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A Comforting Legacy Series
Contributed by Naveen Balakrishnan on May 31, 2005 (message contributor)
Summary: The Bible exhorts to clearly examine what kind of legacy we are leaving behind for our posterity.
“A COMFORTING LEGACY”
1. The COMING Day of the LORD. (5:1-3)
2. The CHILDREN of the Light. (5:4-8)
3. A COMFORTING Legacy. (5:9-11)
a. God has not APPOINTED us to wrath but to obtain salvation through Jesus Christ our LORD. (v. 9) For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ Exodus 9:16; Proverbs 16:4; Matthew 26:24; Acts 1:20; 13:48; 1 Thessalonians 1:10; 3:3; 1 Peter 2:8-10; 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14; 2 Timothy 2:10; John 3:17, 36; 5:24; Matthew 18:11; Luke 19:10; Philippians 1:29
b. God has granted us to be ALIVE with Jesus Christ. (v. 10) Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. Matthew 20:28; Mark 10:45; John 10:11, 15, 17; Romans 5:6-8; 6:23; 2 Corinthians 5:15; Galatians 2:19-20; Ephesians 5:2; Colossians 3:1-3; 2 Timothy 2:11; Titus 2:14; 1 Peter 2:24; 3:18; Revelation 14:13
c. ADMONISH and encourage one another even as we are to be in the habit of doing. (v. 11) Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do Ecclesiastes 4:10; Malachi 3:16; Acts 9:31; Romans 14:19; 15:2, 14; 1 Corinthians 14:3, 5, 12, 26, 31; 2 Corinthians 1:4; Ephesians 4:12, 16, 29; Colossians 3:16; 4:8; 1 Thessalonians 2:11; 4:10, 18; 1 Timothy 1:4; Hebrews 3:12-13; 10:24-25; Jude 1:20
