Longing for Our True Home in Christ
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"The premise of the series is this, that we kind of all sense on some level, at least at times, this is not the way it was supposed to be. The world was not meant to be this harsh, difficult place with so much pain, so much struggle, so much chaos, and we sense that if there's a God and a good God, that he would want his people to live on a much higher plane, a much happier life, even a euphoric existence." [00:44:42] (27 seconds)
"But what if the truth is, as warm and good as some of our experiences of home are, and they are, what if every home we've ever had is just a sign? It's pointing. It's trying to get our attention on to something. It's trying to get our attention on to something. It's trying to get something else. In other words, what if every home that we have in this life, it's just a stop in the journey?" [00:53:20] (25 seconds)
"It's just a small, imperfect fragment of our real home. In other words, what if we have a real home, we've never seen it before, and it's our real home. It's the perfect match. It's the perfect fit. It's like nothing that we could clear-mindedly put together ourselves, but when we see it, we will know that's our real home. It's the perfect match. It's the perfect fit. It's the perfect fit. It's the perfect fit. It's the perfect fit. It's the perfect fit. That's exactly what I always wanted and didn't exactly know. I finally feel completely at home." [00:54:37] (32 seconds)
"Do not love this world or the things it offers you. These things it offers us, we are susceptible and vulnerable to them. For when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. It's saying, man, if you can love this world as it is, God's love is not in you because he does not love things the way they are. There's too much pain. There's too much evil. For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, a pride in our achievements and possessions." [01:02:39] (30 seconds)
"When God says that something is sin, he is trying to protect us. God doesn't make up arbitrary rules just to see if we'll jump when he says jump and run when he says run. He designed us. He knows exactly what builds us and develops us. He knows what tears us down and deteriorates us. When he urges us to abstain from something, it's because he loves us. We do the same thing with our kids. We tell them, oh, no, no, no, no, don't do that. That's going to bring so much trouble on you. Don't do that. Do this instead. This is going to bring so much trouble on you. Don't do that. Do that. going to be good for you it's the same way with god so these sinful desires we have to do battle with them because they will dull our spiritual senses which make us more prone to fall into yet further sin which is always self-destructive and usually socially destructive to others as well so we're to live in this life like like we're people in exile like foreigners we're just kind of passing through we're here but this is not our real home and we should not think of it as our real home because if we do we will put down roots and every day that we live we'll be getting a little closer to leaving our home behind you follow what i'm saying you see people they get get my age especially and they're like oh i don't have many more days to be in my home i'm going to have to leave it all behind unless we believe that god has our home and we're just passing through here we're going to cling to our home here and the closer we get to the end of life's journey the more fearful it will be the more uncomfortable it will be as opposed to i'm getting closer to my home i'm about to leave my home behind you you track it with me you don't understand when we get too attached when this world is all it is when this life is all we can get out of it we're not trusting the promises of god we will fear leaving this home because we're not looking forward to the real home so we're either getting close to leaving behind our home depending on how our mindset is or we're getting closer to going to our home okay you look puzzled are you clear is everybody clear on that okay all right let me go on what is it about this place that causes this yearning so so we're meant for a singular someone in a singular some place it's a city it's a it's a country it's a different place that god is building establishing but what is it about this place that makes us desire it and we may not be clear about it if i think about the things you like about your home well you like i said earlier you feel a little safer you feel a little secure the things you want are there you know where things are at everything makes you just feel a little bit better you relax a little bit you have some peace at least on some days depending on who's in the house um and what's going on but what is it about this place that causes this yearning the place that causes this yearning the psalmist gives us a lot of tips it says the lord it says lord i'd love the house what does it say where where you live the singular someone you see the singular some place is attractive to us because the singular someone is there the lover of our soul is in this place you cannot i cannot we cannot ever ever really be at home until we are face to face with our creator again i and i'm" [01:08:19] (0 seconds)
