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Our Citizenship
There is no middle ground in our battle with evil.
There are times when we must pick a side and take a stand.
Truth demands a choice.
C.S. Lewis said, "Aim at heaven and you’ll get earth thrown in.
Aim at earth and you’ll get neither."
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Tonight, I want us to take inventory on our lives, and come up with a plan of action that we will make heaven our home.
I’m going to come back to verse 17, but lets start with two kinds of people that the Apostle Paul speaks about in this passage:
Enemies of the cross of Christ
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Citizens of Heaven
Let’s take a few minutes and look at each of these.
Enemies of the cross of Christ
It broke Paul’s heart to see people that only lived for this life.
“They live as enemies…Their conduct shows they are really enemies of the cross of Christ.”
Paul makes it pretty clear that not everybody goes to heaven.
This isn’t God’s desire, but our own choices will determine our destiny.”
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In the late 1800’s there were two trappers that trapped muskrat and beavers all summer, and as they neared winter, they decided that it was time to head for home.
Big John and Little Joe headed up stream for home, and after a few hours of paddling their canoes, Big John decided to take a rest and just allow his canoe to drift back.
He fell asleep and drifted back far enough that he had to paddle hard just to get to where he had been.
Exhausted he rested.
He fell asleep.
Little Joe kept paddling for his destination.
Even though he was tired, he pressed in and arrived safe at home to the smell of fresh bread and baked beans.
Big John awoke to his canoe rocking.
He was in the worst rapids he had ever seen.
He had always used his strength to get out of trouble but the harder he paddled, the faster the canoe headed backwards.
“John’s eyes catches the glimpse of a sign on the bank , it says “Point of no Return” Johns drifting has led him to the place of his doom.
Terror fills his eyes as the canoe falls over Fall Creek Falls , the highest water fall this side of the Rocky Mountains.”
Last month, we talked about forgetting what is behind and pressing towards the goal.
Little Joe kept his eye on the prize.
Too many fix their eyes on the wrong prize.
Their god is their appetite.
What does Paul mean by this?
Does he mean that they like to eat lots?
Appetite = Desire
What do we long for?
What do we desire?
Enemies of the cross of Christ desire only earthly things.
Their god is only money, possessions, pleasure, lust, greed, and things that are only temporary.
Earthly desires aren’t necessarily wrong.
Misplaced earthly desires are.
Desires that take God’s place in our lives are wrong.
Trying to get to heaven any other way than placing our faith in Jesus just ends up blowing up in our face.
It just doesn’t work.
Let’s look at
Our citizenship
Because we have given our lives to Christ, our home is heaven.
We have true life because Jesus lives in us.
Are you waiting for Jesus to return?
This is what he’s going to do.
He’s going to take our bodies that are have pain, that are weak, that have their problems and He is going to give us no bodies in heaven that have no pain, weakness.
They won’t wobble.
We won’t need glasses.
We won’t have issues with our weight, and we will be like Jesus because we will see Him as He is.
He wants us to follow Him all the days of our lives and He promises in Psalm 23:6
Let’s get back to verse 17
This is where discipleship comes in.
We need people to walk with us so that we can follow their example
First and foremost, let’s follow Hebrews 12:1-2
In 1 Corinthians 11:1 Paul said,
This is a high calling for us as Christians.
We need to be making disciples and they should imitate us as we imitate Christ.
This means that the way we live needs to be an example to everybody that we love Jesus.
Are we perfect?
No!
But Jesus is and He gives us the power to live for Him.
Let’s love Jesus and follow Him with all that we are and strive to be.
If we fall, come to Jesus and confess our sins and lean on each other to become more like Jesus.
Amen!
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