Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 11:46 am
.....1 John 2 and 3
What are you dealing with today: a long list of errands, a family crisis, a medical problem? No matter your circumstances, you can face them with joy if you’re focused on what’s ahead if you’re a Christian. Learn to look beyond the present to your glorious future in John MacArthur’s study Transforming Hope ..... If Christians today plan on going to heaven, you wouldn’t know it by how attached we are to life on earth. Most of us focus on the here and now with little thought for the future ... Earthly possessions and comforts or earthly cares and concerns have a way of crowding out what’s ahead.
So what is ahead for you? Real life is ahead—an existence beyond the struggles, worries, ambitions, pains, joys, victories, and defeats of this life.
You have a bright hope awaiting you in the future .... In Transforming Hope, John MacArthur will help you get your eyes off the ground and up to heaven itself.
You’ll discover thirteen elements of hope you have if you’re a Christian, and see how your hope of Christ’s return and eternal glory can transform you in the here and now.
.................. the promise is eternal life
1 John 02:25 .. this is the promise which he himself made to us . . . eternal life
02:26 .. these things I have written to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you
230213 a theology of hope .. Recorded Jan 05 2003
230214 the purifying hope .. part 1 of 2 .. Recorded Jan 12 2003
230215 the purifying hope .. part 2 of 2 .. Recorded Jan 19 2003
02:27 .. as for you .. the anointing which you received from him abides in you .. and you have no need for anyone to teach you ..
.......... but as his anointing teaches you about all things .. and is true and is not a lie .. and just as it has taught you .. you abide in him
02:28 .. now .. little children .. abide in him .. so that when he appears .. we may have confidence and not shrink away from him in shame at his coming
02:29 .. If you know that he is righteous .. you know that everyone also who practices righteousness is born of him
230301 The Purifying Hope .. Part 3 of 3 .. Recorded Jan 26 2003
1 John 03:01 .. see how great a love the father has bestowed on us .. that we would be called children of God .. and such we are ..
.......... for this reason the world does not know us .. because it did not know him
03:02 .. beloved .. now we are children of God .. and it has not appeared as yet what we will be .. we know that when he appears ..
.......... we will be like him .. because we will see him just as he is
03:03 .. and everyone who has this hope fixed on him purifies himself .. just as he is pure
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