Sermon Details
- Pastor Name: Jonathan Cornell
- Date & Time: July 6, 2014 | 10:00am
If you would, bear with me for a moment while I conduct a small experiment. Now I’m no expert in time and space, but what Albert Einstein and others have told us is that time and space are not absolute, but are bending in relationship to one another. So I’ve asked Sue Rose, our clerk of session, to keep an official WPC record of this moment, and if time travel becomes real in the future, someone will come back to this moment. So with that in mind, let’s start the countdown at 5…4…3…2…1.
Nothing.
A few years ago Tina Fey, anchor of the Saturday Night Live Weekend News update, predicted a similar outcome when she told the audience about a similar event at MIT in which students hoped that people from the future would come back to their time traveler party. Too bad, people from the future already know that the party stunk.
We live in a society with an unhealthy preoccupation with the future. Or in other words, we live in a society where people worry.
This morning we come to the conclusion of our 15-week look into the broad over-arching themes of the Bible. And it is good that God knew about our predisposition to worry about the future, and that’s why the Bible doesn’t simply end with the Apostles’ instructive letters that we spent the last two weeks on. In this grand narrative of God’s interaction with the world throughout the Old and New Testament, ultimately through the person and saving work of Jesus Christ, God knew that his people would want to know how it all would end.
Download the entire transcript: Revelation 5
