"The Way of the Cross Leads Home." This world is not the Christian's home, we are merely passing through as pilgrims and sojourners. Paul told the Philippians that "our citizenship is in heaven." We as Christians are always looking for that eternal home, created by God and awaiting all those in Christ Jesus.
4. Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of
the years of my pilgrimage are one
hundred and thirty years; few and evil have
been the days of the years of my life, and
they have not attained to the days of the
years of the life of my fathers in the days of
their pilgrimage.”
5. Hebrews 11:13
These all died in faith, not having
received the promises, but having seen
them afar off were assured of them,
embraced them and confessed that they
were strangers and pilgrims on the
earth.
6. 1Peter 2:11,12
11 Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and
pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts
which war against the soul,
7. 1Peter 2:11,12
12 having your conduct honorable
among the Gentiles, that when they
speak against you as evildoers, they
may, by your good works which they
observe, glorify God in the day of
visitation.
8. Leads Home
• Here we are only pilgrims
• Our citizenship is in heaven
9. Philippians 3:17-21
17 Brethren, join in following my example,
and note those who so walk, as you have
us for a pattern. 18 For many walk, of
whom I have told you often, and now tell
you even weeping, that they are the
enemies of the cross of Christ:
10. Philippians 3:17-21
19 whose end is destruction, whose god is
their belly, and whose glory is in their
shame—who set their mind on earthly
things. 20 For our citizenship is in
heaven, from which we also eagerly wait
for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
11. Philippians 3:17-21
21 who will transform our lowly body that
it may be conformed to His glorious
body, according to the working by which
He is able even to subdue all things to
Himself.
12. Leads Home
• Here we are only pilgrims
• Our citizenship is in heaven
• We are looking for our eternal
home
14. 2Corinthians 5:1
For we know that if our earthly
house, this tent, is destroyed, we
have a building from God, a house
not made with hands, eternal in the
heavens.
15. 1John 5:13
These things I have written to you
who believe in the name of the Son
of God, that you may know that you
have eternal life, and that you may
continue to believe in the name of
the Son of God.
16. Leads Home
• Here we are only pilgrims
• Our citizenship is in heaven
• We are looking for our eternal
home