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“Is anything too hard for the Lord?” Genesis 18:14a

“Is anything too hard for the Lord?” Genesis 18:14a. “There are two themes to the gospel: a major theme of hope, love, and life triumphant, and a minor theme of suffering, sorrow, and loss.” Francis Schaeffer. Major in the minors and minor in the majors. unknown.

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“Is anything too hard for the Lord?” Genesis 18:14a

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  1. “Is anything too hard for the Lord?”Genesis 18:14a

  2. “There are two themes to the gospel: a major theme of hope, love, and life triumphant, and a minor theme of suffering, sorrow, and loss.”Francis Schaeffer

  3. Major in the minors and minor in the majors.unknown

  4. Major in the major theme and minor in the minor theme.

  5. “Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.”Hebrews 10:23-24 NIV

  6. HOPE… • In the face of suffering (1 Peter) • In the face of false teaching (2 Peter) • Because of His character and His redemptive power (Hebrews)

  7. Peterisms

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  17. 1st Peter - Hope in the face of suffering

  18. Background • July, AD 64, great fire in Rome • Emperor Nero – bad dude • Scapegoat = Christians • “Fiery trials” • Peter wrote these from Rome, AD 67

  19. Hope in the face of suffering • How? By God’s grace • Word “grace” used in every chapter • “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” 2 Cor. 12:9 • Hold unswervingly to the hope…

  20. Hope in the face of false teachers • Danger of false doctrine in churches • “Satan can come as a lion to devour with persecution or as a serpent to deceive with false doctrine.” Warren Wiersbe • Grow in both grace and knowledge of the truth

  21. Hope because of His character and His redemptive power • Begins like a sermon and ends like a letter • “Better” (12 times), “perfect” (14 times) • Most Christ-centered book in the New Testament • Theme is faith. • “If we see Him as He is, we cannot help but be strong in faith.” Ray Stedman

  22. “Hope…means…a continual looking forward to the eternal world…It does not mean that we are to leave the present world as it is. If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next…

  23. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. Aim at Heaven and you will get earth “thrown in”: aim at earth and you will get neither.”C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

  24. Major in the major theme and minor in the minor theme.

  25. “Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.”Hebrews 10:23-24 NIV

  26. “Will you, will I, choose to see Christ as He really is and hold unswervingly to His hope?

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