Unity Sunday

turn your Bibles to Hebrews chapter 11 Hebrews chapter 11 we're going to continue our series on broken and what I want to do is I want to go back and cover a short passage that I skipped over earlier in Hebrews chapter 11 uh because I knew this day was coming and I wanted to preach it today and if you look at Hebrews chapter 11 remember Hebrews chapter 11 is God's Hall of Fame it's all the great men and women of Faith but one of the things that we see in this passage is number one these were all broken people these were people that had problems that had sin in their life that had uh other things going on and they were broken in one way or the other and God healed them and then the second

thing we see is that God can use broken people and even when our lives are broken even when there's things that have happened in the past we can still be used of God and be men and women of faith of God as well and so he's look at Hebrews 11 and look at verses number 13-6 the Bible says that these all died in faith not having received the promises but having seen them AAR off and were persuaded of them and embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth for they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country and truly if they had been mindful of that country from when they came out they might have had the opportunity of return but now they desire

a better country that is a Heavenly wherefore God is not ashamed be called their God for he hath prepared for them a city back in verse number 13 the end of the verse there it says that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth and all of us as Christians are strangers and pilgrims now wab Baptist Church is sure full of a lot of strange people I'll give you that but what does it mean to be strangers and pilgrims on the earth well strangers are those that are not from there many of you have moved to Hawaii or moved to America from another country or another place and so you're strangers in Hawaii in the sense that this is not where you were from and you've moved here and live here now and

and and every you know we have one of the blessings that we have here at Ohana is we have so many different people from different cultures people from many different backgrounds uh the last time we counted we had over 30 different nationalities in our church and people were born all over the world in so many different places and and and and so they're strangers and one of the things you may have noticed is is if you've been around people a lot is that uh people from another culture do sometimes do strange things at least things that are strange to us things that are different every every culture has their strange Customs for example in India uh you're always supposed to leave a little bit of

food on your plate when you're done eating if you clean your plate that's an insult it's like you're telling your your host that you didn't give me enough food so if you really had a good food and you're full then leave a little bit on the plate and they will be happy with that uh in Malaysia it it is uh not you're not supposed to point with your finger in Malaysia if they're going to point you somewhere they're going to do it with their thumb if you point with your finger that's kind of insulting and that's not a good thing to do and so they point with their thumb uh Filipinos they point with their lips and their chin have you ever noticed that when they when they're doing something they

kind of go and point in the direction there with their lips and their chin and and then another thing that they do as well is that when they're walking M between you they put their hands together like this so they can part the Red Sea you know and and kind of between you and then you've got Japanese and Koreans and other Oriental cultures where when you greet one another you bow to one another and that's part of their culture and something we don't normally do in America but something they do in their culture Nigerians will kneel or prostrate themselves when they greet you uh so they and again the older you are and the younger they are the further they have to go down in the ground uh and

and so that's how they greet one another in Greek in Greece at a wedding they spit on the Bri ride for good luck o I don't think I want to get married in Greece if you were you uh my wife is Norwegians and Norwegians eat something called ludus anybody ever heard of that now ludus is basically some white fish that's old and soaked in lie does that sound real appetizing to you that sounds strange to me it's not something I I I I think is great but every culture has strange things that they do do things that are different from those around them and did you ever notice that Christians also are strange turn over your Bible put a marker in Hebrews 11 but turn over your Bible at 1 Peter chap 2 1

Peter chap 2 and look at verses 9-2 1 Peter chap 2: 9-12 the Bible says but ye are a chosen generation a royal priesthood a holy nation A peculiar people that you should show forth the Praises of him who called you out of Darkness into a Marvel Into His Marvelous Light which in time past were not a people but now are a people of God which had not obtain Mercy but now have obtained Mercy dearly beloved I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims Asain from fleshly lust which war against the soul having your conversation honest among the Gentiles that whereas they speak evil against you as evildoers they may by your good works which they Shall Behold glorify God in the day of visitation you know

