Let's pray. Father, we want so much for our faith in your promises to grow because of

our time together. So that's a gift of the Holy Spirit. Faith is a gift. Being able to

see promises, understand them, believe them, take heart from them and walk in freedom

is a gift, and we ask you to come and give those gifts now. In Jesus' name, amen. I am old.

Right? Seventy? Seven. And I need to join you in the fight against the fears of aging

by faith in future grace. Mr. Word, I've got nine fears. We'll walk through them and I'll

give you biblical antidotes for your fear. Those antidotes will work through faith, without

faith they will work. But by faith they'll work and fear will be overcome and we will all

go to be with Jesus in due time, without walking through fear in our last season. That's my hope.

So Word about future grace. I picture the Christian life as a stream of divine grace flowing to

me, flowing to me from the future, like this. And I'm walking into it. It flows over the

waterfall of the present into a reservoir. The reservoir is getting bigger and bigger, which

means our thankfulness, as we look back, should be getting bigger and bigger. Right? As grace comes

to us, it flows over the waterfall of the present. It accumulates in a reservoir that forever

and ever will get bigger. We'll never stop getting grace from God, because we will never be deserving

for eternity of what good comes to us. Read Ephesians 2, 7. It's one of the most amazing verses

in the Bible. So what's the disposition of the heart that relates to the future stream and the

disposition of the heart that relates to the past reservoir? And the answer is gratitude as we

look back, faith, as we look forward. So I'm calling it faith in future grace. And by that I mean

future for the next five minutes, or let's just say an hour to finish this. Will God sustain me?

Or will I not be sustained for this hour? I am trusting grace to arrive moment by moment as

sustaining power from God. Free. Gracious. And you're going to sit there being held in, being,

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