PURPOSEFUL LIVING FOR PERILOUS TIMES (25 OF 30)
by Scott Maze
Scripture: 1 Peter 4:7-11
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Purposeful Living for Perilous Times (25 of 30)
Series: Navigating Home
Scott Maze
1 Peter 4:7-11
Honestly, many of us are little afraid of closely examining the Bible's message on the future. If we focus on the end times too long, we are afraid of turning into a guy walking around the city with a sandwich board yelling about judgment and the end of time. We easily get confused when reading Revelation because of all of the dragons, and angels, and locusts with human faces, and all sorts of images you cannot imagine. We see people that love this sort of thing much like my friend who just walked through our worship center - freaky. Honestly, we just don't see anything relevant about the end of time to our time. So we give up thinking about the Bible and the future and just focus on the here and now. But maybe you fail to focus on the future for different reason. Maybe your neglect of the future because you see no way that the future can bring you real happiness.
Perhaps you're similar to Secular Sam. Sam is successful. He has a good job, a nice girlfriend, and a beautiful home. His car is new, and his health is fine. He is humorous, good with people, and intelligent. He can discuss economics, business, philosophy, politics, the arts, and law. Secular Sam is also a Christian. He affirms the things we believe as Christians. He is an active Christian. Young Life and Campus Crusade are in his background. He is moral. He can carry on a discussion with his skeptical friends about the validity of Christ's resurrection from the dead. He knows about the power of the Scripture. You might be thinking, ''How is Secular Sam secular?'' He seems profoundly Christian? Sam is profoundly secular in this: he expects to wake up in his bed tomorrow morning. Sam has never heard of what his grandparents' generation called the ''blessed hope.'' His concerns about his spiritual life are all contained in this age, in this time. Sam assumes tomorrow will be just like today. Sam's ho ...
Series: Navigating Home
Scott Maze
1 Peter 4:7-11
Honestly, many of us are little afraid of closely examining the Bible's message on the future. If we focus on the end times too long, we are afraid of turning into a guy walking around the city with a sandwich board yelling about judgment and the end of time. We easily get confused when reading Revelation because of all of the dragons, and angels, and locusts with human faces, and all sorts of images you cannot imagine. We see people that love this sort of thing much like my friend who just walked through our worship center - freaky. Honestly, we just don't see anything relevant about the end of time to our time. So we give up thinking about the Bible and the future and just focus on the here and now. But maybe you fail to focus on the future for different reason. Maybe your neglect of the future because you see no way that the future can bring you real happiness.
Perhaps you're similar to Secular Sam. Sam is successful. He has a good job, a nice girlfriend, and a beautiful home. His car is new, and his health is fine. He is humorous, good with people, and intelligent. He can discuss economics, business, philosophy, politics, the arts, and law. Secular Sam is also a Christian. He affirms the things we believe as Christians. He is an active Christian. Young Life and Campus Crusade are in his background. He is moral. He can carry on a discussion with his skeptical friends about the validity of Christ's resurrection from the dead. He knows about the power of the Scripture. You might be thinking, ''How is Secular Sam secular?'' He seems profoundly Christian? Sam is profoundly secular in this: he expects to wake up in his bed tomorrow morning. Sam has never heard of what his grandparents' generation called the ''blessed hope.'' His concerns about his spiritual life are all contained in this age, in this time. Sam assumes tomorrow will be just like today. Sam's ho ...
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