September 12, 2021

On The Road Again: Finding Our Way Back Home

Preacher: Series: On The Road Again Scripture: Genesis 2:15–17

I saw a play in Sydney, and in the notes they had this quote from Bono that said: “What kind of hole exists in the heart of a person when they need tt there is a pao have 70,000 people scream, ‘I love you, ‘ in order to feel fulfilled?” But there is a part of me that wants to please, to be all things to all people. - Hugh Jackman


Matthew 11:28-30


“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.” - CS Lewis


“We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien


Eden - Garden - Center

Genesis 2:15-17
Genesis 3:23-24

The Temples in the Old Testament
- Priests would be covered in blood…slaughtering animal after animal
- So much detail: open flowers woven into the fabric, basins that look like flowers, Seraphim to GUARD AND KEEP, lampstands that look like a fruit bearing tree with branches

Hebrews 8:5; 10:1
Hebrews 9:11-12
John 1:14
John 2:19
1 Peter 2:4-5
Revelation 21:3, 22


JESUS IS THE TEMPLE, THE PRIEST and the SACRIFICE

JESUS IS THE TREE OF LIFE
…Because He died on a tree
- Acts 10:39


The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home. - CS Lewis


1.) Be honest about the wrong turns
2.) Jesus is what you are longing for
3.) Jesus says “Come unto me all who are heavy laden…I will give you rest”

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