Hope Chapel Podcast

Before the last judgement, believers were raised to reign--as kings and priests--in heaven. So the millenium has been inaugurated during the church age. The church should understand her role in heaven and on earth.

God restricted Satan from destroying the church and deceiving the nations. So the millenium has been inaugurated during the church age. Believers are to be active in their faith, acknowledging that Christ protects the church.

At the end of history, the devil and his minions will be destroyed in one last battle. However, believers should not forget that they've been called to fight off a spiritual war, which was inaugurated at Christ's first coming.

Philip uses this book to introduce the Ethiopian Eunuch to the main character–the promised Holy One, the Suffering Servant, Jesus. The eunuch is brought into the covenant, and he receives the sign and seal of baptism.

The destruction of the last enemy is designed to display the holiness of God. True followers of Christ should not focuse on how the world views them. But they are to be vindicated by the righteousness of Christ alone.

On His second coming, Christ will be judging the wicked, who has been working for Satan. His righteous act of judgement shows that Christ is the convenant-keeping God, who judges the wicked.

Revelation 19:7-10

Jesus’ people are to be set apart, and the Word is the cause and the means by which we are set apart. God’s Word is truth and changes lives. Believers must see how God’s unchanging Word bears on living in today’s culture.

Believers are to give God the glory for His kingship. However, what if the ground of the praise is the pronouncement of the coming judgement? How should the church rejoice over the future judgement?

Those who belong to Babylon will weep over her judgement, whereas those who belong to Christ will rejoice. You are to rejoice over the judgement because both your faith and God's character have been vindicated.

Wonder at the majesty of God! His frightful hand is in the storm. He even guides the weather. You must fear God, knowing how majestic He is here and now.

The purpose of Christ's coming (advent) is "not to be served but to serve." He did not need your help to "give His life." So as you live out the call to be "slave of all," you first are to be served by Christ, then, and so serve others.

The God of the outcasts has graciously welcomed us into his family, so we should live out his mission. But God is on mission. Being motivated by love for the world, He welcomes those who call on him into His people.

As idolators see the last state of Babylon, they cannot stop lamenting her judgment. Those who belong to the ungodly world system will put worldly grief into practice. However, those who belong to Christ pursue godly grief.

Unless believers separate themselves from the ungodly economic system, they will likewise perish along with it. Before God justly judges the evil, the church ought to disassociate herself with it.

Babylon has tempted people into worshipping idols. So as the judgment upon her is being announced by an angel of God, the severity of the judgement comes along. Worshippers ought to praise God's justice.

God removes the security of the ungodly economic system by making the worldly institutions and its allies turn against the economic system. The evil will self destruct because Christ is sovereign.

The deceptive work of the worldly institutions and its allies are finally being revealed. Their career is nothing but pretense when Christ judges them and discloses all things.

It is no surprise if the ungodly socio-economic world system cooperates with intitutions because Satan and his minions are good at disguising themselves as servants of righteousness. Believers are to watch carefully.

Jesus wants us to come and see Him, but not for the miracles He does, but so that we may be changed and transformed by Him. As we come to Him, we see not only His beauty, majesty and power but we are drawn into a relationship with Him.

The harlot seduces believers to gain socio-economic advantage. But Christ would lead His church to the safe place (i.e., the dessert). How should you find rest in Him in the midst of living in the most materialistic place in history?

Christ's cry at the cross indicates the arrival of the kingdom of God. And the 2nd cry in today's passage belongs to Christ as well. Through it, both redemption of His own and final judgement of the evil are accomplished.

At the end of the age, God will gather "nations" (all ungodly beings). They will be allowed to lift their hands against the church. But those who refuse to compromise their faith will be saved. They always look to Christ.

Because the OT and NT are alone the Word of God written, we must not settle – and we do not have to settle – for anything less than what God has given, for anything less than what God the Spirit says.

Those who do not belong to Christ will be judged even before Christ returns. Their master's sovereign realm wlll be destroyed. And darkness will overtake the disobedient. But the ultimate judgment is their separation from God.

Because the ungodly persecuted the church and worshipped idols, God judges them by depriving them of economic stability. Still, they refused to repent and cursed God. Like idol, like idolator.

God judged those who worshipped money. And His judgement is just, accordingly to the heavenly host. God is righteous even as He judges the ungodly. How should churchgoers avoid worshipping money?

Christ's inner life tends to draw us closer to Him. It also helps us give proper emphasis and appreciation to His human nature, which reformed evangelicals often neglect in their rightful emphasis on His divine nature.

What are the key aspects of Jesus’ great commission--the context, the purpose, the Old Testament allusions and the strategy? We will seek to apply these to our 21st century world.

The sermon text gives us some insight as to what probably was on Jesus' mind/heart. His emotions help us to love and understand Him and give us connection with Him and what He endured for us.

Moses’ request to see God’s glory; how God’s glory reveals our sin; how, in Christ, we can see God’s glory and live; and finally how God’s Word reveals His glory to us, and prepares us to dwell in His presence.

The passage focuses on teh cost of discipleship. The Gospel is a gift from our gracious Lord--but to follow Him will cost us as we live for Him in a world hostile to Him and His message.

Jesus is the Eternal Son, who is fully God and fully man. If we would have fellowship with the Father and the Son for the joy of the fellowship, we must take heed to the message of the Apostles about God the Son now incarnate.

The presence of God is awesome that even heavenly hosts could not stand still. God is magnified not only in His salvation but also in His wrath. So believers are to stand in awe of Him through Christ, especially as they pray.

As God the Father and God the Son redeemed His people and executed judgement upon the ungoldy, they displayed their unique attributes. Believers are to respond to the holiness of God appropriately.

Jesus, the Son of God, has revealed Himself to the disciples. As His disciples, we, too, we can believe the testimony of the disciples, which impacts not only how we confess our faith but also how we live.

As believers suffered the loss of all things for the sake of Christ here on earth, unbelievers will suffer God's judgment. The final judgement is thoroughgoing, whereas believers' suffering is temporary.

Christ secures your idenity, redemption and righteousness. So at the end of the day, He glorifies Himself by rewarding the church and judging the beast and his minions.

In order to follow Christ, you must take up the cross and follow Him. You outght to suffer for His sake. However, you are to remain faithful without compromising your faith at the same time. Christ empowers you to do both.

When we see Jesus for who he really is, it changes us … changes our orientation, our view of the world, our values, our relationships and on and on.

The state functions as an agent to percute the church and to deceive those who do not know Christ. True Christ-followers are to worship properly in the midst of enduring persecution.

The biblical dualism emphasizes strengthening believers through suffering rather than punishing unbelivers. Believers are called to suffer to prove to be Christ's disciples through the means of bearing much fruit.

The true church is to discern true worship from idolatry and perservere in their faith, knowing that the state and religion are authorized by Satan to percute the church and deceive.

We Americans don't think about "priests" very much. Unlike earlier generations, we don't think we need them so much. This hinders us when we come to Biblical teachings on the subject: Jesus as our High Priest.

God protects the church against Satanic harm because Christ's death and resurrection resulted in the victory of Christ. And His victory is equated with the victory of the saints over Satan and in the kingdom of God.

Both the kingdom and judment are depicted as consummated in the most glorious sense of the biblical fulfillment. But the striking thing is that God is the one who establishes the kingdom and executes the judgment.

God's will of decree enables believers to preach the gospel and dwell in the presence of Christ. Paradoxically, the same decree will result in suffering the loss of all things. And it leads to the judgement of their persecutors.