LONGING FOR HOME!

BELIEVERS LONG TO BE WITH JESUS!

John 8:21-24, 58 - Then said Jesus again unto them, I go My way, and you shall seek Me, and shall die in your sins:  where I go, you cannot come.  Then said the Jews, Will He kill Himself?  (They said this) because He said, Where I go, you cannot come.  And He said unto them, You are from beneath; I AM from above:  you are of this world; I AM not of this world.  I said therefore unto you, that you shall die in your sins:  for if you believe not that I AM He,* you shall die in your sins. . . . Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I AM. [*Note: He is not in the Greek texts.]

John 14:1-6 - Let not your heart be troubled:  you believe in God, believe also in Me.  In My Father's house are many mansions:  if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I AM, there you may be also.  And where I go you know, and the way you know.  Thomas said unto Him, Lord, we know not where You are going; and how can we know the way?  Jesus said unto him, I AM the way, (I AM) the truth, and (I AM) the life:  no man comes unto the Father,* but by (faith in) Me.

[*Note:  The Father's kingdom is in heaven - see Matthew 6:9; 16:17; Mark 1:11; Luke 11:2; etc.]

John 18:36-37 - Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world:  if My kingdom were of this world, then would My servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews:  but now is My kingdom not from here.  Pilate therefore said unto Him, Are You a king then?  Jesus answered, You say that I AM a king.  To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth.  Every one that is of the truth hears My voice.

2 Corinthians 5:1-8 - For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.  For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:  if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.  For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened:  not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.  Now He that has created us for the selfsame thing is God, Who also has given unto us the seal of the Spirit.  Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:  for we walk by faith, not by sight:  and we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. 

1 Thessalonians 4:14-18 - For IF we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.  For this we say unto you by the Word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not precede them which are asleep.  For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God:  and the dead in Christ shall rise first:  then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air:  and so shall we ever be with the Lord.  Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

The "quotes" above are based upon my understanding to the King James Version.