Title: The Journey Home

Topic: Salvation

Summary: Life in this world is a journey to a home in the other world. Repenting and following the Lord is what we need to do to find our home in heaven.

Use the reference links below to follow along in the Bible as you watch.

References:
:Genesis 4:14; 12:1, 12:4, 12:9-10; 13:1; 24:21; 29:1; 35:9, 35:11; 35:15, 35:18, 35:21; 46:1-4
Exodus 12:37, 40; 40:36, 38
Leviticus 25:23
Numbers 9:15, 17, 23
Deuteronomy 2:1, 3, 5, 7
1 Kings 19:4, 8; , 23:4, 23:6; 39:12
Psalms 107:23, 28, 30
Jeremiah 31:3
Luke 9:1-6, 57, 60; 13:22, 31-32
John 4:3, 6
Acts of the Apostles 9:3
2 Corinthians 11:22, 27
John 14:1, 5-6
Psalms 132:11, 13-14
John 14:23; 15:16
Ephesians 3:16

We tend to think of "fruit" in two ways in natural language. One is as food that grows on trees and vines, sweet and delicious, and able to be eaten without harming the plant in any way. Another is as the things we produce, what our work yields for the betterment of the world. These are obviously connected: we are like trees, producing things that "feed" the world in some way, just as the tree produces fruit that feeds us. It makes sense, then, that the idea of fruit in the Bible is bound closely to the idea of goodness. Fruits that are eaten represent the desire for good and the energy to do what is good; fruit that is produced is the actual good that we go into the world and do.