Communion: Jesus words about remembering - Luke 22:19
Deut 11:1-8 // Psalm 145:3-12
1Cor15:50-58 NIV / ME/WE- INTRO: Lost Starbucks Stars.
last week. The end is not actually the end, it’s just the next part of the beginning of eternity.
1) Change is hard. /V50- I declare to you, THE WAY YOU CURRENTLY ARE CANNOT GET TO THE WAY GOD IS
MSG- I need to emphasize, friends, that our natural, earthy lives don’t in themselves lead us by their very nature into the kingdom of God. Their very “nature” is to die, so how could they “naturally” end up in the Life kingdom?
WHILE WE CAN’T COMPLETELY IMAGINE WHAT THIS WILL BE, PAUL ASSURES US, IT’LL BE WONDERFUL
This is a bandage pulling moment. Super fast and it’s all different. / FLASH, TWINKLING EYE, TRUMPET...
There is a huge question that leaves us wondering right here.
If the dead in Christ are raised from the dead when Christ returns, what are they doing currently?
<<Tough words>> 2) You are living your life wrong.// “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” 55
fingertips on eternity.
Envision that with me. If you could live your life, every moment of your life with a finger hold on eternity that was just around the corner?
<<Keys Beginning>>
Does the way you live your life, the choices you make and the direction you choose to lead, Does that emphasize the reality that Paul told us through the Word of God that you would never taste death? That sin has lost all power over you? That we have victory through Christ Jesus?
What if we started taking on a mentality of, God wear me out. God exhaust me with the moments I have today because eternity is so much bigger, longer and permanent.
That’s what we miss by not grasping the eternal state of our existence.
Death doesn’t have to mean anything to you. It can just be a thing. Rope Illustration