There is a Norwegian catechism that goes something like this.

God our Father called us aside one day in the home palace of heaven.

And he sent us out to live in the island earth, the island colony, and after he described

what life is like in this island colony, he ends up by saying these words, the greatest danger is that you may fall in love

with the island so that you will not care to return to the home kingdom. Love the island because it is my possession

but don't love it because it is your home

it is not your home

your home is here in the palace with me

if you turn your Bibles to Hebrews chapter 11 and verse 10, you find that the Holy Spirit is saying to us in these words

that from Abraham on all the men and women of faith have looked forward and have seen by faith the city that has an eternal foundation

whose builder and maker, an architect and designer, is God.

The city with the foundations whose architect and builder is God.

We have seen, first of all, that the earthly cities were a design of man in order to escape from God.

Cain went out and built the city.

He was running away from the face of God.

We saw that the city is built upon the basic premise of self-centeredness.

It is built upon the basic premise of self-serving.

It is man's ingenuity to design the garden without the presence of God.

And that is why it's failed.

Indeed, we all have recently, in recent history, have seen how when cities that are determined to rule God

out, God is patient and he may wait for 70 some years, but he can't survive forever. We've seen openly how these

cities that legally and openly eliminated God, they have now fallen like a deck of cards.

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