1. A CERTAIN VISION OF OUR FUTURE REVELATIONS 1

2. Why is Future So Certain? Our God Has Spoken (1:1-2) Our God is Sovereign (1:12-19)

3. What is Coming in Future? Universal Victory – Over Sin – Over Death – Over All Enemies

4. What is Coming in Future? Universal Victory Universal Worship

5. “They fell down before the Lamb … and they sang a new song, ‘Worthy are You to take the book and to break its seals; for You were slain, and purchased for God with Your blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.’” - Revelation 5:8-9

6. Great Commission “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”- Matthew 28:18-20

7. “Missions is not the ultimate goal of the Church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever.”- John Piper

9. Why Should We Care? Hope’s Necessity & Inevitability “A person can live forty days without food, three days without water, twelve minutes without air, and one second without hope.”

10. Why Should We Care? Hope’s Necessity -> Inevitability Hope’s Trajectory -> Vitality

11. Why Should We Care? “Hope is so close to the core of all that makes us human that when we lose it, we lose something of our very selves … Let me put it as baldly as I can: there is nothing, repeat nothing, more critical for any of us, young or old or anything in between, than the vitality of our hope.”- Lewis Smedes

12. Why Should We Care? Hope’s Necessity -> Inevitability Hope’s Trajectory -> Vitality This Fall … - What are your hopes wrapped around? - Who are your hopes wrapped around?