We Belong to the Heavenly: Our Citzenship Is in Heaven

"Our citizenship is in heaven." "Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God." What has a dead man to do with politics? But the Christian is one who has died in Christ - died to sin - died to the law - died to the world - and hence he has, in God's view of him, no more to do with these things than a man lying dead on the floor. He is alive in Christ - alive to God - alive to all that is spiritual, heavenly, divine. He is in the new creation. His morals, his religion, his politics are all in the new creation - all heavenly all divine. He is done with the world in spirit and principle. He is in it, to walk as a pilgrim and stranger - in it to live as a Christian - a spiritual, heavenly man - but not of it to walk as a worldly, carnal, natural man. "If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature." May we live in the power of these things.