Unchanging Hope

Journey by Faith through an unbelieving world

Confronted on every side by temptations

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave

The Matrix

a normal part of human experience is questioning what is real

people think the shadows are real and can’t imagine the real world

What if we are in the same position?

People don’t want to be told they’ve invested everything in something meaningless

you’re telling me I’ve wasted it all

They’d rather believe a lie

Isaiah 43:6-7

life is wasted when not lived for the glory of God

All of Life, every moment

1 Corinthians 10:31

whether you eat or drink, whatever you do, do all to the glory of God

Glorify God > Magnify God

magnify; make small things seem big

make some great look like it really is

(pinprick galaxy full of a billion stars)

we were made to magnify God in every area

every sphere of life:

eat drink plan pray think play work

Jesus said follow me

Mark 8:34-35

whoever loses their life for me and the gospel will save it

is their a conflict? a feeling that you see something and know something and are living for something different from the rest of the world?

our lives need look like we’re on a different road

pursue being weird? no

ok with not fitting in? yes

see others

serve others

to most people, God is a pinprick of stars, a shadow on the wall, you have seen him and know him

and so now magnify and glorify Him