to the world around us to those that are not saved and don't know the Lord Christians are strange we're different we're strange and we do strange things Christians have their own language now again many of you grew up as English is your second language and you have your your native tongue and your own language and and even here in America and even here in Hawaii you might go back when you're around people that speak your language you'll speak it with them uh I I've told the people in our church that speak other language like the Filipinos I told them I don't mind you speaking in your own language that doesn't bother me uh the the thing that will bother me if you're speaking in your own

language you say my name and you laugh okay that bothers me okay but you know when somebody when two people from another culture are talking in their language I I don't understand what they're saying because they have their own language in Acts chap 2: 11 it says Creeds and Arabians we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God you know when when we talk to people we need to realize that we have a unique language in Christian circles uh we say things like if you died right now would you go to heaven you ever said that to somebody now that's that's okay to say but I would not recommend going to chat Chinatown at midnight and going walking up somebody say if you died right

now would you go to heaven I I wouldn't recommend that or one of the things that we do uh as Christians if somebody's sick or somebody's got a problem we might go to them I might say hey Alex I'm I'm G lay hands on you right now now that's okay to do but don't go to Wi I and walk up to somebody in the beach say I'm gonna lay hands on you uh that's not going to work see because we have our own unique language don't we and and we have a unique way of saying things and we need to understand that the unsaved may not always understand words that are normal words to us for example salvation we'll say to somebody have you been saved well saved from what I'm not drowning I I I I'm not falling out of

airplane why why do I need to be saved we we know what salvation means but the unsaved person may not understand that or we talk about the gospel the good news of God well what is the gospel in Romans chapter 1 1 verse 16 says for I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth to the Jew first and also the Greek and so we know what salvation is we know what the gospel is uh to fact turn over your Bibles to 1 Corinthians chapter 15 1 Corinthians chapter 15 if you want to know what the gospel is it tells us very clearly in 1 Corinthians chapter 15 and verses 1-4 1 Corinthians 15 1-4 moreover brethren I declare unto you the gospel

the word gospel means good news which also youve receed which I preached unto you which also you've received and wherein you stand by which also you are saved if you keep in memory what I preached unto you unless you have believed in vain for I delivered on you first of all that which I also received how that Christ died for our sins according to scriptures and that he was buried that he rose again the third day according to scriptures that's the gospel in a nutshell the gospel is Jesus died was buried and rose again and that he died to save you from your sins that he died to give us eternal life and so a lot of times as Christians we talk about things like salvation and we talk about the

gospel but we need to make sure that people understand that the gospel is that Jesus died and was buried and rose again and that salvation can only come through Jesus Christ by trusting him as your savior you we use terms like you need to be born again well what does it mean to be born again go over to John chapter 3 a very familiar passage John chapter 3 three and you remember the story how a man named Nicodemus came to Jesus in the night and um he said to him he asked him about the Miracles of God and how he can get in the kingdom of God and Jesus answered in verse number three and said unto him verily verily I say unto thee except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God and

Nicodemus later on in verse number nine says Nicodemus answered and said how can these things be Jesus answered said art thou a master of Israel and knowest not these things I mean Nicodemus was a Rel ious man but he didn't understand what it meant to be born again in verse number four Nicodemus sayith and how can a man be born when he's old can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born Jesus answered verily verily I say unto you thee except a man be born of water that's talking about physical birth not baptism and of the spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God that which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the spirit is Spirit Marvel not that I

said unto thee you must be born again you see the ons person they don't understand that term what does it mean to be born again to become a child of God in John 1:12 it says but as many as received him to them gave he the power to become the sons of God and so sometimes as Christians we need to remember that we speak a strange language we speak speak a language that sometimes Theon people in fact a lot of times even Christians don't understand all the terms one of the things we're doing on Wednesday night in our Bible study here at the churches we're studying Doctrine and in Doctrine we'll we'll do a study on soteriology which is the study of Salvation and learning more about it we'll talk

about terms like justification sanctification atonement Redemption do you know what those terms mean I I would guess there's a lot of you right here in this room that are that are Christians that are saved you're not even sure what those terms mean and and I want to remind us that as as Christians we need to understand that the world out there they think we're strange and they think we speak a strange language and and we need to be careful that we make sure they understand understand what we mean when we say You must be saved you must be born again that you need to be redeemed you need to be justified to understand those terms but not only do we not talk like them but we don't live like them

