The Core Four: The Blessed Hope

“All this stuff has always been, it’s just going to get more intense… And when it comes to the point that all those that would be saved during this age of grace comes, He takes us home…

God has promised us that He’s not going to leave here in all of this, but He’s coming back for us…

This blessed hope was a promise that Jesus made to the apostle long ago, and He’s not one to lie…

Even before Jesus had ascended, the disciples were looking forward to the full instatement of Christ’s kingdom on earth…

If we’re in Christ we will be delivered from the tribulation, we do not have to fear the wrath of God…

The truth of the blessed hope of the return of Christ for us isn’t for us to holding on until Jesus comes back… it’s pushing back the gates of Hell, reaching every soul we can for Christ until the “war” is over…

Let us live in this beautiful tension between the hope of His soon coming and striving to preach the gospel to the ends of the earth…

Knowing that Jesus is coming back for His Church:
• will we allow this truth to inspire a greater “godliness and holiness” in us…
• will we allow it’s reality to drive us to reach our community for Christ (I don’t want to leave anyone working in the field or grinding their wheat)…
• will we allow ourselves the license to hope and dream, that this life isn’t all that we’re living for…”

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