"On some level, all of us want that. We want to go back to the garden. We want Eden. We want face-to-face with God. That's home. It's where you live, the place where your glory dwells. When we read about the glory of God, we get confused. We think, well, that kind of means the radiation of light that comes out of his being, or it means his power. Well, yeah, kind of, sort of. But when you really study it scripturally, the glory of God, it's his character. It's the beauty that this almighty being, and he is almighty. He can do anything he wants. What a temptation that would be to us. But he can do anything that he wants, and nobody can call him down. He is almighty, omnipotent, omniscient. He can do whatever he wants, but he doesn't do whatever he wants. His almighty power is bridled by his sacrificial love. He only does what is good. He only does what is loving, and that's what makes him not the scariest person in the universe, but the most powerful. But the safest, the one that we can always run toward in any condition we're in, and never have to cringe and run away from, as long as we're humble-hearted and repentant in his presence." [01:11:53] (66 seconds)
"Seeing the beauty of the Lord, when we finally see him face-to-face and all the filters. All of us are removed from what's in here, and we can actually apprehend his glory. It says in 1 John, it says someday, it says we're going to know him just like he knows us. When we see him with clarity, we're just going to be blown away. It's going to overwhelm us. The overwhelming beauty of his heart, of his character, it's going to fill us with euphoric joy. The singular place, our real home is where he is, and that's what's going to make it so wonderful. We're going to be safe. We're going to be protected. We're going to be provided for perfectly forever. His will is going to be done in heaven, on earth, forever and ever. One more passage that reiterates this thing about the presence of the Lord, Psalm 23, such a famous psalm. Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord. Your home, my home, your real home, my real home. Everything we're trying to accumulate and put into our existing homes, it's really this. We want to be in the house of the Lord. We want his house to be our house. We just don't know it because we don't think it's feasible, but it is feasible. We just have to be willing to wait." [01:14:43] (79 seconds)
"Jesus is going to shock us when we see our dwellings. You may be a person that, maybe you love the ocean. You know, you love seashore. You love waves. Maybe you're a mountain person. You love seeing mountains. Maybe you like lakes. Maybe you like rivers. Maybe you have certain color schemes that you love and we all have differences. Every detail of what comes out of your heart, your deepest core desires, you and I will be shocked. Jesus has created a place that has everything. It's going to be instantaneous. It's going to be absolutely familiar to every one of us. We're going to know it's our home. We're going to know we've always been connected to this place somehow. It's going to be very specifically for you, for me, for our unique desires. And it's a real tangible place. We've got to get that in our heads. It's tangible. It's real." [01:19:54] (54 seconds)
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"But what if the truth is, as warm and good as some of our experiences of home are, and they are, what if every home we've ever had is just a sign? It's pointing. It's trying to get our attention on to something. It's trying to get our attention on to something. It's trying to get something else. In other words, what if every home that we have in this life, it's just a stop in the journey?" [00:53:20] (25 seconds)
"It's just a small, imperfect fragment of our real home. In other words, what if we have a real home, we've never seen it before, and it's our real home. It's the perfect match. It's the perfect fit. It's like nothing that we could clear-mindedly put together ourselves, but when we see it, we will know that's our real home. It's the perfect match. It's the perfect fit. It's the perfect fit. It's the perfect fit. It's the perfect fit. It's the perfect fit. That's exactly what I always wanted and didn't exactly know. I finally feel completely at home." [00:54:37] (32 seconds)
"Do not love this world or the things it offers you. These things it offers us, we are susceptible and vulnerable to them. For when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. It's saying, man, if you can love this world as it is, God's love is not in you because he does not love things the way they are. There's too much pain. There's too much evil. For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, a pride in our achievements and possessions." [01:02:39] (30 seconds)
"When God says that something is sin, he is trying to protect us. God doesn't make up arbitrary rules just to see if we'll jump when he says jump and run when he says run. He designed us. He knows exactly what builds us and develops us. He knows what tears us down and deteriorates us. When he urges us to abstain from something, it's because he loves us. We do the same thing with our kids. We tell them, oh, no, no, no, no, don't do that. That's going to bring so much trouble on you. Don't do that. Do this instead. This is going to bring so much trouble on you. Don't do that. Do that. going to be good for you it's the same way with god so these sinful desires we have to do battle with them because they will dull our spiritual senses which make us more prone to fall into yet further sin which is always self-destructive and usually socially destructive to others as well so we're to live in this life like like we're people in exile like foreigners we're just kind of passing through we're here but this is not our real home and we should not think of it as