you know when somebody comes from another culture another place a lot of times the way they live is different than the way that we live uh they have different habits and different ways of doing things and and and the same thing is true of Christians in 1 Peter chapter 4 and verse number four it says wherein they think it strange that you run not with them to the same excess of Riot speaking evil of you who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead you know the unsaved world looks at us and says you don't go to bars you don't you don't go out partying you don't get drunk you're strange to the unsaved world that that that's strange there there's something wrong

with us because we don't do all these things in fact in verse three of 1 Peter 4 it says for the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles when we walked in lasciviousness and lust and excesses of wine and revelings and banques and abominable idoles you know what we as Christians should be different it should be that the on people around you uh should look at your life and say you know what they're kind of strange they live differently they they love each other as a husband and wife and they they treat their family differently and and they live differently they don't do a lot of the things that we do and and they ought to see that we are different in 1

Peter chapter 2: 11- 12 it says dearly beloved I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims abstain from fleshly lust which war against the soul having your conversation the word conversation here basically means how you how you live your life you ever heard the statement your walkt talks more than your talk talks it's what does your life say having your conversation honest among the Gentiles that whereas they speak against you as evildoers they may by your good works which they Shall Behold glorify God in the day of visitation they may think you're strange because you don't go out partying and drinking and all the rest of the stuff but you know what they're also going to respect you because you

have standards because you live a life that is different and so we as Christians we talk a strange language we we live to the world we live a strange life and and we don't do things we don't live like them but we also don't do things that they we do things that they don't do for example you ever had somebody ask you this I remember one time somebody said when I was uh uh before I was a pastor somebody I I used to go I I've always most of my Christian life since I've gotten right with the Lord I I've gone to church Sunday morning Sunday night Wednesday night I'm in church three or four or five times a week and and I remember somebody hearing that and said you go to church you know when they

first found you go to church every Sunday and I said yeah and I said not only that I go on Sunday night and Wednesday night too and they said what they couldn't believe it remember we had a a couple in the church that was a number of years ago and they lived out in Pearl City and in the military housing out there and and uh they would get up and go to church every Sunday morning they would get up and go to church every Sunday night and they'd go back on Wednesday night and uh their neighbors were on sa people and they they they told us later they got saved later on because this couple's testimonies they said they us to go out and pull the curtain aside said look at they're leaving again

they're going to church again and they couldn't believe that they would go to church so many times and then one day they said hey can we go to that church with you and they end up getting saved you see the world doesn't understand why would you go to church every Sunday why would you go back on Sunday night why would you go to a Bible study during the week the Bible tells us in Hebrews chapter 10 and verse 25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is but exhorting one another and so much the more as you see the day approaching you see folks we need to make sure that we have that testimony the world needs to see that we want to go to church and when they see

that they they're going to get interested what is it that makes you want to go back there maybe they'll come with you as well another thing they don't understand is they think we're strange because we give 10% of your income to the church you tithe you know go over to Second Corinthians chapter 8 2 Corinthians chapter 8 you know the I remember that one of my family members found out how much I gave to the church you know they they found out I tithe and they were like how can you afford the tithe how can you do that and they just were so amazed and so shocked that I you know because they knew how much I earned and I said man you give 10% of that to the church and and I and I hated to tell

them I said but I actually I give more than 10% I give to missions and some other offerings as well but they couldn't believe it it was so strange to them that that I would t to the church in 2 Corinthians 8: 1-5 it says moreover brethren we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed in the churches of Macedonia how that in great trial of Affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded on the riches of their liberality for to their power I bear record yay and beyond their power they were willing to themselves praying us with with much intrig that we would receive the gift and take upon us a fellowship ministering to the Saints and this they did not as we hope first gave

their own selves unto the Lord and to unto us by the will of God see these were people that that gave and and and and and we need to have that testimony the world doesn't understand you mean you give a tithe they don't understand how we trust in God we don't understand how we trust in His blessings and that he's going to take care of us you know the the the the harder it gets in the world financially the more you want to give your tithe because God will bless you over and over again and the world do understand they say you're strange there's something wrong with you you you talk a different language you don't do the things that we do you do things that we don't do but you know if there's

