2030: This World Is Not Our Home

This world is not our home.

We are citizens of Heaven. Our life is so much more than our time on Earth, it goes on forever. What we do in our time on Earth has huge implications on our time in eternity.

Colossians 3:1-2 – “Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

Matthew 6:9-10 – “This, then, is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, 10 your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Ambassadors – “an accredited diplomat sent by a country as its official representative to a foreign country.”

Eph 6:20, 2 Cor 5:20

What does this perspective do?

It realigns our priorities
It resizes our problems

It realigns our priorities

Our focus should be on the resurrection, looking forward to eternity. Jesus should be THE PRIORITY that aligns all other priorities in our lives. When we live in the light of eternity, our priorities become more in line with God's.

1 Corinthians 15:32 (NLT) – “And what value was there in fighting wild beasts—those people of Ephesus[a]—if there will be no resurrection from the dead? And if there is no resurrection, “Let’s feast and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

Pastor John Wesley – “I judge all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity.

It resizes our problems

Jn 16:33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

Pray, fast, worship, spend time in the Word, serve, be still.

2 Corinthians 4:14, 16-18 –…”we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you to himself….16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”

Psalm 39:4 – “Show me, LORD, my life’s end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting my life is.”