The Greatest Journey "...and I will be his God and he shall be My son."
Do you have a favorite place you love to visit or see, a place that has special meaning for You? Why Is that?
It is because those places are where you met someone or something which impacted your life!
Every Life Journey Has Three Components A Beginning & an End The Places Along the Way A Final Destination
1 “Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, From your family And from your father’s house, To a land that I will show you. 2 I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” 4 So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five…
…years old when he departed from Haran. 5 Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they departed to go to the land…
…of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan. 6 Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, as far as the terebinth tree of Moreh. And the Canaanites were then in the land.” Genesis 12:1-6
A Beginning & an End A Beginning Abraham: Haran Moses: Midian Paul: The Damascus Road
A Beginning & an End A End They All Ultimately Died “And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment...” Hebrews 9:27
The Places Along the Way God & Others Always Speak & Meet Us in Places Jacob at Bethel Joshua Crossing the Jordan
Places Can Become Dangerous “Places are only Holy and meaningful because of who was encountered in that space. Places become significant, even Holy, when they mediate persons where they are created by relationship” Andrew Root
A Final Destination Beyond the End of the Journey is an Ultimate Destination
A Final Destination The Bible Teaches that will either be Heaven or Hell
A Final Destination Heaven is Full of Relationship!
“And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes;
…there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away. He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son.” Revelation 21:3-4,7
A Final Destination Hell is a Place of Ultimate Alienation & Isolation
“The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.” Matthew 13:41-42
The Greatest Journey A Ultimate Place The Cross
The Greatest Journey Leading to the Ultimate Person Jesus Christ
The Greatest Journey Who Leads to the Ultimate Relationship God In Heaven
So… Will You this day Decide to take the Greatest Journey” The Journey of Faith!
The Greatest Journey "...and I will be his God and he shall be My son."