Our Sufficiency In Christ

Sufficient Hope

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Fuzzy Cloud“Daddy and Mommy have to go to work…

…to put food on the table.”

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Happens Here

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Fuzzy Cloud“Sometimes when a man and woman love each other very much…

…God gives them a baby.”

Something Fuzzy

Happens Here

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Fuzzy Cloud“Sometimes when there is sun and rain at the same time…

…a rainbow appears.”

Something Fuzzy

Happens Here

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“Christ is sufficient…

…for character growth.”

Something Fuzzy

Happens Here

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“And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ-- to the glory and praise of God.”

- Philippians 1:11

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“Christ is sufficient…

…for character growth.”

Something Fuzzy

Happens Here

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“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all you mind….[and] love your neighbor as yourself.”

- Matthew 22:37, 39

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“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

- 1 Corinthians 13:13

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“We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all the saints -- the faith and love that spring from the hope that is stored up for you in heaven.”

- Colossians 1:3-5

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Biblical Faith:

(1) a firm trust in Christ leading to

(2) a personal surrender to Him and

(3) a conduct inspired by such surrender

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Biblical Love:

(1) affection for an object (affection = delight, desire, joy, fondness)

(2) leading to sacrificial action for that object

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Biblical Hope:

A confident expectation of a favorable future

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“If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men.”

- 1 Corinthians 15:19

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Viktor Frankl

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Biblical Hope:

A confident expectation of a favorable future.

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“There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God.”

- Hebrews 4:9“Then I heard a voice from heaven say, ‘Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ‘Yes,’ says the Spirit, ‘they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them.’”

- Revelation 14:13.

#1) A Balance of Rest and Work

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“No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him.”

- Revelation 22:3

#1) A Balance of Rest and Work

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“He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

- Revelation 21:4

#2) Unlimited Joy

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“The wall was made of jasper, and the city of pure gold, as pure as glass.”

- Revelation 21:18

#3) Abundance

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“So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable.”

- 1 Corinthians 15:42

#4) Incorruptible Bodies

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“But by faith we eagerly await through the Spirit the righteousness for which we hope.”

- Galatians 5:5“Nothing impure will ever enter [the city of God], nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful.”

- Revelation 21:27

#5) Righteousness

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“To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.”

- Colossians 1:27

#6) Glory

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#6) Glory

C.S. Lewis

"The promise of glory is the promise, almost incredible and only possible by the work of Christ, that some of us, that any of us who really chooses…shall find approval, shall please God. To please God…to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness…to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son - it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is."

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“And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, ‘Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.’”

- Revelation 21:3

#7) Ever-Increasing Enjoyment of God

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#7) Ever-Increasing Enjoyment of God

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C.S. Lewis

“Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”