Therefore it is better to endure troubles with the hope of eternal deliverance than to avoid them and rush into eternal ruin.

To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings.

To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings.

The best of it is, God is with us.

I'll never be lonely Even if I am alone For I've a precious Savior Who'll come to take me home. But while I'm here His servant I will be With one foot on earth And one in eternity. And I'll gather His crops To populate His land And if I feel weary I'll cling tighter to his hand.

Salvation, then, is not "going to heaven" but "being raised to life in God's new heaven and new earth.

If you're a Christian you're just a shadow of your future self.

The only reason the death of Jesus was ever thought of as good news was because of what happened next.

Belief in the bodily resurrection includes the belief that what is done in the present in the body, by the power of the Spirit, will be reaffirmed in the eventual future, in ways at which we can presently only guess. RESURRECTION:

The resurrection of Jesus is the launching of God's new world.

So, then, since the person you are and the world God has made will be gloriously reaffirmed in God's eventual future, you must be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that in the Lord your labour is not in vain." Belief in the bodily resurrection includes the belief that what is done in the present in the body, by the power of the Spirit, will be reaffirmed in the eventual future, in ways at which we can presently only guess.

In his appearing we find neither a dualist rejection of the present world nor simply his arrival like a spaceman into the present world but rather the transformation of the present world, and ourselves within it, so that it will at last be put to rights and we with it. Death and decay will be overcome, and God will be all in all. This