Title: We Often Think about Home
1We Often Think about Home
- During the holidays memories are stirred.
2We Often Think about Home
- During the holidays memories are stirred.
- I often dream I am back home.
3We Often Think about Home
- During the holidays memories are stirred.
- I often dream I am back home.
- In time we will not be able to go back.
4We Often Think about Home
- During the holidays memories are stirred.
- I often dream I am back home.
- In time we will not be able to go back.
- God has made the home a place of love, security
and building. (Eph 528, Titus 24)
5We Often Think about Home
- (Ephesians 528 NKJV) So husbands ought to love
their own wives as their own bodies he who loves
his wife loves himself.
6We Often Think about Home
- (Titus 24 NKJV) that they admonish the young
women to love their husbands, to love their
children,
7What Going Home Means to a Child
- Security (2 Cor 1214 Mt 625-26)
8What Going Home Means to a Child
- (2 Corinthians 1214 NKJV) Now for the third
time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be
burdensome to you for I do not seek yours, but
you. For the children ought not to lay up for the
parents, but the parents for the children.
9What Going Home Means to a Child
- (Matthew 625-26 NKJV) Therefore I say to you,
do not worry about your life, what you will eat
or what you will drink nor about your body, what
you will put on. Is not life more than food and
the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the
birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap
nor gather into barns yet your heavenly Father
feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
10What Going Home Means to a Child
- There was also a security in knowing they were
there.
11What Going Home Means to a Child
- There was also a security in knowing they were
there. - How often did I call out at night for mama!?
12What Going Home Means to a Child
- Security (2 Cor 1214 Mt 625-26)
- Learning (Prov 18,10,1521)
13What Going Home Means to a Child
- (Proverbs 18 NKJV) My son, hear the instruction
of your father, And do not forsake the law of
your mother
14What Going Home Means to a Child
- (Proverbs 110 NKJV) My son, if sinners entice
you, Do not consent.
15What Going Home Means to a Child
- (Proverbs 115 NKJV) My son, do not walk in the
way with them, Keep your foot from their path
16What Going Home Means to a Child
- (Proverbs 21 NKJV) My son, if you receive my
words, And treasure my commands within you,
17What Going Home Means to a Child
- As a child my parents could do no wrong. Later
they would have to explain to me some examples
not to follow. (Ex. Smoking)
18What Going Home Means to a Child
- As a child my parents could do no wrong. Later
they would have to explain to me some examples
not to follow. (Ex. Smoking) - I still hear my parents voices in so many things.
They took the time!
19What Going Home Means to a Child
- As a child my parents could do no wrong. Later
they would have to explain to me some examples
not to follow. (Ex. Smoking) - I still hear my parents voices in so many things.
They took the time! - In that learning there was correction. (Heb
129-11)
20What Going Home Means to a Child
- (Hebrews 129-11 NKJV) Furthermore, we have had
human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them
respect. Shall we not much more readily be in
subjection to the Father of spirits and live?
10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us
as seemed best to them, but He for our profit,
that we may be partakers of His holiness.
21What Going Home Means to a Child
- 11 Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the
present, but painful nevertheless, afterward it
yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to
those who have been trained by it.
22What Going Home Means to a Child
- Security (2 Cor 1214 Mt 625-26)
- Learning (Prov 18,10,1521)
- Nourishment
23What Going Home Means to a Child
- I often remember going home when I smell
certain foods.
24What Going Home Means to a Child
- I often remember going home when I smell
certain foods. - The special times where a cake was made or I
helped in making fudge are recalled.
25What Going Home Means to a Child
- I often remember going home when I smell
certain foods. - The special times where a cake was made or I
helped in making fudge are recalled. - In all of this there was the family meal where we
could talk and learn.
26What Going Home Means to a Child
- Security (2 Cor 1214 Mt 625-26)
- Learning (Prov 18,10,1521)
- Nourishment
- Fulfillment
27What Going Home Means to a Child
- I was happy to be going home after a hard day
at school and practice.
28What Going Home Means to a Child
- I was happy to be going home after a hard day
at school and practice. - I was with people who really cared what happened
to you!
29What Going Home Means to a Child
- I was happy to be going home after a hard day
at school and practice. - I was with people who really cared what happened
to you! - Sadly there are many today who do not know this
kind of home.
