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  (SERMON CLIP) OUR CITIZENSHIP IS IN HEAVEN
  by John Piper
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the concept of believers' primary
citizenship being in heaven, not on earth, urging them to live as
sojourners and exiles in this world. It highlights the transformation
that occurs when we are redeemed by Christ, passing from death to life
and being seated with Him in heavenly places. The message underscores
the freedom believers have from earthly institutions and the profound
impact of living with a heavenly perspective.

Topics: "Heavenly Citizenship", "Living as Sojourners"
Scripture References: Philippians 3:20, 1 Peter 2:11, Colossians 1:13, Ephesians 2:6, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Romans 6:4, John 5:24, Philippians 3:21

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This sermon emphasizes the concept of believers' primary citizenship
being in heaven, not on earth, urging them to live as sojourners and
exiles in this world. It highlights the transformation that occurs when
we are redeemed by Christ, passing from death to life and being seated
with Him in heavenly places. The message underscores the freedom
believers have from earthly institutions and the profound impact of
living with a heavenly perspective.

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As redeemed children of God, our primary and decisive citizenship is in
heaven, not America or any other country. With the transfer of our
citizenship to heaven, we have become sojourners and exiles in America
and everywhere else on the earth. Philippians 3, our citizenship is in
heaven, our citizenship is in heaven, our citizenship is in heaven, and
from it we await a Savior who will transform our lowly bodies to be like
his glorious body by the power that enables him to subject all things to
himself.

That's who we are. It's our total glorious orientation in this world. 1
Peter 2.11, Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles abstain from
the passions of the flesh that wage war against your soul.

When Christ died for his church, she died with him to the elemental
things of the world, died to the law, died to the world, died to sin.
Then she rose to walk in newness of life, new birth, new person, new
creation, new covenant, heirs of a new earth. Christ has delivered us.

This is Colossians 1.13. Christ has delivered us from the domain of
darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son,
transferred from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of his beloved
Son. We have passed from death to life. We are seated with Christ in the
heavenly places.

And this is why we are fundamentally free from human institutions. We've
already died. We live in heaven.

We live in heaven in a most profound way. If that's meaningless to you,
you got work to do. That's why we exist in this school.

That's the work we have to do. If that's a meaningless reality to you,
that you live mainly in heaven now, you got work to do on your Bible and
your heart and your head and your life. It's not meaningless.

It's profoundly transforming of everything. When we testify as
Christians to other Americans, we are not calling them to make America
great. We are advocating for a transfer of citizenship, an eternal one.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/wHO15k4671U.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/john-piper/sermon-clip-our-citizenship-is-in-heaven/
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