ACT SIX: Redemption is Completed

ACT SIX: REDEMPTION IS COMPLETED

A. WHAT IS PROMISED?

“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. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, ‘Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.’”

(Revelation 21:1-4)

1. God’s relationship with human beings will be .

2. A world where the of sin is .

B. WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE?

1. We don’t heaven, heaven comes .

a. Heaven will be renewed.

“For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are. Against its will, all creation was subjected to God’s curse. But with eager hope, the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God’s children in glorious freedom from death and decay. For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.” (Romans 8:19-22 NLT)

2. We don’t have a “” body, we have a body.

“They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. He said to them, ‘Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself!

Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.’”

(Luke 24:37-39)

“And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, ‘Do you have anything here to eat?’ They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate it in their presence.”

(Luke 24:41-42)

C. WHY DOES IT MATTER?

Today’s “Big Idea”…

Your is controlled by what you believe about your .

a. Your pain and your suffering, although very and incredibly are .

“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”

(2 Corinthians 4:16-18)