WEEK 9: HEAVEN’S GLOBAL PURPOSE

Colossians 1:3-6

• The gospel has come• The gospel has brought hope• The gospel is moving in all the world

Need to Expand Our Vision

70% unable to find North Korea on a map36% unable to find the United Kingdom59% know the Amazon Rainforest is in South

America. 18% think it is in Africa.63% unable to find Iraq or Saudi Arabia on a

map of the Middle East88% unable to find Afghanistan on a map of Asia 6% unable to find the United States on a map

Need to Expand Our Vision

“Americans are far from alone in the world, but from the perspective of many young Americans, we might as well be... Most young adults…demonstrate a limited understanding of the world beyond their country’s borders.”

National Geographic - Roper Survey

Need to Expand Our Vision

•5.8 billion people don’t know Jesus•2.3 billion people have never heard•152,000 people die each day

And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are You to take the book and to break its seals; for You were slain, and purchased for God with Your blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. “You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God; and they will reign upon the earth.”

Revelation 5:9-10

After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”

Revelation 7:9-10

“If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.”

C.S. Lewis

Need to Expand Our AvailabilitySo when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” Acts 1:6-8

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