1. Pine Grove Church of Christ – 03/07/10

2. In What Direction Are You Looking?
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3. In What Direction Are You Looking?
Examples of the Wrong Direction

4. Example of the Wrong Direction
Lot’s Wife – Genesis 19:15-26
(17) “Do not look behind you”
(26) “his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt”
Luke 17:31-32 – “Remember Lot’s wife”
Luke 9:57-62 – “No one… looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God”

5. Example of the Wrong Direction
The Children of Israel – Numbers 11:4-6
II Timothy 4:9-10 – “Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world”
I John 2:15-17 – “Do not love the world or the things in the world”
II Peter 2:20-22 – “a dog returns to his own vomit”

6. In What Direction Are You Looking?
Examples of the Wrong Direction
Examples of the Right Direction

7. Examples of the Right Direction
Abraham
Hebrews 11:8-10 – “For waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God”
Moses
Hebrews 11:24-27 – “esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt”
Paul
Philippians 3:4-14 – “reaching forward to those things which are ahead”

8. In What Direction Are You Looking?
Examples of the Wrong Direction
Examples of the Right Direction
Our Direction

9. Our Direction Colossians 3:1-3 – “Set your mind on things above”
What do we have to reach forward to?
John 14:1-6 – “I go to prepare a place for you”
I Peter 1:3-4 – “has begotten us again to a living hope”

10. Our Direction
Focusing on this hope makes it so much easier to endure life’s problems.
II Corinthians 4:8-9 – “we are hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed”
Why could they say this?
II Corinthians 4:17-18 – “we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen”

11. Conclusion In what direction are you looking?
In your life, what are you striving for?
Are you sights set on heaven?

12. Pine Grove Church of Christ – 03/07/10