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Then you will appreciate the more your citizenship in it, and more zealously look to find those earmarks and characteristics in your lives for assurance of citizenship in that kingdom.
* Condensed from an address delivered before the teachers of our Protestant Reformed Chr. Schools (Adams St. and Riverbend). The subject that has been given me is "Teaching citizenship." Now a citizen is a member of a state or nation or let us say kingdom. Citizenship is the state of being vested wi
but follow us as we've lived as an example, as followers of Christ, because we are citizens of heaven. Next week we come to the sacrament of the Lord's Supper. The form calls it heavenly meat and drink, heavenly meat and drink. That means we're going to come and have a meal that's intended for c
In Psalm 2 we read, I have set, this is God speaking about Christ, I have set my king on my holy hill in Zion. And Zion, you remember, was the Old Testament city of Jerusalem in the land of Canaan. Which city and which land was a picture of the heavenly Canaan and the heavenly Jerusalem. And wh
The citizens of a particular nation are part of the corporation of the government to which they belong. Thus, for example, even in our own country, the citizenry of America are responsible for the actions of the government which functions in Washington. And they are not always asked whether or not t
And that's true of the men and women of this world. Their goal in life is money, it's power, it's pleasure, it's living to gratify their own sinful lusts. That's what Paul had been telling us in the verses that went before. Those of the world, the God that they have is their belly. It's their a
As we reflect upon the issue of citizenship in this country, let us not be moved out of fear of the tables being turned on us. We have the comfort and the hope of salvation that transcends any earthly power or situation. Rather, we must let the scriptures guide us in our attitude toward others. We a