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Audio sermon by: Gordon D. Venturella | 23:26 min
Most people who emigrate from one country to another are doing so in search of a better life. Whether we're talking about the first pilgrims to this country hundreds of years ago, or today when Chinese immigrants stow away in a ship in unsanitary conditions, I have to think most do so in hopes of a better life.
What would be a better life?
Deep down, if we were honest, we'd admit that we're making decisions about that question every day. Would it be better for me to respond ethically on the job, or just make a run for the money? Would it be better for me to invest my time and money in the church? Or in other pursuits? Would it be better for me to work here – or there? Should I live in this kind of house or that kind of house? Where should my children go to school? How much education do I need?
In this series about the real teaching of the real Jesus we will see what He has to say about a better life. Crowds are gathering about Jesus, and I have to believe they're concerned with what we're concerned with:
Will this man mean a better life?
Instead of playing to the crowd, Jesus skipped the parables and granted his audience a full-blown philosophy of life: We call it the Sermon on the Mount. In it Jesus talks about immigration we all need to make. It's immigration from the Kingdom of this world – To the Kingdom of God. In this passage He challenges us to take the risk and live like citizens of a different Kingdom.
You decide for yourself whether or not it's a better life.
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"To be a Christian, to immigrate to a New Kingdom, one must take up his cross, with all its difficulties and agonizing and tension and carry it until that very cross leaves its mark upon us. Ultimately it's the mark of a better life."-Gordon Venturella
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