Hope for the World

Two Related Questions • What is the ultimate Christian

hope?

• What hope is their for change, rescue, transformation, new possibilities within the present world?

Genesis 1

• The light was good (vs. 4)

• God saw that it was good (vs. 10, 12, 18, 21& 25)

• God saw all that he had made and it was very good (vs. 31)

Oh, praise the greatness of our God! He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just.

Deuteronomy 32:3b-4a (NIV)

Every creation of God, you see, is good; nothing is to be rejected…

1 Timothy 4:4 (KNT)

He rules the world in righteousness and judges the peoples with equity.

Psalm 9:8 (NIV)

Say among the nations, “The Lord reigns.” The world is firmly established, it cannot be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity….

Psalm 96:10,13 (NIV)

Let all creation rejoice before the Lord, for he comes, he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in his faithfulness.

Psalm 96:10,13 (NIV)

For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.

Acts 17:31 (NIV)

Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Matthew 6:10 (NIV)

Hope for the World