Key Thought: The New Testament hope is a Christ-centered hope in immortality. There is no eternal life apart from a saving relationship with Christ.
November 19, 2022

1. Have a volunteer read John 14:1-3, 1 Corinthians 15:12-19..

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this passage.
2. How closely related to Christ’s resurrection is the promise of our resurrection?
3. Personal Application: What does it mean Jesus is preparing a place for us? I thought we were going to build houses and dwell in them. Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your relatives states, “I believe Christ comes to us when we die. It’s been 2,000 years since He promised to come back and get us and I don’t think He really meant to destroy the world when He comes. People die and go to heaven. Others die and go to hell.” How would you respond to your relative?

2. Have a volunteer read John 6:26-51..

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. When did Jesus say He would raise the dead and grant eternal life?
3. Personal Application:  Share your thoughts on the relationship between the everlasting and our current everyday lives
4. Case Study: One of your friends states, “Why does Jesus compare the miracles of the loaves and fishes and the manna from heaven to Himself and the promise of eternal life?” How would you respond to your friend?

3. Have a volunteer read I Thessalonians 4:13-18.

1. Ask class members to share a short
2. Who are the others who have no hope? Why don’t they have hope?
3. Personal Application: Is Christ going to give us a sinless and incorrupt nature when He comes, or are we to allow His to develop a sinless and incorrupt nature before He comes? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your neighbors states: “Why does Christ come with the voice of the Archangel? Does that mean Christ is Michael? I don’t understand this saying.” How would you respond to your relative?

4. Have a volunteer read I Corinthians 15:51-55..

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. Is the mystery Paul is speaking of here referring to the secret rapture?
3. Personal Application: Why is resurrecting the dead and translating the living at Jesus second coming referred to as a mystery? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: Think of one person who needs to hear a message from this week’s lesson. Tell the class what you plan to do this week to share with them.

(Truth that is not lived, that is not imparted, loses its life-giving power, its healing virtue. Its blessings can be retained only as it is shared.”Ministry of Healing, p. 148).

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The theme hymn for this quarter’s studies “On Death, Dying and the FUTURE HOPE” is 
Hymn 214 – We Have This Hope.

The studies we have completed so far are reverberating in 
Hymn 203 – This Is The Threefold Truth and will do through to the end of this quarter.

Monday leads us through the section of the Hymnal named “Second Advent”. Jesus stated, “I am coming soon!”. For many generations the word “soon” has been questioned and is reflected in 
Hymn 212 – ‘Tis Almost Time For The Lord To Come, 
Hymn 209 – That Glorious Day Is Coming, 
Hymn 207 – It May Be At Morn, 
Hymn 200 – The Lord Is Coming, 
Hymn 201 – Christ Is Coming, 
Hymn 205 – Gleams Of The Golden Morning and 
Hymn 204 – Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus.

Jesus sermon in John 6:26-51 shows that He is the Bread of Life: 
Hymn 271 – Break Thou The Bread Of Life. It is in this Tuesday study that we are shown we have the gift of eternal life. There is a large section in our Hymnal that is named “Eternal Life”. You may wish to choose a hymn from number 419 through to 437.

For those who have lost a precious loved one, we cannot wait for the trumpet to sound that Jesus is coming: 
Hymn 213 – Jesus Is Coming Again because 
We Have This Hope – Hymn 214.

Today we look forward to Jesus coming again. Oh, what a day that will be 
When We All Get To Heaven – Hymn 633.

To learn unknown hymns, you will find the accompaniment music for each one at: https://sdahymnals.com/Hymnal/

Another great resource is for when there is a hymn you wish to sing but can’t find it in your hymnal. Go to https://www.sdahymnal.org and in the search bar type a special word in that is in the hymn. I am sure you will be amazed at the help you will be given.

 2 Timothy 2:15 KJV – “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”

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The ancient Greek historian Herodotus (5th century BC) wrote about a tribe that, at a birth, began a period of mourning because they anticipated the suffering that the infant would face if it lived to adulthood. However alien to us the ritual might seem, there is some logic to it.

Millennia later, an advertisement in America in the early 20th century read, “Why live, if you can be buried for ten dollars?”

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Life can be hard enough, we know, even if we believe in God and in the hope of eternity. Imagine, though, how hard it is for those who have no hope of anything beyond the short and often troubled existence here. More than one secular writer has commented on the meaninglessness of human existence, since we all not only die, but we all live with the realization that we are going to die. And this realization is what makes the whole project of human life, which is often hard and sorrowful in and of itself, seemingly of null and void. One thinker referred to humans as nothing but “hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones.” Rather macabre, but, again, it’s hard to argue with the logic.

Of course, in contrast to all this, we have the biblical promise of eternal life in Jesus. And that is the key: we have this hope in Jesus and what His death and resurrection offer us. Otherwise, what hope do we have?

Read 1 Corinthians 15:12-19. What is Paul saying here about how closely related Christ’s resurrection is to the hope of our own resurrection?

Paul is explicit: our resurrection is inseparably tied to Christ’s resurrection. And if we don’t rise, then it means that Christ has not risen, and if Christ has not risen, then — what? “Your faith is futile; you are still in your sins!” (NKJV). In other words, when we die we stay dead, and forever, too, and thus, it all is meaningless. Paul all but says that in 1 Corinthians 15:32 (NKJV) — “If the dead do not rise, ‘Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!’”

If our present existence as carbon-based protoplasm is all there is, and our “threescore and ten years” (if we are fortunate; more if we don’t smoke or eat too many hamburgers) is all that we get, ever — we’re in pretty tough shape. No wonder Ellen G. White adds, “Heaven is worth everything to us, and if we lose heaven we lose all.” — Sons and Daughters of God, p. 349.

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