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Where is our focus as we end 2019 and head into 2020?

• How are we going to finish 2019?
  
  
• How are we going to begin 2020?

Why Praise?

• God’s great mercy – in spite of sin and helplessness
  
  
• New birth – regeneration, new life, salvation, conversion, new nature, new family, new creation
  
  
• Living hope – eternal life on the basis of the resurrection of Jesus Christ
  
  
• Inheritance – indestructible, undefilable, unfading
  
  
• Faith – God given, saving faith – permanent and protected
  
  
• Salvation – were saved, are being saved, will be saved

What about Trials and Suffering?

• Only for a little while – compared to an eternal inheritance that will never perish spoil or fade
  
  
• There is a reason for trials – tests faith to prove it genuine
  
  
• The Christian’s joy is not governed by circumstances, but by Jesus

How Great is Salvation?

• The salvation Christians now have is what the prophets wrote about, studied and longed to understand
  
  
• Believers now have the privilege of preaching this same salvation – fulfilled in Jesus Christ
  
  
• Even the angels don’t know all the details, yet eagerly and joyfully watch God’s plan unfold
  
  
• Believers are experiencing what prophets and angels longed to see

So What?

• You are called to praise God and rejoice.
  
  
• For your salvation!
  
  
• The reality is that many of you will leave this place today and return to a life of trouble and trials
  
  
• Remember that the trials of this life are for just a ‘little while’. They are nothing compared to eternity
  
  
• Take heart knowing that your trials have a purpose – so that your faith may be proved genuine
  
  
• Rejoice! You have what the prophets and even the angels longed to see and understand

Be filled with glorious joy because you are receiving the goal of your faith – the salvation of your soul!

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