This World Is Not Our Home
This World Is Not Our Home
There’s a reason you don’t feel at home in this world. Like a tent, this world is just a temporary dwelling place. Your current situation is a pass-through town on the way to the final destination. In today’s episode of Real Life TV, Pastor Jack reminds us that our present circumstances are but a vapor, and one day we will experience our real home.
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well listen if you haven’t figured it out by now this world is not our home it’s certainly true for the Christian but maybe you’re watching this program right now and you’re not a Christ follower have you been noticing that the things of this world are absolutely convoluted and strange and even seemingly falling apart well biblically speaking everything’s falling together but the fact of the matter is everything in this world is temporary the Bible says so in fact you listen you don’t
have to believe the Bible to know that that’s true the second law of Thermodynamics enthropy is the fact that all things are going from an ordered state to a chaotic state in other words the brand new car you just bought it’s already fallen apart the nut you just screwed down onto the bolt it’s automatically starting to loose itself well friends listen so many metaphors in the Bible speak about life in its brevity like this it’s like a vapor of smoke um it’s like time running fast it’s uh as though a wisp of TH or uh
smoke and it’s all over and the Bible tells us if you live to be 70 years of age that’s amazing but if you were to hit 80 then your life is filled with pain suffering and sorrow thank God this is not our home this this world is swallowed up by sin but friends listen compared to Eternity this life is extremely brief and also this Earth is so brief that this is not our full-time residency here listen we won’t be here long in the meantime do you know Christ well let’s grab our Bibles and let’s get
to know him more as we look at a message this world is not our [Applause] home the Bible says in Ephesians 1:3 says blessed be the god in father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the Heavenly places in Christ just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world okay this is getting deep this is beyond time this is before time ever existed that we should be holy and Without Blame before him in love having predestined us to adoption as Sons by Jesus Christ to himself in other words Jesus is the
agent he is the mediator for that to happen according to the good pleasure of his will God has a purpose he has a Redemptive purpose and he has a plan and when was that plan Before Time Ever began listen to me God didn’t make up a Redemption plan after Adam and Eve fumbled at the one yard line he already had the plan before there was ever a creation listen listen to this maybe we’ve got this quote I love this this is from Dr Donald grey barnhouse our lives are not the haphazard results of the moving of blind
chance nor the throwing down of cosmic dice all that comes to pass in our lives is according to the perfect Eternal plan of the all wise all powerful all loving father the fact that a man has been chosen according to God’s Eternal purpose immediately surrounds him with the protection or the protective care of the Holy Spirit nothing can touch the man unless it has passed through the approved process of the will of God no situation that comes to you can overpower you in Christ you got to take a picture of that that is awesome and
very true God’s purpose for your life will not be twisted it will not be thwarted Christian can can we take can we say it this way before you were ever born before Jupiter Saturn Mercury ever existed God had his plan for your life we have now just been arriving at it some of you are arriving at this eternal truth today right now God’s got a plan for your life and he’s had it forever how long how long’s forever I can’t even say the word forever right longer than forever because we’re so
puny we can only think like this like that on a line God is eternal you cannot explain that to me all we know is that there’s no time there so when did God think this up he always had you in his thought well listen do you understand something we’re arriving at things we’re arriving he already knew oh my goodness listen if you’re not a Christian become one today seriously God knows exactly the future he knows exactly what’s going to happen you don’t you think you especially if you’re young you really think you do you
don’t that’s part of being deceived as a young person but as you move forward why not become a follower of Jesus knowing this that whatever he’s got for me it’s good and it’s for a purpose and so when I arrive at it when I come to that moment I can have great peace knowing this is all according to the plan of God come and follow me are his words Isaiah chapter uh 54:1 17 says no weapon formed against you shall prosper think of that for a moment no weapon formed against me will prosper you know where my mind goes
immediately with that uh I warned you guys a couple weeks ago that there’s all kinds of 6 to 10 6 to 10 false uh social media sites uh regarding me created every week fake we have a company now that works to try to destroy this stuff it’s so bad now that we just listen we just got done writing a book and it took a year and a half to write because it’s written by writing and what did we just find out we just found out that AI wrote the book in a couple of days and they are imposters out there being sold right now with my
name on it and my face on it from me and it’s not me and it’s Ai and now we’ve discovered that there are messages where I am speaking to you and it’s not me I’m not saying what is being I mean it’s saying something that I never said it’s I listen this is how the enemy works it’s so bad that my thoughts are we’re going to pull the social media plug completely that’s what I would do but then there’d be millions of people who are saying hey we’re not hey what happened to the messages we’re watching
