Populating Eternity? New Testament Living today

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Populating Eternity?New Testament Living today

• Revd Margot R Hodson

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Who will we find in eternity?

• Revelation 74,9
• 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel
• A great multitude that no one can count, from
  every nation, tribe, people and language.
• Acts 221
• everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will
  be saved.

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Biocentric Each individual organism has special
value
Ecocentric The ecosystem as a whole has ultimate
value
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Christocentric eternity

• Christ!
• Humans present as individuals known in the
  present age
• Nature will be saved collectively.

• New Heaven and New
• Earth

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Romans 818-25
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Revelation 211-4

• Redemption without universalism
• New is renewed
• Can only now see dimly

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New Heaven and Earth

• Big enough for All Gods people
• People and creation in balance
• Will be a redeemed form of our present heaven and
  earth

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How do we live today?

• Look with hope to the future
• How to live in the present?
• Reach out with Good News
• Care for people and planet
• Balance their needs
• Ecocentric for the planet
• Biocentric for humanity
• - face up to human population

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Closing prayer
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Father in heaven, you created us to be wise
stewards of the earth. Forgive us for
neglecting responsibility for our planet. Lord,
have mercy. Lord, have mercy.
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Lord Jesus Christ, you became one of us to
reconcile all things to God. Forgive us for
treating people, animals and the earth as things
to be used and exploited. Christ, have
mercy. Christ, have mercy.
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Holy Spirit, you are the breath of life who
renews and restores us. Forgive us for resisting
your promptings and being deaf to your
voice. Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.
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Psalm 8
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A Blessing of St. Aidan of Lindisfarne Blessed be
the Creator of the earth Blessed be the Lord of
the Harvest Blessed be Christ, who
descended Blessed be the Word made flesh Blessed
to us the land that it may be fruitful Blessed to
us the ground that it may yield a harvest Blessed
to us the earth that it may be the place of our
resurrection