1. God Is Not Ashamed June 9 th, 2013

2. Characteristics of People Living in Faith of What is Yet to Come 1) They live and die holding to the faith of what they know is yet to come.

3. Characteristics of People Living in Faith of What is Yet to Come 2) They embrace their status as aliens and strangers in this world because their citizenship is in heaven.

4. Characteristics of People Living in Faith of What is Yet to Come 3) They are ‘all in’ when it comes to God – there is no fall back plan. “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose” Jim Elliot

5. Reasons God is Not Ashamed to be Called their God 1 st Reason 1 st Reason: God has done a wonderful work for his people by preparing a heavenly home for them.

6. Reasons God is Not Ashamed to be Called their God 2 nd Reason 2 nd Reason: His people desire the heavenly city he has prepared instead of the earthly city under Satan’s rule. God is most honored and pleased when we rejoice in what he has done for us and when we desire to receive what he has prepared for us.

7. What It Means That God is Not Ashamed to be Called Our God  It means that God is pleased to place our name with his name.  Heaven is Heaven because God is There!