Title: Adventure Calls
Date: Dec 31, 2006
Location: RSGM
Text: Hebrews 11:8-10
Introduction
- Michael Perham - 14 years old - youngest solo voyage 3,500 miles across the Atlantic - left Gibraltar Nov 18, arrives Antigua Jan 2
- we are all on a journey too
- Abraham left Ur in southern Iraq in response to God's call, to travel to the Promised Land
- we are on a similar journey
- we are leaving not the Rock of Gibraltar or the ancient city of Ur - instead we are leaving our old way of life to find our own promised land
1. God Prepares Us For Our Journey
- Jeremiah 1:5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you . . ."
- God knew us when we were born, he was also there when we went astray
- He knew Paul while he was persecuting the church
- God uses the things we went through, for a good purpose - he knows our uniqueness
- each person has a unique journey, we don't all sail the same route
- but God does prepare us for the day we commence our journey
2. God is There When We Start
- John 6:44 "No one can come to me except the Father who sent me draws him"
- He provided Jesus even before we existed
- He calls us to him, through life's circumstances
- He is the one who plants that thought, that we need something more than ourselves
3. God Stays With Us on Our Journey
- Hebrews 13:5 "I will never leave you nor forsake you"
- Mike Perham's dad stayed with him all the way, sailing just 2 miles behind him
- God is always there with us
- He won't let anything too big for us, overwhelm us (1 Corinthians 10:13)
- He encourages us, and sends us the Comforter (John 14:16)
- He communicates with us, just like Mike Perham and his dad
4. God Prepares For Our Arrival
- John 14:1-3 ". . . I go to prepare a place for you"
- God is getting our destination ready for our arrival
- there will be a huge party when Jesus returns and he invites us to sit at his table for a wedding banquet
- when we have finished our journey here on earth, he has a place ready for us in heaven, and a responsible task for us when he returns to this earth
- coming to Jesus means that we have all this available to us
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