Title: People heading for a better homeland
Do you know the boarder Choi Hee-jun called?
“Life is a traveler's road/ Where did it come from and where are you going/ Like a cloud flowing/ On the road to wandering/ Let's not leave it alone/ Let's not leave it alone/ Let's not leave it alone/ Life is a stranger's road/ Like a river flowing/ It flows aimlessly// Life is naked/ Do you come empty-handed and go empty-handed?
? It's a very sad song Of course, life is a stranger. Abraham and the ancestors of Israel lived as “foreigners” or “strangers” even after they went to the land of Canaan, which God had promised.
I. Why did they call them ‘strangers’ even in the Promised Land?
? They went to the promised land of God, but they did not have a single pyeong of land.
Example) When Abraham's wife died. ? What then flowed from Abraham's eyes?
? there is this song “Life is like a mist/ How long will you live/ When the beautiful sun shines, it fades away” is a sad song.
? Ex) Life is for people who have to wash their hands and get up while playing.
? Ex) Why do national migrations occur every holiday? ancestral priest? filial piety? home visit? All right. But it was wrong. Because of the homeland lost in the creative enemy. The feeling of loss cannot be filled until you find your hometown. Even if I visit my hometown ten times.
? life is just a stranger Until they find their original homeland.
II. Why did the ancestors of Israel not return to their homeland?
? Let's read verse 15. “If they had thought of the country from which they came, they would have had a chance to return.” Yet they did not return. Even when it's hard and lonely.
? Why? Let's read verse 16. “They now long for a better home, which is in heaven.”
① Their homeland is heaven.
② Why did you long for the heavenly hometown so much?
? It's a better hometown
? There is my eternal home.
? Hymn 290:2 “Even if a cold wind blows in the wilderness/ The road ahead is not far away/ Even if a blizzard blows over the mountains/ My hometown, Heaven, to return”
Ⅲ. Things to give to those who are heading for a better homeland1. God is their God.
? Let's read verse 16. “Therefore, God was not ashamed to be called their God” ? God is proud and pleased.
2. He has prepared a place to live in heaven.
? 16H “He has prepared a city for them.”
① In that country, there is nothing to worry about because of where to live.
② There is no one to persecute for believing in that country. Ex) Lock the door and don't open it
③ Things that are not in the country:
Let's not go back to the old things. Let's live longing for a better hometown. Let's live our life according to God's liking.