"Some Things You Should Know"

Romans 8:28–31 AV

28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. 29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. 31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

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This is not Your Home!

Genesis 47:8–9 AV

8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou? 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

I am 130 years old.....

Few

Evil (Bad, Stressful, and Painful)

Pilgrimage - (my Life Span = Sojoun)

Peter writes to the scattered

This is not Your Home!

1 Peter 1:1–2 AV

1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

Strangers (foreigners)

Elect (Chosen) :

Ephesians 1:3–4 AV

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: 4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

You have been chosen by God your Father....and his election was not based on anything you had done…because you were even on the scene when he selected you.

He didn’t choose you because he saw what you would be or do....He Selection for you was based on His Grace, Mercy, and Love.

Heaven

Hebrews 11:13-16

Hebrews 11:13–16 AV

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: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

The declared they were foreigners....pilgrims..

SOMETIMES BAD STUFF HAPPENS TO STRANGERS

Get Separated from one another

The get incarcerated…unjustly

Sometimes they might even suffer lost of life..

He promised to be with us…while we traveled...

We can call on him

Psalm 39:12 AV

12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Isaiah 43:1–2 AV

1 But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. 2 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

I Am The Lord Thy God

I am The Holy One of Israel

I am Thy Savior

The little stuff don’t here don’t matter as much....

The Injustice

The Discrimination

The Hatred...

The Inequity

I’m taking them to a place

Day and no Night

No Night, No Death, No Tears

No Affliction, No Suffering, No Tears..

Nothing can go Wrong....No more evil…No more Sin..

Jacob said

Jacob looked at his sons

Joseph is not

Simeon is not

Benjamin

“All these things are against me”

3 Times I was beaten with rods

1x they stoned me

3 times i been in shipwreck

in perlrs

cold

naked

hungry..

Bonds and Afflictions await me…But none of the these things moved me

ALL THings Working together for the GOod of them..That Love LOrd

James 1:3–4 AV

3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

Philippians 1:6 AV

6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

My Blood…Still Covers

My Power

My Word

My Grace

My Mercy

What shall we say then, If God be for Us, who can Be against us?