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Home in the scriptures….  Jesus is in the home of Simon the Leper, reclining at the table. – Mark 14:3-9

Mark 14:3-9  While He was in Bethany at the home of Simon the leper, and reclining at the table, there came a woman with an alabaster vial of very costly perfume of pure nard; and she broke the vial and poured it over His head. But some were indignantly remarking to one another, “Why has this perfume been wasted? For this perfume might have been sold for over three hundred denarii, and the money given to the poor.” And they were scolding her. But Jesus said, “Let her alone; why do you bother her? She has done a good deed to Me. For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them; but you do not always have Me. She has done what she could; she has anointed My body beforehand for the burial. Truly I say to you, where the gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will be spoken of in memory of her.

Home in the Scriptures…  Jesus is in the home of Simon the Leper, reclining at the table. – Mark 14:3-9  In Simon’s home, Jesus healed his Mother-in-law and stayed until morning. – Luke 4:38-39, 42

Luke 4:38-39,42  Then He got up and left the synagogue, and entered Simon’s home. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked Him to help her. And standing over her, He rebuked the fever, and it left her; and she immediately got up and waited on them.  When day came, Jesus left and went to a secluded place…

Home in the Scriptures…  Jesus in the home of Simon the Leper…reclining at the table – Mark 14:3-9  In Simon’s home, Jesus healed his Mother-in-law and stayed until morning. – Luke 4:38-29, 42  Martha welcomed Jesus into her home. – Luke 10:38

Luke 10:38  Now as they were traveling along, He entered a village; and a woman named Martha welcomed Him into her home.

Home in the Scriptures…  Jesus is in the home of Simon the Leper, reclining at the table. – Mark 14:3-9  In Simon’s home, Jesus healed his Mother-in-law and stayed until morning. – Luke 4:38-39, 42  Martha welcomed Jesus into her home. – Luke 10:38  The apostles left their homes to follow Jesus. – Luke 18:28

Luke 18:28  Peter said, “Behold, we have left our own homes and followed You.”

Home in the Scriptures…  Jesus is in the home of Simon the Leper, reclining at the table. – Mark 14:3-9  In Simon’s home, Jesus healed his Mother-in-law and stayed until morning. – Luke 4:38-39, 42  Martha welcomed Jesus into her home. – Luke 10:38  The apostles left their homes to follow Jesus. – Luke 18:28  The apostles went to their homes at a time of mourning. – John 20:10

John 20:1-10  Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came early to the tomb, while it was still dark, and saw the stone already taken away from the tomb. So she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him.” So Peter and the other disciple ran ahead faster than Peter and came to the tomb first; and stooping and looking in, he saw the linen wrappings lying there; but he did not go in. And so Simon Peter also came, following him, and entered the tomb; and he saw the linen wrappings lying there, and the face-cloth which had been on His head, not lying with the linen wrappings, but rolled up in a place by itself. So the other disciple who had first come to the tomb then also entered, and he saw and believed. For as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead. So the disciples went away again to their own homes.

Home in the Scriptures…  The early church  “Day by day…breaking bread from house to house, they were taking their meals together with gladness and sincerity of heart,” – Acts 2:46  “And every day in the temple and from house to house, they kept right on preaching and teaching Jesus as the Christ.” – Acts 5:42

Home in the Scriptures…  The early church  Acts 2:46  Acts 5:42  Saints were gathered together praying in Mary’s house. – Acts 12:11-12

Acts 12:11-12  When Peter came to himself, he said, “Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent forth His angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting.” And when he realized this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was also called Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying.

Home in the Scriptures…  The early church  Acts 2:46  Acts 5:42  Saints were gathered together praying in Mary’s house. – Acts 12:11-12  Paul and Silas are in the home of the Phillippian jailer. – Acts 16:32-34

Acts 16:32-34  And they spoke the word of the Lord to him together with all who were in his house. And he took them that very hour of the night and washed their wounds, and immediately he was baptized, he and all his household. And he brought them into his house and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, having believed in God with his whole household.

How do we change our thinking about home?  See heaven as a motivation, not just a destination – II Corinthians 5:1-10

II Corinthians 5:1-10  For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven, inasmuch as we, having put it on, will not be found naked. For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life. Now He who prepared for us for this very purpose is God, who gave to us the Spirit as a pledge. Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord – for we walk by faith, not by sight – we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

How do we change our thinking about home?  See heaven as a motivation, not just a destination – II Corinthians 5:1-10  Long for that building from God. (vs 1)

How do we change our thinking about home?  See heaven as a motivation, not just a destination – II Corinthians 5:1-10  Long for that building from God. (vs 1)  Recognize that home here is absent from the Lord. (vs 6)

How do we change our thinking about home?  See heaven as a motivation, not just a destination – II Corinthians 5:1-10  Long for that building from God. (vs 1)  Recognize that home here is absent from the Lord. (vs 6)  Make home with the Lord your preference. (vs 8)

How do we change our thinking about home?  See heaven as a motivation, not just a destination – II Corinthians 5:1-10  Long for that building from God. (vs 1)  Recognize that home here is absent from the Lord. (vs 6)  Make home with the Lord your preference. (vs 8)  Our ambition: be pleasing to the Lord. (vs 9)

How do we change our thinking about home?  See heaven as a motivation, not just a destination – II Corinthians 5:1-10  Think like a stranger. – Hebrews 11:13-16

Hebrews 11:13-16  All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own. And indeed if they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return. But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for He has prepared a city for them.

How do we change our thinking about home?  See heaven as a motivation, not just a destination – II Corinthians 5:1-10  Think like a stranger. – Hebrews 11:13-16  Characters of great faith viewed themselves as strangers and exiles here on earth. (vs 13)

How do we change our thinking about home?  See heaven as a motivation, not just a destination – II Corinthians 5:1-10  Think like a stranger. – Hebrews 11:13-16  Characters of great faith viewed themselves as strangers and exiles here on earth. (vs 13)  They desired a better country, a heavenly one. (vs 16)

How do we change our thinking about home?  See heaven as a motivation, not just a destination – II Corinthians 5:1-10  Think like a stranger. – Hebrews 11:13-16  Characters of great faith viewed themselves as strangers and exiles here on earth. (vs 13)  They desired a better country, a heavenly one. (vs 16)  God prepared a city for them. (vs 16)

How do we change our thinking about home?  See heaven as a motivation, not just a destination – II Corinthians 5:1-10  Think like a stranger. – Hebrews 11:13-16  Know for certain that we won’t find perfection here. – Genesis 3:16-19

Genesis 3:16-19 To the woman He said, “I will greatly multiply Your pain in childbirth, In pain you will bring forth children; Yet your desire will be for your husband, And he will rule over you.” Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’: Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it All the days of your life. “Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field; By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Til you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return.”

How do we change our thinking about home?  See heaven as a motivation, not just a destination – II Corinthians 5:1-10  Think like a stranger. – Hebrews 11:13-16  Know for certain that we won’t find perfection here. – Genesis 3:16-19  The world became imperfect when sin entered the world.

John 14:1-4  Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And you know the way where I am going.