The Bible teaches that human life, while beginning at one point in time, will last forever. As such, punishment and reward will also last forever, as described in multiple passages. We will not only look at biblical evidence for this teaching, but also consider the impact it should have on how we live.
Heb. 11:8-10 "By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God."
Using an unlikely Easter passage, we will look at the resurrected Lion Of Judah, full of power and triumphant over death. We will also consider the implications of the resurrection for our daily lives.
When Matthew sets out to prove that Jesus’ birth fulfilled Old Testament prophecy, he pointed to Hosea 11 and the phrase, “Out of Egypt I called my son.” We normally assume that refers to God calling Jesus and his parents out of Egypt when Herod died, but it means much more. Come discover what Jesus’ journey out of Egypt means for our own journey out of captivity and into hope.
Luke 6:37-38 “Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.” This is the sixth message in what promises to be a very long series on the topic of fully surrendering our lives to God’s commands.
We are living in turbulent times; war, our economy, earthquakes and other man-made disasters. Our world is shaking.The author of Hebrews understood that shaking, and he understood what the people of God needed to know and to do when things start shaking. In this sermon we ask the question, "What is our hope anchored to?" and learn to "be thankful, and so worship God acceptably and with reverence and aew, for our God is a consuming fire."
Jeremiah 29:11 might be one of the most quoted Scriptures in the Old Testament. However, it's often quoted without an understanding of when it was quoted. This message looks at the hope of Jeremiah 29:11 in light of the hopelessness of Israel's situation at the time.
The Psalmist says "what we have heard and known, what our fathers have told us, we will not hide them from their children; we will tell the next generation." The Body of Christ needs to fill the gaps left by the disintegration of families in our culture. We're going to have to reintegrate the generations, even if we have to do it by spiritual adoption. We need the older generation and the younger generation to have relationships, which will take a deliberate commitment on all our parts.
