Looking to Jesus Part 58 - Palm Sunday
SERMON MEDITATION
Looking to Jesus, Part 58
“Home Where You Belong”
Hebrews 13:10-14
In 1983, the Good Humor Company launched one of the most successful add campaigns in the history of advertising. The catch phrase “What would you do for a Klondike Bar?” has become a cultural icon. People insert all kinds of negative, shameful, and embarrassing behaviors in response to the desire for ice-cream covered in chocolate. My favorite? “I will never be able to run for president because of what I did for a Klondike bar."
Human love becomes bondage when it drives us to seek approval from the person we long to please. The nod of approval becomes our focus rather than loving God and obeying His law. In exchange for this love, all varieties of sin and compromise seem like a small price to pay.
Bondage is broken, freedom reigns, and joy overflows when Jesus’ followers leave behind the love of this world and the desire for its approval. We find our ultimate motivation in knowing that “this world is not our permanent home; we are looking forward to a home yet to come.”
In Galatians 1:10, the Apostle Paul declared,
“Obviously, I’m not trying to win the approval of people, but of God.
If pleasing people were my goal, I would not be Christ’s servant.”
So, what would you do to please Jesus Christ?
Looking forward to sharing worship with you this Sunday,
Pastor Steve
HOME FELLOWSHIP DISCUSSION GUIDE
Home Fellowship Discussion Guide
Week of March 26th
Q: In your lifetime, where have you lived the longest? Was it a good place to be? Why or why not?
Q: What vacation spot have you enjoyed the most?
READ FIRST: Hebrews 13:10-14
Q: According to verse 10, what kind of altar do we have? Why can we have access to this altar when the Levitical priests can’t?
Q: Why did Jesus have to suffer “outside the city gates?”
Q: What “reproach” or “disgrace” did Jesus have to bear? How do we “bear the reproach that He bore?”
Q: To “go to Him outside the camp” is a metaphor for leaving behind our love for this world and the desire for its approval. What does this mean to you? In what areas have you left your love for the world behind? (I John 2:15)
Q: Do you look forward to “the city that is to come?” Does it seem real to you that this will be your eternal home? What do you anticipate with the most joy concerning your eternal home with Jesus?