Sermon Notes:
Far From Home
Pastor Alan Hannah
16Each year every man in Israel must celebrate these three festivals: the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Harvest, and the Festival of Shelters… [Deuteronomy 16:16]
41Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Passover festival. 42When Jesus was twelve years old, they attended the festival as usual. [Luke 2:41-42]
1I took my troubles to the LORD; I cried out to him, and he answered my prayer. 2Rescue me, O LORD, from liars and from all deceitful people. 3O deceptive tongue, what will God do to you? How will he increase your punishment? 4You will be pierced with sharp arrows and burned with glowing coals. 5How I suffer in far-off Meshech. It pains me to live in distant Kedar. 6I am tired of living among people who hate peace. 7I search for peace; but when I speak of peace, they want war! [Psalm 120:1-7]
You don’t have to love where you are to know you were made for somewhere else.
1I took my troubles to the LORD; I cried out to him, and he answered my prayer. 2Rescue me, O LORD, from liars and from all deceitful people. [Psalm 120:1-2]
3O deceptive tongue, what will God do to you? How will he increase your punishment? 4You will be pierced with sharp arrows and burned with glowing coals. [Psalm 120:3-4]
5How I suffer in far-off Meshech. It pains me to live in distant Kedar. 6I am tired of living among people who hate peace. [Psalm 120:5-6]
7I search for peace; but when I speak of peace, they want war! [Psalm 120:7]
7And work for the peace and prosperity of the city where I sent you into exile. Pray to the LORD for it, for its welfare will determine your welfare. [Jeremiah 29:7]
14For Christ himself has brought peace to us. He united Jews and Gentiles into one people when, in his own body on the cross, he broke down the wall of hostility that separated us. [Ephesians 2:14]
9God blesses those who work for peace, for they will be called the children of God. [Matthew 5:9]
Am I carrying peace, or am I carrying war?
2There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? 3When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am. [John 14:2-3]