This is the last of a four sermon series entitled “What is Our Hope?” Paul writes “he saved us … so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life” (Titus 3:5, 7). Though we used the term eternal life often, we give little thought to what it will be like to live eternally.
C.S. Lewis whets our appetite for this inheritance in The Last Battle, the last of his Chronicles of Narnia Series, as he concludes the adventures of Edmund, Lucy and Peter by writing, “Aslan turned to them & said: “You do not yet look so happy as I mean you to be.” Lucy said, “We’re so afraid of being sent away, Aslan. & you have sent us back into our own world so often.” “No fear of that,” said Aslan. “Have you not guessed?” Their hearts leaped & a wild hope rose within them. … as Aslan said softly. “Your father & mother & all of you are—as you used to call it in the Shadowlands—dead. The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.” And … the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world … had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
This is sermon is my attempt to re-set before us the hope of live an infinite life in the presence of an infinite God. Audio for this sermon can be found by clicking the sermon audio tab or here.
Pound of Nard 
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