Temporary Residents: That Homesick Feeling

Southeast Christian Church

Southeast Christian Church, Christianity, Kyle Idleman, Sermons, Louisville Kentucky, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 25 May 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Suffering is unavoidable and comes with living in this broken world. However, our suffering isn’t in vain. It can be used for good, but also intensifies our longing for heaven. We can suffer well knowing it won’t be wasted, and it won’t last forever. (1 Peter 3: 13-4: 19) Speaker: Kyle Idleman

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Kyle Eidlman from Southeast Christian Church, and I'm going to thank you for listening to the message today.
0:09.3	As we open up the scriptures together, I pray that this message inspires you, challenges you, and is the right word at just the right time in your life.
0:18.8	Enjoy the message.
0:23.9	We are in First Peter going through this study at First and Second Peter. This weekend's message is called that homesick feeling. And so I just
0:30.1	want you as we begin to think of the last time you felt that way. You felt a little bit homesick.
0:35.5	You know that unmistakable feeling feeling that pit in your stomach that doesn't
0:40.0	seem to go away i was researching it this week and one of the things i thought was pretty
0:44.7	interesting is that it's not just a feeling like i tend to identify homesickness it's like an emotion
0:50.2	so if i'm feeling that way i'll say don't feel way. But that's not how your brain processes homesickness.
0:57.0	In fact, brain scans show that when you're homesick, your body processes that, the same as it would, physical pain.
1:05.0	Like your neural pathways process homesickness just like physical or mental pain. But here's the thing about homesickness.
1:13.8	It only exists because there's a home to miss. It only exists, you're only homesick if there is
1:20.7	a home that you long for. And so that's what Peter's going to talk to us about in 1 Peter 3 and 4. To understand
1:30.5	and interpret this book of the Bible correctly, you have to understand the concept of a controlling
1:36.9	metaphor. Because Peter uses a controlling metaphor as a way to help us understand what it looks
1:43.0	like to live life as followers of Jesus in this world. A controlling metaphor as a way to help us understand what it looks like to live life as followers of Jesus in this
1:46.4	world. A controlling metaphor is a picture, it's an image that doesn't just inform us, but it forms us.
1:55.3	A controlling metaphor will shape how you see things. It will navigate how you make decisions. It gives you,
2:02.5	maybe a good way to think of it is, a controlling metaphor gives you a lens through which to see
2:07.7	pretty much everything in your life. And the controlling metaphor of 1 Peter is the title of
2:13.5	the series. It's temporary residence. That that's who you are. You are a traveler,
2:19.1	your sojourner, you're a foreigner, living in a foreign land. And if you can get that metaphor
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