keep praying because God is ready to answer. Our problem with praying is that good things in life and normal beneficial activities in life can make us just as insensitive to the reality of God as gross things in life. Our heart can grow cold to Christ easily. The point of the passage is not to say that Jesus is an unjust judge, but to show his disciples the willingness of God to vindicate His elect when they pray. If an unjust judge will grant a persistant widow her request how much more will God (who is never unjust) be willing to vindiate his elect!
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