30What Going Home Means to a Child
- I was happy to be going home after a hard day
at school and practice. - I was with people who really cared what happened
to you! - Sadly there are many today who do not know this
kind of home. - You are fortunate if you can still visit home
(Ex. Bear Bryant I sure wished I could call
mine!)
31What Going Home Means to an Adult
32What Going Home Means to an Adult
- Responsibility
- We recognize that we are builders and not just
takers. (Eph 523, 1 Tim 514)
33What Going Home Means to an Adult
- (Ephesians 523 NKJV) For the husband is head of
the wife, as also Christ is head of the church
and He is the Savior of the body.
34What Going Home Means to an Adult
- (1 Timothy 514 NKJV) Therefore I desire that
the younger widows marry, bear children, manage
the house, give no opportunity to the adversary
to speak reproachfully.
35What Going Home Means to an Adult
- We want to give our best here. Poor quality is
not acceptable!
36What Going Home Means to an Adult
- We want to give our best here. Poor quality is
not acceptable! - Some want to live in their childhood when they
start a home.
37What Going Home Means to an Adult
- Responsibility
(Eph 523 1 Tim 514) - Learning
38What Going Home Means to an Adult
- Only a foolish man enters marriage with a
stubborn pride! There is much to learn and the
learning never stops.
39What Going Home Means to an Adult
- Sometimes the trouble with being a parent is
that by the time you're experienced you're
usually unemployed.
40What Going Home Means to an Adult
- (1 Corinthians 82 NKJV) And if anyone thinks
that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as
he ought to know.
41What Going Home Means to an Adult
- Some of the greatest teaching we can do for our
children is to say I am sorry, I have done what
was wrong.
42What Going Home Means to an Adult
- Responsibility
(Eph 523 1 Tim 514) - Learning (1 Cor 82)
- Fulfillment
43What Going Home Means to an Adult
- The husband finds the respect he so badly needs.
(Eph 533)
44What Going Home Means to an Adult
- (Ephesians 533 NKJV) Nevertheless let each one
of you in particular so love his own wife as
himself, and let the wife see that she respects
her husband.
45What Going Home Means to an Adult
- The wife finds the love she so dearly needs. (Eph
525, 28)
46What Going Home Means to an Adult
- (Ephesians 525 NKJV) Husbands, love your wives,
just as Christ also loved the church and gave
Himself for her,
47What Going Home Means to an Adult
- (Ephesians 528 NKJV) So husbands ought to love
their own wives as their own bodies he who loves
his wife loves himself.
48What Going Home Means to an Adult
- Our strength should come from our homes! (Ex.
Home salesman and Dad.)
49What Going Home Means to an Adult
- Our strength should come from our homes! (Ex.
Home salesman and Dad.) - There is a great danger when we find fulfillment
elsewhere.
50What Going Home Means to an Adult
- Our strength should come from our homes! (Ex.
Home salesman and Dad.) - There is a great danger when we find fulfillment
elsewhere. - When I am away on a gospel meeting I have
pictures of home, they remind me of where I want
to be.
51What Going Home Means to the Christian
52What Going Home Means to the Christian
- We are described as the house or family of God.
(1 Tim 315, Heb 1019-21)
53What Going Home Means to the Christian
- (1 Timothy 315 NKJV) but if I am delayed, I
write so that you may know how you ought to
conduct yourself in the house of God, which is
the church of the living God, the pillar and
ground of the truth.
54What Going Home Means to the Christian
- (Hebrews 1019-21 NKJV) Therefore, brethren,
having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood
of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way which He
consecrated for us, through the veil, that is,
His flesh, 21 and having a High Priest over the
house of God,
55What Going Home Means to the Christian
- God is to dwell in us. (1 Cor 619-20)
56What Going Home Means to the Christian
- (1 Corinthians 619-20 NKJV) Or do you not know
that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit
who is in you, whom you have from God, and you
are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a
price therefore glorify God in your body and in
your spirit, which are Gods.
57What Going Home Means to the Christian
- Our life is a walk with God! (1 Pet 312-13)
58What Going Home Means to the Christian
- (1 Peter 312-13 NKJV) For the eyes of the LORD
are on the righteous, And His ears are open to
their prayers But the face of the LORD is
against those who do evil. 13 And who is he
who will harm you if you become followers of what
is good?
59What Going Home Means to the Christian
- The people of God
(1 Tim 315 Heb 1019-21 1 Cor 619-20) - A place to grow in the Lord
60What Going Home Means to the Christian
- We are to have a close and loving relationship.
