Thank you so much for coming back and for those of you here for the first time.

I'll try to say things in a way that might catch people up so that what you missed last night won't blame you for benefiting for what we're

going to do now together. Faith is profoundly and pervasively future oriented is the next point.

We're talking about future grace, faith in future grace, as a means of severing the power of sin, living a holy and

pure life.

And we've looked at texts to say this, but let me say it again.

So this is the next point point faith can look back and believe a truth about the past

like the truth that Christ died for our sins it can look out and trust a person like I could look at Al and say I trust you

meaning right this moment I trust this person. Or it can look forward and be assured about a promise like I'll be with

you to the end of the age or I'll be with you in five minutes. So faith can look in all those three directions and I don't

mean to deny any of them when I put the emphasis here on future grace and looking to the future.

But even when faith embraces a past reality, its saving essence includes the embrace of the implications of that past reality for present and future.

So I said that's not, if you look back to the cross and you say I believe that that was the most

magnificent expression of divine love for me that ever was and that it covers all my sins, provides all my righteousness, and then

you turn to the future and it has zero implications, you don't believe that.

Because what he bought was eternal life.

What he bought was power to glorify him.

What he bought was your next five minutes of holiness and if you say I believe all

that but it has zero here then you don't believe all that and therefore I say

believing him for the future is of the essence of believing him at all.

If while we were enemies, Romans 510, we were reconciled to God by the death of his son,

much more now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved?

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