from Tokyo what’s the deal so we’re torn think about it whatever listen I I’m going to say it publicly I’m going to say it again I say it all the time it says it on my social media I will never ask to meet with you that was not me inviting you to meet you in Glendale at Starbucks that was probably a murderer a stalker and I will never ask you for money and people say I can’t believe believe Jack’s doing this You Don’t Know Jack I will never ask so just be careful we live in these very deceptive days no weapon formed
against you shall prosper every tongue which Rises up against you in judgment you shall condemn this is the heritage of the Servants of the Lord and their righteousness is from me says God isn’t that awesome we’re it’s not of us we’re just following him you ever seen a little kid like you know little kid walking behind his dad he feels all really big and protected he’s walking behind his dad and his little kids walking along he couldn’t protect himself if he had to but he can’t see
that all he can see is his dad that’s us we’re looking at our dad and we’re protected under his shadow it’s incredible he’s awesome the second thing is this church is Heaven is increasing in us it’s increasing every day that you wake up and live as a Believer Heaven is increasing inside of you didn’t Jesus say you see Jack that’s really weird to say excuse me Jesus said it he said the Kingdom of Heaven is inside of you if you’re a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ where’s the Holy Spirit but
inside of you that’s I always have to to control myself when I think about the indwelling of the Holy Spirit who would have thought of such a thing for thousands of years no pagans ever thought that they could offer up a God or gods that would say hey guess what we’ll live inside of you Jesus comes along and says I’m going to leave you I’m leaving don’t worry I’m going to send the Holy Spirit and he’s going to live inside of every believer inside of you he’s going to set up camp
inside of you and uh if he does that you’ll know it because he’ll begin to work from the inside out and he’ll do his amazing work and the kingdom increasing within you you think more of the Kingdom you want to do for the kingdom you want to serve the kingdom Lord what is it that you’d have me to do so here we go this is awesome this is how it increases how do I grow what should I expect what’s happening is God really going to finish his work with me oh yeah he has to not because he has to he has
to because he wanted to watch this verse 29 for whom he fornew wow circle the word for new you’re going to want to remember this he also predestined circle the word predestined to be conformed to the image of his son this is the result that he might be the firstborn among many Brethren because Jesus Christ is the first one resurrected from the dead to live forever the son Son of God his power is able to conform us into his resurrected image and how can we be sure of that because God’s forn knowledge based upon predestination is what starts
the whole ball rolling watch this what you have to watch never ever in the Bible is there ever the term predestination applied to the Damned or to The Condemned or to those in hell not once there’ll be those who will tell you that it does it does not all predestination is based on for knowledge and it’s all in the positive are you hearing me it doesn’t speak to the predestination of those who are inheriting hell it doesn’t say I’m not saying people don’t go to hell they go to hell but it’s not by the basis of God
saying eeny meeny miny mo you get to go to heaven and you don’t go nope the forn knowledge of God is Not stuff that he learned a long time ago and thereby predestined people are you hearing me this is deep stuff hang on I’m not even sure I can articulate it right because God is eternal and there is no time and because he is God he cannot learn anything he knows everything in fact in deep theology the nature of God is known as is the decree of God it’s a functionality of God’s person decree with a c decree and it means that God
knows all things that do happen and he knows the results of things that never did happen does that fry your brain a little bit so watch this when you think oh God picked me because I’m good wrong oh God is just throwing Cosmic dice too bad you don’t get to go with us wrong God who cannot learn who’s Eternal his forn knowledge is he knows the exact decision that you would make if you heard the gospel yes or no to it before time ever began in this physical world Listen he’s known it as long as he has
been God and how long has that been and we can hardly Define forever can we so watch this here you are in the 21st century and in all of eternity past God’s forn knowledge knew that when the gospel was presented to you you would say yes he knew that he didn’t learn it he knew it based on that watch this follow based on that God gave you the ability to say yes or to see the truth who gets the praise who gets the Adoration who gets the glory god Who provided the way of of Salvation God did but if the gospel message comes to
you and you reject it because God made you a free moral agency you can choose he built That Into You you choose I’ll give you choice you choose if you reject it then who’s responsible for rejecting it you are so in heaven we’re all going to be going like this thank you God for getting us here and people who are in hell are hating themselves for never listening for never accepting God doesn’t learn anything he knows how it’s going to be in advance he doesn’t bend your arm he knows and right now for us we’re