(1 Cor 1222-27)
61What Going Home Means to the Christian
- (1 Corinthians 1222-27 NKJV) No, much rather,
those members of the body which seem to be weaker
are necessary. 23 And those members of the body
which we think to be less honorable, on these we
bestow greater honor and our unpresentable parts
have greater modesty, 24 but our presentable
parts have no need. But God composed the body,
having given greater honor to that part which
lacks it,
62What Going Home Means to the Christian
- 25 that there should be no schism in the body,
but that the members should have the same care
for one another. 26 And if one member suffers,
all the members suffer with it or if one member
is honored, all the members rejoice with it. 27
Now you are the body of Christ, and members
individually.
63What Going Home Means to the Christian
- We expect to be corrected in love. (Eph 415-16
1 Tim 42-4)
64What Going Home Means to the Christian
- (Ephesians 415-16 NKJV) but, speaking the truth
in love, may grow up in all things into Him who
is the head Christ 16 from whom the whole
body, joined and knit together by what every
joint supplies, according to the effective
working by which every part does its share,
causes growth of the body for the edifying of
itself in love.
65What Going Home Means to the Christian
- We need the association outside the services to
really know and help each other.
66What Going Home Means to the Christian
- We need the association outside the services to
really know and help each other. - When people withdraw to a select few they are
making a certain kind of home.
67What Going Home Means to the Christian
- The people of God
(1 Tim 315 Heb 1019-21 1 Cor 619-20) - A place to grow in the Lord
(1 Cor 1222-27 Eph 415-16) - Fulfillment
68What Going Home Means to the Christian
- We should really want to be with the people of
God! (Heb 1022-25)
69What Going Home Means to the Christian
- (Hebrews 1022-25 NKJV) - Let us hold fast the
confession of our hope without wavering, for He
who promised is faithful. 24 And let us
consider one another in order to stir up love and
good works, 25 not forsaking the assembling of
ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but
exhorting one another, and so much the more as
you see the Day approaching.
70What Going Home Means to the Christian
- If we do not have any of the previous two homes,
we can have the greater blessing of God and His
people. (Mk 1029-30)
71What Going Home Means to the Christian
- (Mark 1029-30 NKJV) So Jesus answered and said,
Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has
left house or brothers or sisters or father or
mother or wife or children or lands, for My sake
and the gospels, 30 who shall not receive a
hundredfold now in this time houses and brothers
and sisters and mothers and children and lands,
with persecutions and in the age to come,
eternal life.
72What Going Home Means to the Christian
- I now have family in many places and I miss them.
My riches blessing in life have been with the
people of God!
73Our Ultimate Home -- Heaven
- A place of lifted burdens
74Our Ultimate Home -- Heaven
- There will be no more tears or worries. (Rev 214)
75Our Ultimate Home -- Heaven
- (Revelation 214 NKJV) And God will wipe away
every tear from their eyes there shall be no
more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall
be no more pain, for the former things have
passed away.
76Our Ultimate Home -- Heaven
- We now will have a true rest and fulfillment.
(Heb 48-11)
77Our Ultimate Home -- Heaven
- (Hebrews 48-11 NKJV) For if Joshua had given
them rest, then He would not afterward have
spoken of another day. 9 There remains
therefore a rest for the people of God. 10 For
he who has entered His rest has himself also
ceased from his works as God did from His. 11
Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest,
lest anyone fall according to the same example of
disobedience.
78Our Ultimate Home -- Heaven
- A place of lifted burdens
(Rev 214 Heb 48-11) - A place of joyous worship
79Our Ultimate Home -- Heaven
- We should all know the joy of true worship! (Jn
423-24) - (John 423-24 NKJV) But the hour is coming, and
now is, when the true worshipers will worship the
Father in spirit and truth for the Father is
seeking such to worship Him. 24 God is Spirit,
and those who worship Him must worship in spirit
and truth. - It will involve the true fulfillment of our
existence in a praise of God. (Rev 59-13) - (Revelation 59-13 NKJV) And they sang a new
song, saying You are worthy to take the scroll,
And to open its seals For You were slain, And
have redeemed us to God by Your blood Out of
every tribe and tongue and people and nation,
10 And have made us kings and priests to our
God And we shall reign on the earth. 11 Then
I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels
around the throne, the living creatures, and the
elders and the number of them was ten thousand
times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands,
12 saying with a loud voice Worthy is the
Lamb who was slain To receive power and riches
and wisdom, And strength and honor and glory and
blessing! 13 And every creature which is in
heaven and on the earth and under the earth and
such as are in the sea, and all that are in them,
I heard saying Blessing and honor and glory and
power Be to Him who sits on the throne, And to
the Lamb, forever and ever!
