The Hope of the Rapture

Don’t Withdraw from the Wicked, but Let Your Light Shine

Matthew 5:13-16   A. The importance of letting your light shine  B. The challenges to letting your light shine  C. The keys to letting your light shine Embrace living in this world Don’t become absorbedAdopt biblical distinctiveness Expect a degree of mistreatmentDon’t become numb Maintain a good testimony Genuinely love your neighbor Proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ

SS - Concluding Matters

Ephesians 6:21-24

Don’t Worry Because of the Wicked, but Trust the LORD

Psalm 37  - Don’t Worry Because of the Wicked, but Trust the LORD The prosperity of the wicked will not endure (1-11)The wicked will perish, but the righteous will prosper (12-22)The LORD loves and establishes the righteous (23-31)The LORD saves the righteous from the wicked (32-40)

SS - Ephesians 6:18-20

Atonement and Liberation in Christ

1. Humanity’s shared problem is that we are guilty before God and enslaved to sin. 2. Christ suffered for us and left us an example to follow. 3. Christ’s sacrifice removes our guilt. 4. Christ’s sacrifice frees us from sin’s power. 5. Christ’s sacrifice restores us to God.