No More a Stranger
19 Now therefore
Why are we lonely?
Strangers in our world
13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them,
Our own heart is a mystery
9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked:
Alienation from God
11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; 12 That at that time ye were
God is concerned with every isolating experience
God is not ashamed to be called their God
13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. 15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. 16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly:
God knows the Heart
9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? 10
Ephesians 2 - No More a Stranger
We once were strangers
11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; 12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
Jesus made the difference
The blood of Jesus
13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are
The Spirit of Jesus
14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath
No more strangers
19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; 20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; 21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: 22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
If you feel like you don’t belong in the promises of God
God Cares about the Isolation Experience
God started the whole kingdom with sojourners
12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. 13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; 14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
He gives the lonely a family
6 God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