80Our Ultimate Home -- Heaven
- We should all know the joy of true worship! (Jn
423-24) - (John 423-24 NKJV) But the hour is coming, and
now is, when the true worshipers will worship the
Father in spirit and truth for the Father is
seeking such to worship Him. 24 God is Spirit,
and those who worship Him must worship in spirit
and truth. - It will involve the true fulfillment of our
existence in a praise of God. (Rev 59-13) - (Revelation 59-13 NKJV) And they sang a new
song, saying You are worthy to take the scroll,
And to open its seals For You were slain, And
have redeemed us to God by Your blood Out of
every tribe and tongue and people and nation,
10 And have made us kings and priests to our
God And we shall reign on the earth. 11 Then
I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels
around the throne, the living creatures, and the
elders and the number of them was ten thousand
times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands,
12 saying with a loud voice Worthy is the
Lamb who was slain To receive power and riches
and wisdom, And strength and honor and glory and
blessing! 13 And every creature which is in
heaven and on the earth and under the earth and
such as are in the sea, and all that are in them,
I heard saying Blessing and honor and glory and
power Be to Him who sits on the throne, And to
the Lamb, forever and ever!
81Our Ultimate Home -- Heaven
- (Revelation 59-13 NKJV) And they sang a new
song, saying You are worthy to take the scroll,
And to open its seals For You were slain, And
have redeemed us to God by Your blood Out of
every tribe and tongue and people and nation,
10 And have made us kings and priests to our
God And we shall reign on the earth. 11 Then
I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels
around the throne, the living creatures, and the
elders and the number of them was ten thousand
times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands,
82Our Ultimate Home -- Heaven
- 12 saying with a loud voice Worthy is the
Lamb who was slain To receive power and riches
and wisdom, And strength and honor and glory and
blessing! 13 And every creature which is in
heaven and on the earth and under the earth and
such as are in the sea, and all that are in them,
I heard saying Blessing and honor and glory and
power Be to Him who sits on the throne, And to
the Lamb, forever and ever!
83Our Ultimate Home -- Heaven
- A place of lifted burdens
(Rev 214 Heb 48-11) - A place of joyous worship
(Jn 423-24 Rev 59-13) - A place of a great reunion
84Our Ultimate Home -- Heaven
- Do you have a loved one who dies with a real hope
of heaven? You are blessed.
85Our Ultimate Home -- Heaven
- Do you have a loved one who dies with a real hope
of heaven? You are blessed. - It is sad to see one die and leave their family
with little hope. (1 Thess 413)
86Our Ultimate Home -- Heaven
- (1 Thessalonians 413 NKJV) But I do not want
you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those
who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others
who have no hope.
87Our Ultimate Home -- Heaven
- We will see Jesus! (Phil 320-21)
88Our Ultimate Home -- Heaven
- (Philippians 320-21 NKJV) For our citizenship
is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for
the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who will
transform our lowly body that it may be conformed
to His glorious body, according to the working by
which He is able even to subdue all things to
Himself.
89Our Ultimate Home -- Heaven
- A place of lifted burdens
(Rev 214 Heb 48-11) - A place of joyous worship
(Jn 423-24 Rev 59-13) - A place of a great reunion
(1 Thess 413 Phil 320-21) - A place to long for
90Our Ultimate Home -- Heaven
- We should think about this till we long for the
day. (Phil 112-13)
91Our Ultimate Home -- Heaven
- (Philippians 112-13 NKJV) But I want you to
know, brethren, that the things which happened to
me have actually turned out for the furtherance
of the gospel, 13 so that it has become evident
to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest,
that my chains are in Christ
92Our Ultimate Home -- Heaven
- One day we can really go home forever!
93Our Ultimate Home -- Heaven
- One day we can really go home forever!
- Do you have a home to go to? (Lk 169-10)
94Our Ultimate Home -- Heaven
- (Luke 169-10 NKJV) And I say to you, make
friends for yourselves by unrighteous mammon,
that when you fail, they may receive you into an
everlasting home. 10 He who is faithful in
what is least is faithful also in much and he
who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in
much.