our real home because if we do we will put down roots and every day that we live we'll be getting a little closer to leaving our home behind you follow what i'm saying you see people they get get my age especially and they're like oh i don't have many more days to be in my home i'm going to have to leave it all behind unless we believe that god has our home and we're just passing through here we're going to cling to our home here and the closer we get to the end of life's journey the more fearful it will be the more uncomfortable it will be as opposed to i'm getting closer to my home i'm about to leave my home behind you you track it with me you don't understand when we get too attached when this world is all it is when this life is all we can get out of it we're not trusting the promises of god we will fear leaving this home because we're not looking forward to the real home so we're either getting close to leaving behind our home depending on how our mindset is or we're getting closer to going to our home okay you look puzzled are you clear is everybody clear on that okay all right let me go on what is it about this place that causes this yearning so so we're meant for a singular someone in a singular some place it's a city it's a it's a country it's a different place that god is building establishing but what is it about this place that makes us desire it and we may not be clear about it if i think about the things you like about your home well you like i said earlier you feel a little safer you feel a little secure the things you want are there you know where things are at everything makes you just feel a little bit better you relax a little bit you have some peace at least on some days depending on who's in the house um and what's going on but what is it about this place that causes this yearning the place that causes this yearning the psalmist gives us a lot of tips it says the lord it says lord i'd love the house what does it say where where you live the singular someone you see the singular some place is attractive to us because the singular someone is there the lover of our soul is in this place you cannot i cannot we cannot ever ever really be at home until we are face to face with our creator again i and i'm" [01:08:19] (0 seconds)
"On some level, all of us want that. We want to go back to the garden. We want Eden. We want face-to-face with God. That's home. It's where you live, the place where your glory dwells. When we read about the glory of God, we get confused. We think, well, that kind of means the radiation of light that comes out of his being, or it means his power. Well, yeah, kind of, sort of. But when you really study it scripturally, the glory of God, it's his character. It's the beauty that this almighty being, and he is almighty. He can do anything he wants. What a temptation that would be to us. But he can do anything that he wants, and nobody can call him down. He is almighty, omnipotent, omniscient. He can do whatever he wants, but he doesn't do whatever he wants. His almighty power is bridled by his sacrificial love. He only does what is good. He only does what is loving, and that's what makes him not the scariest person in the universe, but the most powerful. But the safest, the one that we can always run toward in any condition we're in, and never have to cringe and run away from, as long as we're humble-hearted and repentant in his presence." [01:11:53] (66 seconds)
"Seeing the beauty of the Lord, when we finally see him face-to-face and all the filters. All of us are removed from what's in here, and we can actually apprehend his glory. It says in 1 John, it says someday, it says we're going to know him just like he knows us. When we see him with clarity, we're just going to be blown away. It's going to overwhelm us. The overwhelming beauty of his heart, of his character, it's going to fill us with euphoric joy. The singular place, our real home is where he is, and that's what's going to make it so wonderful. We're going to be safe. We're going to be protected. We're going to be provided for perfectly forever. His will is going to be done in heaven, on earth, forever and ever. One more passage that reiterates this thing about the presence of the Lord, Psalm 23, such a famous psalm. Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord. Your home, my home, your real home, my real home. Everything we're trying to accumulate and put into our existing homes, it's really this. We want to be in the house of the Lord. We want his house to be our house. We just don't know it because we don't think it's feasible, but it is feasible. We just have to be willing to wait." [01:14:43] (79 seconds)
"Jesus is going to shock us when we see our dwellings. You may be a person that, maybe you love the ocean. You know, you love seashore. You love waves. Maybe you're a mountain person. You love seeing mountains. Maybe you like lakes. Maybe you like rivers. Maybe you have certain color schemes that you love and we all have differences. Every detail of what comes out of your heart, your deepest core desires, you and I will be shocked. Jesus has created a place that has everything. It's going to be instantaneous. It's going to be absolutely familiar to every one of us. We're going to know it's our home. We're going to know we've always been connected to this place somehow. It's going to be very specifically for you, for me, for our unique desires. And it's a real tangible place. We've got to get that in our heads. It's tangible. It's real." [01:19:54] (54 seconds)
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