Series: Maintaining this Hope
We’ve realized that we need to focus more on the return of Christ.
The Apostles spoke and wrote about it OFTEN, encouraging the church to think about it, long for it and anticipating it, because it does at least 2 indispensable things in the Christian life...
• has a purifying effect within us
• it offers us great hope.
The last two weeks we looked at Romans 8 and the progressive work of God in our lives as we learn to walk in the Spirit by fixing our attention on God’s Word by His Spirit, and long for the Lord's return. Part of that longing according to Romans 8 was our ANTICIPATION of our GREAT Hope - which included the Redemption of our Bodies at the return of the Lord.
Now, we all can think of NATURAL reasons why this is something to look forward to, but who can offer me some spiritual reasons why this is our Great Hope?
So we ended last week at the beginning of 1Cor. 15 in verses 12-19 so that is where we will pick up today.