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How to apply this lesson to your life:
As Christians, our role is to spread heaven into every area of our influence. We have Hope for the future when Godish plan will be complete, but until that day comes, we can do our parts now.

Ch. 39 1-Sentence Recap:
The biblical Hope, for the future doesn’t describe Heaven, as a place far away in the clouds, but as a fully redeemed, restored, renewed world, right here, where heaven and earth will one day overlap again.

What is the appropriate way to approach it? How shouldn’t be used as a scare tactic, but rather discussed as the real outcome of living in sin, and opposing the wheel of God. We should share the salvation message, knowing that hell will be the reality for many people.

How to apply this lesson to our lives:
For some reason, many Christian’s are afraid to study hell or discuss it with their friends. On the other side of the coin, we see street corner preachers condemning people to hell.

Ch. 38 1-Sentence Recap:
At the second coming of Jesus, we will all be judged, leading us to either heaven or hell.

Ch. 37 1-Sentence Recap:
Jesus is already on the throne as the eternal King, and one day he will de feed the evil forces of this world for Good.

How to apply this lesson to your life:
This book should inspire us to be helpful in faithful, no matter how intends the world may become. We are marked by God, not by Satan – – and all our choices should reflect that.

How to apply this lesson to your life:
If we want to be more, like Jesus, we need to view life from his perspective and reflections of him to our communities. How can we be more loving to those around us? How can we be lights in the darkness? How can we reflect him in all we do?

Ch. 36 1-Sentence Recap:
The General epistles were meant to Combat false teachers who were spread in a gospel contract of Jesus, but they also focused on the importance of love and obedience, and Light of Jesus is new covenant.

Ch. 35 1-Sentence Recap:
Paul, Rowdy collection of letters to show believers what to do with thin their churches, to encourage them to keep the gospel of Jesus, their main focus by living it out each day.

How to apply this lesson to your life:
As followers of Jesus, & potentially leaders within our church communities, we need to focus on sound doctor, and in living as reflections of Jesus, as we grow closer to him.

Ch. 34 1-Sentence Recap:
The book of acts details, the spread of the gospel message from Jerusalem to Judea and Samaria, and then to “the end of the Earth.”

How to apply this lesson to your life:
As Christians, we should ask the Holy Spirit to give us the courage to share our faith, even when we encounter resistance and persecution.

How to Apply This Lesson to Your Life:
As followers of Jesus who received the Holy Spirit, we are now mini temples all over the world —and as we follow God's will for our lives each day, we expand the kingdom of God here on earth.

Ch. 33 1-Sentence Recap:
The Holy Spirit arrived with great power on the day of Pentecost, and Peter delivered a powerful message to everyone in Jerusalem, making this day the launch of the church.

Ch. 32 1-Sentence Recap:
Jesus’s resurrection, appearances to the disciples, commissioning, and Ascension to heaven showed his victory over death and place placement on the throne in heaven as king and the Lord of all.

How to apply this lesson to your life:
We have the same commission that disciples were given – to spread the kingdom of God all throughout the world.

Ch. 31 1-Sentence Recap:
Jesus was crucified as an innocent man to a tone for the sins of humanity.

How to apply this lesson to your life:
By placing our faith in Jesus and accepting his sacrifice as our own, we could be set free from the grip of sin and live under the new covenant with God for the rest of eternity.

Ch. 30 1-Sentence Recap:
The final week of Jesus’s life was marked by many events that revealed his identity as a messianic king and how he would establish the new covenant through his sacrificial death.

How to apply this lesson to your life:
As Christians, we need to recognize Jesus as our true king and spend time remembering what he did for us, with an expectant hope for all he will do in the future.

How to apply this lesson to your life:
When we accept Jesus as our king and Lord, he invites us to participate in the kingdom of God, bringing heaven to earth and the present, and boosting our hope for the future where he reigns for the rest of eternity.

Ch. 29 1-Sentence Recap:
The Ministry of Jesus began with the announcement that the kingdom of God had arrived, and he spent the next few years talking about life and God’s kingdom and showing it physically through his miracles.

Misunderstanding of the disciples/rabbi relationship should be inspiring and sobering to us. Jesus calls us too much greater intimacy than we often realize.