Message preached May 2012 Draws from Hebrews, Romans. Our life is seen as Pilgrim's Journey Home.

1. Pilgrim’s Creed
Living with our heavenly home in mind

2. ① Born in Honduras, yet US citizen
② Abe, the master pilgrim
③ Moe, not dancing like an Egyptian
④ Aliens on earth
Where we
come from
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3. Philippians 3:20-21
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we
await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will
transform our lowly body to be like his glorious
body, by the power that enables him even to
subject all things to himself. (ESV)

4. Living with our
backpacks ready
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5. 2003-2009

6. ① Divine Desert Directions
② God was their Wagon-Master
Living with our
backpacks ready
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7. Numbers 9:16-18
So it was always: the cloud covered it by day
and the appearance of fire by night. And
whenever the cloud lifted from over the tent,
after that the people of Israel set out, and in
the place where the cloud settled down, there
the people of Israel camped. At the command
of the Lord the people of Israel set out, and at
the command of the Lord they camped. As long
as the cloud rested over the tabernacle, they
remained in camp.

8. ① Fleeing from Famine
② Experiencing the Extraordinary, still skeptic
Enduring
Rough Roads
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9. 1 Corinthians 10:6-11
Now these things took place as examples for us,
that we might not desire evil as they did. Do not
be idolaters as some of them were; as it is
written, "The people sat down to eat and drink
and rose up to play." We must not indulge in
sexual immorality as some of them did, and
twenty-three thousand fell in a single day. We
must not put Christ to the test, as some of them
did and were destroyed by serpents, nor
grumble, as some of them did and were
destroyed by the Destroyer. Now these things
happened to them as an example, but they were
written down for our instruction, on whom the
end of the ages has come. (ESV)

10. Romans 8:18-22
In hope he believed against hope, that he should
become the father of many nations, as he had
been told, "So shall your offspring be." He did
not weaken in faith when he considered his own
body, which was as good as dead (since he was
about a hundred years old), or when he
considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb. No
distrust made him waver concerning the
promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith
as he gave glory to God, fully convinced that
God was able to do what he had promised. That
is why his faith was “counted to him as
righteousness.” (ESV)

11. ① Fleeing from Famine
② Experiencing the Extraordinary, still skeptic
③ The early Christians | Romans 8:18
④ The late Christians | Psalms 34:18-19
Enduring
Rough Roads
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12. Heart towards
home
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13. Home

14. Hebrews 11:13-16
These all died in faith, not having received the
things promised, but having seen them and
greeted them from afar, and having
acknowledged that they were strangers and
exiles on the earth. For people who speak thus
make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.
If they had been thinking of that land from
which they had gone 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 for them a city. (ESV)

15. ① Patriarchs, Pilgrims on the Promised Land
② Joshua and Caleb waiting to return to their
inheritance
Heart towards
home
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16. ① Keep on running | Hebrews 12:1-3
② Keep on fighting | 2 Timothy 4:6-8
③ Stay faithful | Matthew 25:21
④ Don’t lose hope | Hebrews 10:35-39
Arriving
Home
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17. Hebrews 10:35-39
Therefore do not throw away your confidence,
which has a great reward. For you have need of
endurance, so that when you have done the
will of God you may receive what is promised.
For, "Yet a little while, and the coming one will
come and will not delay; but my righteous one
shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my
soul has no pleasure in him." But we are not of
those who shrink back and are destroyed, but
of those who have faith and preserve their
souls. (ESV)

18. Pilgrim’s Creed
Are you living the
?