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What should be and what is will one day be made right in Christ

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TEXAS GOSPEL VOLUNTEER

There is a tension that most of us live with every day, even if we have never put it into words. We know that things are not the way they should be, in our own lives and in the world around us, and no matter how hard we try, we cannot make everything right. At the same time, we feel strongly that things ought to be better, that justice and peace and love should win out. Paul points to this tension and to its resolution in 1 Corinthians 15:28, looking ahead to the day when the Son himself will hand over all things to God the Father, so that God may be all in all.

The resurrection of Jesus is God’s answer to that tension. It is his promise that what is broken will be restored, that what is wrong will be made right, that the longing we carry for things to be as they should is not a longing that will go unanswered forever. Jesus is not just the one who saves us from what was. He is the one who is leading all of creation toward what will be. Restoration will be the final word, and God himself will be all in all.

and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.”

Revelation 21:4

Christ living in you brings eternal life and a close relationship with God

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When a person puts their trust in Jesus Christ, something remarkable happens on the inside, and it changes everything about who they are and where they are headed. Christ comes to live within every believer through the Holy Spirit, and with him comes the gift of eternal life.

The Bible speaks of believers living in Christ and Christ living in them, which points to a deeply personal relationship rather than a distant or formal one. This is not something a person earns or achieves on their own; it is given freely the moment someone places their faith in him. Because of this, every believer carries within them the very presence of the living God, which is the foundation of all the hope and peace that following Christ can bring.

I am not implying Christians suddenly become “good people.” I am saying they no longer see sin as a good thing, but something from which to be delivered.

On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I in you.

John 14:20

God has a real plan for your life and wants you to seek him to discover what it is

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God has not left people to figure life out on their own; he has a plan, a purpose, and a will for every person, and he has chosen to carry that out by living in and through those who belong to him. That is not a vague promise but a direct invitation to seek him with everything you have, trusting that he will make himself known.

The reason anyone is able to find God when they seek him is not because they are good enough or smart enough to track him down; it is because he chooses to reveal himself to those who call on him. When God says he has plans for you, that is worth paying attention to and worth pursuing. The practical step is to call on him, seek him genuinely, and then be willing to follow wherever that leads, knowing that his plans for your life are better than any you could come up with on your own.

And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

Jeremiah 29:13

The defeat of death is not just a future hope but a certainty already secured in Christ

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Our culture tends to avoid the subject of death as much as possible, and when it cannot be avoided, it tries to push it further away through medicine and technology and anything else that might buy a little more time. And yet no matter how hard we try, death remains the one thing no one has ever managed to escape on their own. Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 15:25-26 that Christ must reign until every enemy has been placed beneath his feet, and the final enemy to be destroyed is death itself.

The resurrection of Jesus was not simply a personal victory for him. It was the moment when death received a wound from which it will not recover. The fear that death has held over people for all of human history has already been weakened, and its final destruction is assured because of what Christ accomplished. One day death itself will die, and life will reign without end. That is not a wish or a dream. It is a promise backed by an empty tomb and a risen King.

But when this perishable puts on the imperishable, and this mortal puts on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.

1 Corinthians 15:54

Receiving Jesus means accepting who he is and what he did for you

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Accepting Jesus as your personal Saviour means more than agreeing with a set of ideas; it means personally trusting that he is God’s Son and the only way for people to be forgiven of their sins. When you receive Christ, you are accepting that he died for your sins and that this applies directly to your own life by faith.

God the Father and God the Son have both spoken clearly in scripture about who Jesus is and what he came to do. When you place your faith in him, you are taking God at his word and trusting that belief in Christ brings salvation. That is not a small thing; it is the most important decision any person will ever make.