Keep Your Fork: Hope in Revelation's New Earth

What the Bible talks about for you and I is not just hope. It's a living hope that's been bought and paid for by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. There is nothing that you are facing, and listen, I get it, and I understand it. There are some hard things in this room. There are tears in this room that have been shed this week. There's death in this room. There's mourning in this room. There's problems and troubles and relationships and divorce and bankruptcy. All in this room right now. I get it. It's hard, but that is not the end. That is not your future, and that will not define you. There's abuse in this room. That does not define you. That is not the end. Jesus has the last word on your future, and it is good. It is good. [00:18:44] (40 seconds)  #LivingHope

Two men are taken captive, they're sentenced to ten years in a dungeon. The first man, right before he goes to prison to serve his sentence, is told that his wife and the daughter just passed away and goes in service ten years. The other man is pulled aside and said, hey. You just got a note from your wife and daughter, and they said that they're waiting for you. They'll be waiting for you at the end of ten years. They both go in to serve their sentence for ten years. Which one made it? The one who had somebody waiting for him at the end of the ten years. Hope is significant. [00:16:58] (35 seconds)  #HopeThatWaits

Two men are given a job. One is both of them are given the exact same job at the same factory. They're to make widgets into watches. That's their job. They don't get any money for one year. At the end of one year, one individual is pulled aside into the office. Office is shut down. The boss says, hey. After one year, you're going to receive a salary of $20,000. So he goes and starts working. The other man's pulled in the office and said, after one year, if you can hang in there, you're gonna be paid a salary of $1,000,000 for every year for the rest of your life. Same environment, the exact same job, the same water cooler, the same office, the same temperature, everything. One of them quit pretty early into the process. Hope is powerful. [00:17:48] (46 seconds)  #EndureForReward

A number of years ago, there was an airline company that did a marketing campaign and said, Do you want to get away? We've all been there. Want to get away? Life is hard, embarrassing moment, a situation, and we want to get out of here. The story of the Bible is not we get out of here, it's God comes here. God comes to meet you where you are. Today, in the next few moments, I want to just talk up to you about this concept of hope. [00:05:14] (27 seconds)  #GodMeetsYou

The first installment was made at the cross, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. That was the first installment, but you and I both live we live in a broken world still, so it wasn't the final installment that's to come. So that's the millennial reign. It's a thousand year reign. At the end of that thousand years, Satan will then be thrown into the lake of fire for eternity. [00:12:27] (25 seconds)  #CrossIsFirst

God doesn't expect us to go to him. What is he comes to us. Right now, I don't know what you've been taught about faith. Sometimes we've been taught that we have to work our way to God. The story of the Bible is God worked his way to us in and through the person of Jesus. Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit in a great chain, [00:06:29] (21 seconds)  #GodComesToUs

Jesus will be on the throne. He will be the king. It'll be as perfect of a theocracy as ever been. The world has attempted theocracies, but it's not gone well. It's not gone well. This will be a perfect theocracy. Jesus will be on the throne in Jerusalem, and he will reign. There'll still be sin. Although Satan is bound, who can bind Satan? [00:10:01] (24 seconds)  #JesusOnTheThrone

He invites us to have a part of that, to reign with him. What else is happening in the millennial kingdom? The nation of Israel, Jews will come to know Jesus, and they will be gathered from all over the world, and they will be brought back to that area of Jerusalem where Jesus is is reign in the millennial kingdom. I don't believe all Jews will come to faith, but many Jews will come to know Jesus as their Lord and savior. [00:11:46] (26 seconds)  #ReignWithJesus