anything that I want to be known for as a Christian it's my love and John 13: 34 and 35 it says a new commandment I give unto you that you love one another as I have loved you that you also love one another by this shall all men know that you might are my disciples that you have love one for another if there's anything I want to be strange for is to be known for loving God and loving others I'm thankful for the testimony of this church it's often that we have guests that come and ask them how did you hear about Ohana and they said well we went on a Facebook group and and people on it said where should we go to church and people said you ought to go to Ohana and these were people that didn't

always come to our church but they they knew they said this is a church that will love you and I'm so thankful for that testimony and that's that I I want to be known for our love because love love is the universal language you may not always understand one another because someone speaks a different language or because of their accent or something else but there's one thing that you will always understand and that's the language of love I I want people this church to know that I love them and I want I want to to the people the world around us in the city to know that we love them and that God loves them and and that's the language that we ought to speak so as Christians we're strange to the

world world around us but as Christians also we need to entertain strangers the Bible says in Hebrews chapter 13 verses 1 and two let Brotherly Love continue be not forgetful excuse me to entertain strangers for thereby some have entertained angels unaware now I don't know if I've ever entertained an angel but it is our job to entertain strangers and I hope that everybody that walks in the door of ohana Baptist Church will will that they will never feel like they're a stranger even the first day they come you see what is it somebody once said I I've never met a stranger just friends I haven't gotten to know yet and and we need to realize as Christians we need to be entertaining strangers in

Leviticus chapter 19 and verse number 34 it says but the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you and thou shall love him as thyself for you are strangers in the land of Egypt I'm the Lord your God and want to challenge us as a church that no matter who walks in that door no matter where they're from or what background they have or or what nationality or anything else about them that when they walk in the door of ohana Baptist Church that they are not a stranger but their family they're Ohana that that we welcome them and treat them from the very first day as as as friends because that's what they are you see you and I we were once strangers go over to

Ephesians chapter 2 Ephesians chapter 2 everybody in this church building right now was once a stranger at Ohana every one of you you had a first day that you came that you didn't know anybody and and you were brand new and you were a stranger in this church in Ephesians chapter 2 and beginning with verse number 11 it says wherefore remember that ye being in time pass Gentiles In the Flesh who are called uncircumcision by that which is called circumcision in the flesh made by hands that at that time you were without Christ being Alien aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the constraints of Promise having no hope and without God in the world but now in Christ Jesus you

who are sometimes far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ you and I that were once strangers through Christ we become family you know we have today we're celebrating both our diversity but also our unity in Christ we have a place where we've taken people from 30 different nationalities people from six or seven different branches of the military people from all over the US people from every economic social condition you can imagine and yet we brought them together in one place as Ohana as family you know many of You Were Strangers to the gospel in Ephesians chapter 2 verses 8 and9 the Bible says for by grace are you saved through faith that not of yourselves it's the gift of God not of

Works lest any man should boast maybe when you first came to Ohana you didn't know that this church could not save you because no religion can save you maybe you didn't know that becoming a member of Ohan Baptist Church didn't mean you were going to go to heaven because that's not going to save you either you see the Bible says for by grace are you saved through the grace of God when he sent his son to die to be buried and to raise again the gospel it's the gospel that saves you and this gospel saves me it's the gospel that gives us eternal life it's the gospel that takes away our sins and gives us peace with God and there was a day that everybody in this room you didn't know Jesus you

didn't know you were going to heaven you didn't understand the gospel but praise God you do today and God has given us the privilege and the responsibility to share that gospel with others around us as well you see somebody shared it with you now it's your responsibility to share it with them I was talking to the doctrine class on Wednesday night and this is what I said this there is no reason that God left us here in this world except one and ask to tell others about Jesus otherwise why didn't he just take us to heaven when we got saved the only reason we're still here is to tell others about Jesus to tell them them the gospel the good news to tell them for by grace are you saved through

