Where is your citizenship? Are you from this country or are you from some other country and you are living in the United States? Most of us I assume are from the United States, but there are a lot of people who are not. Maybe you have dual citizenship. I have a friend who has dual citizenship in Canada and the US. He was born in Canada and now lives here.
I have dual citizenship myself. I am an American citizen, but I have citizenship in Heaven too. Maybe you didn't realize it but when you are born again, you become a citizen of Heaven. You have become part of God's family. We will still have dual citizenship until we are taken from this earth to be with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Philippians; 3:20
(For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.)
The believers new home will be Heaven where God dwells.
John; 14:2-3
(In My Father's house are many mansions; if 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 to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.)
Your name is registered in Heaven. You are a child of God. God has an inheritance reserved in Heaven for all those who are born into His family. You have become an heir along with Christ, and you are no longer a slave to your sins, but you have a new life in Jesus.
Galatians; 4:6-7
(And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out "Abba, Father!" Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.)
We eagerly wait for Christ return because we will go home to our new home. We can't even begin to realize what God has in store for us who love Jesus. One thing we do know is that there will not be any suffering or crying or pain in Heaven. All of those things will have been done away with. Everything will be perfect because there won't be any sin. Life as we know it now isn't how God had planned it to be. He had made the perfect life for man and if sin hadn't entered into the world, we would still be in that perfect world.
Nothing worldly will ever enter into the kingdom of God. God has told us that in His Word. In other words, you cannot live like the rest of the world and then expect to take that same lifestyle into heaven, Nothing sinful will ever enter into Heaven.
1Corinthians; 6:9-10
(Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.)
We all used to live like this before Jesus Christ came into our life, but then we were made a new creation in Christ. The old man was done away with and the new man replaced him. Your whole thought pattern should have changed to be more Christ like.
1Corinthians; 6:11
(And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.)
Not all Christians have been guilty of everyone of these sins, but we are all sinners and guilty of sin, and in need of a Savior. God knew this and sent His Son Jesus to save us through his sacrifice on the cross. The perfect sacrifice for mankind because He was without sin. He is the only person to live on earth who was without sin.
If you haven't already ask Jesus to come into your life, today is the day for you. Don't wait because you may not ever get a second chance to ask for forgiveness. It's not hard, all you have to do is:
Romans; 10:9-10
(that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.)
Put your faith in Jesus, He is the only way to heaven.
God Bless You!
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