There’s a question at the heart of All Saints’ Day. It’s not a question we usually ask out loud in church, but it sits quietly in the background of our prayers and hymns, in the candles and the names spoken at the altar.

The question is this:
Do we still believe in the future?

Do we still trust that God is not done with the world—that the story is moving somewhere, that there will come a day when what is wrong will be made right?

The prophet Daniel had a vision of such a day. He saw the old powers, the beasts who ruled by violence and fear, stripped of their dominion. He saw the Kingdom handed over to “one like a Son of Man”—a figure who embodies God’s own authority and justice. Daniel saw the vindication of God’s people, the beginning of something entirely new.

That vision isn’t meant to be a fantasy. It’s a promise. It’s a way of saying that God has not abandoned us to the empires of this world. The dominions and powers that seem so strong—whether they wear crowns or camouflage, whether they march in parades or sit behind glowing screens—those powers are not eternal. Their time will end. God’s Kingdom will not.

Jesus takes up that same hope when he says, “Blessed are you who are poor now, for yours is the Kingdom of God.” It’s a declaration, not a wish. It’s the future spoken in the present tense.

And that brings us back to the question:
Do we believe that future is real?
Do we trust it enough to live as if it’s coming?

For many of us, that’s not an easy “yes.” We look around and see a world that feels stuck. We hear wars and rumors of wars, children still go hungry, the powerful still get their way. There’s not much, on the surface, to base hope on.

But Jesus invites us to see more deeply than the surface.

You can view the sermon directly here.

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