June 30, 2024
Guest Speaker

Genesis 12:1 (NASB)
…the Lord said to Abram,
“Go forth from your country,
And from your relatives
And from your father’s house… .”

Hebrews 11:8-10 (NRSV)
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to set out for a place that he was to receive as an inheritance; and he set out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he stayed for a time in the land he had been promised, as in a foreign land, living in tents… . For he looked forward to the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

Hebrews 11:24-27 (NRSV)
By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called a son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. He considered abuse suffered for the Christ to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to the reward. By faith he left Egypt, unafraid of the king’s anger… .

Philippians 2:6-8 (NIV)
…being in very nature God,did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!

Hebrews 13:12-14 (NRSV)
…Jesus also suffered outside the city gate in order to sanctify the people by his own blood. Let us then go to him outside the camp and bear the abuse he endured. For here we have no lasting city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.

Hebrews 11:13-16 (NRSV)
All of these died in faith without having received the promises, but from a distance they saw and greeted them. and They confessed that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth, for people who speak in this way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. If they had been thinking of the land that they had left behind, 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; indeed, he has prepared a city for them.