Heaven is Our Home

Dr. Tracie Hines · 2024-11-11T02:17:46.179Z

WATCH SERVICE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnG7KVvbkFs NOTES: In the World, Not of the World - Part 1 “Heaven is Our Home” August 29 and September 1, 2024 “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.” John 15:18-21 (ESV) John 17:13-23 (ESV) For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:8-9 (ESV) Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. Romans 12:2 (ESV) So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise. Galatians 3:24-29 (ESV) Church Service Breakdown and Devotional Date: August 29 and September 1, 2024 Message Title: In the World, Not of the World - Part 1 (“Heaven is Our Home”) John 15:18-21 (ESV) Verse 18: “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.” Verse 19: “If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. ” Verse 20: “Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.” Verse 21: “But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.” Meaning: These verses highlight the inevitability of opposition from the world for those following Christ. Jesus warns that believers will face hostility because they are chosen and set apart, echoing His own experience of persecution. John 17:13-23 (ESV) Verse 13: “But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.” Verse 14: “I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.” Verse 15: “I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.” Verse 16: “They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.” Verse 17: “ Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.” Verse 18: “As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.” Verse 19: “And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.” Verse 20: “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,” Verse 21: “that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.” Verse 22: “The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,” Verse 23: “I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.” Meaning: In this passage, Jesus is praying to the Father for His disciples, expressing His desire for their joy, protection from evil, and sanctification in truth. He emphasizes their mission in the world, paralleling His own. Additionally, Jesus prays for future believers, desiring unity among them as a testament of divine love and mission, reflecting the profound oneness between Jesus and the Father. Isaiah 55:8-9 (ESV) Verse 8: “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.” Verse 9: “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Meaning: This passage reveals God's transcendence and the distinctiveness of His wisdom and plans compared to human understanding, emphasizing trust in His divine perspective. Romans 12:2 (ESV) Verse 2: “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind , that by testing you may discern what is the will of God , what is good and acceptable and perfect. ” Meaning: This verse urges believers to resist

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