Journeying Home: Embracing Our Eternal Destination
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"You don't have to worry about anything. Holy. Holy. Santo is a beautiful word in Spanish for holy. If you've ever worshiped in a Spanish church, you will hear that word. Many times. And it's. something about some, often in the Latino community, there's believers, there's just a degree of reverence and respect that often can be missing in some of our non-Latino congregations. I appreciate the Lord just teaching us to reverence him. He's a holy, holy santo, santo, so he's here, and it's always a good day at the vineyard when Jesus decides to come to church." [00:31:23] (45 seconds)
"Where your treasure is, that's where your heart will be. So basically, giving is a spiritual discipline to help untie or sever allegiances to materialism that become a trap to keep believers from looking forward to being with Jesus in eternity. And so there'll come a moment when Christ returns, and we won't have an opportunity to disentangle at that point. You're either going to be ready to go meet the Lord, or you're not going to be ready." [00:34:33] (32 seconds)
"All right, we're on this series called Stepping Into the Unknown, which the more you walk with Jesus, it's normal. It's normal to go, I'm not sure what God's doing. I just, I'm waiting on him to show me. I know I'm learning. I want him to guide me. I don't know where I'm going always. I don't know how I'm going to get there. Have you ever heard this phrase, I used it a lot in the past. The journey is the destination." [00:37:55] (28 seconds)
"I want to talk to you about home this morning, and I want you to know where it is. I want to talk to you about not knowing the next step. I want you to know the last step, because if you don't know the last step, and if you don't know where you're going, it doesn't really matter what your journey is here, because if you don't know where you're going, you'll never get home." [00:41:50] (26 seconds)
"so we're uh we're looking for another place that's home that god's put in us as a as believers a homing device called the holy spirit who lives in us to say this isn't it there's more there's something better don't don't don't put your roots down so deep here that you can't move anywhere because there's something better. There's going to be a going home day. There's going to be a day that you say goodbye to this earth. And if you don't know where home is, if you haven't figured out yet what's eternal that has foundations, that's not going to get blown away with a flood. It's going to get wiped out with a war. It's not going to get destroyed with a stock market crash. The only place that's secure and known is Adam. Abraham wasn't like, well, I hope it's real. He said, I'm going. I'm putting all. Is faith risky? It'll cost you everything." [00:50:09] (63 seconds)
"To trust God for the future means you've got to put all your chips into the center of the table and say, I'm all in. Because I'm going where God is. I'm not going to make my home where he isn't. Because we're not going to make our home where he isn't. We're not going to work. You know what? If you take God out of anywhere, you know what you have? Hell. I don't care if you live in a big, beautiful home. If God's not in it, you'll be hell. There's no peace. There's no joy. There's lots of people living in really nice homes that are miserable, that commit suicide. They're bankrupt spiritually. They think that they finally got everything they wanted to get, and they're still empty. Why? Because this isn't home." [00:51:11] (42 seconds)
"Why did the birds fly thousands of miles to lay their eggs in the same place every year? Because they have a homing device that God puts in them, an instinct that's in them. They know the salmon know they're going to swim up that stream, whatever it takes to get up there, because that's where they're going to multiply and lay eggs. How do the sea turtles and the whales travel thousands of miles to have their babies in the same place? Well, evolution has come along. That's the lesson. That's the lesson. That's the lesson. That's the lesson. That's the load of crap. People that believe that, they'll believe anything. Sell them something that you don't own, because they're not smart. It's God -designed. It's supernatural, and he's built a city that's going to be an incredible city. So what do I want to do?" [00:51:49] (46 seconds)
"one chapter over, chapter 12. The chapter opens with this admonition that we're surrounded with a great cloud of witnesses. Those are the saints and believers that have gone on before us. But then he compares the Old Testament giving of the law and how terrible it was as far as the strictness and the rigidness and the terror if you do something wrong or touch the mountain, you know. And he says, no, we're not coming to that. He gives an alternative. So let's pick up in chapter 12, and this is a tour, a guided tour, to the heavenly city. He begins in verse 22. But you have come." [00:55:42] (42 seconds)
"to Mount Zion. Now that's a term used for where Jerusalem was built. So it had several hills. One of them was called Zion, and that's where they built the house of David. But then they also had the hill of Moriah. That's where Abraham sacrificed Isaac. That's where the temple was built. And so you've got this, he's comparing to the old with something totally new. He said, you've come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God. Now, let me just start with this word, you have come. It has the meaning in the tense, in the Greek language, is that you've come and you're there, but you're still coming because you're going to be there in a much fuller way. So when you come to Jesus, you've come into the city. You'll see that in the Greek language. You've come into the city. You've come into the city. that in a little bit. You become a citizen of heaven." [00:56:24] (64 seconds)
