Pew2You
Oct. 23, 2016
Wait for it!!!
Pastor Phil Vance
Highlights:
1. Everything we do is in hope of the fulfillment of what God/Christ promised.
2. We become more impatient with shorter time frames. The longer you wait, the easier it is to wait a little longer.
3. Whenever a trial comes, it doesn’t come to stay, “It came to pass”.
Discussion Questions:
1. We all have someone to thank for our hope of heaven, who is it for you?
2. What are you invested in; family, work, school, faith, prayer, the stock market? What dividends are you hoping for and when do you expect the payoff to come?
3. What about heaven are you eager to experience? How does an anticipation of better things to come affect your walk today?
Key Scriptures, Quotes and Definitions
-And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
Romans 8:23?-?27 KJV
Changed: G236 To make different. To cause a difference by altering the character or nature of something.
-Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 15:50?-?57 KJV
Hope: G1680 To anticipate, usually with pleasure; expectation or confidence
“Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air…but only for one second without hope.” Hal Lindsey
Perseverance: G5281 cheerful (or hopeful) endurance, constancy
Experiment:
– one apple in a year or two apples in a year and a day.
– one apple today or two apples tomorrow.