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The only purpose for God's providential work in history was to establish Jesus, the substance of hope, and to realize the hopes of Heaven
Sermons about Hope
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The only purpose for God's providential work in history was to establish Jesus, the substance of hope, and to realize the hopes of Heaven
Considering the rise and fall of a family, society, nation or state, we see that when they were not awake, they collapsed.
We have gone forth not longing for this nation in the present state of affairs, but longing for the eternal kingdom.
We know very well that humanity has lived until the present time unable to realize Heaven's true hope because humans fell and are in a state of having lost the granted hope of Heaven
If we have to go toward a certain purpose anyway, we should think carefully about in what direction we should proceed, how we should live, how we should act, and what opinion we should have concerning good and evil.
In the passage just read from Genesis, it says that God created man and blessed him. Yet this blessing was not a realized blessing; it was a blessing of promise.
We know well that it was the fall of man. In restoring humankind, God must have an ideal for this society, and we must also have that ideal.
Since we cannot exist apart from the world of relationships, we should clearly know that in our maintenance of life and our struggle in our life courses, everything moves within the world of relationships.
Everyone, who has hope, desires to be at the center of hope. If God has a hope, you desire to be within this hope.
You know that the coexistence of the desired Kingdom of Heaven and undesirable hell is inevitable during the restoration of fallen people.
If there is something that is most urgently needed and important, it is possessing God
The reason God carried out the dispensation of toiling for several thousand years looking for Jacob is because Adam, the ancestor, had fallen.