faith and that not of yourselves see you and I we were once strangers to the church in Ephesians chapter 2: 19 now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners but fellow citizens with the Saints of the household of God I I'm thankful for this church in the way that you can feel welcome from the very first day I'm thankful for the way we bring others in but let me remind you of this you're not a friendly church if you're only friendly to your friends let me say that again we are not a friendly church if you're only friendly to your friends it's very easy when you come to church to gravitate to the people you already know and you've already built a relationship with but our

responsibility is to constantly be reaching out to the strangers so that they will become our friends and we will be their friend and so I want to challenge you today when we have our meal a little bit later on don't just get in line with the people you always get in line with don't just sit with the people you always sit with find somebody new and get to know them and reach out to them because we're not strangers here at Ohana we're family we're Ohana we're strangers and pilgrims pilgrims are different than strangers strangers are those of you that have left your home country and now live in a different place whether you've left somewhere in the mainland and moved to Hawaii or whether you

left some other country and moved here you're strangers in Hawaii pilgrims are are more like those that are just kind of passing through in 1 Corinthians chapter 5: 9 and 10 it says I wrote unto you an epistle not to company with fornicators yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world or with the Covetous or extortioners or with Idol idolators for then you must needs go out of the world folks we live in this world we should not be part of the world but we are in this world and and we need to understand understand as we live in this world we need to use the world I want you to turn over to Jeremiah chapter 29 Jeremiah chapter 29 the people of Israel had been taken out of their land

and taken to a foreign country and this is what God said to them as they were in that foreign country he promised them they were going to go back to Israel one day so they were really just pilgrims they were only there temporarily now how long that temporary was was longer than they expected but they're only there for a certain amount of time but listen what it says in Jeremiah 29:5 build ye houses and dwell in them and plant Gardens and eat the fruit of them take ye wives and beget sons and daughters and take wives of your for your sons and give your daughters to husbands that they may bear sons and daughters that you may be increased there and not dis diminish and seek the peace of the

city where with I have caused you to be carried away captives and pray unto the Lord for it for in the peace thereof shall you have peace in other words God's saying listen you're pilgrims in this world this is not your home you're just passing through but while you're there you know be you're a part of this world and and so he said listen go out and get a house and start a family and get a job and all the rest of that that's okay there's nothing wrong with that but then skip down to verse number 11 for I know the thoughts that I think towards you sayith the Lord thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you expected end then you call upon me you shall go and pray unto me and I will hearken

unto you and you shall seek me and find me when you shall search me with all your heart see God want to remind listen live in where where you're living live get a job get a house start a family but just don't forget that I've got something even better for you and I know my thoughts towards you and so while you're living in this world don't forget to seek me first to follow me in your life use the world but don't abuse it in 1 Corinthians 7:31 it says and they that use this world are not as not abusing it for the fashionist World passes away we live in this world and there's nothing wrong with learning to live and to use the things of this world but don't don't let that become your priority

don't forget I'm just a pilgrim I'm just passing through this is not my home you know sometimes pilgrims are kind of like tourists so sometimes we have tourists that visit our church and I'm always thankful for everyone and when we have tourists you got to get to know they real blessing but sometimes I feel like some of you are tourists too at church don't treat Church like you're a tourist church should be the happiest place on Earth you know what I'm talking about right but church should be the happiest place on Earth Psalms 122:1 says this I was glad when they said unto me let's go in the house of the Lord I always love watching the videos where they they show the the parents telling the

kids hey we're going to Disneyland we're going to Disney World the kids are all excited yay do you get that excited on Sunday morning do you wake up Sunday morning and say hey we get to go to church today or you wake up and say oh we have to go to church today Church ought to be the happiest place in the world you know there's two kinds of people at Disneyland when you go there did you ever notice that there's two kinds of people those who are there to be entertained and those who are there to serve and it's a very different thing Psalms 122:1 says I was glad when they said un me let's go into the house of the Lord but verse 9 says because of the house of the Lord Our God I will seek thy

good see don't treat church as just a place you come to be entertained with the gospel and go home church is a place you come to serve to be a blessing to others around you as well church is a place you come to Worship in Colossians chapter 3 3: 16 it says let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs and sing with Grace in your hearts to the Lord many times I'll have somebody say to me something like this well you know Pastor I don't have to go to church to worship God and there's truth to that you can worship God anywhere any place anytime but worshiping God by yourself is like going to Disneyland alone

