The Light at the End of the Tunnel: It’s Not a Train!
May 12, 2024
Romans 8:18-25
1. Choose
, Your
Matters. (Vs. 17-18, Phil 3:18-20)
Philippians 3:18-20, “For I have often told you, and now say again with tears, that many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction; their god is their stomach; their glory is in their shame; and they are focused on earthly things, Our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly wait for a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ.”
2. Anticipate:
a.
Hebrews 9:27-28, “And just as it is appointed for people to die once—and after this, judgment—so also Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.”
b.
3. Expect:
a.
Matthew 24:6-8, “You are going to hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, because these things must take place, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines, and earthquakes in various places. All these events are the beginning of labor pains.”
b.
Philippians 1:6, “I am sure of this, that he who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”
4.
Into the
! (Vs. 24-25, Gal 5:5, 1 Thess 4:16-17)
Galatians 5:5, “For we eagerly await through the Spirit, by faith, the hope of righteousness.”
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, “For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the archangel’s voice, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are still alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.”