Our focus this Sunday is based on the Phillipians passage that declares: 'our citizenship is in heaven, and from there we await our Saviour, Jesus Christ.' Paul speaks about 'pressing onward to the goal and win the prize for which God has called me heavenward.' Isn't it amazing how the whole world loves the idea of 'going to heaven,' but want very little to do with the One who 'has gone the way before us, and knows the way back to the Heavenly Father.'
But lets face it, really, most westernized (secular) people actually do not believe in the existence of anything after we have breathed our last. It's a bit like the observation in Ecclesiastes: 'eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow you die.' But God's plan originally had no place for death; that's something that has come into our equation through sin; 'for the wages of sin is death.'
So the idea of being 'citizens of heaven' means that in Christ there is a new reality that defines us (a new position / place / and purpose). A reality that was transformed for us, because Jesus entered our reality (death / second law of thermo-dynamics: everything decays), took it upon himself (read Phil. 2:1-11), and gave us the gift of life (citizenship of a new reality - a heavenly reality / a dimension beyond the normal). Have you got your passport to heaven yet?
Wow! Who would let something like that slip through their fingers?
Rev.'D
