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  OUR CITIZENSHIP
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: Our true citizenship in heaven should shape our priorities and
actions, guiding us to seek God and His holiness.

Topics: "Heavenly Citizenship", "Sanctification"
Scripture References: Philippians 3:20

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Mary Wilder Tileston preaches about the heavenly citizenship of
believers, emphasizing the temporary nature of this world compared to
the eternal home in heaven that Christians seek. She encourages the
audience to view themselves as exiles on earth, longing for the ultimate
joy and fulfillment found in God's presence. The sermon highlights the
importance of seeking God's face, turning away from sin, and striving
for sanctification and enlightenment to experience true joy, delight,
peace, and pleasure in God.

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They that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.

HEBREWS 11:14 For our citizenship is in heaven.

PHILIPPIANS 3:20 (R. V.)

GREEN are the fields of the earth, holy and sweet her joys;

Take, and taste, and be glad--as fruit and blossom and bird,

But still as an exile, Soul; then, hey, with a singing voice,

For the stars and sun and sweet heaven, whose ultimate height is the
Lord!

Ripe, lovely, and glad, you shall grow in the light of His face and His
word.

KATHERINE TYNAN HINKSON

STAND still awhile, and seriously consider the noble end for which thou
wast created, and for which God hath placed thee in this world! Thou
wast not created for time and the creature, but for God and eternity,
and to employ thyself with God and eternity. And thou art in the world,
to the end that thou mayest again seek God, and His countenance which
giveth blessedness, from which thou hast turned thyself away by sin; in
order that thou mayest become thoroughly sanctified and enlightened, and
that God may have joy, delight, peace, and pleasure in thee, and thou in
God.

GERHARD TERSTEEGEN

That prayer taught by the saint, "Make me reach, my God, the degree of
holiness to which Thou didst call me in creating me!"

LADY GEORGIANA FULLERTON

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/our-citizenship/
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