Hope for the World

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Hope for the World
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Hope for the World
Acts 16-9 So when they met together, they
asked him, Lord, are you at this time going to
restore the kingdom to Israel? He said to them
It is not for you to know the times or dates the
Father has set by his own authority.  
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But you will receive power when the Holy
Spirit comes on you and you will be my witnesses
in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and
to the ends of the earth. After he said this,
he was taken up before their very eyes, and a
cloud hid him from their sight. Acts 16-9  
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Nothing could be more inconsistent with the
nature of faith than that deadness which would
lead any of us to disregard our brethren and to
keep the light of knowledge choked up within our
own breast. (John Calvin)
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1. Hope for the Here
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Hope for the World
1. Hope for the Here
He is so heavenly minded that he is of no
earthly good.
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Hope for the World

• Hope for the Here
• Hope for the Hereafter

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Hope for the World

• Hope for the Here
• Hope for the Hereafter

If Christ has not been raised, your faith is
futile you are still in your sinsIf only for
this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be
pitied more than all men. 1 Corinthians 1517,
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Remember that at that time you Gentiles were
separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship
in Israel and foreigners to the convenants fo the
promise, without hope and without God in the
world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were
far away have been brought near through the blood
of Christ. Ephesians
212-13
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And this is the testimony God has given us
eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He
who has the Son has life he who does not have
the Son of God does not have life. -1 John
511-12
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And this is the testimony God has given us
eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He
who has the Son has life he who does not have
the Son of God does not have life. -1 John
511-12 Once you were not a people, but now
you are the people of God once you had not
received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
-1 Peter 210
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"Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying,
'Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?'
And I said, 'Here am I. Send me!'"
-Isaiah 68
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Christ declares that by the preaching of the
Gospel there is revealed on earth that which will
be the heavenly judgment of God, and that the
certainty of life or death cannot be gained from
any other source. It is a great honor that we
are Gods messengers to assure the world of its
salvation. (John Calvin)