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"Where your treasure is, that's where your heart will be. So basically, giving is a spiritual discipline to help untie or sever allegiances to materialism that become a trap to keep believers from looking forward to being with Jesus in eternity. And so there'll come a moment when Christ returns, and we won't have an opportunity to disentangle at that point. You're either going to be ready to go meet the Lord, or you're not going to be ready." [00:34:33] (32 seconds)
"All right, we're on this series called Stepping Into the Unknown, which the more you walk with Jesus, it's normal. It's normal to go, I'm not sure what God's doing. I just, I'm waiting on him to show me. I know I'm learning. I want him to guide me. I don't know where I'm going always. I don't know how I'm going to get there. Have you ever heard this phrase, I used it a lot in the past. The journey is the destination." [00:37:55] (28 seconds)
"I want to talk to you about home this morning, and I want you to know where it is. I want to talk to you about not knowing the next step. I want you to know the last step, because if you don't know the last step, and if you don't know where you're going, it doesn't really matter what your journey is here, because if you don't know where you're going, you'll never get home." [00:41:50] (26 seconds)
"so we're uh we're looking for another place that's home that god's put in us as a as believers a homing device called the holy spirit who lives in us to say this isn't it there's more there's something better don't don't don't put your roots down so deep here that you can't move anywhere because there's something better. There's going to be a going home day. There's going to be a day that you say goodbye to this earth. And if you don't know where home is, if you haven't figured out yet what's eternal that has foundations, that's not going to get blown away with a flood. It's going to get wiped out with a war. It's not going to get destroyed with a stock market crash. The only place that's secure and known is Adam. Abraham wasn't like, well, I hope it's real. He said, I'm going. I'm putting all. Is faith risky? It'll cost you everything." [00:50:09] (63 seconds)
"To trust God for the future means you've got to put all your chips into the center of the table and say, I'm all in. Because I'm going where God is. I'm not going to make my home where he isn't. Because we're not going to make our home where he isn't. We're not going to work. You know what? If you take God out of anywhere, you know what you have? Hell. I don't care if you live in a big, beautiful home. If God's not in it, you'll be hell. There's no peace. There's no joy. There's lots of people living in really nice homes that are miserable, that commit suicide. They're bankrupt spiritually. They think that they finally got everything they wanted to get, and they're still empty. Why? Because this isn't home." [00:51:11] (42 seconds)
"Why did the birds fly thousands of miles to lay their eggs in the same place every year? Because they have a homing device that God puts in them, an instinct that's in them. They know the salmon know they're going to swim up that stream, whatever it takes to get up there, because that's where they're going to multiply and lay eggs. How do the sea turtles and the whales travel thousands of miles to have their babies in the same place? Well, evolution has come along. That's the lesson. That's the lesson. That's the lesson. That's the lesson. That's the load of crap. People that believe that, they'll believe anything. Sell them something that you don't own, because they're not smart. It's God -designed. It's supernatural, and he's built a city that's going to be an incredible city. So what do I want to do?" [00:51:49] (46 seconds)
"one chapter over, chapter 12. The chapter opens with this admonition that we're surrounded with a great cloud of witnesses. Those are the saints and believers that have gone on before us. But then he compares the Old Testament giving of the law and how terrible it was as far as the strictness and the rigidness and the terror if you do something wrong or touch the mountain, you know. And he says, no, we're not coming to that. He gives an alternative. So let's pick up in chapter 12, and this is a tour, a guided tour, to the heavenly city. He begins in verse 22. But you have come." [00:55:42] (42 seconds)
"to Mount Zion. Now that's a term used for where Jerusalem was built. So it had several hills. One of them was called Zion, and that's where they built the house of David. But then they also had the hill of Moriah. That's where Abraham sacrificed Isaac. That's where the temple was built. And so you've got this, he's comparing to the old with something totally new. He said, you've come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God. Now, let me just start with this word, you have come. It has the meaning in the tense, in the Greek language, is that you've come and you're there, but you're still coming because you're going to be there in a much fuller way. So when you come to Jesus, you've come into the city. You'll see that in the Greek language. You've come into the city. You've come into the city. that in a little bit. You become a citizen of heaven." [00:56:24] (64 seconds)
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