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What’s in Your Future?
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Pastor Scott and Pastor Clare Loughrige
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What’s in Your Future?
Fortune:
noun 1 fortune favored him;
chance, accident, coincidence, serendipity, destiny, fortuity, providence,
happenstance
ORIGIN Middle English :
via Old French from Latin Fortuna, the name of a goddess personifying
luck or chance.
Let Jesus tell you your Fortune.
Revelation 21:1-4 (TNIV) 1 Then I saw "a new
heaven and a new earth," for the first heaven and the first earth had
passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the
So what’s in your future if you are a Christ
Follower?
1. A real ____________________(a).
Isaiah 55:1-2 (TNIV) 1 "Come, all you who
are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no
money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and
milk without money and without cost.
2 Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the
richest of fare
2. A real ____________________(b).
Revelation 5:9-10 (TNIV) 9And they sang a new song,
saying:
"You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were
slain, and with your blood you purchased for God members of every tribe and
language and people and nation. 10 You have made them to be a kingdom
and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth."
Eccl 3:10-11 (NIV) He has made everything beautiful in its
time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom
what God has done from beginning to end.
3. Real ______________(c) and ______________(d).
Isaiah
25:6-8 (TNIV) 6 On
this mountain the LORD Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all
peoples, a banquet of aged wine— the best of meats and the finest of wines. 7 On this mountain he will destroy the shroud that enfolds all peoples,
the sheet that covers all nations; 8 he will swallow up death
forever. The Sovereign LORD will wipe away the tears from all faces; he will
remove his people's disgrace from all the earth. The LORD has spoken.
Luke 22:29-30 (NASU) . . . and just as My Father has granted
Me a kingdom, I grant you 30 that you may eat and drink at My table in My
kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Isaiah 25:6-8 (TNIV) 6 On this mountain the LORD
Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples, a banquet of aged
wine— the best of meats and the finest of wines. 7 On this mountain
he will destroy the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all
nations; 8 he will swallow up death forever. The Sovereign LORD will
wipe away the tears from all faces; he will remove his people's disgrace from
all the earth. The LORD has spoken.
Eph 5:18-20 (NIV) 18 Do not get drunk on wine,
which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit. 19
Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make
music in your heart to the Lord, 20 always giving thanks to God the
Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Tim
1 Peter 1:8 (KJV) Whom having not seen, ye
love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable
and full of glory.
Ps
4. A Real _______________(e)
John 14:1-4
1 "Do not let your
hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. 2 My Father's
house has plenty of room; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am
going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a
place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be
where I am. 4 You know the way to the place where I am going."
On your way . . . Don't forget:
Matt
I will give you the keys of the kingdom of
heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you
loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly
things.
Matt
But seek first his kingdom and his
righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
1 Corinthians 2:9-10 (NIV)
9 "No eye has seen, no ear has
heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love
him"- 10 but God has revealed it to us by his
Spirit.
If you are heavenly minded you will be the most earthly good.
Conversations
in Life Group:
1. What are a few
things you are certain are in your future?
2. What is the most
wonderful event you have ever been invited to? What made it wonderful?
3. Have you ever
experienced joy unspeakable? How long did it last? How would you
like to live like that all the time?
4. Name one of the
best parties you've ever been to. How long did it last?
5. What is your
favorite landscape? favorite part of the world? favorite work? favorite food? favorite hobby? greatest passion? favorite person/people? Can those people and things go to
heaven with you?
Spiritual
Practices: Pay attention to what you love this week and
determine if it is heaven worthy. Rejoice for those things that can go
with you and enjoy them more fully. Repent for those things that are not
worthy of you or the future Jesus has for you.
Pray: Jesus, you said
you will give me the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever I will bind
on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be
loosed in heaven." Give me the grace and wisdom to begin living in heaven
on earth now. Amen.
RESOURCES:
Go to our
website, www.ccmonline.org, and click on the Following the Star devotional for
Lent.
READ:
Heaven by Randy Alcorn
Purpose
Driven Life, by Rick Warren
Answers:
a. invitation b. life c. joy d. celebration e. home
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