When worship remembers the past, it praises God for God’s work in history whereby he has already begun the restoration of the world. When worship anticipates the future, it looks for the culmination of all God’s works in the complete transformation of the world, the consummation of God’s work in Jesus Christ by the power of the Spirit, whereby worship witnesses to the victory of Christ over all the powers and principalities and proclaims he now rules over all creation as the Lord of the universe.
