A Homesick Community

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Matthew 11-17
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• 3 Questions
• Why was Jesus Born?
• For Whom was Jesus Born?
• What are the implications?

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• 1. Why Was Jesus Born?

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• Facing west from Californias shores,
• Inquiring, tireless, seeking what is yet
  unfound.
• Long having wanderd since, round the earth
  having wanderd,
• Now I face home again, very pleasd and joyous,
• But where is what I started for so long ago?
• And why is it yet unfound?
• - Walt Whitman, Facing West from California
  Shores

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• 1. Why Was Jesus Born?
• Section 1 (vv.2-6) Age of the Patriarchs
• God promises the wanderers a home

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• 1. Why Was Jesus Born?
• Section 2 (vv.6-12) Age of the Monarchy
• God promises the kings and his people land as
  long as they obey
• God promises to drive them out of the land if
  they disobey

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• 1. Why Was Jesus Born?
• Section 3 (vv.12-17) Age of Exile to the Age of
  Jesus
• God provides a home but they are still not
  satisfied

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• Section 3 Age of Exile to the Age of Jesus.
• God provides a home but they are still not
  satisfied
• But see, we are slaves today, slaves in the
  land you gave our forefathers so they could eat
  its fruit and the other good things it
  produces. Nehemiah 936

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• Section 3 Age of Exile to the Age of Jesus.
• God provides a home but they are still not
  satisfied
• Because of our sins, its abundant harvest
  goes to the kings you have placed over us.
  They rule over our bodies and our cattle as
  they please. We are in great distress.
  Nehemiah 937

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• Section 3 Age of Exile to the Age of Jesus.
• God provides a home but they are still not
  satisfied
• Jews felt they were still in exile

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• Section 3 Age of Exile to the Age of Jesus.
• What does it mean to be in exile? Sense of
  dissatisfaction Feeling of disaffection
  We are still in exile today

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• 1. Why Was Jesus Born?

• To put an end to the age of exile

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• 2. For Whom Did Jesus Come?

• Names on the Genealogy is not a hall of fame,
  but a hall of shame
• Abraham Unfit husband, Liar
• Judah Fornicator
• David Adulterer
• Zerubbabel Compromised Leader

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• 2. For Whom Did Jesus Come?

• For people who were predominately failures but
  had moments of glory

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• 2. For Whom Did Jesus Come?

• Dont treat the symptoms but treat the disease

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• 2. For Whom Did Jesus Come?

• We need Jesus because you and I are homesick

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• 2. For Whom Did Jesus Come?

• We need Jesus because you and I are homesick
• But our citizenship is in heaven. And we
  eagerly await a Savior from there,
  the Lord Jesus Christ.
  Philippians 320

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• 2. For Whom Did Jesus Come?

• We need Jesus because you and I are homesick
• If the world satisfies me, perhaps it is
  because I was made for another
  world. C.S. Lewis

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• 3. What are the implications?

Embrace Hardships
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• 3. What are the implications?

Embrace Hardships

• Adversities are natural

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• 3. What are the implications?

Embrace Hardships

• Adversities are promised
• Consider it all joy, my bretheren, when
  you encounter various trials, James
  12

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• 3. What are the implications?

Obtain Resurrection Hope
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• 3. What are the implications?

Obtain Resurrection Hope

• Power of Resurrection gives new life to the
  old
• I want to know Christ and the power of
  his resurrection Philippians 310