The Greater Reality

Introduction

• Genesis 2:16-17, 23 – Adam and Eve did not literally die the day they ate from the tree.


• II Timothy 3:12


• I Peter 3:14


• Luke 21:16-18 – The protection and deliverance were more real than the persecution.


• I John 4:2


• John 19:27 – Jesus acknowledged and respected physical reality.


• Luke 8:19-21

We must remember the greater reality of spiritual things.

• We must focus on the greater reality when a choice presents itself.

My perspective on prayer changes when I consider the greater reality.

• Service focuses on both lesser and greater realities.


• Matthew 25:36, 30


• Matthew 6:2, 5


• Colossians 4:12


• Prayer is no small thing!


• I Timothy 5:5


• James 5:16


• Isaiah 62:6-7

My perspective on my country changes when I consider the greater reality.

• Hebrews 11:13


• I Peter 1:17


• I Peter 2:11


• Ephesians 2:18-19


• We are strangers and aliens on earth, but not in heaven.

My perspective on my church changes when I consider the greater reality.

• Revelation 2:2, 6, 15, 19; 3:1, 17


• The greater reality is whether or not we can hold to truth.

My perspective on hope changes when I consider the greater reality.

• I Corinthians 15:53, 42-44


• My perspective on discipleship will change.


• I Corinthians 15:49


• I John 3:2


• John 1


• We should want to be like Jesus now so we can move toward Him.


• II Corinthians 5:1-7


• Our lives are like dreams compared to the greater reality.


• We must be careful to allow our physical life to make us doubt the greater reality.