RESURRECTION HOPE

#6 in the series He Is Enough
Tim Cartwright

Key Passage: 2 Corinthians 5:1-10

1. Our home is exceedingly BETTER! “For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a ______ from God, a house not made with hands, ______ in the heavens.” (2 Corinthians 5:1)

2. Groaning – Longing (Greek: Stenazo) “And not only the ______, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, ______ inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.” (Romans 8:28)

“The books or music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust in them…they are only a scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have not yet visited.” — C.S. Lewis

3. The certainty of Christ’s return “You also must be ready, because the ______ will come at an hour when you do not expect him.” (Luke 12:40)

4. Victory over death “When the perishable puts on the ______, and the mortal puts on immortality…‘Death is swallowed up in ______.’” (1 Corinthians 15:54-55)

5. We are guaranteed renewal through the Spirit “…the Spirit of ______. The world cannot accept him, because it neither ______ him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.” (John 14:16-17)

6. Our aim is to please Him the face of coming judgment. “So, whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to ______ him.” (2 Corinthians 5:9)

“Every act of trust in God’s promises expresses itself in an act of obedience to his commands; every act of obedience is a manifestation of trust.” — Scott Hafemann

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