A CERTAIN VISION OF OUR FUTURE

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• A CERTAIN VISION OF OUR FUTURE
• REVELATIONS 1

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Why is Future So Certain?

• Our God Has Spoken (11-2)
• Our God is Sovereign (112-19)

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What is Coming in Future?

• Universal Victory
• Over Sin
• Over Death
• Over All Enemies

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What is Coming in Future?

• Universal Victory
• Universal Worship

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Universal Worship

• They fell down before the Lamb and they sang a
  new song, Worthy are You to take the book and to
  break its seals for You were slain, and
  purchased for God with Your blood men from every
  tribe and tongue and people and nation.
• - Revelation 58-9

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• Great Commission
• All authority has been given to Me in heaven and
  on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all
  nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father
  and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to
  observe all that I commanded you and lo, I am
  with you always, even to the end of the age. -
  Matthew 2818-20

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• Missions is not the ultimate goal of the Church.
  Worship is. Missions exists because worship
  doesnt. Worship is ultimate, not missions,
  because God is ultimate, not man. When this age
  is over, and the countless millions of the
  redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of
  God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary
  necessity. But worship abides forever. - John
  Piper

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Why Should We Care?

• Hopes Necessity Inevitability
• A person can live forty days without food, three
  days without water, twelve minutes without air,
  and one second without hope.

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Why Should We Care?

• Hopes Necessity -gt Inevitability
• Hopes Trajectory -gt Vitality

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Why Should We Care?

• Hope is so close to the core of all that makes
  us human that when we lose it, we lose something
  of our very selves Let me put it as baldly as I
  can there is nothing, repeat nothing, more
  critical for any of us, young or old or anything
  in between, than the vitality of our hope. -
  Lewis Smedes

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Why Should We Care?

• Hopes Necessity -gt Inevitability
• Hopes Trajectory -gt Vitality
• This Fall
• - What are your hopes wrapped around?
• - Who are your hopes wrapped around?

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