arriving at God’s plans based on forn knowledge never mention the word predestination without first mentioning forn knowledge you got that it’s very important because there’ll be those who will seek to bamboozle you and to get that turned around don’t fall for it seriously Jeremiah 31 Jeremiah 31:3 this might make more sense we read this verse a lot but now makes more sense perhaps the Lord has appeared of old to me saying yes I have loved you with a what how long is that therefore with loving kindness I
have drawn you God is saying to you yeah you need me you don’t need a church you don’t need an organization you don’t need a membership card God is saying I am drawn you I’m drawing you to me I want you to come to me why because I’ve loved you with an everlasting love you friend listen you run out on that you’re running out on the greatest lover of your soul that you’ll ever know and God is saying you come to me and and you would say nope that’s on you that’s terrible why would
you do that you shouldn’t do that John chapter 1 I love this John chapter 1 verse 43 this is going to get me fired up I ask for your forgiveness in advance the following day Jesus Yeshua wanted to go to Galilee and he found Phillip and said to him follow me now philli was from Betha the city of Andrew and Peter Phillip found Nathaniel Don’t You Love Philip he just all over the place and said to him excuse me listen we have found him whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote Jesus of Nazareth the
son of Joseph stop right there first century Jews who knew their Old Testament better than Jews today that when they met Jesus what was their response this is the guy Moses talked about he’s the one the prophets spoke about translation this is the guy the old testament’s all about he’s the one and Nathaniel said to him can anything good come out of Cal Nazareth sorry Phillip said to him come and see Jesus saw watch this Jesus saw Nathaniel coming toward him and said of him this is Jesus speaking behold an
Israelite in indeed in whom there is no deceit really that’s awesome Nathaniel said to him watch how do you know me Jesus answered and said to him before philli called you when you were under the Fig Tree I saw you this gets to be really I think incredibly romantic for the soul Nathaniel answered and said to him rabbi you are the Son of God you are the king of Israel Jesus answered and said to him because I said to you I saw you under the Fig Tree do you believe you will see greater things than these watch this and he said to him most
assuredly I say to you Hereafter you shall see Heaven open and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the son of man why what in the world is going on here Jesus quotes an Old Testament event where Jacob lays down to take a rest and he has a vision and Jacob sees a ladder that extends into heaven and from Heaven angels are ascending and descending regarding the ministry of the Messiah translation Nathaniel welcome aboard I love that heaven is calling to us Heaven’s calling all the time moreover whom he
predestined these he also called is God calling you is God inviting you into his family listen have you ever listen listen we’re almost done have you ever thought for a moment that you you’d love to have your sins forgiven have you ever thought for a moment you’d like to start life all over again what if all that can be washed away now today without it being put in the headlines or called out in any other way where God says give to me now and I’ll rescue you from it before it pulls you down you have sinned against me the
almighty God I’m Eternal I’m God and I’m pure and perfect but listen between you and I there’s sin and I went to the Cross to remove that sin factor from your life and here’s the thing if you hear me calling out to you you are receiving from me my invitation accept it receive it and to whom who are called these he also Justified Justified great meaning of a word it means to reveal to show righteousness to declare righteous to announce someone’s AC quiddle or being Vindicated but the best way to remember Justified means
just if I’d never sinned that’s what it means God looks at you and says I look at you now just as if you have never sinned he does this one man born of a virgin lives his life sent from God dies on the cross according to the scriptures resurrected from the dead turns about turns out to be the Eternal God made incarnate made in flesh the Bible says for you and I to inherit heaven in [Applause] eternity well listen it’s obvious this world is not our home but if we’ve read our Bibles we are so glad to hear that
listen think about the magnitude of what Christ Jesus has done for you done for me done for us it’s amazing God came from his world into our world that he might buy us a ticket by his own blood so that we might be able to enter Heaven listen you and I no matter who you you can be an atheist right now watching this show and I hope you are there’s one thing you and I have to agree with we know that there’s right and that there’s wrong the reason why we know that because the Bible says he’s written
eternity in our hearts only God is the reason why we can Define right from wrong and God is right and we are wrong God is good and we are not God Saves we us who are lost so listen we want to live with him in heaven forever Heaven why would this world show indications of some of the most beautiful sunsets or the most wonderful settings or scenery to the human eye beautifully wild because there’s a heaven to Come Those are little samples of what’s to come but will you be there with me will you be there with many of
us will you be there I want you to have the opportunity right now no matter where you’re at to make a decision right now for Jesus Christ he died on the cross for you my friend and rose again from the dead and you would simply pray Lord Jesus forgive me for my sins I Repent I turn from my sins and I put my faith in you Lord thank you for dying for me on the cross and being Resurrected from the dead exactly as the Bible said you would be I give my life to you thank you Lord Jesus I pray and if you’ve prayed that prayer let us know
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