Home for Christmas, Part 2

Through Jesus’ perfect life, death, and resurrection, we are all offered a way home into a relationship with God. We are promised an eternal home in heaven to live with God forever. As followers of Jesus, we know that this earth is not our ultimate home, but how are we supposed to live now, on this planet, in our temporary home in light of that knowledge? How do we live life with an eternal perspective?

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
MercyMe

Homecoming
Bethel Music

O Come to the Altar
Elevation Worship

How do we live life with an eternal perspective?

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Colossians 3:1
If then you have been raised with Christ…

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Living With Eternal Perspective
1. Live and grow in the knowledge of who you are in Jesus

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1 Peter 2:9-10
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

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Colossians 3:1-4
…seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

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Living With Eternal Perspective
2. Shift your focus.

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1 Corinthians 2:11-12
For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.

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Colossians 3:5-9
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices.

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Living With Eternal Perspective
3. Live as family, counter to the culture in front of us.

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Colossians 3:12-17
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.