THE BLESSED HOPE (It Is Finished)

 "The Blessed Hope"                                  5.18.16

   
  As followers of our Lord Jesus Christ, redeemed from
the penalty of our sins  by his blood, we  have a  hope,  
secure in him. 
    This hope is not based on our works, but is reckoned 
to us as the result of his finished work on the cross. We
access this redemption through faith in Him; His work.  
  
   His work on the cross was finished when He rose from 
the dead on the third day, followed  by his  Ascension to,  
and  his  Intercession with  the Father on our behalf. 
  The work of  our Lord  may  be finished,  but He is still 
active on our behalf, interceding  for us at the right hand 
of the Father.  

   HOPE: Confident expectation of future good.

13.  “But I would not  have you to be ignorant, brethren, 

         concerning them which are  asleep, that  ye sorrow 

         not even as others which have no hope.

14.   For if  we  believe  that  Jesus died and  rose again, 

        even  so them  also  which sleep in Jesus,  will God 

        bring with him.

15.   For this we say unto you, by the Word of the Lord, 

        that we which are alive and remain unto the 
        coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them which  

        are asleep.

16.   For the Lord, himself, shall descend  from heaven 

        with a shout, of the archangel, and with the trump 

        of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

17.  Then we which are alive and remain will be caught 

       up together in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air:  

       and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

18.  Wherefore, comfort one another with these words."

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