The Age To Come

The hope of Christ is freedom:  Freedom from the pain of this world, freedom from the curses caused by sin, freedom from fear, punishment, and brokenness.    Our world and all of its problems can sometimes overwhelm, it is at times like this that we should think of the Age to Come.  

The Age to Come is what happens at the end.  It is so fantastic, so spectacular that what it will be is beyond our conception.  We do not know what it will be like to have God be all in all.  We do not know what it will be like to no longer struggle with sin or encounter the sting of death in any way.  We can only begin to imagine it.

But is it believable?  

The practicalities of Christianity with its moral precepts and Fruit of the Spirit we seem able to grasp. Maybe we mistakenly believe that because we can perceive them they are somehow more “real”.  But this is the encouragement we can have from scripture, that if these smaller more believable things are true, we can  rest assured in the more fantastic. If the realities of the Beatitudes work, then we can know that death will be swallowed up in victory.  If we are confident in the resurrection of Christ then we can be assured of our very own resurrection.  

 Come be encouraged as we look at the final sermon in the series and discover what is in store for the Age to Come.

Pastor Chris