We Often Think about

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We Often Think about Home

• During the holidays memories are stirred.

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We Often Think about Home

• During the holidays memories are stirred.
• I often dream I am back home.

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We 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.

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We 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)

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We 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.

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We Often Think about Home

• (Titus 24 NKJV) that they admonish the young
  women to love their husbands, to love their
  children,

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What Going Home Means to a Child

• Security (2 Cor 1214 Mt 625-26)

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What 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.

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What 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?

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What Going Home Means to a Child

• There was also a security in knowing they were
  there.

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What 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!?

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What Going Home Means to a Child

• Security (2 Cor 1214 Mt 625-26)
• Learning (Prov 18,10,1521)

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What 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

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What Going Home Means to a Child

• (Proverbs 110 NKJV) My son, if sinners entice
  you, Do not consent.

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What 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

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What Going Home Means to a Child

• (Proverbs 21 NKJV) My son, if you receive my
  words, And treasure my commands within you,

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What 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)

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What 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!

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What 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)

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What 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.

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What 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.

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What Going Home Means to a Child

• Security (2 Cor 1214 Mt 625-26)
• Learning (Prov 18,10,1521)
• Nourishment

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What Going Home Means to a Child

• I often remember going home when I smell
  certain foods.

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What 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.

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What 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.

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What Going Home Means to a Child

• Security (2 Cor 1214 Mt 625-26)
• Learning (Prov 18,10,1521)
• Nourishment
• Fulfillment

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What Going Home Means to a Child

• I was happy to be going home after a hard day
  at school and practice.

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What 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!

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What 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.

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What 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!)

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What Going Home Means to an Adult

• Responsibility

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What Going Home Means to an Adult

• Responsibility
• We recognize that we are builders and not just
  takers. (Eph 523, 1 Tim 514)

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What 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.

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What 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.

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What Going Home Means to an Adult

• We want to give our best here. Poor quality is
  not acceptable!

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What 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.

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What Going Home Means to an Adult

• Responsibility
  (Eph 523 1 Tim 514)
• Learning

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What 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.

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What 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.

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What 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.

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What 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.

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What Going Home Means to an Adult

• Responsibility
  (Eph 523 1 Tim 514)
• Learning (1 Cor 82)
• Fulfillment

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What Going Home Means to an Adult

• The husband finds the respect he so badly needs.
  (Eph 533)

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What 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.

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What Going Home Means to an Adult

• The wife finds the love she so dearly needs. (Eph
  525, 28)

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What 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,

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What 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.

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What Going Home Means to an Adult

• Our strength should come from our homes! (Ex.
  Home salesman and Dad.)

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What 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.

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What 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.

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What Going Home Means to the Christian

• The people of God

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What Going Home Means to the Christian

• We are described as the house or family of God.
  (1 Tim 315, Heb 1019-21)

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What 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.

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What 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,

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What Going Home Means to the Christian

• God is to dwell in us. (1 Cor 619-20)

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What 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.

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What Going Home Means to the Christian

• Our life is a walk with God! (1 Pet 312-13)

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What 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?

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What 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

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What Going Home Means to the Christian

• We are to have a close and loving relationship.
  (1 Cor 1222-27)

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What 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,

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What 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.

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What Going Home Means to the Christian

• We expect to be corrected in love. (Eph 415-16
  1 Tim 42-4)

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What 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.

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What Going Home Means to the Christian

• We need the association outside the services to
  really know and help each other.

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What 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.

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What 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

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What Going Home Means to the Christian

• We should really want to be with the people of
  God! (Heb 1022-25)

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What 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.

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What 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)

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What 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.

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What 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!

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Our Ultimate Home -- Heaven

• A place of lifted burdens
  

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Our Ultimate Home -- Heaven

• There will be no more tears or worries. (Rev 214)

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Our 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.

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Our Ultimate Home -- Heaven

• We now will have a true rest and fulfillment.
  (Heb 48-11)

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Our 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.

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Our Ultimate Home -- Heaven

• A place of lifted burdens
  (Rev 214 Heb 48-11)
• A place of joyous worship

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Our 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!

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Our 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!

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Our 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,

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Our 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!

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Our 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

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Our Ultimate Home -- Heaven

• Do you have a loved one who dies with a real hope
  of heaven? You are blessed.

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Our 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)

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Our 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.

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Our Ultimate Home -- Heaven

• We will see Jesus! (Phil 320-21)

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Our 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.

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Our 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

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Our Ultimate Home -- Heaven

• We should think about this till we long for the
  day. (Phil 112-13)

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Our 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

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Our Ultimate Home -- Heaven

• One day we can really go home forever!

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Our Ultimate Home -- Heaven

• One day we can really go home forever!
• Do you have a home to go to? (Lk 169-10)

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Our 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.