Tag: eternal hope
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Booked for Home – Revelation 21:1
Revelation 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. The church is many things. It is a hospital where wounded people come and find healing in Jesus. It is a school where truth is taught…
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Preserved for His Kingdom — 2 Timothy 4:18
2 Timothy 4:18 And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. Paul had been through enough trials to know how uncertain life could feel. He had faced angry mobs, prison cells, storms at sea, and courts…
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Ready to Depart — 2 Timothy 4:5–6
2 Timothy 4:5–6 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. Paul’s words here feel very personal. He knows his time on earth is coming to a…
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This Is What We Were Made For – Colossians 3:4
Colossians 3:4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. Paul does not say Christ gives us life. He says Christ is our life. Not a supplement.Not an enhancement.Not a religious accessory. Our life. Which means everything else is secondary. And then he makes a promise that steadies…
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Written in Ink That Cannot Fade – Philippians 4:3
Philippians 4:3 And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow… Paul moves from pleading with two women to pulling in a third voice. “True yokefellow.” That is not a casual nickname. A yoke is wood laid across two animals so they move as one. It rubs. It presses. It distributes weight. Whoever this man was, he…
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The Great Reordering – Philippians 3:21
Philippians 3:21 (a) Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body… Paul ends this chapter by lifting our eyes as high as they can go. These bodies we live in now are not the final version. They ache. They tire. They betray us. They are vulnerable to…
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Ready to Land – Philippians 2:17–18
Philippians 2:17, 18 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all. For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me. Paul writes from Rome, chained, uncertain of the timeline, but not uncertain of the outcome. “If I am poured…
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Torn Between Two Shores – Philippians 1:22–26
Philippians 1:22–26 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.And…