Unchanging Hope
Unchanging Hope
Journey by Faith through an unbelieving world
Confronted on every side by temptations
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
The Matrix
a normal part of human experience is questioning what is real
people think the shadows are real and can’t imagine the real world
What if we are in the same position?
People don’t want to be told they’ve invested everything in something meaningless
you’re telling me I’ve wasted it all
They’d rather believe a lie
Isaiah 43:6-7
life is wasted when not lived for the glory of God
All of Life, every moment
1 Corinthians 10:31
whether you eat or drink, whatever you do, do all to the glory of God
Glorify God > Magnify God
magnify; make small things seem big
make some great look like it really is
(pinprick galaxy full of a billion stars)
we were made to magnify God in every area
every sphere of life:
eat drink plan pray think play work
Jesus said follow me
Mark 8:34-35
whoever loses their life for me and the gospel will save it
is their a conflict? a feeling that you see something and know something and are living for something different from the rest of the world?
our lives need look like we’re on a different road
pursue being weird? no
ok with not fitting in? yes
see others
serve others
to most people, God is a pinprick of stars, a shadow on the wall, you have seen him and know him
and so now magnify and glorify Him