Eternity is Real | Week 2 | Earth – A taste of eternity | Ryan Iverson | May 14 2023

00:00 Introduction to Week 2 02:207 Listen to last weeks message: 03:48 Let’s talk about this present life we are living right now: This planet was created by God. 04:24 Then, as you know, sin entered the world. 05:20 When SIN and DEATH entered this planet, it also cast a haze, a fog over all of creation… 06:43 Why? Because we are only seeing a glimpse of reality…only seeing part of the reality.
08:54 This haze of the fall causes us to feel as though we can’t “see clearly” 09:23 1 Corinthians 13:12 10:15 We see things imperfectly…its puzzling…its obscure and unclear… 11:00 I can’t quite make sense of life… 14:07 Frustration. 14:14 This leaves us asking the existential questions… 14:28 Life can feel like a hamster wheel. 15:00 It’s deep in a longing in each of us this gnawing at our soul the sense that there’s so much more than this. 17:30 Romans 8:20 18:55 Ecclesiastes 1:2 19:20 Ecclesiastes 3:1 21:48 Peter Kraft book quote We possess an innate knowledge that there is something more to life than what we can see and experience in the here and now. Ultimately, this world is not our home. 22:20 In the same way, we are here on earth, but this is NOT our home…we belong in heaven with Jesus. 23:54 This dissatisfaction in life is there because heaven is our home. The dissatisfaction and discontentment we all feel…its eternity calling us. Here is the issue… So many people are frustrated or discontent and do not know why…
24:47 It is the Holy Spirit trying to get your attention…reminding us to get our sights on the realities of heaven…
25:41 Romans 8:18-28 28:00 C.S Lewis quote 28:25 Colossians 3:1-4