you ever gone some place like Disneyland all by yourself you're sitting there on the ride and you say hey is this oh nobody's there hey look at oh nobody's there you can't share it and that's why we come to worship together that's why church is so important because we come and share that experiences I can sing the songs by myself but it's not like listening to the whole congregation singing today when I listen to those songs that you sang it was it lifted my heart I I can listen to a message on online but it's not the same as being there in person and saying amen don't be a tourist at church back in Hebrews chapter 11 and verse number 16 says talking about these strangers and pilgrims it

says in verse 16 but now they desire a better country that is a Heavenly where God is not ashamed be called their God for that Heath prepared for them a city there's a better country a better place later on and the end of the chapter and we won't take time to read verse 33- 40 say he's talking about how they gone through all these trials and all these problems in life and being beaten and and thrown in jail and and all kinds of things happening to them but they they endured because they had the promise of a better place in Hebrews 11:13 it says they these all died in faith not having received the promise but having seen them a far off and were persuaded of them let me ask you are you

persuaded of God's promises in your life in 2 Timothy chapter 1 and verse number 12 Paul says for the which cause I also suffer these things nevertheless I am not ashamed for I know whom I believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day Paul said I'm persuaded that when I gave my heart and my soul to God for salvation that he will keep it and I will go to heaven when I die and 1 John 5: 11 and 12 it says he that hath the son hath life he that hath not the Son of God hath not life these things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the son of God that you may know that you have eternal life and that you may believe on the

name of the son of God are you persuaded do you know if you died right now that you'd go to heaven do you know that your sins are forgiven do you know that you have eternal life see the Bible says you don't have to think so and hope so and wonder because it's not based upon what you do not your works it's not but well I got to make sure I'm in the right religion or I'm doing the right things no I just got to trust in the right person and that's trust in Jesus Christ you see folks today there's a better country but are you fully persuaded you're going to go to that place when you die are you fully persuaded of the promises of God Romans chapter 8 verses 38 and 39 says for I am persuaded that

neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be all separat from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our lord listen I understand some of you have gone through some tough times this last year some of you are facing some difficult things right now in your life but Paul said he said listen I know that no matter no matter what happens I know I can trust in the promises of God no matter how bad it seems to be no matter how hard and that's what happened to Hebrews 11 they were being killed and they were being tortured and they were being put in prison but they didn't lose their faith in

that promise of a better country in Hebrews 11:1 15 it says and truly if they had been mindful of that country I wonder are you mindful first of all I think you need to be mindful of where you came from 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 says know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God be not deceived neither fornicators nor idolators nor adulterers nor feminite nor abusers themselves of mankind nor thieves nor Covetous nor drunkers nor revilers nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God and this next part I love and such were some of you but you are washed but you are Sanctified but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus by the spirit of God folks let's never

forget where we came from how God saved us out of sin that God saved us out of the world and gave us eternal life and remember where you're going in John chapter 14 in verses 1-4 it says let not your heart be troubled you believe in God believe also in me in my father's house are many mansions if it were not so I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you and if I go and prepare a place for you I will come again receive you unto myself that where I I am ye may be also and whether I go you know in the way you know verse 27 peace I leave with you my peace I give unto you not as the world giveth give I unto you let not your heart be troubled neither let be afraid some of you have been

strangers in some very difficult places like Afghanistan or Iraq or Iran and one of the things that you have hope is this is not my home I I love the song You're probably familiar with this world is not my home I'm just passing through my treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue the Angels beckon me from Heaven's open door and I can't feel at home in this world anymore oh Lord you know I have no friend like you if Heaven's not my home then Lord what will I do the Angels beckon me from Heaven's open door and I can't feel at home in this world anymore I want to remind you that you are strangers and pilgrims we're just passing through this life now while we live here we're part of this

world so make a life there's nothing wrong with that but just don't forget God in all that process remember ultimately we're citizens of Heaven if you have Jesus Christ as your savior and no matter what problems or trials you face in life don't forget God's promises the promise of a better country one day and also the promise I'll never leave you no forsake you