THE CHRISTIANS BLESSED HOPE

TITUS 2:11-15

COL 1:5 FOR THE HOPE WHICH IS LAID UP FOR YOU IN
HEAVEN, WHEREOF YOU HEARD BEFORE IN THE WORD OF THE
TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL.

1. CHRISTIAN LIVES IN TWO WORLDS
   A. PRESENT DAY WORLD
   B. BLESSED HOPE WHICH IS TO COME
      1. THE LAND OF NO TEARS

2. VS 12 TELLS US IN THIS WORLD WE ARE TO DENY
   ANYTHING THAT IS UNGODLY-TO LIVE SOBERLY,
   RIGHTEOUSLY, AND GODLY.

3. VS 13 TELLS US TO LOOK FORWARD FOR THAT BLESSED
   HOPE AND THE GLORIOUS APPEARING OF THE GREAT GOD
   AND OUR SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST.

4. JESUS SAID: I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU AND
   IF I GO I WILL RETURN UNTO YOU. SO THAT WHERE I
   AM YOU MAY BE ALSO.

5. VS 13 CALLED HIM A GREAT GOD-THIS JESUS
   A. LET US THEN LOOK AT THIS GREAT GOD

6. JUST WHO IS THIS GREAT GOD WHO IS WILLING TO DIE
   FOR US THAT WE MIGHT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE AND HAVE
   THAT BLESSED HOPE OF HEAVEN TO COME?

7. THIS GREAT GOD IS THE ANCIENT OF ANCIENTS
   A. THE BEGINNING AND THE END
   B. THE LORD OF LORDS AND KING OF KINGS
   C. HE IS THE ALL POWERFUL, ALL KNOWNING,
      ALL SEEING, EVERYWHERE PRESENT GOD.

3. THIS GREAT GOD-JESUS HAS CREATED ALL THINGS
   A. GREAT SOVERIGN GOD
      1. MEANS NONE GREATER
      2. HE ALONE DECIDES COURSE OF HUMANITY
         AND DESTINY OF NATIONS
      3. HE ALONE DECIDES WHERE WE SPEND ETERNITY
      4. HE ALONE, AND NONE OTHER, HE IS GOD

   B. YES, HE CREATED IT ALL
      1. JOHN 1:3 ALL THINGS WERE MADE BY HIM;
         AND WITHOUT HIM WAS NOT ANYTHING MADE
         THAT WAS MADE
   C. LOOK AT THE HEAVENS-HANDIWORK IS DISPLAYED
      1. UNIVERSE WITHOUT DIMENSIONS-NO END
      2. GALAXIES UPON GALAXIES
      3. EACH GALAXY WITH MILLIONS OF SUNS
      4. ROM 1 SAYS MAN IS WITHOUT EXCUSE
         1. HAS TO KNOW THERE IS A CREATOR
         2. BIG BANG THEORY

   D. GREAT  MEN HAVE WALKED THE EARTH
      1. NEVER ONE LIKE JESUS-THIS GREAT GOD
      2. HE CAME FROM HEAVEN, HE WALKED AMONG
         MEN, TOOK CARE OF EVERY NEED, HEALED THE
         SICK, THE BLIND, THE LAME, THE DEAF, CAST
         OUT DEMONS, AND RAISED THE DEAD- OH WHAT A
         GREAT GOD HE IS
      4. THIS GREAT GOD DIED FOR MAN-KINDS' SAKE
      5. CONQUERED DEATH AND GRAVE AND HE AROSE
         1. OH WHAT A MIGHTY GOD HE IS
            A. WITHOUT HIM WAS NOT ANYTHING MADE
               THAT WAS MADE.
            B. SAY, WHO PUT THE RED IN THE ROBINS
               BREAST?
            C. WHO MADE THE MIGHTY OAK TREE?
            D. WHO PUT THE DEW ON THE MORNING GLORY

   E. GOD CREATED MAN
      1. WORLD NEEDS TO HEAR THIS
         A. GOD CREATED MAN
         B. SOME SAY-MAN CREATED GOD
         C. FIGMENT OF MAN'S IMAGINATION
         D. THEY SAY-SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN
         E. SOMETHING HIGHER THAN OURSELVES
         F. THEY SAY-MAN CREATED GOD
         G. THEY SAY THERE IS NO GOD
         H. ILLUS: WORM SAYS THERE IS NO MAN

      2. THEY SAY MAN MAKES HISTORY
         A. WE SAY GREAT GOD-JESUS IS THE CENTRAL
            FIGURE OF ALL HISTORY
         B. TELLS STORY OF JESUS
         C. EVERY PAGE OF HISTORY SHOULD HAVE
            THE NOTATION-JESUS REIGNS
         D. RAISES-NATIONS; CAUSES NATIONS-FALL
         E. RAISES-RULERS; CAUSES RULERS-FALL
         F. THE BIBLE IS JUST STORY OF JESUS
            1. HISTORY AND PROPHECY
            2. WHAT HE HAS DONE-AND WILL DO
               IN THE FUTURE
            3. VS 13 SAYS THIS GREAT GOD JESUS IS
               COMING BACK AGAIN FOR YOU AND ME
               A. TO RIGHT ALL WRONGS AND DRY
                  ALL TEARS
               B. TO MAKE THINGS STRAIGHT
            H. BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRAION OF GOD'S
               PEOPLE IN THIS PRESENT WORLD
               A. ILLUS: REDWOOD TREES OF CALIF

         G. ALL TRUE CHRISTIANS STANDING TOGETHER
            HERE IN THIS WORLD WAITING FOR THAT
            BLESSED HOPE

         H. HEAVEN AND THE APPEARING OF THIS GREAT
            GOD-JESUS THE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD